Re: [Fwd: Exhibitor Magazine Honors LinuxWorld San Francisco 2005 for its Attendee Traffic Density]

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

I totally agree about the BOF.  I never did one, but I think it
would prove quite useful.  If I recall, it's fairly easy to do one given
some advanced notice.

I'll email you and Glynn the contact I know for OSCON.

sri

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:02:03AM +0100, Paul Cooper wrote:
> ----- Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> > > Personally, it's probably more effective to walk around with a
> > > shoulder bag filled with GNOME CD's and schmooze at OSCON which is
> > > really the kind of conference where I find booths to be of limited
> > > effectiveness.
> >
> > Sounds like a good plan - I'll be up at OSCON too this year. Maybe
> > there's some spare tshirts from GUADEC that we can hand out?
>
> Another thing we could do is hold a BOF / impromptu event. Haven't been to OSCON at it's new venue but they 
> alway used to provide rooms for BOFS. With at least Glynn, JDub and me there we should have enough people 
> to do something (if nothing else talk about Guadec 2007).
>
> And along the lines of this Kathy Sierra piece 
> http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/07/changing_the_us.html
> we might want to show of hidden / unkown / useful / upcoming features in Gnome. I'm running AIGLX and 
> gimmie so can show off that stuff. Or we could grab the latest Jokosher, Pitivi, Diva (anything else) 
> releases and walk through those.
>
> Paul
>
> > Glynn
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