[Foss4g2009] Mini-exhibitions?

[shoaib]

How about a night of demo-fest. A hall, lined with tables, peeps come
in - miggle and watch the folks that are behind the tables talk about
their cool new geo-thingo (which they run on their own laptop)

I think it would be good to have that part of the schedule.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Arnulf Christl
<arnulf.christl at wheregroup.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, September 28, 2008 07:49, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>> Pay for their half-table? Nothing! You'll be lucky to get people to
>> *stand* at a *free* table. :)
>>
>>
>> P.
>
> +1
>
> But I support the idea to have the software projects exposed better. At
> the FOSSGIS conferences and at the Intergeo trade show we actually reserve
> 1/3 of the exhibition place for projects to present themselves, make quick
> hack sprints when there is only dreary talks on etc. Add a few sofas to
> somewhat soften the hard business look.
>
> And maybe we can expose the OSGeo booth better than this year. It should
> stick out of the crowd a bit and it does not need to be a closed box. A
> few tables and lots of CI's tablecloth and banners do the trick fairly
> well.
>
> Best regards,
> Arnulf.
>
>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Cameron Shorter
>> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Tim and others,
>>> For 2009 we will have exhibition booths which will be occupied by
>>> sponsors & vendors (who can afford it). What I'm wondering is whether
>>> there should be a smaller presentation category for small Open Source
>>> Projects. Maybe only
>>> available on the day. Maybe only offering a table, or part of a booth.
>>> Aimed
>>> at being a place where customers can find presenters or project leads
>>> and network.
>>>
>>> Tim, I'm wondering whether you could look around this week and see
>>> whether there is a need for this, and if so, what would people be
>>> prepared to pay for their  1/2 table?
>>>
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