Gee, I turn off X-Files and go to bed early and look what I miss :) The mini-tutorials idea sounds excellent but we won't need one every hour - but we will need a signboard to list the schedule. I have an easle stand - will bring it with a couple of white boards (maybe use one for the schedule, one to use in tutorials. I'll also bring the desktop booth panels (4 panels approx 28x36 royal blue - I'll get exact measures - in my booth bag is a 50ft extension cord and some power strips). Can someone make up a big sign poster? My plan is to get there Fri afternoon. A bigger question is what to do about equipment. I have an old svg lcd projector - not the best but... The main problem with equipment is monitoring it. I think if we had 3 tutorials/day (could be the same both days) and a couple of good big eye catching posters - that would make a great booth. We're tight on time - the idea of using the about screens blown up sounds great. Oh yeah, and some chocolates. Ted, your LA slide show would make a great tutorial. Let's start a signup schedule of who can be at the booth when. I'll check my schedule and be back shortly but I know Sat am is out for me.

John

Ted Gould wrote:

Okay, we have a booth, now what do we want to do with it?

First off, who's coming? I've got me, John Taber and Jon Cruz. Jon Phillips? Bryce, I know how you love LAX! Josh, I know how much a Southwest flight from Phoenix is, come for a day!

I was wondering if we couldn't do something like "mini-tutorials" at the booth. The idea would be that they would be like 5 minutes, people standing, and cover just a single feature of Inkscape. Then, we could make a flier covering that same feature -- which would give us interesting give aways for the rest of the time. If we did one each hour, we'd need roughly 16 of them. We could make a schedule, it might generate traffic. What do people think? Maybe the same 8 twice (two day conference)?

I was also thinking that we need some artwork, perhaps the About screens? They say Inkscape on them, yet still show off features?

Brainstorming people, argue, attack, kill my ideas! Go! :)

--Ted

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 09:20 -0700, John Taber wrote:

Gee, I turn off X-Files and go to bed early and look what I miss :) The mini-tutorials idea sounds excellent but we won't need one every hour - but we will need a signboard to list the schedule. I have an easle stand - will bring it with a couple of white boards (maybe use one for the schedule, one to use in tutorials.

Okay, sounds good. I'm a touch worried about space, I've not set up a booth before, but if we have too much stuff there'll be no place to sit!

A bigger question is what to do about equipment. I have an old svg lcd projector - not the best but... The main problem with equipment is monitoring it.

What is an SVG LCD projector? I knew that everything was coming out with SVG support, but I didn't realize it was in projectors :)

I think if we had 3 tutorials/day (could be the same both days) and a couple of good big eye catching posters - that would make a great booth. We're tight on time - the idea of using the about screens blown up sounds great.

Okay. Does anyone know a printer in LA? I'm guessing Kinko's is going to be murder...

Oh yeah, and some chocolates.

:)

Ted, your LA slide show would make a great tutorial. Let's start a signup schedule of who can be at the booth when. I'll check my schedule and be back shortly but I know Sat am is out for me.

I think those slides might be too long, it typically takes me just over an hour to get through them. I'll start thinking of some smaller "feature-lets" to cover and see what I can get done. If I get three done, we'll have three, if more, more :)

As far as time, I'm pretty flexible. My wife said "I'd like to see you sometime on the weekend", but that's my only restriction. I'd like to see Dan Kegel's keynote, but that's the only presentation that I really want to see. (I think it might actually be before the hall opens anyway).

--Ted

Inkscape has gotten a bunch of press lately about new features, so there might be questions on it - Ted,Jon, maybe you can have a working CVS copy to show. Otherwise I think the Inkboard and Connector stuff would be really interesting to show off. I'll burn a Dapper CD which should give me 0.43 on it.

Hi Jon, It's on the weekend, the 11th & 12th at the Radison at LAX - hope you can come (and maybe we can convince Bryce to come and get out of all that rain!)

John

Jon Phillips wrote:

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 16:31 -0700, John Taber wrote:

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Inkscape has gotten a bunch of press lately about new features, so there might be questions on it - Ted,Jon, maybe you can have a working CVS copy to show. Otherwise I think the Inkboard and Connector stuff would be really interesting to show off. I'll burn a Dapper CD which should give me 0.43 on it.

When and where is this? Yes, I'm lame and not looking it up right now ;) It would be good to come down if schedule permits...

Jon

Okay, so here is what I'm thinking...

We have the booth, with a table on one side, chairs on the other. On the backdrop they gave us we get something white, perhaps butcher paper. We then point the projector at that surface. On the table we have two computer for people to use Inkscape, one of which is attached to the projector so that people can see what that person is doing. Then, when we want to run demo's we're already set up, and we have "live art" on the background without having to get it printed.

What do you guys think?

--Ted

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:57:58PM -0700, John Taber wrote:

Hi Jon, It's on the weekend, the 11th & 12th at the Radison at LAX - hope you can come (and maybe we can convince Bryce to come and get out of all that rain!)

