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Posted by Amazon on June 12, 2008 at 6:22pm
Start:
2008年07月21日 12:00 - 2008年07月23日 17:00 US/Pacific
Organizers:
Event type:
Drupalcamp or Regional Summit

I am arranging for a Drupalcon Booth at OSCON. Let me know if you are available to represent Drupal during the following hours.

Exhibitor Registration/Move-In:
Monday, July 21, 12:00PM - 6:00PM
Tuesday, July 22, 9:00AM - 6:00PM
Exhibit Hall Hours:
Wednesday, July 23
10:00AM - 4:30PM
6:00PM - 7:30PM (Expo Hall Reception)
Thursday, July 24
10:00AM - 5:00PM

Location: Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97232

Comments

Available

Posted by metaltoad on June 12, 2008 at 6:53pm

Hi Amazon,

I'm willing and able but I have a couple questions:

  • Is entrance covered for volunteers?
  • Do we need to be available for the entire time or can it be some of the time?

Exhibitor Staff Passes

Posted by Amazon on June 12, 2008 at 7:33pm

Exhibitor Staff Passes
To register, please email Karie Hubbell (work through Kieran) with the list of
names of those who will be working your booth by July 14, 2008. Maximum 4. Exhibitor passes allow access to the exhibit area, meals, and keynotes, but
no access to sessions, workshops, and tutorials.

FYI Dries will be at OSCON.

Cheers,
Kieran

Drupal community adventure guide, Acquia Inc.
Drupal events, Drupal.org redesign

4 people can trade off time

Posted by Amazon on June 12, 2008 at 7:37pm

I don't think we need 4 people all the time. But Drupal is getting really popular, and I can tell you that at Enterprise 2.0 this week we often had 4-5 Acquia employees busy talking about Drupal to different people at the same time. So you should expect to be there a reasonable amount of the time, particular during peak expo times.

Kieran

Drupal community adventure guide, Acquia Inc.
Drupal events, Drupal.org redesign

Available

Posted by eliza411 on June 12, 2008 at 7:18pm

I am available but have the same questions as metaltoad.

Expo hall passes are free

Posted by gchaix on June 16, 2008 at 9:40pm

Note that exhibit hall passes are free to the public, so you don't need to pay to get in regardless.

https://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/register

Related to PDXDUG booth?

Posted by grantkruger on June 12, 2008 at 7:34pm

Is this related to the booth drewish was going to set up for the PDX DUG? I can likely help either way, but it may make sense to combine the two.

Grant

Sala kahle,
Grant

Working together

Posted by Amazon on June 12, 2008 at 7:38pm

Hi, Drewish and I are working on a Drupal media sprint together during OSCON. So yes, we are working together, but I may be overlapping some of his effort.

Cheers,
Kieran

Drupal community adventure guide, Acquia Inc.
Drupal events, Drupal.org redesign

Sign me up

Posted by todd_tomlinson on June 12, 2008 at 7:50pm

Please sign me up for at least a 1 hour slot per day. I can work the entire show if we need coverage.

Todd Tomlinson
Managing Partner
aHa! Consulting

Todd Tomlinson
Managing Partner
aHa! Consulting
www.ahaconsulting.com

I can work any part of

Posted by eliza411 on June 12, 2008 at 8:07pm

I can work any part of either day and can do full days if needed.

Count me in as well

Posted by bonobo on June 15, 2008 at 5:45am

I'd be glad to help staff the booth.

I'll have some availability throughout the week --

Cheers,

Bill

FunnyMonkey
Tools for Teachers

Booth fully equiped, 4 volunteers get passes

Posted by Amazon on June 16, 2008 at 9:25pm

The OSCON organizers were kind enough to provide a fully equipped booth.

Each 10'x10' Pipe & Draped Booth Space Includes:
* 4' draped counter (pop-up booths are not allowed)
* One counter-height stool
* Carpeted area (no need to rent carpet)
* One High-speed ethernet Internet connection
* One 500 Watt Double Outlet
* 7" x 44" Identification Sign

Based on recent experience at LinuxScale and Acquia's booth at Enterprise 2.0 I think we are going to be quite busy.
Volunteers:
Eliza, Bill Fitzgerald, Todd Tomlinson, Joaquin Lippincott, Greg, Andrew Morton

We will need more to get full coverage. We shoul also have a lot of people in town for the Drupal media sprint including Dries Buytaert and Angela Byron, aka Webchick.

Cheers,
Kieran

Drupal community adventure guide, Acquia Inc.
Drupal events, Drupal.org redesign

Script/agenda

Posted by metaltoad on June 16, 2008 at 9:41pm

Should the volunteers (and organizer) meet to talk about what we should say and what (if any) materials we'll be presenting?

