When Josh (Drake) and I were talking about the booth for OSCON we had a
couple of different ideas. One was to get a strictly commercial booth
as well as a community booth. Doing so was, as envisioned, was to allow
'hawking of wares' to to speak as well as just normal community banter.
However splitting it like that was ultimately rejected on logistical
and staff issues. The upside was we got a double sized booth for the
same price as a single.
I expect that this kind of juggling priorities will come up again.
Particularly when the commercial interests wish to participate, but
don't want to overshadow the community, or if the free community
presences area makes 'hawking' trickier.
So far we have all managed to deal with this pretty well and with
little fuss.
BK
On Aug 8, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Josh,
>
>> I heard EnterpriseDB mention that they are hosting the community
>> within
>> their booth at LinuxWorld this year. Question... Why isn't the
>> community
>> having their own booth?
>
> What, like OSCON? <grin>
>
> Due to exceptionally high demand for .ORG booths this year, we got
> bounced
> from having a booth (also due to a snag with my old fax machine). As
> it
> turns out, being with eDB has some significant benefits, not the least
> of
> which is that we'll be on the main show floor which the .ORGs will
> *not*.
> Also eDB is making us some nice signage and CDs.
>
> It also makes our booth setup etc. considerably easier, as it did at
> OSCON, if
> PG-supporting companies are willing to help.
>
>> I am not criticizing EnterpriseDB, I am glad they are willing to host
>> the space but it seems the community should have their own space for
>> the
>> show.
>
> Well, maybe next year we can talk about a Foundation booth with all of
> the
> companies who desire involved.
>
> --
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
>
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