Re: Please Advice - Fedora 9 Release Party at Los Angeles

Updates, Thomas will not be available to give a talk during that time. So, I decided will be the one who's going to give a talk and promote Fedora during this event. The target audiences are anticipated to be mostly my colleagues. Thanks, Grady On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Grady Laksmono <glaksmono(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote: > Hi Ambassadors, > This is the first time I'm organizing an event for Fedora Project, > here I would start off with Fedora 9 Release Party on my campus. I'd > like to get some advices, comments, feedbacks, suggestions, etc from > those who've been more experienced in organizing Fedora events. > > Here's my plan for the Fedora 9 Release Party at California State > University, Los Angeles: > > 1. Time, Date, and Place > Time: 12:00 pm - 5:30 pm > Date: Friday, May 9, 2008 > Location: California State University, Los Angeles > Building: College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology > Room: E&T A220 > > 2. Marketing Materials > - Fedora 9 Banners: Print these on this Friday at Kinko's like this > and post it around campus next week. I'm going to look for some design > from the Media Arts team. > - Fliers: To be given out and put on all around campus, the > fliers should have the design design of the Fedora 9 coming up design > release, and that there's a website where they could vote > (http://acm.calstatela.edu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2487) on, time, date, > place where the event will be held. That way I could anticipate on how > many people would come to the event. These will be printed at the same > time when I print the banner. Voting is not required to come to the > event, some people have a time, some don't, but I encouraged them to > do so, so that I can anticipate numbers. > - Me and some of my team on campus would give some class announcements > about the event. > > 3. At the Event > - Someone gives a talk during the event about Fedora 9. I'm thinking > about Thomas [1], since he's probably also the only one who's around > in my area? Or someone from Red Hat? > - Free pizzas and sodas at the event for all of the attendance. (am I > going to get reimbursement for this?) > - USB Creation Stations > - Free Fedora 9 Live CDs > - Free Fedora 9 DVDs > - Questions and Answers sessions > > 4. Timeline > 12:00 - 12:30 Opening Remarks > 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch > 1:30 - 2:30 Guest Speaker(s) (will be decided) > 2:30 - 3:30 Questions and Answers > 3:30 Dismissed > > Please give me inputs, feedbacks, comments, etc. > Details of the event: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GradyLaksmono/Los_Angeles_Release_Party#pre... > > Thanks, > Grady Laksmono > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GradyLaksmono > > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung >