Re: [Fsfe-uk] Birmingham Expo

[Martyn Ranyard]

At 10:47 AM 4/16/02 +0100, Andrew Savory wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Birmingham Expo: just over a month away (29/30 May). We should get
> organised.

Yay! expos are a great day out!

> * Can anyone confirm that we definitely have a stand there?
>   * What size space/tables do we have?
>
> We will need:
>
> * Display materials (e.g. big "AFFS" sign, leaflets for people to take
> away and digest later).

Good point, I'll see if I get a chance to pull together some docs, which 
I'll pdf and link on the list, but don't let that stop anyone else doing 
the same.

> * A list of people who can man the stand (so far I think I have a no from
> Brian Gough and Phil Hands, and a probably/yes from Marie). We need a
> minimum of one person at all times, so I think we need more volunteers :-)

I had (previously) offered Synergistic Software Company's (SSC) help 
(there's two of us) at least for manning the stand.

> * Mechanism for people to join AFFS at the stand. I'd suggest a laptop or
> two with a suitable form to fill in (on the theory that electronic data
> capture should reduce errors), optionally spitting out receipts if we're
> taking money from them. (Do we legally need to provide receipts? If not,
> an A5 "thank you for joining AFFS" sheet would be a good idea.)

Even if we don't need reciepts, it's a good idea, maybe we can combine the two.

> * Speakers and specific speaking topics?

We (SSC) could talk about how we make money using Free Software, but how 
"AFFS-centric" we could make it could be as big a thread as the one which 
just (hopefully) closed.

> * ... the usual "anything else I've missed".

SSC could probably provide a Projector, I have a laptop running a 
stripped-down slackware (very bare X - I think I have X but no X apps!, and 
it's a customised one - resprayed, maybe not such a great idea.)  We could 
bring one of our Window$ machines with, but then we are limited to free 
software that runs on Window$.

Ghostscript, GIMP, Abiword, Cygnus are all obvious, but do we want to show 
anything running on Window$ - oh god I've started another one!

> Andrew.
>
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I think I've volunteered enough, so I'll stop now.


Martyn Ranyard
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