[Columbus-pm] Perl presence on Ohio LinuxFest 2010, Sept 10-12

Jonathan Hogue jon at hogue.org
Wed Jun 2 07:08:29 PDT 2010


I'd be interested in helping with this. I think it would be fun.

Deleted the spam and a lot of the spammer accounts and some of the
spam (along with my own account, oops!) we must be so popular, we are
spam worthy :-)
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On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Gabor Szabo <szabgab at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> you might or might not know that I am trying to organize Perl
> presence on various non-Perl events. There is a whole
> "Perl events group" with mailing list and a few pages on the TPF wiki.
> See http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?events
>
> So far we participated in 2 events in Europe, the 3rd will be
> next week. You can see reports and pictures linked from the
> events page above.
>
>
> A few days ago Heath mentioned the Ohio LinuxFest so I
> checked out their web site. There is a possibility to setup a
> Perl booth (they call them exhibits) and to give Perl talks.
> I think such non-Perl events are great opportunities to promote
> Perl or Perl based projects.
> As a comparison: YAPC::NA 192 committed participants and 266 registered.
> On the LinuxFest there were 1,300 people last year.
>
> http://www.ohiolinux.org/
>
> The strategy on these events is to both submit Perl related talks
> and to setup a Perl booth that makes it easy to talk to people.
>
> I'll be at YAPC::NA and I'd be glad to talk to you about our
> experience in other events but as the dead-line for talk submission
> is June 30, 2010 it would be better if those interested at least
> though over what talk they might offer.
>
> As I can understand entrance to the LinuxFest is free of charge.
>
> For setting up a booth there are some expenses such as
>  - registration for the table is $75
>  - conference swag
>
> As I am trying to get a budget for the ongoing efforts for this from TPF
> I'll try to get those expenses covered and even get you a nice
> Perl::Staff polo-shirt for each one of the participants.
>
> If you have any question, I'd be happy to answer by mail as well,
> even before we meet on YAPC::NA.
>
>
> regard
>   Gabor
> ps. the page http://columbus.pm.org/list has a bunch of spam in it.
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