Staffing of an OLPC Booth at PyCon, volunteers needed

[Kurt Gramlich]

* Mike C. Fletcher <mcfletch at vrplumber.com> [080131 19:11]:

> Edward Cherlin wrote:
> > 2008/1/29 Noah Kantrowitz <kantrn at rpi.edu>:
> >   
> ...
> >> We are holding open an OLPC booth, as someone had  mentioned that they
> >> wanted one. Can anyone confirm this?
> >>     
> >
> > A number of OLPC volunteers will be at PyCon, myself included. Does that work?
> >   
> We're told by the PyCon organizers that they require an official request 
> and a commitment to staff the booth throughout the conference hours in 
> order to get the space reserved.  They have the entire Expo hall 
> "bookable", so we're competing with people paying for the privilege of 
> displaying their "wares".  We need to get the request in ASAP to avoid 
> losing the booth (i.e. yesterday-ish).
> 
> We'd probably need 5-6 people to man the booth throughout the conference 
> days without asking someone to spend the whole conference behind the 
> desk.  I'm certainly willing to take a half-day or more.  We should have 
> a good selection of XO's available.  Would be nice if we had a table, 
> maybe a couple of posters and the like, but realistically I don't have 
> enough time booked for OLPC before the conference to get that done.

Perhaps you would like to burn some of our new XO-LiveCd and
spread them to visitors?

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD

Download:

http://dev.laptop.org/pub/livebackupcd

> 
> If we can get 5-6 volunteers to commit to it I'm willing to put together 
> an official request and move forward.
> 
> Take care,
> Mike

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