On Mar 20, 2007, at 18:09 , 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. I’ll 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

Very very cool. Maybe you could also showcase the OLPC laptop running  
etoys.

- Bert -