Interesting contractŠ I guess the excludes happy hours too then?
On 8/14/13 10:54 AM, "Geralyn Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: >Joe is correct. As an exhibitor, Citrix cannot participate in this type >of ancillary event. The contract terms are such that all participating >sponsors cannot hold events or participate in any events other than >VMworld up to two days prior, during and two days after the event, for a >50 mile radius. Sorry. > >-geralyn > >-----Original Message----- >From: Joe Brockmeier [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 10:45 AM >To: [email protected] >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/
