On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 09:36:16AM +0000, Giles Sirett wrote: > All > > I've just had a long chat with Magie Meer, who organises Cloudexpo Europe. > > For next years show (29/30 Jan, London) , they are going to do an open cloud > hall/area and want to give 3 or 4 cloud opensource communities some free > space at the show. My guess is that will be openstack, ACS, eucalyptus & > opennebula and that they will use these as a way of pulling in commercial > sponsors > > I'd like to say "yes please". > I guess that is technically accepting sponsorship so I need a discussion > here, PMC approval & a committer to be involved in the organisation (I > think). I work with Geoff Higginbottom who can take the committer role. So, > please discuss on this list with a view to getting PMC approval > > One question: if we do say yes, what could we do for an exhibition stand ? - > my gut feeling is that she may offer to help us with that also. > > In terms of manning the stand, it's a long way out, but I'm sure we can find > a few people between us (Sebastien et al, a couple of the ShapeBlue guys,etc)
+1 - with the (perhaps obvious) reminder that if the booth is an ACS booth, that the people and materials are there to represent ACS only (and not any other entity / org) concom and pmc lazy consensus remains required via that email suggested to [email protected] and [email protected] Sebastien - does CTXS have ACS branded booth equipment that they could lend to the affair situated in the EU? -chip
