Linux World Canada Planning meeting

[James Knott]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Robert Brockway wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Colin McGregor wrote:
>>
>>
>>>- Colin McGregor followed up on the booth and found out that:
>>>  - The booth will NOT come with power, getting power will cost over $100.
>>
>>That is absurd.  At worst it would require running some cables that have 
>>probably been run for the booth next door anyway.
>>
>>
>>>     consensus was we could not afford the power bill and that we would run
>>>with UPS and laptop PCs.
>>>  - No tables/chairs are provided, there is no problem bringing in our own.
>>>  - No internet connection will be available.
>>
>>As far as I'm concerned Internet access and power should be a given.
>>
>>
>>>  - Our booth number will be #306 to see where we are relative to the rest
>>>of the show goto:
>>>
>>>http://www.linuxworldcanada.com/pdfs/floorplan_linuxworld-networkworld_v2.0.pdf
>>>    Consensus was that this was a ok position, and given what we paid this
>>>was good stuff.
>>
>>They made the local LUG pay for a booth?
> 
> 
> Just a few more thoughts here.  Quite a few TLUG members including myself 
> are doing _volunteer_ work at the show and they are making TLUG pay for a 
> booth and want to make it pay for power?
> 
> Have you pointed out to them how supportive TLUG is being?  I'm happy to 
> point this out to them if you give me a name.

One thing to bear in mind, is that it might be the Convention Centre, 
that's making the rules & charges, or even worse, some union.

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