Planning wiki for Drupal booth at LinuxWorld Expo 8/4-8/7

Are you interested in helping to spread the word about Drupal? LinuxWorld Expo is coming to Moscone Center Aug 4-7. Come share, learn, and have fun with other Drupal and open source fans. LinuxWorld Expo is geared more towards enterprise solutions. If you're interested in open source (beyond Drupal), this is a great opportunity to learn from others and to share what you know about Drupal.

I'm working with Amazon to coordinate the effort to host a booth at LinuxWorld Expo.

• If you'd like to volunteer to help spread the word about Drupal and the open source revolution, this is where the party is.
• If you've already posted to volunteer in a previous post, please verify I captured that info (below).

following are some of the planning details, and at the moment this post is a skeleton; but it is a wiki, please treat it as such ;-)

Conference & Booth Info

information about booth location, prizes, etc

• We have a booth table, poster, 32" monitor, we will have a few chairs - Kieran Lal
• Ubuntu dev laptop to show off developing Drupal in a totally open source source environment. - Mike Stewart

Drupal expo presentation at Kick-apps developer lounge

Drupal rocks the social publishing world!
Kieran Lal, a leader in the Drupal project, will demonstrate how many showcase websites from education, non-profits, big media companies, and newspapers are using Drupal to rock the social publishing world.

Drupal Session Info

Quick & Dirty Dev: Social Media Web Sites on LAMP: How Drupal Changes the Game
Thursday, August 7, 2008, 10:15 am - 11:15 am

Speaker:
Barry Jaspan, Principal Engineer, Acquia, Inc.

This talk will demonstrate how to use the Drupal open source web publishing system to rapidly assemble a highly functional Web 2.0 site on the LAMP stack. Barry will walk through the process of building a branded community web site using a custom developed module in PHP, along with out-of-the-box Drupal features such as blogs, ranking and promotion and discussion forums.

BoF: Meet Up for Drupal Users and People who Maintain Drupal Sites

Day: Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Time: 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Room: 306 at the Mariott across the street

Resources

variety of links to Drupal Marketing & educational material

• Great Promo materials explaining: What's Drupal?.
• Drupal Event Organizer Kit is a great resource for marketing & educational collateral for the booth
• Planet Drupal - review prior to show to be up to date on latest news in the Drupal world
• Help cross promote Barry's session and the Drupal BoF
• can you bring a laptop prepared to demo? check out the [[http://acquia.com/drupal-event-organizer-kit | Drupal Event Organizer Kit]]

Want to Volunteer?

1. Step 1: signup
2. Step 2: add yourself to the schedule for the time(s) you can commit
3. Step 3: send me your contact info (cell/email) and let me know if I can share it with other volunteers on the list.

Step 1: Signup (per above)

please add your name below and indicate you have registered by adding a note: {Ce Pass Registration}. LinuxWorld is free if you pre-register by Aug 3 for an Exhibit Hall Pass. {Ae Pass registration} means you were register by me.

• Avinash Harsh (Halosys.com) {Ae Pass: 07-9226 }
• Blake Lucchesi {Ae Pass: 07-9221 }
• Brendon Crawford and wife (brendoncrawford / message144)
• Chris Bryant (graviteklabs.com) {Ce Pass registration}
• Dan Robinson
• deb (fuzetto.com) {Ce Pass: 07-9246 }
• Russell Uman (firebus, firebus.com) {Ce Pass: 07-2222}
• Geoff Butterfield (edutopia.org) {Ce Pass registration}
• hdekker (library.berkeley.edu)
• Jonathan Geraci (handle: jgeraci -- work: emotiv.com) (available most of the day 6-Aug) {Ce Pass: 07-6192}
• Kieran Lal {Ae Pass: 07-10776 }
• Manish Harsh (Halosys.com) {Ae Pass: 07-10772 }
• Mike Stewart {Ae Pass: 07-9193 }
• stephen (spaceshare.com)
• tdennis (library.berkeley.edu)
• Tao (Starbow)
• Tom Geller (tgeller -- savemyhomebook.com et al.) {Ce Pass registration}
• Smoking Goat (Greg Beuthin - AF83) {Ae Pass registration}

Step 2: Schedule (per above)

I could use some input on how to setup the schedule. The goal is to have the booth manned with at least four bodies at peak times. At the same time we want to keep it fun and make sure no one gets burnt out for volunteering and gets ample time to network and watch their share of sessions. After adding yourself to the schedule, please remember to do step 3: send me your contact info.

Mon Aug 4

setup? not sure what happens monday - stay tuned...

Tue Aug 5

Note: BoF: Drupal Meetup @ 6pm
10 - 11:30

1. Chris Bryant
2. Deborah Fuzetto
3. Tom Geller

11:30 - 1:30

1. Chris Bryant
2. Deborah Fuzetto
3. Brendon Crawford and wife
4. Blake Lucchesi

1:30 - 3

1. Mike Stewart
2. Brendon Crawford and wife
3. Blake Lucchesi
4. your name here

3 - 5

1. Greg Beuthin
2. Brendon Crawford and wife
3. Blake Lucchesi
4. stephen

Wed Aug 6

10 - 11:30

1. Mike Stewart
2. Greg Beuthin
3. Jonathan Geraci
4. Geoff Butterfield

11:30 - 1:30

1. Mike Stewart
2. Geoff Butterfield

1:30 - 3

1. Mike Stewart
2. Chris Bryant
3. Jonathan Geraci
4. Geoff Butterfield

3 - 5

1. Mike Stewart
2. Tom Geller
3. your name here

Thu Aug 7

10 - 11:30

1. (maybe) Dmitri Gaskin
2. Blake Lucchesi
3. your name here

11:30 - 1:30

1. Dmitri Gaskin
2. Blake Lucchesi
3. your name here

1:30 - 3

1. Mike Stewart
2. your name here
3. your name here

3 - 5

1. Mike Stewart
2. Russell Uman (firebus)
3. Greg Beuthin
4. your name here

Teardown

1. Mike Stewart
2. Russell Uman (firebus)
3. Greg Beuthin

Tasks

things that need to happen in order for us to have fun & be cool when promoting drupal

• daily - marketing. promote the booth. prior to LinuxWorld Expo promote what we're doing to help raise general awareness.
• (by 7/28) - find out about booth setup & coordinate as necessary : Mike Stewart
• (by 8/1) - finalize booth volunteer schedule & registrations : Mike Stewart

Ok, Now what? Booth Details: Badge Pickup, Dates, Times, Location, etc

Are you registered? If not, register now - it's free until Aug 3. Follow instructions to register for a free exhibit floor pass.

ONSITE BADGE PICK UP PROCEDURE

Exhibitor Badges will NOT be mailed in advance for this event. LinuxWorld Conference & Expo and Next Generation Data Center has developed a quick and easy way for you to obtain your badge on-site. Simply proceed to the Exhibitor Registration area located the upper north lobby of the Moscone Center. Please note that identification is required to receive your badge.

EXHIBITION HOURS

• Tuesday August 5, 2008 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• Wednesday August 6, 2008 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• Thursday August 7, 2008 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

REGISTRATION & BADGE PICKUP HOURS

Registration is located in the upper north lobby of the Moscone Center

• Monday August 4, 2008 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• Tuesday August 5, 2008 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
• Wednesday August 6, 2008 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• Thursday August 7, 2008 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

LOCATION

Booth: 1630

The Moscone Center
747 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-974-4000
www.moscone.com

Questions? Need to contact me?
* mike stewart (email goes to my phone)
* Kieran Lal (aka amazon)