Materials for the booth and event promotion

Posted by Amazon on June 16, 2008 at 9:55pm

http://acquia.com/drupal-event-organizer-kit

I try to not spend a lot of money on collateral, but instead collect business cards, and hand out some simple mu cards with relevant links on it.

There's showcase videos, laminated book covers, laminated top 10 reasons to use Drupal, Drupal banner, and gifts for drawings. Browse through that page and let me know what you think is interesting.

Cheers,
Kieran

Drupal community adventure guide, Acquia Inc.
Drupal events, Drupal.org redesign

Materials

Posted by metaltoad on June 16, 2008 at 10:53pm

Neat resource. Do we have any budget as an organization or should I look at paying for this out of pocket?

I think we can raise a budget

Posted by Amazon on June 17, 2008 at 12:22am

So far it looks like OSCON will be the cheapest event out of the three that I am working on.

I think we could just print up a few hundred mu cards and hand them out, or help people to sign up on Drupal.org or g.d.o. Of course it's nice to have prizes so help drive promotion during the Drupal sessions.

Cheers,
Kieran

Drupal community adventure guide, Acquia Inc.
Drupal events, Drupal.org redesign

I'll be around the exhibit

Posted by gchaix on June 16, 2008 at 9:36pm

I'll be around the exhibit hall a lot both days since I'll be staffing the OSU OSL booth. There's a good chance I can help fill in gaps at the Drupal booth as well.

-Greg

Drupal Booth Schedule

Posted by eliza411 on July 10, 2008 at 7:56pm

I volunteered to handle the scheduling details for the booth. I've asked folks to make a commitment to the time slots they sign up for. More people have indicated they are definitely planning to help as they are available. I'm hoping that Bill, Todd, and metaltoad can fill in Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning so we'll have at least two commitments for each time slot. Four people would be even better :)

We'll be setting up on Wednesday morning just before the Expo opens, so the schedule looks like:

Wednesday

10:00 - 12:00 Andrew Morton / Michael Halstead / Melissa Anderson
12:00 - 2:00 Michael Halstead / Melissa Anderson
2:00 - 4:30
6:00-7:30 Michael Prasuhn / Jonathan Hedstrom

Thursday

10:00 - 12:00 Michael Halstead
12:00 - 2:00 Michael Halstead / David Price
3:00 - 5:00 Melissa Anderson / Sarah Prasuhn

Hi Eliza --

Count me in for the 2:00-4:30 slot on Wednesday and the 10:00-12:00 with Michael on Thursday.

Todd Tomlinson
Managing Partner
aHa! Consulting
www.ahaconsulting.com

Todd Tomlinson
Managing Partner
aHa! Consulting
www.ahaconsulting.com

Managing the booth

Posted by metaltoad on July 10, 2008 at 10:11pm

I wasn't able to make the July meeting, but I am willing to man the booth. It looks like there's an opening 2:00 -4:30. Two questions: 1) Is that a slot that needs to be covered? 2) Am I qualified, being that I missed yesterday's meeting?

Here's what's recommended

Posted by eliza411 on July 11, 2008 at 12:10am

I think it's important that volunteers be familiar with Drupal marketing materials: http://acquia.com/drupal-event-organizer-kit
They should watch the videos so they can list show case sites, and talk about the different kinds of sites Drupal is used to build. They should also be able to answer questions about jobs, and local groups. They should be familiar with the different books that are available in the market, and ones that are going to be coming out, and of course be able to point people at documentation on Drupal.org.

So if you're not qualified, you can be :)

Qualified == me

Posted by metaltoad on July 11, 2008 at 12:42am

Sounds good. I'll get that taken care of.

Let me know where you'd like to fit me in schedule-wise.

Schedule on the Wiki

Posted by eliza411 on July 11, 2008 at 1:09am

I moved the schedule to the wiki so I can update it (and so can others): http://groups.drupal.org/node/9839/edit
You're signed up for the two slots you asked for, but feel free to sign up for others.

I added myself

Posted by metaltoad on July 11, 2008 at 3:42pm

I added myself to 2:00 -4:30 on Wednesday.

In light of the party on

Posted by jhedstrom on July 10, 2008 at 8:42pm

In light of the party on Wednesday at 6, there was some talk about shortening the 6-7:30 shift...

Let's add Tuesday night at 8PM to the agenda.

http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3705

Cheers,
Kieran

Drupal community adventure guide, Acquia Inc.
Drupal events, Drupal.org redesign

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