Hi Travor, I can help out for the booth event .I'm currently based in Chicago. Cheers Kanchana
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Trevor Grant <trevor.d.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Awesome! Thank you > > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:46 AM, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> > wrote: > > > Trevor Grant wrote on 2/16/18 10:40 AM: > > > Hey all, > > > > > > I reached out to GOTO Chicago for info on doing an Apache Booth there. > > > They got back to me with pricing, but seemed really interested in > having > > us > > > and like immediately were saying it was totally negotiable / they'd > work > > > with us. > > > > Excellent idea, and thanks for working on this kind of stuff! > > > > > The quoted cost is $10k, not sure if it's worth even pursuing- all I > can > > > say is that I can work the booth in Chicago. > > > > > > Does a budget exist for this? Have other for profit conferences given > us > > > any discounts? Should I just tell them, thanks but that's way out of > our > > > price range? > > > > No, we have not paid for booth space at conferences, as far as I recall. > > As a non-profit with limited budgets, we need a very specific reason to > > pay for things like this; merely having a booth is not something the ASF > > would likely pay for. > > > > The majority of times there's an interesting conference where we have > > the volunteers to staff it, and the conference organizers are truly > > interested in having an Apache presence there, they end up giving us a > > booth free as a non-profit. So going back to them to ask about how they > > treat non-profits is likely the next step, if you're up for it. > > > > > I never thought much of this conference, but it was on that list of > > top-10 > > > tech conferences that was pushed out a few weeks ago so I started to do > > > some research on it. > > > > > > https://gotochgo.com > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > - Shane > > https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > > > >
