[ogb-discuss] CommunityOne West booth...

[Roland Mainz]

Hi!

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Did anyone thought about creating an OpenSolaris.org booth for
CommunityOne West in SFBay (see
http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/2009/west/) ?


* The idea would be to create a booth for the following purposes:
- Representing OpenSolaris.org and it's communities and projects
- Place for help/assientance for OpenSolaris user newbies (even those
who come with a laptop and quickly want to install OpenSolaris)
- Place for people who want to contribute to OpenSolaris.org (e.g.
people who didn't contribute to OpenSolaris yet)
- Place for OpenSolaris.org developers to exchange ideas and try out
stuff
- Place to sit down and talk about OpenSolaris


* What would be needed:
1. Funding (for:
    - the location 
    - renting various booth furniture/booth itself
    - internet (_wire_, not wlan)/power access
    - Cookies, bottles of water and tea (out of experience that several
days of booth service drives people mad if they only "run" on coffee)
    - computers (both x86+SPARC)
    - networked PostScript printer+paper
    - two or more whiteboards
    - OpenSolaris.org CDs, DVDs, USB sticks with OpenSolaris.org LiveCD,
MilaX, SXCE etc. etc.
    - Banner stuff with the OpenSolaris.org logo
    - Project-specific posters describing the projects
    - Flyers
    - <... more details later on demand...>
    )


2. Several computers, monitors, switches, cables, a PostScript printer
etc. At least one machine should be equipped with the abilty to run
tests+do some development/hacking (e.g. T1000 with LDOMs and enougth
memory+disk space)


3. Layout: Non-traditional "L"-shape booth layout to create an "edge"
and a set of small tables clustered at one end of the "L" (that people
can sit down and discuss stuff without being "run over" by people
visting the booth), e.g.

 ######
 #PPPP#W                      tables
 #    #W                         |
 #    #                          |
 #    #  <--- front              Y    
 #    #                    ### ### ### ###
 #    #                    # # # # # # # #
 #    #                    ### ### ### ###
 #    ####################### 
 #                           
 #XX    
 ############################   

Notes:
- XX="Pile of bags"
- PP="Small private section" for people to take a nap
- WW="Whiteboards"
- Area under the front side of booth is used to store stuff like
water-bottles, bookies, paper and misc. other stuff
- Area above the front side of booth is used for booth work, including
computer access (additionally every 2nd table has computer access, too)


4.Staff:
We need volunteers to staff the booth (preferably with some kind of
rotation that noone has to be at the booth for longer than 2-3 hours
maximum).


5. <... insert more stuff ...>

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Bye,
Roland

P.S.: Please keep the discussion in the OGB and/or Summit lists and not
the advocacy ones.

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