FOSS4G2014 OSGeo Booth

Placeholder for organizing the OSGeo Booth at FOSS4G 2014, similar to previous year: FOSS4G2013 OSGeo Booth.

Event Contacts: TBD

Floor Plan

Unknown

Booth Size

10' x 10'

Schedule

Oregon Convention Center

Day	Hours
Wed Sep 10th	8:30am-11am	setup, sessions running.
Wed Sep 10th	11am-7pm	Regular hours, sessions running, etc.
Thurs Sep 11th	8am-4:30/5:30pm	Regular hours
Fri Sep 12th	8am-1:30pm	Regular hours
	1:30-4:00pm	Move out

conference program: https://2014.foss4g.org/about/calendar/

Signup Schedule

Day	Hours		Booth Team (two each slot)
Wed Sept 10th	8:30-11am	Move in / Set up	Jeff McKenna
Wed Sept 10th	9-11am		(Plenary session: welcome and introduction)
	11am-1pm	Regular hours	(Exhibit Hall opens at 11AM; Event: Lunch in the Hall) AlanGlennon, Jeff McKenna
	1-3pm	Regular hours	AlanGlennon, Jeff McKenna
	3-4:30pm	Regular hours	AlanGlennon, Jeff McKenna
	4:30-7pm	Regular hours	(Event: Drinks in Exhibit Hall) AlanGlennon, Jeff McKenna
Thurs Sept 11th	8-10am	Regular hours	(Exhibit Hall opens at 8AM) AlanGlennon
	10am-11:30am	Regular hours	AlanGlennon
	11:30am-1pm	Regular hours	(Event: Lunch in Exhibit Hall) AlanGlennon
	1-3pm	Regular hours	AlanGlennon
	3-5:30pm	Regular hours	(Exhibit Hall closes at 5:30PM: OSGeo AGM starts at 4:30 put up a sign at 4:30) AlanGlennon
Fri Sept 12th	8-10am	Regular hours	(Exhibit Hall opens at 8AM) AlanGlennon
	10am-11:30am	Regular hours	AlanGlennon
	11:30am-1:30pm	Regular hours	(Event: Lunch in Exhibit Hall) AlanGlennon
	1:30pm	Move out / Tear down	(Exhibit Hall closes at 1:30PM) Jeff McKenna

• Conference Schedule: https://2014.foss4g.org/about/calendar/
• Session Schedule: https://2014.foss4g.org/schedule/sessions/

Equipment

as travel with equipment is difficult, best scenario is these are provided by U.S.A. local chapters...

Possible needs:
   banner?
   laptops/monitors?
   table?  drape? chairs?
   wired internet?

• Volunteers should bring their own laptop if possible. Maybe have a larger desktop monitor there too. Or projector?
• Banners?
  • PDX-OSGeo will provide our popup banner and table runner
  • PDX-OSGeo will provide two laptops runnint OSGeo-Live
  • I'll bring the GRASS and PostGIS In Action books. Other books could be helpful as well (i.e. QGIS, OpenLayers, GeoServer, etc)
  • Have requested that CUGOS and California Chapters bring their popup banners and other materials as well

Handouts

• The LOC can print some materials in limited numbers if asked in advance. In the past, we've used a small number of print materials for reference as opposed to handouts. We've used the things in marketing svn. Which materials do people want at the booth?

Presentations

What kinds of live demonstrations or recorded examples can be played at the booth? Where can they be downloaded from or who can run them?

• If there are multiple booth volunteers, therefore multiple laptops, might simplify by having canned demos/videos, manual demos, and associated data living on a server somewhere.
• OSGeo Live - USB will be distributed from the OSGeo booth (300 are ordered), so either boot from media or run in a Virtual Machine.

Self-Running

Review in case of updates or additions

• place visible links to slides or videos here
• OSGeo Live overview presentation

Other Considerations

• Good reading: Running Conference Booths
• Operate OSGeo Booth