[Penguicon-Concom] Set up appropriate to Technical conferences

[john guest]

I think this falls under "sales and marketing".

On 7/6/06, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/6/06, Anne KG Murphy <akgmurphy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was just at a couple conferences in a row for work, and I wrote a
> > note to myself at one of them that Penguicon should have classroom
> > tables, notepads, and pens set out for the attendees for some of the
> > tech tracks at penguicon.  Even if we don't put out classroom tables,
> > I noted that the smaller rooms at one conference still had a pile of
> > notepads and pens on the water station at the back of the room, so
> > people had something to take notes with.
> >
> > These were just little notepads and pens provided by the hotel. I
> > wonder if it would be worth it for Penguicon to look into getting this
> > service from our hotel?
> >
> > Alternatively, and as another point, pens are not that expensive a
> > printed giveaway (at least, they weren't when Bill and I made a batch
> > for our wedding) - we could have pens specific to penguicon, with the
> > website URL on them and such.
> >
> > It just seems like professional technical conferences have this.  not
> > sure if we're still hoping to some day have that during-the-day-friday
> > hard core technical track again, but if we want to be viewed as a
> > technical conference (in part), maybe we should have some of the
> > vestiges of one.
> >
> > best,
> >
> > --Anne
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> That sounds great. Is this my job? Or is that "Programming Ops"? For
> that matter, am I "Programming Ops"? Just let me know.
> -Matt
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