On Apr 29, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Chip Childers <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?

yes, we have a pop-up banner and a table cloth that can be borrowed.
Of course anyone doing such an exhibit for ACS can also design/fabricate their 
own and get approval.

> 
> -chip

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