Thanks Kanchana, So I've been talking to GOTO for the last couple of weeks- we will be able to have a booth there. No charge (explicitly, I have a couple of meetups in Chicago I co-organize, GOTO is going to co-sponsor some meetups leading up, etc, etc).
Would like to maybe start a wiki page on who can work the booth and when (similar to how we did for FOSDEM)- I still need to find out from the people at GOTO, how many ASF members we can let in to work the booth. At any rate, I'm pretty stoked this worked out. On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 3:26 AM, Kanchana Welagedara <kanch...@opensource.lk > wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > >
