[FOSE] FOSE Booth Operations (Please Read!)

Mon Mar 19 20:27:02 EDT 2007

Well I picked up the Desktop from Dell, and it's a pretty nice  
machine, nice widescreen LCD with speakers.  I went ahead and  
installed FC6 on it with everything.

Also picked up our badge reader, it's very easy to use, and I was  
told it outputs all information into a plain coma delimited file, so  
I guess technically that makes it linux compatible :-).

Also the Ubuntu CDs arrived, and I'll be bringing the boxes in  
tomorrow morning before the show.  Like the others I've divided them  
into three boxes, one for each day.  Just as a heads up but there is  
a wide variety of Ubuntu versions in each box (Kubuntu, Ubuntu 6.10,  
Ubuntu 6.06, Ubuntu 64bit, Edubuntu), so be sure to look through the  
days box and make note of what you have for the day.  Try to focus  
special versions of Ubuntu to relevant people as they talk to you.   
Thanks.

Last note, I have added a few more people to the registration based  
on the booth-signup wiki as of 8:15pm today.

Thanks,
David

On Mar 19, 2007, at 3:44 PM, David A. Cafaro wrote:

> If you are going to be doing booth duty this week at FOSE please keep
> the following in mind:
>
> 1. Dress Appropriately, I have gone over the dress code extensively on
> this list.  We have requested Putty or Black golf/polo type shirts,  
> the
> tux logo kind if possible.  Please wear pants/slacks.  If you have a
> problem with this please contact me OFF LIST.  Thank you
>
> 2. We have several freebies for the show.  Most of the freebies are in
> boxes labeled with days on them (Tue/Wed/Thurs).  Please ONLY
> distributed from boxes labeled with that day.  We have a limited  
> number
> of freebies and I've tried to set it up so that we have some to  
> give out
> on every day.  Each day is given a certain number of the following
> freebies:
> 	* Fedora Core DVDs (x86/ppc/x86_64) - Be sure that people
> 	understand what you are giving them, these are NOT live DVDs
> 	they are install DVDs
> 	* Ubuntu Live CDs - These should arrive today
> 	* BSD Live CDs (x86) - very limited supply, please give out only
> 	to people who are specifically interested
> 	* Linux Journal
> We also have a few Linux Journal T-Shirts and Archive CDs.  They  
> are all
> located in one box.  Please only give these out to people you believe
> have truly asked good questions or shown an extensive amount of  
> interest
> and willingness to learn.  These are our reward freebies.  Also, make
> note of how many are left and leave a few for the following day(s) so
> they have a chance to give out a few as well.
>
> 3. There is a box of "About Linux" fliers in the booth.  Please give
> these out by slipping them into the front cover of the Magazines, as
> well as, just handing them out in general.
>
> 4. I also left a bag of candy bars to help supply a pick-me-up if you
> need them :-).
>
> 5. There should be a demo workstation setup when you get to the booth.
> I will set it to auto login to a demo user on bootup.  If you need the
> root password, contact me via cell/txt at 703-627-8397.
>
> 6. It looks like we may even have a Badge scanner for our booth this
> year.  I'm not sure how this will work, but feel free to give it a try
> if it's running and you want to.  We may need a software wiz to make
> some quick software for it, if it turns out to require  
> windows ;-).  It
> might be cool to get some statistics on what kind of people are  
> actually
> dropping by our booth!
>
>
> Please remember to keep it positive, this isn't about how bad windows
> and proprietary stuff is.  This is about how good Linux,  
> OpenSource, and
> OpenStandards is!
>
> Once again I want to thank ALL of you for volunteering and helping out
> with this. I'm looking forward to a great FOSE event!
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
> -- 
> David A. Cafaro <dac at cafaro.net>, RHCE
> Systems Analyst, Georgetown University ARC
> Board of Directors, Tux.org Inc.
>
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