[FOSE] So, how'd it go?

[Pete Nuwayser]

Sarah, that stuff lives in my basement.  I live in Alexandria.  Pls
contact me off list. pete

On 4/4/08, Sarah Elkins <sarah.elkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I enjoyed participating in my first Tux booth at FOSE, on Thursday.
> I was there from 11 am tthrough breakdown and dinner at the nearby
> Mongolian Grill with MacKenzie, Jerry and Phil.   From 11 to about
> 3:15 we had two or three people on average asking us questions (it
> slowed down from that rate as we got closer to teardown).  The three
> OLPC XOs caught peoples' eyes, but I was always careful to emphasize
> that they ran on a version of Linux, to keep the booth tie-in clear.
>
> A couple of things to follow up on:
>
> 1) I have the big yellow toolbox and two poster tubes.  To whom should
> I deliver them?  I live in Rockville and have a car, but I'm going out
> of town tomorrow afternoon, until Wednesday or so.
>
> 2) Over on the NoVaLUG mailing list, Pete Nuwayser suggested this:
> "Congratulations to the FOSE team!  I suggest sending a summary to the
> FOSE show sponsors:  number of volunteers, amount of swag given out,
> pictures of the swelling crowds, etc... everything and anything to
> help support the case for FOSE 2009."
>
> I think that's a good idea.
> >From the wiki page, we had about 15 volunteers from setup to teardown?
> Swag given out:500+ Ubuntu disks, a lesser # of Fedora disks, about
> 800 Linux Journals, a scattering of stickers, and a lot of Tux.org
> flyers and advice?
> Alas, i took no pictures.  Did anyone else?
>
> Regards,
>
> Sarah
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> looking for my next configuration management job!
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