Howdy all! SCaLE 15 is going to be awesome! I'm giving a talk on Saturday <http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/presentations/slackops-automation-framework>, and am excited to drop by Ubucon and the booth during the rest of the conference. :)
See y'all there! Joe > On Jan 23, 2017, at 7:48 AM, Nathan Haines <nhai...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > On 01/21/2017 01:18 PM, George Mulak wrote: >> Hi! >> I would like to talk about SCaLE 15X and coordinating it. > > Hi George! > > All good questions. > > I submitted a community funds donation request a couple of days ago, and I > will get a list of other booth supplies needed to Michael Hall in the next > day or two so he can coordinate getting Ubuntu computers from certain > sponsors to SCALE for the Ubuntu booth. This should look more or less like > the booth did last year. > > Incidentally, this kind of logistical assistance from Canonical is almost > completely invisible because it overlaps what we've done for ourselves in the > past. But the burden this lifts from my shoulders and Richard Gaskin's > shoulders is immeasurable. It's not exactly difficult work, but it frees us > up to look at big picture stuff and talk out little details while not having > to be the ones to implement them. > > Plus, they have a lot of institutional knowledge because they've been to many > conferences and organized more booths than we have. So while UbuCon Summit > at SCALE is very different in a lot of ways from what UbuCon Europe was in > Essen, Germany this last year (and I was so jealous of what they > accomplished!) we have a team of people who are helping to make both events > 1) awesome and 2) uniquely special. > > For instance, while Richard was instrumental in talking to business owners on > the ground and finding who was interested in serving as social event venues, > Canonical took care of sponsorship and payment and that sort of coordination. > >> I would also like to talk about Ubucon. Who is going to be there, etc. > > EVERYONE is going to be there! ;) We had a pretty big turnout last time. I > don't remember the exact numbers. I'll have to see if I can dig them up. As > far as speakers, we have a keynote speaker and Canonical will be coordinating > with that sponsor to make the announcement on our social media and their > social media at the same time. When it's announced, you'll know. We're also > looking for more community speakers via the SCALE CFP form. > > https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/cfp > >> I would like to know what has already been done, etc. > > Richard and I are working together with Ilan from SCALE and Michael Hall and > Alan Pope from the Canonical Ubuntu Community Team to reach out to keynote > speakers and sponsors, aside from the call for papers we currently have > active. The hope is to have the ubucon.org site up and ready by February > 1st. Anything I don't manage to do, Michael Hall will probably do. > > The booth is pretty much on auto-pilot. This will be our tenth year at SCALE > and the booth has always been a success. I'll be handling all of the > logistics of getting supplies, but I have a big box full of stuff in the > closet that's been built over the last couple of years, and Canonical will > wrangle the display systems (other than the one you can provide, George). > What we need most are volunteers to man the booth, and that's something I > don't worry about because year after year we have volunteers from California > and neighboring LoCos who volunteer their time and are just awesome. Plus, > any employees that Canonical sends like to come and hang out, too, aside from > their domain expertise, we have really good gap coverage for our volunteer > team. > > To my extreme gratitude, I've never had to worry about booth volunteers. The > Ubuntu community in California has never failed me over the last decade. > > -- > Nathan Haines > Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/ > > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
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