[LA.pm] LA-PM sponsoring a booth at SCALE?

[Randall Marbach]

Hi Todd

This sounds like fun to me and my wife says I am free that weekend, so sign me up.

Randy from Burbank

----- Original Message ----
From: Todd Cranston-Cuebas <Todd.Cranston-Cuebas at Ticketmaster.com>
To: losangeles-pm at pm.org
Sent: Friday, December 8, 2006 11:05:14 AM
Subject: [LA.pm] LA-PM sponsoring a booth at SCALE?



 



I wanted to open 
discussions on this list as to whether the LA.pm would like to host a booth at 
the upcoming Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) to be held on the weekend of 
February 10th and 11th (http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/). 
As a local user group, there would be NO COST! Trust me, that's a wonderful 
thing so I'd really like to take advantage of their generosity. I'll only do 
this though if we can get members to volunteer to sign-up for specific spots to 
sit in the booth and evangelize for our favorite programming 
language.

 

I have attended this event for 
a few years and the turn out for open-source minded individuals is just 
tremendous. This is a great opportunity to keep the buzz for perl alive in our 
area and perhaps have a very public forum for addressing specific misinformation 
that to my surprise never seems to go away (e.g., perl is slow, perl can't 
scale, perl can't be used for building "real" applications, 
etc.).

 

The only requirement 
that SCALE organizers place on us is that we will have to have 
live demonstration systems showing something related to perl at the show. 
They'll provide free internet access and power. We need to provide a few boxes 
showing "something" that we can demonstrate. This could be examples of 
performance tests in operation, a perl-based rapid development framework, 
etc. I think it would be ideal if the demonstration could address one 
of perl's common misconceptions (e.g., performance, difficulty to use, etc.) 
rather than just do something cryptic or esoteric.

 

In order to know if we should 
proceed, I'll need for everyone who is interested to reply.

 

1). Should we have a 
booth?

2). Will you take a 
time slot at the event (Sat-Sun - Feb 10-11). The length of the "slot" will 
depend on the number of volunteers.

3). Do you have an 
idea for a demonstration?

4). Will you help to 
build one or more demonstrations?

Regards,

Todd

Todd 
Cranston-Cuebas
Ticketmaster
8800 W. Sunset 
Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Phone: (310) 360-2436; Mobile: (310) 
422-3347
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