On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:20:20PM -0400, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Marcus Meissner wrote:

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I got asked by one of the organizers if openSUSE could participate in some way.

Perhaps we can? :)

Perhaps we can.

Would you like to head up a booth for that event?

No, my time is very scarce these days :/ I was hoping Ambassadors might find themselves ;)

Do we have any information on the event (how many people they expect, are they just asking for people to man a booth, or asking for talks, or sponsorship?)

I mailed Sven Lankes (one of the organizer who asked me) and received this answer to your questions.: |On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:51:35AM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: | |>> I got asked by one of the organizers if openSUSE could participate in some way. |>> Perhaps we can? :) | |> Perhaps we can. | |> Would you like to head up a booth for that event? Do we have any |> information on the event (how many people they expect, are they just |> asking for people to man a booth, or asking for talks, or |> sponsorship?) | |ORR is debuting this year so we don't have any hard numbers but as the |'Ruhrgebiet' is the most densly populated area in europe (with a |population of 5.3 million) and it doesn't have any (major) free software |events we do expect between 800 and 1000 people over the weekend. | |This is mostly about having an opensuse booth presence as this would |mean that all major distributions are present (fedora, debian and ubuntu |have already confirmed). The audience is somewhat more targetted at |users (personal as well as professional) and we hope to get a good |number of people who aren't free software users yet. | |While we're also (of course) always looking for more sponsors, this is |not what we're after from the projects. As for talks - the CfP deadline |has already past on Sunday but we could probably still fit a high level |talk on opensuse in if we get a proposal within the next two weeks. | |-- |sven === jabber/xmpp: sven@lankes.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

Hi again, i had a short discussion with gnokii and asked some people from another project if they are going. So here is the deal, i will 99 % go there and will take up the organization for our booth, Marcus can you provide contact information? Thomas and gnokii, both also joined for FrOSCon, also think about going there. Any other Ambassadors or volunteers around? Cheers Jan

Marcus Meissner wrote:

Sven Lankes, sven@lank.es,

(Or aussteller@openrheinruhr.de as printed on the flyer I have)

Thanks, booth is confirmed! I have created a wiki page for coordination, so if you would like to help with the booth, get in touch with me and add yourself to the wiki: http://de.opensuse.org/Veranstaltungen/OpenRheinRuhr/2009 Cheers Jan