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Basically you're tying youself to a booth when it would be much more fun
to go the the tech sessions or just hang out.

Chris

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 14:06, Geoffrey wrote:
> Please find below a portion of a discussion with Peter Mui of USENIX
> regarding the possibility of having a BoF and/or ALE booth at the
> upcoming LISA con in Atlanta.  I love the idea of a booth, but we would
> need some folks to commit to man it.  I'm in, who else?  I will be
> forwarding the proper paper work to USENIX as soon as I get enough buy
> in from other ALE folks.  What I'd like to do is replace the November
> KSU meeting with the BoF at the con.
> 
> Any takers?
> 
> See the excerpts below for more info...
> 
> Also, anyone interested in attending any of the tutorials or techs?  We
> can go together and get bulk discount.  Let me hear interest on this as
> well?
> 
> Hi Geoffrey (and cc: to Chris, Tony, Sean, Dylan, and James) :
> 
> Thanks for your reply to my email, please see my replies in-line below.
> 
> On Oct 3, 2004, at 7:29 AM, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> > Peter Mui wrote:
> >> Hi Geoffrey, Chris, and Tony (and cc: to Sean, Dylan, and James) :
> >> I've been "lurking" on the ALE mailing list in advance of our LISA 
> >> conference next month, and I saw your postings about holding and ALE 
> >> BoF at the conference.  We'd love for you to hold a BoF at LISA and 
> >> will try to help you make it highly successful.  (I sent email to 
> >> Michael Hirsch <mhirsch at nubridges.com> a few weeks ago along similar 
> >> lines but haven't heard back yet.)
> >> Besides holding a BoF may I also suggest:
> >> o   having ALE host a "super-user-group" BoF meeting of all the local 
> >> user groups
> >
> > As in all local Linux user groups, or user groups that would be 
> > interested in LISA?  There's AUUG other UNIX or development groups in 
> > the area.  I'm thinking it could get a bit confusing with too many 
> > group types.
> 
> 
> I trust you guys to decide what's best.  We had a "Super BoF" at our
> Annual Technical Conference in Boston this summer hosted by the Greater
> New Hampshire Linux User's Group and it went over very well, but that
> was a general conference.  My only concern is that we don't seem
> elitist or exclusionary in choosing who to invite.
> 
> If a a Super BoF doesn't work: maybe other local groups can hold their
> own targeted BoFs in coordination with yours?  If you have contacts at
> other local groups, can you please inquire with them and/or send their
> contact information on to me?
> 
> >
> >> o   a (complimentary) booth in the exhibits area to promote the group 
> >> (I need to confirm this)
> >
> > Now this would be quite nice.  I can see devoting time to this.  How 
> > many folks would be needed to man it?  When can you confirm this 
> > possibility?
> 
> 
> Confirmed!  Please fax in the form (available online), and write in
> "Comp per Pmui and Cat" on the form before you fax it back.  Cat Allman
> will assign you a booth number and get you in touch with the conference
> department for logistics.
> 
> You need to decide what level of staffing you want.  The exhibits hours
> are:
> 
> Wednesday, November 17, 12:00 noon?7:00 p.m.
>   Thursday, November 18, 10:00 a.m.?4:00 p.m.
> 
> I've seen one person staff a booth it but it's pretty tiring. 3 or 4
> people is better.
> 
> Another idea: do you think that new Fry's in Atlanta would be
> interested in having some sort of presence in the exhibits?  Do you
> know anyone there?
> 
> 
> >> Any of these venues (BoF, Super BoF, and/or exhibits presence) would 
> >> be free and open to the general public, so they can be publicized 
> >> widely to people who otherwise don't register for the LISA technical 
> >> sessions or tutorials.
> >
> > I'm hoping to catch a couple of the technical sessions.  I used to 
> > make quite a few USENIX cons back when I was with AT&T, mostly the 
> > technical and security ones.  A bit pricey now for a new startup with 
> > one employee, so I've got to be a bit picky.
> 
> 
> We have a bulk registration discount, I think it works like this:
> If five or more people register together they get $100 off each,
> regardless of the number of days each person registers for. In
> practice, we're very loose about how the people are affiliated as long
> as they register together at the same time; they can be co-workers,
> user groups members, whatever.
> 
> 
> > I assume the BoF/Super BoF would be in the evening.  Would the exhibit 
> > be in the vendor exhibit area, or is this already locked down?
> 
> The exhibits are open Wednesday, November 17, 12:00 noon?7:00 p.m., so
> depending on what time you want to start the BoF the exhibits may or
> may not be open.  It might be nice to encourage BoF attendees to show
> up early to walk the exhibits, then attend the BoF.
> 
> 
> >> If you're going to hold a BoF or Super BoF, we suggest you do it on 
> >> the evening of Wednesday, November 17 (the first of the three days of 
> >> tech sessions), as the conference reception is Thursday night and by 
> >> Friday night everyone's heading home.
> >
> > I've available that evening, and would be glad to assist with this 
> > effort.  What we could do is replace our normal KSU ALE meeting with 
> > the BoF.  The KSU meeting would be scheduled for Nov 18.
> 
> Great, let me know if you need anything from me to facilitate this.
> 
> >
> >> I'm also open to anything else you can think of: we need help getting 
> >> the word out in the Greater Atlanta area in general and are open to 
> >> any and all ideas on how to do that.  For example, we've got 4-color 
> >> flyers and brochures we can send along if you've got good places to 
> >> distribute them.
> >
> > If you get me the brochures, I'll get them to other folks so we can 
> > distribute them at the local colleges.  I'm thinking Emory, Gatech, 
> > KSU, Polytech.  Anyone else have any other suggestions?
> 
> 
> Please send me your US Postal mailing address and I'll send them along:
> approximately how many do you think you can effectively distribute?
> 
> We'd particularly like strong Georgia Tech participation, as they've
> always sent lots of people to our conferences and they're
> geographically very close, but as of Friday there weren't that many
> people registered from there. Do you know anyone there who can spread
> the word?
> 
> 
> Thanks for your interest and enthusiasm!
> 
> 
> Cheers, -Peter
> 
> Peter Mui
> USENIX Association
> 2560 9th Street STE 215
> Berkeley, CA 94710
> 510 528 8649 ext. 28
> pmui at usenix.org
> 
> 
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
>                              AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995
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