Okay, it is official! There will be no Apache OFBiz booth at OSCON
2009. I have just verified this with May Carver of O'Reilly.
I am still speaking at OSCON (on July 23rd), and the ASF does have a
booth arranged. If you can make it to my presentation, or happen to be
around on the 23rd, I look forward to seeing you there!
-David
On Jun 22, 2009, at 9:32 AM, David E Jones wrote:
The response to the opportunity to have a booth for OFBiz at OSCON
can may be best be described as "deafening silence". In addition to
this I have received an e-mail from someone at O'Reilly expressing
concern that I have encouraged those manning the booth to bring
along business cards and brochures to hand out while manning the
booth. Evidently with a free booth like this they prohibit any sort
of commercial activity. They were kind enough to include an
invitation to purchase a normal booth for anyone involved who would
like to mention things related to commercial activity.
These two factors are basically in the proverbial straw that broke
the camels back for me. I was already considering not attending
because of some recent personal and professional changes, and now my
decision is clear. I will not be attending OSCON this year and
representing OFBiz there. I believe the time and money will be
better spent elsewhere, as fun as it might be to attend the
conference.
If there is anyone who would like to take over management of the
booth please contact me immediately. If no one else is interested in
doing this I will be contacting the O'Reilly conference people and
telling them that they can use the booth for someone else on the
waiting list they have mentioned that they have.
-David
On Jun 15, 2009, at 5:03 PM, David E Jones wrote:
The time has come to submit the registration for the OSCON booth
staff. We have 5 passes available, and it would be GREAT to fill
all 5 spots.
This is an opportunity to meet others involved with OFBiz, share
your OFBiz expertise and even do some marketing of your services
(feel free to hand out cards, brochures, etc for your company). The
general idea I'd like to portray with this booth is a real
community-driven open source project with different people from
different companies involved in making the project what it is.
For details on the conference here is my blog post about it:
http://osofbiz.blogspot.com/2009/05/apache-ofbiz-at-oscon-2009.html
Here is a link directly to the conference web site:
http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009
You'll note that the theme for this year is: OSCON 2009 is "Open
for Business"... how flattering! ;)
Now that I have the form I know we need the following information
for each person:
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First Name:
Last Name:
Position:
Company:
Email Address:
OSCON Online Community?
Other Correspondence?
* OSCON Online Community - Conference Social Networking - If you
would like to connect with other attendees via a special conference-
only social networking site, please say Yes and you will be
registered. You will receive further instructions on how to
participate in the network via email.
* Other Correspondence - Would you like to receive relevant
information about events, products and services from OSCON
Conference exhibitors or partner companies via email.
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A couple of people had mentioned to me before that they were
interested in helping to man the booth. Even if you contacted me
before please send me (privately, not on the mailing list) the
information above. I'll reply to confirm the details, get a rough
schedule going, etc.
-David
