[Oslo-aktive] Stand at JavaZone?

[Salve J Nilsen]

Hei!

I've seen the following people volunteer:

Wed 8th: Ben
Thu 9th: Ben

Part-time: Kirill (We need a full day from you. Which one?)
One day: Marcus (Which day?)

(Please reply with any corrections to this)


Anyone else who wants to help? :)


- Salve


Salve J Nilsen said:
> 
> [This mail goes to several mailing lists, please mind who you reply to!]
>
> Here's an update.
>
> JavaBin will be giving away two tickets to each community in order to man 
> their stand. Tobias told me that most people will be going through/checking 
> out the mess area in the breaks, so it's most important that someone's 
> available there at these times. The schedule can be found here:
>
>  http://javazone.no/incogito10/events/JavaZone%202010/sessions
>
> These tickets give you access to the talks too, so you can learn something 
> too now and then. :)
>
>
> I suggest we do as follows:
>
> 1) If you can man the stand BOTH days or ONE day, the send a reply to the 
> list and myself NOW. If we can't get enough people to do this, then we'll 
> skip the whole thing. If you can be there only one of the days, then tell us 
> which day!
>
> 2) If you can man the stand BOTH days, you get priority to a ticket. 
> Otherwise, it's first come, first served. We might have to organize handing 
> over tickets to the friday group.
>
> 3) If we get a full set of volunteers by FRIDAY Sep 3rd at 12:00 CET DST, 
> I'll send a mail to Tobias saying that we're interested. At that time, we'll 
> know if there are any free slots still available. If we can manage to muster 
> a full roster before then, I'll send the mail earlier (increasing our chances 
> of success.)
>
> 4) I'll handle the graphical/visual details (with help from Tobias and 
> another one of the JavaBin guys. If you want to help too, the tell! :)
>
>
> - Salve
>
>
> Salve J Nilsen said:
>> 
>> Hi, Perl & NUUG people!
>> 
>> Just got a mail from Tobias Torrissen (one of the javaBin guys, who are the 
>> people organizing JavaZone,) where he asked if anyone in the different 
>> software communities in Oslo wanted to have a stand at the conference.
>> 
>> About JavaZone: It's one of the larger yearly Java conferences, and the 
>> largest one in north Europe, drawing more than 2300 people each year.
>>
>>  http://jz10.java.no/about.html
>> 
>> The conference is *NEXT WEEK* (sep 8-9) so if any of the locals (or anyone 
>> else nearby) want to make this happen, then we'll have to get hold of any 
>> marketing material quickly.
>> 
>> We've been offered a 1m wide/2.5m tall wall section of a 12m2 area 
>> (presumably 3x4m) and will have to share this with other communities who'd 
>> like to show themselves off at JavaZone. We're probably talking about 7-8 
>> wall sections/communities, but with the short deadline it's not guaranteed 
>> all of them will be used (first come first served, if necessary.) JavaZone 
>> supplies a coffee machine, a somewhat visually appealing "drop in" setup, 
>> and lots and lots of people.
>> 
>> Are there any banners or other useful marketing material available on short 
>> notice?
>> 
>> 
>> Oh, and an added bonus: Jonathan Worthington is scheduled to give a 
>> presentation in Oslo for the Norwegian Unix Users Group, titled "Perl 6: 
>> For the little tools and the large applications" (About "how various 
>> features of Perl 6 make things easier for those writing one liners, those 
>> writing small tools and those writing much larger things.")
>> 
>> Jonathan's talk is on september 14th (the tuesday directly after the 
>> conference!) so promoting that talk is probably also a good idea for 
>> creating further visibility around both Perl, Oslo.pm and NUUG. :D
>> 
>> 
>> - Salve J. Nilsen (Oslo.pm)
>> 
>> 
>
>

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