But I forgot to say, we've got lots of time with this specific cloudexpo opportunity, so I think we should say yes to them and worry about the booth a bit closer to the time
Kind Regards Giles D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Giles Sirett [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 30 April 2013 08:24 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Discuss - CloudExpo Europe 2014 Sebastien, thanks for the info. I understand the need for any activity such as this to be clearly focussed on ACS (as Chip mentioned earlier) You're right, any booth would have to be clearly about ACS and ACS only. That does present us with the problems of activities such as this being a little bit piecemeal. Using this cloudexpo opportunity as an arbitrary example, I'd guess we'd need c.$5-10k to put together a well designed, decent sized booth. To be blunt, I wouldn't fund that: I'd spend the money on my own booth, where I can sell my wares! I think most business folks would feel the same way However, it would be nice if the community was able to jump at opportunities like this - there must be plenty of people like us who would like to see things like this happen. My suggestion ? - could we set up a marketing fund ? - - rather than donating specific items, people can donate cash, which we could pool for items of significant cost. Has an Apache project ever done that before ? That way, we could have a budget for marketing activities which could be prioritised (and obviously decided on this list with PMC approval) Kind Regards Giles D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Sebastien Goasguen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 29 April 2013 15:20 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Discuss - CloudExpo Europe 2014 On Apr 29, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Giles Sirett <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Sebastien > > I'm not yet sure of the scale of this part of cloudexpo (and I think that the > organisers probably aren't sure yet) but a table cloth and pop up may be a > bit lightweight. > yes, most likely :) > That of course then does start to raise interesting, more generic, > questions......how would a community such as ours go about getting something > like an exhibition stand ? My guess is that we'd all look to one of the > companies involved in the community to fund/donate such a thing ? Yes exactly. In that particular case, let's say that Shapeblue drives this on behalf of ACS. Then you would donate the fabrication of the booth to ACS (via approval). You would also need to request approval for the design of said booth. Several companies could help out in sponsoring this event to pay for the booth and their respective sponsorship would need approval as well. You would not be allowed to promote shapeblue at this booth, but I can't see how you could not say "if you are looking for commercial services, here is my professional card when I don't represent ACS". I believe this would be acceptable. > > That's just a generic question.....my suggestion, cloudexpo is a long way off > and we've got lots of time o work this out. > > (my interesting and relevant fact for the day: In India they call a > pop-up exhibition stand "a standee" ) > > > > Kind Regards > Giles > > D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055 [email protected] > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sebastien Goasguen [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 29 April 2013 14:39 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Discuss - CloudExpo Europe 2014 > > > 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 > > > This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended > solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. 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