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.
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Nathan Haines
Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/
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