I was lazy with the signup... not even sure if I had an official one.... guess that would explain the lack of workers somewhat :)
O'Reilly contact for the booth last year: May Carver <mcarver -at- oreilly.com> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Daniel Magnuszewski <dmagnuszew...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Josh, > > Thanks for the feedback. If you can send me some contact info for O'Reilly, > I'd appreciate it. I put a signup list on the wiki, but I'm assuming the > people who can update it is limited. > > http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?events_2010_oscon > > Where did you host your signup list last year? > > Thanks. > > -Dan > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Joshua <joshua.mcad...@gmail.com> > To: Karen Pauley <ka...@martian.org> > Cc: Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com>; TPF Marketing <tpf-market...@perl.org>; > events@lists.perlfoundation.org > Sent: Wed, March 24, 2010 12:23:21 AM > Subject: Re: Perl or TPF booth on OSCON? > > 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! >
