[osol-mktg] Upcoming Events: OSCon and LW

[Sara Dornsife]

Hi Ben.

Ben Rockwood wrote:

> 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. 

We will be at both events. I will be sending out details of OSCon soon. 
We are doing a LOT there.

At LinuxWorld, we have a BOF on Tues (at the same time as the Fedora 
BOF) lead by Adam Leventhal and a pod in the Sun booth. If you would be 
willing to put in some time in the booth, I have a free pass available. 
I need someone either Wed Thurs or both.....??? This is open to any 
community member who would be willing and able to discuss OpenSolaris 
with the Linux crowd.

>
>
> 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. 

Great.

>
>
> 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. 

We don't have Ferrari's for the show. We are using ShuttlePC Pentium 4 
and an Ultra 20.

>
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> 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. 

Just the pod for LinuxWorld. We want to have OpenSolaris experts in the 
booth to field any questions. You will made a great booth bimbo/bunny.

At OSCon, we are creating a "community theatre" with our booth and 
giving theatre time to anyone at the show who needs/wants it. Details to 
follow.

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> 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! 

We don't have CDs/DVDs available right now. We have lots of other swag 
(shirts, stickers, laptop stickers, hats, posters, etc).

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

Thanks for bringing this up Ben!!!! I've been meaning to......

>
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> benr.
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