On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > This event is already on our calendar as a possible, but I'd like to > give it a nudge. > SCALE 12X (12th annual Southern California Linux Expo), Feb. 21-23, > 2014, Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel. As the first-of-the-year > Linux/Open Source software expo in North America, SCALE 12X expects to > host more than 100 exhibitors this year, along with nearly 80 > sessions, tutorials and special events. SCALE is a community run > open-source and free software conference held annually in Los Angeles. > Non-Profit & dotORG exhibitor opportunities are available. > https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale12x > > Any chance of someone running a booth there for LO/TDF? I can't go > next year, like I have the year and last year, unless TDF or someone > pays a ridiculously large sum of money to get me there from Australia. > It makes much more financial sense for a lesser amount to be spent > covering the expenses of 1 or (preferably) 2 people located in North > America. Joel Madero in San Diego, for example. Or even Robinson Tryon > in Vermont.
I'd be happy to talk with Joel and try to get him on board for SCALE :-) I know that his school schedule is a bit busy, but it would be great to have him representing us at an event such as this. > Contact for non-profit booth at SCALE is Gareth Greenaway, > [email protected] > I've been dealing with him for years; he's very helpful. I'm happy to > make an initial booth booking and do as much coordination as I can > from Australia. Two banners are located in San Jose, CA, and various > people (including Tim, Robinson, and Joel) have brochures and perhaps > stickers. Yes, I have brochures left. I got some stickers at the Milan Conference, but I've given away a good number of them. Do we have any more sticker stock stateside? > I can arrange for samples of the user guides to display. All > we really need are live bodies to be present and talk to people at the > booth. Oh, and each booth worker gets a free full pass so you can > attend talks and everything else. > > I haven't heard if anyone has submitted a paper; that's a separate > matter but if TDF had a speaker, then having a booth as well would be > even more awesome. Yes, indeed! Cheers, --R -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
