Ontario LinuxFest and other projects.

[Colin McGregor]

As I hope folks are aware the Ontario LinuxFest is
coming up in October, and GTALug wants/plans to have a
booth there. So, going to have some planning meeting
in the near future to sort out issues on that score.
Further we need to start thinking about booth planning
in general, for example there are other trade shows
that would make a good fit for GTALug outside the pure
Linux related trade shows.

So, first question we will need to ask "What upcoming
shows do we as a group want to cover?". Ontario
LinuxFest, IT360, what else?

We are going to need to come-up with a permanent
trade-show furnishing kit (and now may be the ideal
time to start collecting such a kit as the hardware
shops are starting to discount garden furniture). 

Literature and volunteer swag like the pin-back
buttons can be largely recycled from past efforts, but
we need a sort of standard before each show to double
check "Has anything changed that needs to be
reflecting in out handouts?". Further we need a "How
many copies of what do we need?" review pre each trade
show.

One of the ideas that attracted a fair bit of positive
interest before the IT360 show this year was the idea
of some sort of electronic name badge. For various
reasons (time, effort, money) that didn't happen, but
if we are doing a few trade shows per year let's have
another look at that as an idea. To kick start things
along let me point to two interesting web pages:

www.instructables.com/id/EDS4MLQ5NPEP286PLY/?ALLSTEPS
www.instructables.com/id/E5H5UDWB5UEUKIKV8V/?ALLSTEPS

The first of the above looks at a complete electronic
name badge design, using a pre-programmed AVR
microprocessor. The second looks at a cheap way to
program some AVR microprocessors, and does look at
Linux based tools for doing this...

So, would 7:00 PM, July 16th at the Starbucks inside
the Indigo shop at Yonge and Eglinton be as good a
time/place to start discussing these issues?


Colin McGregor
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