Going to OSCON? We need your help!

On July 21, 2005 06:12 pm, Josh Berkus wrote:

No doubt several/many of you are planning on attending OSCON 2005. The
PostgreSQL community will have a large, commercial booth in the exhibit
hall at OSCON this year, sponsored by SRA and CommandPrompt. And we need
you to help staff it.

Since I have a floor map of the convention centre does anybody know what the booth's id number is supposed to be?

Based on last year, I expect that many of us will hang out at the booth
anyway and it will be the place to discuss database programming at the
conference.

Since the exhibit hall will be open to the public for the
first time this year, we also need to make sure that the booth is a busy
hive of activity at all times.

Any idea on numbers to expect?

So I'm asking all PostgreSQL community people who are attending OSCON to
volunteer for one or more "shifts" during which you are committed to
helping staff the booth. Available shifts are:

Wednesday 10am - 11:30am
Wednesday 11:30am - 1pm
Wednesday 1pm - 2:30pm
Wednesday 2:30pm - 4:30 pm
Wednesday 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Thursday 10am - 11:30am
Thursday 11:30am - 1pm
Thursday 1pm - 2:30pm
Thursday 2:30pm - 4:30 pm

I'm not sure what my hours are going to be but I'll be spending more time at the booth then I will anywhere else at the conference. I'll be in town as of Tuesday night for the whole week.

The one event that I do know already that I want time out for is the book author's signing on Wednesday evening; I'm going as a Dru Lavigne groupie :-), http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bsdhks/chapter/index.html

Look at the OSCON master schedule: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/grid/

This helps a lot.

Please contact me before Friday, July 29th so that I know you are coming
and will help. I will prepare a schedule, e-mail it, and have it at the
booth when the show opens.

What about the other things about the booth i.e. table, power cords, lighting etc. I know it's being handled but not by whom. How far along is it?

**Let me know your e-mail address, name, what shifts you are available for
(and how many you'll do), and your cell phone number for the show.**

What else do you need Josh?

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On July 21, 2005 06:12 pm, Josh Berkus wrote:

No doubt several/many of you are planning on attending OSCON 2005. The
PostgreSQL community will have a large, commercial booth in the exhibit
hall at OSCON this year, sponsored by SRA and CommandPrompt. And we need
you to help staff it.

Since I have a floor map of the convention centre does anybody know what
the booth's id number is supposed to be?

Based on last year, I expect that many of us will hang out at the booth
anyway and it will be the place to discuss database programming at the
conference.

Since the exhibit hall will be open to the public for the
first time this year, we also need to make sure that the booth is a busy
hive of activity at all times.

Any idea on numbers to expect?

So I'm asking all PostgreSQL community people who are attending OSCON to
volunteer for one or more "shifts" during which you are committed to
helping staff the booth. Available shifts are:

Wednesday 10am - 11:30am
Wednesday 11:30am - 1pm
Wednesday 1pm - 2:30pm
Wednesday 2:30pm - 4:30 pm
Wednesday 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Thursday 10am - 11:30am
Thursday 11:30am - 1pm
Thursday 1pm - 2:30pm
Thursday 2:30pm - 4:30 pm

I'm not sure what my hours are going to be but I'll be spending more time
at the booth then I will anywhere else at the conference. I'll be in town
as of Tuesday night for the whole week.

The one event that I do know already that I want time out for is the book
author's signing on Wednesday evening; I'm going as a Dru Lavigne groupie
:-), http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bsdhks/chapter/index.html

Look at the OSCON master schedule:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/grid/

This helps a lot.

Please contact me before Friday, July 29th so that I know you are coming
and will help. I will prepare a schedule, e-mail it, and have it at the
booth when the show opens.

What about the other things about the booth i.e. table, power cords,
lighting etc. I know it's being handled but not by whom. How far along is
it?

**Let me know your e-mail address, name, what shifts you are available
for (and how many you'll do), and your cell phone number for the show.**

What else do you need Josh?

cheers

Robert,

Any idea on numbers to expect?

Nope. OSCON should have about 1800 regular attendees. Since this is
the first year the exhibit hall is open, I don't know that anyone knows
what to expect.

I'm not sure what my hours are going to be but I'll be spending more
time at the booth then I will anywhere else at the conference. I'll be
in town as of Tuesday night for the whole week.

OK. I'll be unavailable most of Wednesday and on Thursday during lunch.
So it would be keen if you could run the booth.

What about the other things about the booth i.e. table, power cords,
lighting etc. I know it's being handled but not by whom. How far along
is it?
What else do you need Josh?

Why don't you follow up on these things?

--Josh

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

On July 21, 2005 08:23 pm, Josh Berkus wrote:

I'm not sure what my hours are going to be but I'll be spending more
time at the booth then I will anywhere else at the conference. I'll be
in town as of Tuesday night for the whole week.

OK. I'll be unavailable most of Wednesday and on Thursday during lunch.
So it would be keen if you could run the booth.

Right then, I'll cover where needed.

What about the other things about the booth i.e. table, power cords,
lighting etc. I know it's being handled but not by whom. How far along
is it?

Why don't you follow up on these things?

Sure.

Can anybody tell me what they know about the booth setup at this point?

Joshua, you've got a handle on this eh, can you tell me what still needs to be covered?

cheers

Please contact me before Friday, July 29th so that I know you are coming
and will help. I will prepare a schedule, e-mail it, and have it at the
booth when the show opens.

What about the other things about the booth i.e. table, power cords,
lighting etc. I know it's being handled but not by whom. How far along is
it?

Brian and I are handling the table, power etc... There will be no
Internet however.

**Let me know your e-mail address, name, what shifts you are available
for (and how many you'll do), and your cell phone number for the show.**

What else do you need Josh?

cheers

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Joe,

We should talk about renegotiating the book schedule too. I have not
been able to get going on chapter 12 due to all the trips, and I'm
guessing you haven't gotten far either. There is pretty much no way I'll
be done by Monday, which was the last change I made. What do you think?

I've not written anything in 3 months. Given that we don't have an
editor, currently, I'm not particularly worried about the schedule.
We'll get it done when we get it done.

--Josh

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Folks,

Please ignore that last e-mail. My e-mail client is malfunctioning again.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

According to the email i got from JD, the booth is 1213

On Jul 21, 2005, at 8:11 PM, Robert Bernier wrote:

On July 24, 2005 12:29 pm, Brian Kilpatrick wrote:

According to the email i got from JD, the booth is 1213

There are five rows, we are in the 4th futhest row from the entrance