Re: [IMPORTANT] OSCON 1 or 2 booths?

The other thing about this, is that this is a growing experience. The
mere fact that we have to discuss this means that the future is bright.

Also the final decisions on this we can carry with us into planning for
next year (which should take place) right away.

Brian

On Jun 7, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Robert Bernier wrote:

> On June 7, 2005 01:01 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> I am not sure it is going to be that much larger than previously. In
>> fact, it hasn't increased in size in a few years, and is smaller in
>> some
>> respects like the number of talks.
>>
>> Even at Linuxworld I think we are better with one booth.
>
> There's going to be a total of 60 booths, commercial and opensource,
> at OSCON 2005.
>
> There's a lot to be said having two booths at the same convention but
> on thinking back at Linux world this past February I realised that
> having more than one kind of group working the booth was one of the
> factors that made it work, For that matter, last year's OSCON had guys
> from all over the place which I think really added to it's success
> too.
>
> There's a better opportunity for networking if we concentrate on one
> location rather than two.
>
> And then of course we can really spruce up the booth by pooling our
> resources, remember the elephants we had hanging overhead?
>
>
> cheers
>
> Robert Bernier
>
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