I trust you guys to make a good showing! I'm extremely booked up for the next month conference-wise, but it sounds like you guys are going to have an extremely cool booth set up so I'm excited to hear how that goes.

Today I presented at a conference here in Portland about Inkscape, Mediawiki, and Firefox, and showed off how to create Mediawiki extensions with SVG produced by Inkscape to expand wiki into a more graphical space. I wrote a bit about this yesterday in my blog (http://www.bryceharrington.org/blosxom.cgi/2006/02/01#wiki_svg I've implemented a simple barchart thingee. Aubanel was kind enough enough to send me a copy of her <a href="http://un.regne.net/dotclear/index.php/2005/10/27/67-who-likes-svg-eyecandy">SVG graphing PHP</a>, so I'm planning to hack on hooking that in with with Mediawiki perhaps this weekend.

Bryce

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 19:57 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:

This was something kinda cool they did at the RecentChanges Camp wiki conference here in portland today - they printed out several pages of stickers for different projects (including Inkscape!) that you could put onto your conference badge to show your affiliation.

If anyone has a sheet of small stickers, I imagine it'd be pretty easy to print out a ton of Inkscape icon stickers to have people put on their badges. :-)

That sounds very cool, do you know where they got them? Does Avery make sticker sheets?

--Ted

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 12:04:00PM -0800, Ted Gould wrote:

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 19:57 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:

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This was something kinda cool they did at the RecentChanges Camp wiki conference here in portland today - they printed out several pages of stickers for different projects (including Inkscape!) that you could put onto your conference badge to show your affiliation.

If anyone has a sheet of small stickers, I imagine it'd be pretty easy to print out a ton of Inkscape icon stickers to have people put on their badges. :-)

That sounds very cool, do you know where they got them? Does Avery make sticker sheets?

Yeah, and OpenOffice has the appropriate templates to handle printing them out.

Bryce

Is Inkboard stable enough for that yet?

- David

Ted Gould wrote:

That is pretty cool. I was bouncing around an idea for an SVG Wiki. I though it would be really cool if you could set up a Jabber back end and use Inkboard for editing the images. Then everyone could collaborate, and show the SVG images live. I think all you'd need is some sort of listener on the chat room that would write out the files, and then link to those 'live files' on the Webpage. You could get some sort of Javascript refresh, or if you were really fancy use AJAX to see the live updates.

--Ted

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 12:32 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 12:04:00PM -0800, Ted Gould wrote:

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On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 19:57 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:

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If anyone has a sheet of small stickers, I imagine it'd be pretty easy to print out a ton of Inkscape icon stickers to have people put on their badges. :-)

That sounds very cool, do you know where they got them? Does Avery make sticker sheets?

Yeah, and OpenOffice has the appropriate templates to handle printing them out.

How about this? We make stickers with the attached SVG. Then we announce on the webpage that we're having a booth at SCALE, and that if people come to the booth and say we've got a surprise for people who come to the booth and say "I Love Inkscape." Undoubtedly everyone and their dog will know about it, but that's is a bad thing either :)

--Ted

Hey, I didn't realize it but in our exhibitors package are 3 full passes - I already registered so others can use these - Ted & guest ? Jon's? Other inkscapers here's your chance!.

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 08:53 -0700, John Taber wrote:

That's a great idea to put something on web page about the booth. Sticker design looks good to me - this is a graphics product so the art on a sticker idea is a good one. btw you can get avery stickers at Wal-Mart, Staples, etc. They're not necessarily cheap so be prepared.

I'm still looking, Staples didn't have them. I'm going to look some more.

Keeping in mind this should be fun, I'm still a little concerned we don't have the booth quite pulled together - maybe it's just me but we're getting close and since we'll be surrounded by some professional booths, I just think we need to look good even though simple is fine and appropriate. I'm thinking I'll bring the booth panels anyway - don't want them, they can go under the table, but they might make a good dark background for even the whiteboard display screen. Can maybe the Jon's offer to bring a few display printouts mounted on foamcore ?

The foamcore stuff looked to be about $70 a print out... which is a lot. That was for 24x36 4 color printing, but I figured that too much smaller than that wouldn't really show up at a booth anyway.

I wouldn't worry too much about the "professionalness" of the booth. We're in the .org area, which means we don't have as much competition. I don't expect us to compete with the likes of Novell, but I would like to present ourselves well. I think we're probably out of luck on winning the best booth though, last year the Flighgear guys had a working cockpit in their booth. That's kinda unfair :)

Should we plan to meet either Fri night(with some beers) or Sat am(with some doughnuts) to set up stuff?

Or both :) I was thinking about maybe grabbing dinner together in Venice on Friday night. Jon Cruz? Anyone else up for that? Unfortunately I'm booked for dinner Saturday night.

--Ted