Staffing of an OLPC Booth at PyCon, volunteers needed

[Mel Chua]

I've forwarded this to the olpc-chicago list (for those of you going
to PyCon this year, it may be worth temporarily joining the list and
introducing yourselves; there are several active university chapters
there along with some independent developers working on projects).

Also see [[OLPC Chicago]] for a (roughly 10 days out of date) overview
of people and projects and groups in the area you might want to meet,
hook up with, collaborate with, etc.

-Mel

On Jan 31, 2008 5:18 PM, Kurt Gramlich <kurt at skolelinux.de> wrote:
> * 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
>
> Regards/AmicaLinuxement/Saludos/Viele Gruesse!
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