[svlug] Linux World? Open Source World? no more? LinuxPicnic info

[jim]

(top-posting, info regarding Linux Picnic) 

Here's a copy of the body of an email message I 
got on or about July 8: 

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Open Source projects and groups may now reserve tables at 
the Linux Picnicfor displays or social/meeting areas.  
See the Table Layout and Assignments page on the wiki:
   http://www.linuxpicnic.org/twiki/bin/view/Picnix19/Picnx19TableLayout

To reserve a table, ask on the linuxpicnic at linuxpicnic.org 
mail list.
Or contact Venkat or me.

Most group reservations will be limited to 1 table.  
However, Linux distributions and any similarly significant 
Open Source organizations may reserve 2 tables, possibly 3 
with an explanation why you need them.  We have already been 
talking with Ubuntu and Fedora about their tables.

Recommendations will be posted about how to set up your 
display/meeting area.  For example, an EZ-UP canopy and signs 
help visibly show something is happening at your table.

This was another item we accomplished at the Wednesday planning 
meeting at the park.  (These maps/diagrams were drawn at Table 
2H - how well can you read the map?)

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Announce mailing list
Announcements to subscribers of all Linux Picnic mail lists
http://www.linuxpicnic.org/twiki/bin/view/Volunteers/MailListEtiquette

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On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 11:34 -0700, Bill Ward wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org> wrote:
>         
>         For a big events company to just drop an exhibitor
>         out there on the show floor to fail is like a
>         software company selling "shelfware" -- probably more
>         profitable in the short term, but not a recipe for
>         repeat business.  Anyway, there are so many startups
>         in the Linux/free software business, and so many
>         people new to working a booth, that an event could do
>         really well if part of its business model was helping
>         its customers build an effective trade show program.
> 
> Yeah, but there are a lot more landlords out there than incubators....
> I think it's the same kind of difference.
> 
> Still, we always used to have the Linux Picnic schedule tied to the
> LinuxWorld schedule.  Has anyone heard anything about the Linux Picnic
> this year?
> 
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