[BLU/Officers] USENIX ATC Boston

[David Kramer]

I would be willing to man the booth for part of it if I'm still (sadly) 
unemployed, but I doubt it would be something my future employer would 
send me to, being a Software Engineering Manager.


On 04/04/2018 05:47 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 4:28 PM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sure, that would be fun. Assuming we get in free, as the website shows
>> the registration fee is almost $1,000 per person if we register early.
> Yeah, I'm not paying that to get in either, i don't think i can afford
> that to attend the sessions this year, definitely won't pay that to
> volunteer in the exhibit hall!
>
>> What would we need to do, other than just showing up? How much space
>> would BLU have at the booth?
> The last time we did a table -- is it already over 10 years ago? I
> think it was the Last LinuxWorld in Boston, not a USENIX -- we split a
> single free table in the "Community" area with MadDog's GNH LUG.
> Since we're all-encompassing L&U, USENIX is even more appropriate :-).
>
> Half of Free is better than Free because we had more folks to tag-team
> manning the "booth".
>
> IIRC we got exhibits-only badges for volunteering to be in the
> Community area, and I _think_ from attending a couple USENIX run
> conferences ... back when I had $TrainingDollar$ to spend ... that
> USENIX conferences have the same free Community area concept at the
> periphery of the Exhibits floor for non-profit volunteers, as both a
> "give back" (and also to aid the documentation of the parent org's
> 501(c)3 conformance: supporting other non-profits always looks good).
>   (A more surplus-ful big-budget non-profits could upgrade to
> main-floor because they can, but I wouldn't spend our nest egg on
> that.)
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