Most of the deadlines have past but we could probably print up some flyers and put them in key locations the night before...
On Aug 3, 2013, at 10:53 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > Kurt Keville wrote: >> The OHS this year is at MIT on Sept 6. >> http://2013.oshwa.org/ >> >> Do we want to have a booth or something to evangelize BLU or our own >> projects? > > That's a fantastic idea, and thanks for proposing, but I've been busier > than usual with my $DayJob lately, and won't have the bandwidth to do > much to facilitate this. > > The 6th is the first Friday in September, and I'm not sure if I'll be in > town when the event happens, so I can't even commit to volunteering at > the booth. > > Looks like it is a one day event held between 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM in > MIT's Kresge Auditorium (http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=W16). Event tickets > cost $90. > > Will exhibit booths be open for that entire duration, or only a portion? > > What do you think the "prime" exhibit hours are? > > If we decide that there are, say 6 hours, during that 11 hour range that > we deem as "prime", we'd probably want between 4 and 6 volunteers to > cover a booth, so you could have a pair during each period (to permit > bathroom and snack breaks), and 2 to 3 hour shifts. > > In the mid-2000s we staffed a LinuxWorld booth for BLU in a similar > fashion. It would be awesome of we could do this for HH, but I'm > thinking that many volunteers is a tall order for this small group. > > Are there even 4 people on the list planning to attend the summit? (I > know Kurt will, and I'm guessing Federico probably will, so in theory, > if you two commit to cover 3 hours, we'd just need to come up with two > more volunteers, if my time range guess is accurate.) > > I see the event was offering free attendance to volunteers, but that was > volunteering to help put on the summit itself, and I'm assuming working > at a booth doesn't count. Regardless, they've met their volunteer quota. > I'm assuming exhibitors don't get a break on ticket prices, so we'd also > be asking our volunteers to pay their admission, if they weren't already > planning to attend. > > Are there fees to exhibit? Deals for no-profit groups? Can we run under > an MIT affiliation? > > (I don't see any exhibitor information on the site. Neither how to sign > up as an exhibitor, nor who is going to be an exhibitor. Are you sure > they'll even have an exhibitor area? Closest I see is a list of sponsors: > http://2013.oshwa.org/sponsors/ ) > > What collateral materials would be needed? For LinuxWorld we made > brochures and business cards. But the whole paper approach seems rather > passé these days. David Kramer had a BLU banner produced. It's probably > kicking around somewhere and could be reused. Maybe we just need to > supplement that with a one-off poster - even just an 8.5 x 11 sheet on a > display easel - with some basic info on the HH group and a QR code. > > What message do we want to get across? > > What stuff would be demoed? > > Mark Woodward volunteered at the LinuxWorld booth and demoed his Linux > robot. This would be an even better fitting audience for that, if he > wanted to participate. I'm sure Kurt has something new on hand to demo, > and Federico always has stuff. > > If we had any budget for BLU HH, I'd say the next best thing to a booth > would be a sponsorship, with starts at $100 to get our logo on the site. > It says, "Great option for Hackerspaces or other open maker groups." > > -Tom > _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
