Representing Arch at a Conference

knuckleheadTech · 2010-10-11 04:30:02

Hello All,

I have attended an open source conference for two years now and have committed to do an Arch booth next year. After talking to the BSD, Fedora, Ubuntu and OpenSUSE guys I felt it would be good to help to spread some Arch goodness. What I am wondering is if there is anyone to contact for support?

The other guys have schwag and I know that Arch doesn't have a corporate sponsor but I am hoping that someone has a line on some goods or if people are interested in contributing, I would greatly appreciate it. The conference is Utah Open Source Conference and if you are thinking of going next year please come and help out with the booth. If you or you have a friend that prints shirts or stickers and is willing to contribute please let me know. I just got back from this years conference last night and I figure that I should get started now to get ready for next year.

I am not hoping to make dozens of converts from the attendees but I hope to at least show how well Arch runs on older computers and I plan on building a computer with all the flashy stuff that other people like to show that Arch isn't just a slimmed down Linux distro. Even though I don't like the compiz flash I know it helps to draw attention. I appreciate any and all help, especially tips on how to run the booth.

Last edited by knuckleheadTech (2010-10-11 04:30:44)

kittykatt · 2010-10-11 13:36:01

Why don't they have stuff like this in Missouri? >.< I'd love to make a booth and help run it representing Arch, but Utah is a little far away for me. I will, however, see what I can do.

What are the dates on this conference every year? You say you just got back but you could live across the country and actually left the conference half a week ago.

knuckleheadTech · 2010-10-12 00:34:21

kittykatt they have it around the first weekend of October. I live about 250 miles away but I am used to driving down there for stuff. I am not sure how I am going to do it but I am going to work on raising some funds to get schwag and help some friends from the east coast make it out... but I do tend to over shoot what I can really get done. As it stands right now it is me and a high school kid from our local user group that is going to run it. The funny thing is that he hasn't successfully installed Arch yet.

schivmeister · 2010-10-13 19:33:44

You have two options:

1) Get in touch with more devs via the arch-general mailing list (you may want to CC arch-events as well)

2) Get in touch with Dusty

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