Alex Perry writes: > > Do we have any plans to host an opensource booth at the linux world > > expo in SFO aug 12-15. I don't think we've discussed this one yet? > > I haven't heard of anybody making plans for a booth at LWCE-SF. > I will not be attending - I have other plans this summer.
It is mid-august this year so I'm worried I may have a conflict, but I had such a good time last year, I'd like to see if I could figure out a way to work my schedule so I could get out there again. I got to talk about flightgear non-stop for 2 days straight, what could be more fun! :-) Plus there is a ton of other interesting geek stuff to see and do. I don't think you'd need to be a hard core linux freak to enjoy the show. I mean, hey, linux or windows or mac, you still get all the same free pens and enough fortune cookings and candy to make you gag. :-) It is a fair bit of effort though to organize a booth. A flightgear booth just cries for lots of high end hardware. That means you have issues getting the hardware brought in and taken out ... it's downtown SFO and you can't just pull up to the front door and make a couple trips to haul all your stuff. I remember last year they had a bunch of *expensive* union guys doing the loading/unloading which was a tough obstacle for an unfunded open source booth, even if we wanted to do the work ourselves. (Alex and Jim are probably snickering at my cavalier use fo the word "our") ;-) And if you do manage to get all your equipment in, then you have issues of needing to make sure someone is there all the time to keep an eye on things. I don't think we had any problems last year, but I don't think the booth was ever completely unattended either. If we could get a couple people to commit to spend a chunk of time in the booth, then I think it would *definitely* be worth getting something organized. We have a lot of new stuff we could show, and (I may be a tad biased) but I think we had to be one of the busiest open source booths at the show. There was hardly ever a time when there wasn't at least one person there looking at something ... and most of the time there was a crowd. Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
