Sure, ... BALUG can certainly use it, and we can also coordiante with / invite some other Bay Area LUGs that don't have their own booth space.
Quoting Andrew Fife afife@untangle.com:
To clarify, BALUG already has a booth. We just need to confirm that we want it and coordinate with other LUGs if a folks want a joint booth.
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650.425.3327 desk 415.806.6028 cell -----Original Message----- From: Michael Paoli [mailto:Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:54 PM To: balug-admin@lists.balug.org; sf-lug@linuxmafia.com Cc: debian-events-na@lists.debian.org; bad@bad.debian.net; Jim Stockford; Andrew Fife Subject: Re: Bay Area LUGs @ LinuxWorld
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How about a combined shared LUGs booth/table?
Many LUGs may not have enough resource to staff a booth/table for the whole event by themselves, but many/most can cover at least some hours, and likely also provide some materials (e.g. flyers/handouts).
This worked fairly well last year. Would someone (perhaps from SF-LUG?) want to take lead on obtaining/coordinating such a booth?
Also, looks like Debian may not have a booth this year (LinuxWorld conflicts with Deb Camp - so most of the otherwise available DDs will be at Deb Camp and not LinuxWorld) ... but BAD would likely also be interested in some BAD/Debian representation at LinuxWorld too.
references/excerpts: http://www.balug.org/ http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2008-May/000553.htm l http://bad.debian.net/ http://bad.debian.net/list/2008-May/003254.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-na/2008/05/msg00000.html http://www.sf-lug.org/
Quoting Andrew Fife afife@untangle.com:
Does BALUG booth at LinuxWorld in the .org pavillion? If so we need to act quickly by 5/26.
Maybe something in conjunction with SF-LUG, SVLUG, CABAL & PenLUG?
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From: alison_dwelley@idg.com [mailto:alison_dwelley@idg.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:17 PM To: afife@untangle.com Subject: Fw: Your Invitation to LinuxWorld 's .Org Pavilion - deadline May 26th
Hi Andrew,
I am following up with the projects who have been invited to participate in the .org Pavilion at LinuxWorld this year. The deadline for responses is Monday, May 26th. At that time we will need to offer your place to another project. Please let me know if the Bay Area Linux Users Group is interested in participating at LinuxWorld in
August.
I have attached a contract below. Please return a signed copy if you will be able to attend and I will assign a booth to you.
Regards, Alison
----- Forwarded by Alison Dwelley/World Expo/WEC on 05/21/2008 05:11 PM
Alison Dwelley/World Expo/WEC
05/05/2008 04:07 PM
To afife@untangle.com
cc
Subject Your Invitation to LinuxWorld's .Org Pavilion
Dear Andrew,
It is my pleasure to inform you that Bay Area Linux Users Group has been chosen for this year's .org Pavilion at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo being held in San Francisco August 5-7, 2008. I hope that you will be able to participate. Projects accepting our offer of free exhibit space in the pavilion must be willing to assist us in promoting LinuxWorld with a banner ad on their home page. Please RSVP by May 26, 2008 via email to alison_dwelley@idg.com. If you are not able to participate in the event this year, please let me know so that we can make arrangements for another organization to take that place.
The .org Pavilion is an exciting opportunity for .orgs to reach out to the free software and open source communities during LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. We are happy to provide this opportunity for you to be recognized for all of your hard work in support of these communities.
We are very excited to have you be a part of our 2008 .org Pavilion and look forward to seeing you at the San Francisco LinuxWorld event. We will send you additional information about the show as soon as we receive a faxed or emailed copy of the attached contract, your project description for the website and show guide, and specs for the banner ad to fax # 508-370-4325. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me at 508-424-4834 or via email at
Alison_dwelley@idg.com.
Kind Regards,
Alison Dwelley
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Alison Dwelley Sales Operations Coordinator IDG World Expo 3 Speen St. Suite 320 Framingham, MA 01701 P. 508.424.4834 F. 508.620.6690 E. mailto:alison_dwelley@idg.com alison_dwelley@idg.com