[osol-mktg] Upcoming Events: OSCon and LW

[Ben Rockwood]

Both OSCon (Portland) and LinuxWorld (SF) are drawing close.  I think 
both of these events are critical, perhaps the most important of this 
year, to marketing OpenSolaris.  Could we start getting details on how 
these events will be handled?  I'd be curious to know who will be at 
these events, who and where they will be presenting (booth, BoF, 
presentation, etc), and what equipment/code/tools/etc they will be using.

I guess I'm out for OSCon, but I am planning on taking the days for 
LinuxWorld off and I'm going to be spreading the OpenSolaris good news 
there, I'd much rather coordinate and work with the Sun presence than go 
renegade.  If possible I'd like to help staff the booth, showing off 
both OpenSolaris and Ultra20.  (Assuming I could get my hands on an 
Ultra20 to prep for the show, the one I ordered won't arrive untill the 
week of the show.)  My working with the shows staff will help continue 
the push that Sun is leveraging the community, which could be a press 
vehicle itself.

It seems like Ferrari's and Ultra20's should be the OpenSolaris systems 
of choice going forward for these types of events... in such way we can 
show not only Solaris10, not only OpenSolaris, not only Sun Studio 10, 
not only Sun hardware, not only Opteron, but the level of 
interoperablity with Linux/OpenBSD/etc as well.

If there are going to be any non-OpenSolaris folks presenting (what many 
of us call "booth bimbos") it'd be good for us to know so we can 
anticipate any miscommunication.

Oh, and avalible swag-age (tshirts, but particularly CD/DVDs) that will 
be distributioned would be good to be aware of as well.  I'd love it if 
we could hand a DVD with the OpenSolaris source and recent Solaris 
Express to every person attending!

Details?  Any other non-Sun folks on attending these events with an 
interest in helping out?

benr.


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