User:Danborne/NWLF

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    This is an organizational page for a KDE Promo event: Northwest Linux Fest Please join the kde-promo mailing list and/or #kde-promo if you are interested in helping!

    Basic Details

    • 25th and 26th of April 2009
    • Bellingham Technical College, Bellingham, Washington, United States of America.
    • Approximately 60 minutes by car from Seattle International.
      • How do we get there???? Rent car? Hitch a ride from one of the Canadians coming down?
        • Somebody has to drive: people going with licenses so far: Ian. (Alex if she gets her ID! Bug her!), person driving Chani down?
    • Carl Symons, the LFNW guy, suggested that for most booths 1-3 people was sufficient; danborne suspects that KDE might need 2-5 by that reasoning, not 6-7. Remember that priority goes to those with the lowest cost and or who are the biggest names, contributors, und so weiter.
      • We probably need ~5. 2 would be insane. If we're having a KDE track, then priority goes towards speakers on it. Worth checking on general eV policy here.Blauzahl

    Hardware

    Item Person Done Cost
    5 port switch
    4 6ft cat 5 cables
    2 power strips & one for each hotel room
    1 25ft heavy duty orange extension cord.
    2 Demo pcs
    "Tip jar" fish bowl or vase
    2 21" LCD monitors
    Pens for booth personnel
    Blue table cloth in the color of any of the Oxygen blues
    Heavy duty safety pins
    50" Nylon cord.
    Mug and Candies (pretzels!)

    Paper

    Item Person Done
    Sign stating donate what you think KDE is worth to you
    Sign for suggested donations for swag
    1 KDE banner: KDE logo and the "Be Free" tag line
    30 second "elevator talk" about KDE 4.2
    500 copies of a black and white letter sized fact sheet on KDE 4.2
    swag
    500 CDs
    Press release announcing KDE presence

    Travel weight

    Person Heavy? Bulky? What?
    Ian N Y blades, else ship
    Alex Y Y swag? signs
    ? ? ? other hardware
    ? Y N brochures/paper
    ? Y Y distro CDs
    ? - - ?

    Travel Costs

    Person Home Aero-dome Total Costs including taxes in USD
    danborne Los Angeles 220 USD
    geiser Philadelphia ~400 USD
    chani Vancouver don't know yet (small)
    alex Oakland/SFO <200 USD

    Hotel rooms

    • Which hotel do we get? This sort of depends whether we rent a car or are hitching rides i.e. no hotel is right across the street from the college. Their website lists the following local choices and deals: http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/lodging.html

    The Hampton is apparently about 4 km away and danborne does not mind walking. [danborne]

      • You might mind walking after being on your feet all day?Blauzahl
    • If we have some sort of transportation, we could camp... that is pretty much free. We might also ask if they've extra dormintory space.

    Speaker

    Person Topic Needed Items
    chani? plasma? no clue
    geiseri? kiosk? no clue
    alex? bugsquad/kde intro? no clue
    jefferai??? amarok/phonon? no clue
    Dan? Introduction to KDE/ Localisation of KDE Probably laptop
    your name here! topic no clue