Chris,

Great marketing for Squeak, thanks for investing so much of your time, effort 
and hard work!

Milan

On 2007 March 20 13:09, Chris Cunnington wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am pleased to announce that Squeak will have its own booth at the
> Smalltalk Solutions show. I have just signed the booth agreement, and faxed
> it back to the it360.ca show management.
>
> I got the idea for a Squeak booth by attending the Toronto Linux Users
> Group pre-show meeting in February. I figured if they could get a free
> booth as a non-profit, then so ought we.
>
> So, this brings up a number of questions, and I'll try to answer them here.
>
> The booth will have a sign, a table, two computers, a pile of one-sheets,
> and 100 copies of Parasol magazine.
>
> Two weeks ago it360 show management asked for the Squeak logo. I contacted
> Tim Rowledge, and he furnished a quarter page, 300 dpi Tiff, which I
> forwarded to the show manager, so they could add our logo to the print
> material. I have forwarded this file to Brad Fuller of the Web Team, so
> that it might become permanently available. This file is too small for a
> sign, so I will contact Tim Rowledge for a vector file of some sort (SVG?)
> to take to a printer, and produce a sign.
>
> I'll say now that there are a few things that are going to cost a small
> amount, but I'm happy to pay that small sum, as I entertain the notion that
> I'm starting a business: web host, quarterly magazine, etc.
>
> The table, unless I can find something more suitable, will be this olive
> green number with the plastic surface that sits in front of me, and has
> been around since it looked fashionable in the 1970s.
>
> The two computers will be my iBook ... Actually it's one computer and two
> screens. I plan to take my iBook and have it run in tandem to my 17" LCD
> with a mini VGA-to-ADC adaptor. They will plug into the electricity I'll
> get from the hall organizers.
>
> The purpose of the two screens will be to run 5-minutes screen-capture
> Quicktime videos for people passing the booth to become hypnotized by. I
> will make a few, but since many people cannot be present at the show, then
> I invite people to send me a link to any 5-minute, silent, Quicktime video
> demo they happen to make. (cunnington at sympatico.ca) Please attach three
> paragraphs describing what we are seeing, as the booth people need to know
> what they are presenting. You can be at the show by proxy.
>
> The booth people so far are myself and a talented young professional
> Smalltalk programmer here in Toronto named William Harford. His company
> supports him in working in the booth, and so he is doing it as part of his
> job. That said, if anybody wants to do booth duty for an hour or two, so we
> can sit down, we would be delighted.
>
> The one-sheets are for the general public. They are single sheets with a
> series of links for getting started, and links to the purveyors of the demo
> videos, should there be any others aside from my own.
>
> The magazine, Parasol quarterly, the first issue, will be available free to
> attendees of Smalltalk Solutions. The authors who have agreed to write are
> Carl Gundel of Shoptalk Systems on his experience creating a website
> (runbasic.com) in Seaside, Yanni Chiu on how to get started using
> PostgreSQL with Squeak, John Magnifico of Blue Plane on what happen at the
> panel "Beyond Education" at the C5 conference in Kyoto in January, and Todd
> Blanchard on version readiness. If we run out at the show, you will be able
> to purchase it at parasolmag.com, after the show.
>
> I have an agreement from the Web Team that they will build a press releases
> page. I have six or seven banner gifs from it360.ca for the Web Team to
> choose from to put one at the top of the Smalltalk Solutions press release
> page to link to the it360.ca homepage. I¹ll forward them to Brad Fuller,
> who had the excellent idea of staring a media contact list.
>
> I hope links to the print and sign files from Tim Rowledge will be in this
> general vicinity for whomever wants them. Once we have created our first
> press release, then we can create more in future about changes to the
> license and the release of new versions of the virtual machine. It is to be
> hoped that we will use this platform to get Slashdotted.
>
>
> Chris Cunnington
> PR Team leader