[ubuntu-uk] LinuxWorld London

[Jane Silber]

Hi all -

We've been trying to get an Ubuntu stand in the .org village at LWE, but
it is all full and the organisers aren't budging.  There is a chance
that we can get part of stand B57 next door, but I won't know for sure
until sometime next week (see attached map. Shaded means the stand is
taken).

If we don't get this, is there room in one of the existing .org stands
to have an Ubuntu presence?  Does anyone know what stand is the Debian
stand or the Gnome stand?

If Canonical provides some free stuff, are there enough community people
who will man the stand for us?

Note that Breezy won't be out at that point, so we won't have CDs
(although there should be a pretty stable version available).  And we
should have the artwork for the new CD covers done by that time, so we
could have a poster-size version of that (similar to the poster at the
bottom of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuArtwork).

Cheers,
Jane

Paul Sladen wrote:

>On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
>
>Hello Mako et al,
>
>  
>
>>Hi Jane and rest of the Ubuntu-UK community!
>>It sounds like our presence is desired. :)
>>    
>>
>
>First off, the dates are:
>   Tuesday 2005-10-05 - Wednesday 2005-10-06 
>
>(With setup being the afternoon before).  It's amazing to think that it'll
>be one year since I (failed) to get special pre-release Warty CDs burned in
>time for this event---how much things have moved on in 12 months!
>
>Here in Britain, Canonical employs a fairly large percentage of the Debian
>Developers;  one of the problems I had last year with the Debian stand is
>that everyone was busily working with Mark and couldn't get time off---even
>unpaid leave.  I'm *hopeful* that situation won't occur again, or perhaps
>not to such a large extent...
>
>Debian ends up in the '.Org' section of non-profits, so I it might be worth
>enquiring where they are expecting Ubuntu (although I suspect the Exhibition
>organisers are probably hoping they can flog some premium stand-space... :-).
>
>Given the 'weight' of Mark speaking, it may even be possible to negotiate
>something of both---but the .Org space is likely a better place to be, it's
>where the interesting people all end up---and is normally buzzing even if
>it's tucked away downstairs.
>
>This brings me to the second point;  we can hopefully get the Ubuntu
>community along, but beyond that there's a large overlap between the
>Ubunties and Debianites.  Last year at the Expo we had two mega-stands:
>Debian/Emdebian/Linux-ARM cabal and a GNOME/KDE/Xorg/FreeDesktop.org one.
>
>It would be handy to at least have the Ubuntu/Debian stands adjacent.  Also
>don't know what Jonathan wants to do about Kubuntu...  jr: any ideas?
>
>Beyond that:
>
>  Lots CDs (though we need to check the dates regarding Breezy availability)
>  T-shirts/swag/banners etc
>
>How interested are people in getting Debian-UK (aka Sledge) to sort out
>Ubuntu T-shirts for general sale?  This would provide something for the
>fanboys to show their devotion with.
>
>For the last few years, Debian has had the biggest stand (measuring by the
>constant crowd in front of it); ...this year I can quite believe it might
>have that crown stolen ;-)
>
>	-Paul
>  
>