I did that at a local VMware Event. I walked around and talked to all the vendors and attendees about alternatives(CloudStack) to vCloud Director. It was quite productive. I even ended up talking to several VMware guys about it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Brockmeier" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 10:45:15 AM Subject: Re: CloudStack at VMWorld? On Wed, Aug 14, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Kelly Hair wrote: > Other approach is guerrilla marketing / sponsoring happy hours or after > show events. I'Ve seen food trucks from non-sponsors hanging out at the > Javits Center on more than one occasion. While it may annoy the > organizers, they'll gladly take your money the next year :) Note that many exhibitor contracts forbid this sort of thing - so if Citrix is there, they can't sponsor this kind of thing. (Apache CloudStack may be in the clear, but it would probably be a bit fuzzy for money to flow from Citrix to do this.) There's nothing wrong with people attending and talking to folks about CloudStack, of course. Might even be more effective than the "stand in the booth and hope" approach. Best, jzb -- Joe Brockmeier [email protected] Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
