[openbeos] Haiku at SCaLE 6x Expo

Howdy,
This is to inform everyone that I am in the process of organizing a Haiku presence at the upcoming SCaLE 6x expo to be held in Los Angeles on February 9 and 10, 2008. 

*** Goals ***
The goal of Haiku's presence at SCaLE is to increase the visibility of the project in the open source world. To that end, we will try to get a Haiku booth, a speaker slot and one or more Birds of a Feather (BoF) slots. 

*** Current status ***
I have applied for a Haiku booth, as well as for a speaker slot for Bruno "BGA" Albuquerque. If and when a call for BoFs is made, I will pursue one or more slots for Haiku based on our needs. 

*** Call for help ***
Volunteers who would like to help with this initiative in any way are needed. You can help by, for example: 

* Manning the booth (even a few hours help)
* Bringing hardware that runs Haiku for demo purposes
* Creating and/or printing promotional material and/or Haiku merchandise
* Giving a Haiku-related BoF presentation
* Hanging out at the Haiku booth and cheer us up :)

Needless to say, any other ideas on how to help out are also welcome.

*** What is SCaLE? ***
SCaLE is the Southern California Linux Expo, an event currently focused on open source in general. You can find more information about SCaLE here: 

http://www.socallinuxexpo.org
Haiku was at SCaLE 5x early this year (we had a booth and gave two BoFs), and we really had a lot of fun. You can get a glimpse at what it looked like from this photo gallery: 

http://haiku-os.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=1249

Here are a also few reports about Haiku at SCaLE:

http://haiku-os.org/news/2007-02-10/scale_5x_first_day_report_part_i
http://haiku-os.org/news/2007-02-11/scale_5x_first_day_report_part_2
http://www.toolinux.com/news/logiciels/haiku._la_resurrection_de_beos_a_los_angeles..._ar8756.html (in French)
All in all, SCaLE is a great event to give more visibility to Haiku; attendance at SCaLE 5x (held in Feb. 2007) was around 1300 people, including attendees, speakers, and the press. More importantly, it's also a lot of fun. :) 

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Cheers,

Koki

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