Re: [IMPORTANT] OSCON 1 or 2 booths?

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, 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.

One thing that works against this, though, is crowding ... by having two
booths, one would hope that things wouldn't *look* crowded ... I tend to
avoid the crowded booths at a show, and come back later when there are
hopefully less ppl, so that I can talk to someone, instead of listening to
someone else talk ...

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