I can actually make the marketing meeting on IRC today for once. I'm logged into IRC this morning from on the road. Mike <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Sean DALY <<a href="http://sdaly.be">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">ok Mike Marketers, here is more info about NECC: <a href="http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/" target="_blank">http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/</a> This conference will be right after LinuxTag Berlin when we plan to issue a press release for SoaS beta-2, so the timing is great. Caroline - I believe you had mentioned a conference around the same dates, was it this one? We'll be be discussing booth stuff (including a PDF brochure) at today's marketing meeting. I would like to have a roll-up banner made... with your fabulous photo :-) thanks Sean <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Mike Lee <<a href="mailto:curiouslee@gmail.com">curiouslee@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > I realized I used an old subject line for my previous request for marketing > guidance for NECC DC. Here again with a better subject... > > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Mike Lee <<a href="mailto:curiouslee@gmail.com">curiouslee@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> SL marketers, >> >> With gentle prodding from Caryl Bigenho from afar and our own Kevin Cole >> locally, it seems like the specifics of an OLPC + Sugar Labs presence at >> NECC 2009 DC are coming into focus. >> >> We are finishing prep on 20 XOs that are part of our Learning Club lending >> library, and will be able to deploy many of those in the Open Source >> Pavilion. Other organizers of the pavilion are working on finding one or >> more regular desktop PCs on which to demonstrate SoaS. >> >> Some of us will likely present at the Unplugged "Fringe Festival" of NECC, >> but no one has stepped up to do a 30-minute general update on OLPC and Sugar >> Labs. And there's probably enough news out of both entities to do two >> sessions. I can do it, but am hanging back a bit because I want to wean >> myself from being the default DC presenter. >> >> Question to the list, and specifically to Sean: What kind of exhibit would >> be desired for the pavilion? Like type of signage, handouts, etc? I can >> donate some money for printing. >> >> I'm also going to reach out to Adam Holt, but I don't expect OLPC will >> have any strong directives. >> >> Mike > > </div></div></blockquote></div>