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From: Giles Sirett <giles.sirett@shapeblue.com>
To: "marketing@cloudstack.apache.org" <marketing@cloudstack.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Discuss - CloudExpo Europe 2014
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Sebastien, thanks for the info.

I understand the need for any activity such as this to be clearly focussed =
on ACS (as Chip mentioned earlier)  You're right, any booth would have to b=
e clearly about ACS and ACS only.

That does present us with the problems of activities  such as this being a =
little bit piecemeal.  Using this cloudexpo opportunity  as an arbitrary  e=
xample, I'd guess we'd need c.$5-10k to put together a well designed, decen=
t sized  booth. To be blunt, I wouldn't fund that: I'd spend the money on m=
y own booth, where I can sell my wares! I think most business folks would f=
eel the same way

However,  it would be nice if the community was able to jump at opportuniti=
es  like this - there must be plenty of people like us who would like to se=
e things like this happen.

My suggestion ? - could we set up a marketing fund ? - - rather than donati=
ng specific items, people can donate cash, which we could pool for items of=
 significant cost.   Has an Apache project ever done that before ?
That way, we could have a budget for marketing activities which could be pr=
ioritised (and obviously decided on this list with PMC approval)


Kind Regards
Giles

D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055
Giles.Sirett@shapeblue.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastien Goasguen [mailto:runseb@gmail.com]
Sent: 29 April 2013 15:20
To: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: Re: Discuss - CloudExpo Europe 2014


On Apr 29, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Giles Sirett <giles.sirett@shapeblue.com> wro=
te:

> Thanks Sebastien
>
> I'm not yet sure of the scale of this part of cloudexpo (and I think that=
 the organisers probably aren't sure yet) but a table cloth and pop up may =
be a bit lightweight.
>
yes, most likely :)

> That of course then does start to raise interesting, more generic,  quest=
ions......how would a community such as ours go about getting something lik=
e an exhibition stand ? My guess is that we'd all  look to one of the compa=
nies involved in the community to fund/donate such a thing ?

Yes exactly. In that particular case, let's say that Shapeblue drives this =
on behalf of ACS. Then you would donate the fabrication of the booth to ACS=
 (via approval). You would also need to request approval for the design of =
said booth.

Several companies could help out in sponsoring this event to pay for the bo=
oth and their respective sponsorship would need approval as well.

You would not be allowed to promote shapeblue at this booth, but I can't se=
e how you could not say "if you are looking for commercial services, here i=
s my professional card when I don't represent ACS". I believe this would be=
 acceptable.


>
> That's just a generic question.....my suggestion, cloudexpo is a long way=
 off and we've got lots of time o work this out.
>
> (my interesting and relevant fact for the day: In India they call a
> pop-up exhibition stand  "a standee" )
>
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Giles
>
> D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055 Giles.Sirett@shapeblue.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastien Goasguen [mailto:runseb@gmail.com]
> Sent: 29 April 2013 14:39
> To: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Discuss - CloudExpo Europe 2014
>
>
> On Apr 29, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Chip Childers <chip.childers@sungard.com> wr=
ote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 09:36:16AM +0000, Giles Sirett wrote:
>>> All
>>>
>>> I've just had a long chat with Magie Meer, who  organises Cloudexpo Eur=
ope.
>>>
>>> For next years show (29/30 Jan, London) , they are going to do an
>>> open cloud hall/area and want to give 3 or 4 cloud opensource
>>> communities some free space at the show.  My guess is that will be
>>> openstack, ACS, eucalyptus & opennebula and that they will use these
>>> as a way of pulling in commercial sponsors
>>>
>>> I'd like to say "yes please".
>>> I guess that is technically accepting sponsorship so I need a
>>> discussion here, PMC approval & a committer to be involved  in the
>>> organisation (I think).  I work with Geoff Higginbottom who can take
>>> the committer role. So, please discuss on this list with a view to
>>> getting PMC approval
>>>
>>> One  question: if we do say yes, what could we do for an exhibition sta=
nd ? - my gut feeling is that she may offer to help us with that also.
>>>
>>> In terms of manning the stand, it's a long way out, but I'm sure we
>>> can find a few people between us (Sebastien et al, a couple of the
>>> ShapeBlue guys,etc)
>>
>> +1 - with the (perhaps obvious) reminder that if the booth is an ACS
>> booth, that the people and materials are there to represent ACS only
>> (and not any other entity / org)
>>
>> concom and pmc lazy consensus remains required via that email
>> suggested to concom@a.o and private@cs.a.o
>>
>> Sebastien - does CTXS have ACS branded booth equipment that they
>> could lend to the affair situated in the EU?
>
> yes, we have a pop-up banner and a table cloth that can be borrowed.
> Of course anyone doing such an exhibit for ACS can also design/fabricate =
their own and get approval.
>
>>
>> -chip
>
>
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