Hey guys,
There will be an OpenACS booth in the dotORG pavilion of Linux World
at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA on August 13-15. Linux
World offers free booth space to open source projects, so our only
responsibility is to show up and evangelize!
Of course, by then OACS4.5 will be officially released (it's out
already basically, Don's probably so completely swamped it's not quite
"official") and we'll have some honkin' projects to show, including
Greenpeace.org, dotLRN, PluggedIn's project and other very important
and impressive sites.
In order to do this successfully, I will be organizing the event so
that we have plenty of people to staff the booth and demos and things
to show off. It will be best to have some things at the show, like
various demos, some literature about the project and about companies
and consultants available for commercial hire. This stuff will cost
money, and so I think we will have to come up with some kind of
sponsorship by volunteers, companies and consultants. The amount
should be staggered accordingly, so volunteers donate some,
consultants pay a number and companies pay a larger number.
In addition, we will have to set some ground rules, the main one will
be that there can be no selling of services at the booth. People and
orgs can have literature at the booth, but no one will be allowed to
make personal sales pitches around the booth.
Anyway, these are some basic suggestions. Before anything is laid
down, I would like to open this forum for suggestions on how we should
approach this so that the OpenACS booth is open for everyone to
evangelize the project.
If you would like to personally help, feel free to announce it on the
board or email me directly at talli@museatech.net
Looking forward to seeing people at Linux World!
talli
