+1! Thanks for the initiative! I'm in St. Louis and would be willing to absorb the T&E to join for booth duty if you have any issues finding folks to cover. -- Daniel Ruggeri
On March 9, 2018 8:52:43 AM CST, Trevor Grant <trevor.d.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: >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 >> > > >> > > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
