Re: LWE stand organisation

["Ken VanDine" <ken vandine org>]

rPath always has a booth, and we have noticed a major slowdown the
past couple shows.  Not only Boston, by SF was slower too.  We will
just hope this year is better :-D

--Ken

On 4/14/07, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org> wrote:
> [cc'ing marketing-list instead of board.]
>
> On 4/14/07, Ken VanDine <ken vandine org> wrote:
> > I am very pleased to do it, I will email the marketing list to look
> > for volunteers to help.  But if anyone here would be interested in
> > helping or can help find volunteers, that would be great.
> >
> > Does anyone have details from previous LWEs?  Like number of visitors
> > to the booth?  How many LiveCDs were given out?  Anything else useful?
>
> In past years, several thousand booth visitors; I don't recall how
> many liveCDs I sold two years ago, but 'a lot'- a couple hundred,
> IIRC? I can try to look it up sometime later- not today, though.
>
> Note, though, that LWE is a wounded beast, AFAICT; floor traffic was
> down substantially during the second year in Boston, and I imagine the
> same is true in San Fran. So my numbers may not be as valid anymore.
>
> Luis