Oh, I almost forgot. In past years we've had an item for sale... Perl Polos in 2007 and 2008, Perl on a Stick in 2009. The sale items help bring in a little cash for TPF, which is nice. However, a lot of conference attendees think that they are free swag, so you have to keep a close eye on any for-sale items that you have laid out on the table.... I had a Perl-on-a-stick walk off last year :)
There is a TPF cash box somewhere. I think that Jim Brandt has access too it. You'll want that if you are selling something so that you can make change. Also, if there are plans to do a Perl auction at OSCON this year, whoever organizes the booth typically lines up most of the items. The publishers are good about giving books. Other items are a little more difficult to come by. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Joshua <joshua.mcad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Karen Pauley <ka...@martian.org> wrote: > >> Hi Gabor, >> >> On 18 March 2010 23:43, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I think have read somewhere, maybe on one of these lists that the TPF >> > used to have a booth on OSCON. >> >> As far as I am aware TPF always has a booth at OSCON. I know that >> it's had one the last couple of years. >> >> > Last year I organized the booth... for some definition of the word > organize. > > First thing, make sure that someone, I'm guessing that is Dan M., reserves > a booth with O'Reilly. Dan, I'll dig up the name of the person that I talked > with last year and send it to you. > > For last years booth I created a couple of handouts: one listing Perl > conferences that were happening in the next year and another listing some > Perl resources. Armed with those, some hard-candy, and some YAPC t-shirts to > hang up for decorations, I stood around the booth and talked to people about > Perl for the duration of the conference. > > Overall, it was a decent booth I think... just obviously done on the cheap. > > Also, there is a Perl banner that has been present at past OSCONs. It > wasn't around this year and nobody knew where it was. Luckily, O'Reilly had > a Perl banner from one of the first Perl conferences and let me use it. > We auctioned that banner off after the conference though, so we are back to > not having a banner/sign to hang. > > >> > Can someone point us at information regarding this? >> >> It's organised internally so I don't know if there is any information >> that I can point to. >> > > I can probably dig up the handouts from last year. I think that I saved > them. They weren't amazingly fancy... a few pictures, a little promo text, > and lists of resources. > > >> >> > Are there plans to have a TPF/Perl booth on OSCON this year? >> >> I haven't seen any discussions about this yet but I imagine we will >> start to plan it before YAPC::NA. >> >> > Sounds like there are :) And already more planning has gone into it then > last year! > >
