[openbeos] Haiku at SCaLE 6x Expo
- From: "Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki)" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Haiku Mailing List <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:17:14 -0700
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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