LinuxWorld SF 2008

Why

Fedora's purposes for attending this show, in order of importance:

• Meet people from other prominent projects and look for collaborative opportunities
• Represent the Fedora Project to newcomers at the booth

Where

• Location:
• Flight:
• Hotel:
• Mass trans:

When

• Expo floor is August 05, 06, and 07 2008
  • Tue 05 Aug 10 am to 5 pm
  • Wed 06 Aug 10 am to 5 pm
  • Thu 07 Aug 10 am to 4 pm
• Setup/booth duty schedule below

What

• Fedora Booth in .Org Pavilion on Floor
• Fedora BoF (schedule unknown yet) ???

Swag

En route ???

• 20 Fedora tshirts (L)
• 20 Fedora tshirts (XL)
• 10 Fedora tshirts (M)
• 400 Fedora 9 Live CDs
• 400 Fedora 9 DVDs
• 15--shirts
• 30--stickers
• 7--2G USB keys
• 6--pens
• Two (very heavy) boxes containing media from Max.

Who

(T) indicates a Traveller to the event; (L) indicates a Local.

• CharlieWhitehead (T)
• JackAboutboul (T)
• Karsten Wade (L)
• Larry Cafiero (L)

How

Booth Schedule and Setup

We need volunteers to man the following schedule. If everyone takes a 2-hour session once a day, we should have more than enough booth coverage.

• Setup, Tuesday 8am: Karsten; Larry
• Tue. 10am-noon: Larry; (name2)
• Tue. noon-2pm: (name1); (name2)
• Tue. 2pm-4:30pm: (name1); (name2)
• Wed. 10am-noon: Larry; (name2)
• Wed. noon-2pm: (name1); (name2)
• Thu. 2pm-5pm: (name1); (name2)
• Thu. 10am-noon: (name1); (name2)
• Thu. noon-2pm: (name1); (name2)
• Thu. 2pm-5pm: (name1); (name2)
• Teardown, Thursday 5pm: EVERYBODY :)

Booth Duties

• Hand out what schwag we have on hand.
• Hand out collateral: WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN FEDORA (need to create)
• Install on USB keys for those who are interested
  • who is providing machine to do installs?
• Walk new contributors through signup process.
  • Is internet access available on the floor? Last year you had to pay for it

TODOs

• Keep track of budget below (Jack)
• Write and design collateral (Jack)
• Come up with the detailed list of everything we need to have for setup (Jack)
  • Marketing slicks
  • Posters
  • Booth banner
  • USB station
• Get details on BoF (Jack)
• Figure out final schwag requirements (Jack)
• Figure out advertising strategy (Jack)