OSCON Drupal booth at dot org pavillion
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2008-07-21 12:00 - 2008-07-23 17:00 US/Pacific I am arranging for a Drupalcon Booth at OSCON. Let me know if you are available to represent Drupal during the following hours.
Exhibitor Registration/Move-In:
Monday, July 21, 12:00PM - 6:00PM
Tuesday, July 22, 9:00AM - 6:00PM
Exhibit Hall Hours:
Wednesday, July 23
10:00AM - 4:30PM
6:00PM - 7:30PM (Expo Hall Reception)
Thursday, July 24
10:00AM - 5:00PM
Location: Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97232
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Available
Hi Amazon,
I'm willing and able but I have a couple questions:
Exhibitor Staff Passes
Exhibitor Staff Passes
To register, please email Karie Hubbell (work through Kieran) with the list of
names of those who will be working your booth by July 14, 2008. Maximum 4. Exhibitor passes allow access to the exhibit area, meals, and keynotes, but
no access to sessions, workshops, and tutorials.
FYI Dries will be at OSCON.
Cheers,
Kieran
Drupal community adventure guide, Acquia Inc.
Drupal events, Drupal.org redesign
4 people can trade off time
I don't think we need 4 people all the time. But Drupal is getting really popular, and I can tell you that at Enterprise 2.0 this week we often had 4-5 Acquia employees busy talking about Drupal to different people at the same time. So you should expect to be there a reasonable amount of the time, particular during peak expo times.
Kieran
Drupal community adventure guide, Acquia Inc.
Drupal events, Drupal.org redesign
Available
I am available but have the same questions as metaltoad.
Expo hall passes are free
Note that exhibit hall passes are free to the public, so you don't need to pay to get in regardless.
https://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/register
Related to PDXDUG booth?
Is this related to the booth drewish was going to set up for the PDX DUG? I can likely help either way, but it may make sense to combine the two.
Grant
Working together
Hi, Drewish and I are working on a Drupal media sprint together during OSCON. So yes, we are working together, but I may be overlapping some of his effort.
Cheers,
Kieran
Drupal community adventure guide, Acquia Inc.
Drupal events, Drupal.org redesign
Sign me up
Please sign me up for at least a 1 hour slot per day. I can work the entire show if we need coverage.
Todd Tomlinson
Managing Partner
aHa! Consulting
I can work any part of
I can work any part of either day and can do full days if needed.
Count me in as well
I'd be glad to help staff the booth.
I'll have some availability throughout the week --
Cheers,
Bill
FunnyMonkey
Tools for Teachers
Booth fully equiped, 4 volunteers get passes
The OSCON organizers were kind enough to provide a fully equipped booth.
Each 10'x10' Pipe & Draped Booth Space Includes:
* 4' draped counter (pop-up booths are not allowed)
* One counter-height stool
* Carpeted area (no need to rent carpet)
* One High-speed ethernet Internet connection
* One 500 Watt Double Outlet
* 7" x 44" Identification Sign
Based on recent experience at LinuxScale and Acquia's booth at Enterprise 2.0 I think we are going to be quite busy.
Volunteers:
Eliza, Bill Fitzgerald, Todd Tomlinson, Joaquin Lippincott, Greg, Andrew Morton
We will need more to get full coverage. We shoul also have a lot of people in town for the Drupal media sprint including Dries Buytaert and Angela Byron, aka Webchick.
Cheers,
Kieran
Drupal community adventure guide, Acquia Inc.
Drupal events, Drupal.org redesign
Script/agenda
Should the volunteers (and organizer) meet to talk about what we should say and what (if any) materials we'll be presenting?
Materials for the booth and event promotion
http://acquia.com/drupal-event-organizer-kit
I try to not spend a lot of money on collateral, but instead collect business cards, and hand out some simple mu cards with relevant links on it.
There's showcase videos, laminated book covers, laminated top 10 reasons to use Drupal, Drupal banner, and gifts for drawings. Browse through that page and let me know what you think is interesting.
Cheers,
Kieran
Drupal community adventure guide, Acquia Inc.
Drupal events, Drupal.org redesign
Materials
Neat resource. Do we have any budget as an organization or should I look at paying for this out of pocket?
I think we can raise a budget
So far it looks like OSCON will be the cheapest event out of the three that I am working on.
I think we could just print up a few hundred mu cards and hand them out, or help people to sign up on Drupal.org or g.d.o. Of course it's nice to have prizes so help drive promotion during the Drupal sessions.
Cheers,
Kieran
Drupal community adventure guide, Acquia Inc.
Drupal events, Drupal.org redesign
I'll be around the exhibit
I'll be around the exhibit hall a lot both days since I'll be staffing the OSU OSL booth. There's a good chance I can help fill in gaps at the Drupal booth as well.
-Greg
Drupal Booth Schedule
I volunteered to handle the scheduling details for the booth. I've asked folks to make a commitment to the time slots they sign up for. More people have indicated they are definitely planning to help as they are available. I'm hoping that Bill, Todd, and metaltoad can fill in Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning so we'll have at least two commitments for each time slot. Four people would be even better :)
We'll be setting up on Wednesday morning just before the Expo opens, so the schedule looks like:
Wednesday
10:00 - 12:00 Andrew Morton / Michael Halstead / Melissa Anderson
12:00 - 2:00 Michael Halstead / Melissa Anderson
2:00 - 4:30
6:00-7:30 Michael Prasuhn / Jonathan Hedstrom
Thursday
10:00 - 12:00 Michael Halstead
12:00 - 2:00 Michael Halstead / David Price
3:00 - 5:00 Melissa Anderson / Sarah Prasuhn
Sure count me in for Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning
Hi Eliza --
Count me in for the 2:00-4:30 slot on Wednesday and the 10:00-12:00 with Michael on Thursday.
Todd Tomlinson
Managing Partner
aHa! Consulting
www.ahaconsulting.com
Managing the booth
I wasn't able to make the July meeting, but I am willing to man the booth. It looks like there's an opening 2:00 -4:30. Two questions: 1) Is that a slot that needs to be covered? 2) Am I qualified, being that I missed yesterday's meeting?
Here's what's recommended
I think it's important that volunteers be familiar with Drupal marketing materials: http://acquia.com/drupal-event-organizer-kit
They should watch the videos so they can list show case sites, and talk about the different kinds of sites Drupal is used to build. They should also be able to answer questions about jobs, and local groups. They should be familiar with the different books that are available in the market, and ones that are going to be coming out, and of course be able to point people at documentation on Drupal.org.
So if you're not qualified, you can be :)
Qualified == me
Sounds good. I'll get that taken care of.
Let me know where you'd like to fit me in schedule-wise.
Schedule on the Wiki
I moved the schedule to the wiki so I can update it (and so can others): http://groups.drupal.org/node/9839/edit
You're signed up for the two slots you asked for, but feel free to sign up for others.
I added myself
I added myself to 2:00 -4:30 on Wednesday.
In light of the party on
In light of the party on Wednesday at 6, there was some talk about shortening the 6-7:30 shift...
Webchick nominated for Google O'Reilly Open Source Awards
Let's add Tuesday night at 8PM to the agenda.
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3705
Cheers,
Kieran
Drupal community adventure guide, Acquia Inc.
Drupal events, Drupal.org redesign