Linux World / Network World 2006

[ted leslie]

Just putting out my 2 cents.

If it really was valuable to hawk at the booth?
then that implies the hawker wouldn't mind giving a standard sales commish
to the LUG? like 20%... could be some cool $$$ for the LUG for lcd-projector, etc,
just a thought.
And you could have ground rules too!, like after the vistor finish the tour of the
the LUG booth, you walk them away for the hawk session?
This would be an example of profiting from the evils that one might want to 
ban from the booth. 
You would also want to make sure no member is hawking the same goods,
hawks could also pay a flat fee for the day?
Or all hawkers agree to share completely in the days spoils and act as a team?

I think it might be the case that its either one extreme or the other, 
either endorse it and regulate/govern it, or ban it 100%.
Maybe the TLUG booth turns out to also be a "Linux Consulting Booth" (with signs and stuff) to boot.
I guess that would alter the price of the booth however.


-tl



On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:28:55 -0400
Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 10/24/05, Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Meng Cheah wrote:
> >
> > > So if someone comes up to me and asks if I can suggest/recommend where
> > > he can purchase a PC with Linux installed, I can recommend
> > > www.sub500.com or Flipside Technology Services but not myself who may
> > > be in that business?
> >
> > If you are staffing the local user group tradeshow booth, you are
> > representing a community which may include others who also sell PCs with
> > Linux installed. The best possible answer (for the group, if not for
> > you) is "come to a meeting or ask on a mailing list and you'll find a
> > number of possible answers". That answer draws the person into the
> > community, which is the primary reason for having the LUG booth there.
> > Alternately, you can suggest one of the many companies who are
> > exhibiting PCs with Linux installed elsewhere at the show. That's being
> > helpful.
> 
> I believe there were some problems with how the user group booth went,
> two years ago.  I seem to recall it being overrun with people trying
> to do 8 different things, and I certainly got the impression that
> several were trying to hawk their own consulting services.
> 
> It seems to me that there are some probable participants in staffing
> such a booth that might have an interest in that sort of thing, which
> must be handled with great care lest it be really rather
> inappropriate.
> 
> I'll definitely carry that issue with me into the discussion.
> 
> > You can mention that you do the service yourself, and if the person's
> > interested you take their contact info and talk to them after the show.
> > Doing so gives you the benefit of the contact, while giving the
> > questioner some confidence that the TLUG booth wasn't overrun by people
> > looking to use it to sell their own wares.
> 
> If William uses the booth to promote his USB key-based distributions,
> that would probably contribute to the "overrun" property.  But there's
> probably a way to handle it that would be not inappropriate...
> 
> Thanks for your comments, Evan; they are even (particularly?) useful
> when they disagree with some of my notions.
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