[Oslo-aktive] Stand at JavaZone?

[Ben Cawkwell]

I can man the stand both days if needed.

Ben



On 2 September 2010 15:42, Salve J Nilsen <sjn at pvv.org> wrote:

> [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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> Nilsen
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> >
> '2!--"5-(50P%$PL,!0X354UC-PP%/0\`'."\n"));eval "&{'@_'}";   __END__ is
> near! :)
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