[Ambassadors] OSCON booth questions and ideas

[Kevin Higgins]

> During open floor hours at OSCON (when conf attendees can go out to
> walk around), schedule a series of short informative talks at the
> Fedora booth.

 I think the idea sounds great. We do need to take into
consideration that Each 10x10 Booth Space Includes:

* 4' draped counter (pop-up booths are allowed)
* One counter-height stool

SO even though we have a 10x10 area it sounds like we are being
supplied with a 4' counter area "table?"

I do have a 6x2.5 fold up banquet table that we used for our Release party
but i do not know if that is a 'pop-up booths are allowed'

> We can get this on the various RSS and mblog feeds (#oscon, etc.),
> clear signs, and other things that occur as we are there.

I think this would work well if we have the wifi Iknow that we
have to pay for the wifi this year. Would have to get with Larry about
if we have
payed for Wifi.


> This started in my mind because I want myself or Mel to give a short
> info talk on POSSE[1] at least once every hour.  There will be other
> people at OSCON involved in the Teaching Open Source community, and I
> would like to see some of them come give talks, too.

I think it be great since Portland's Graduating class from High school
this year is only 68% {don't quote me on the stat but I know it was
in the 60 percentile} of what it was last year; and since Washington
state is committed to education reform and with Gov. Gregoire's
announcement that Tacoma Public Schools is to join Washington’s Race
to the Top application.

http://www.governor.wa.gov/news/news-view.asp?pressRelease=1490&newsType=1
http://www.waracetothetop.org/

This would be great to promo to the school boards and such I can work
on some of that
localy.

Are any of these 'Lightning Talks' going to be in the


http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/14332
Ignite OSCON
7:00pm Tuesday, 07/20/2010
Event
Location: Portland Ballroom

If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20
slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you
pitch a project?
Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’re going to find out when we conduct our
second Ignite event at OSCON.

I think given the space and some time to work out details this would benefit
both Fedora and POSSE given there is a direct tie in such as the OLPC
is based on Fedora.
Just my thoughts but of course would have to get with the others also.

Oh yes I will be working on the wiki to update it to show the Event
Hall times correctly.

Got to go now have to set up another computer with Fedora 13 on it for Share
House Shelter.