Is there any FB user who would like to take this on?

Maybe if you live in (or near) San Francisco, you can help “Firebird” on this (probably you can get some help from Firebird Foundation):

Howdy,

As you may or may not be aware, the very first LugRadio Live USA in 2008 is taking place at The Metreon in San Francisco. The event will be happening on the 12th and 13th April 2008, and will provide the unique atmosphere of the UK event, but in glorious San Francisco. LugRadio Live has developed a strong reputation for providing a range of topics about free software, Open Source, digital rights, technology and more, a compelling list of speakers, exhibitors and birds of a feather sessions, and wrapping it all in a unique, fun, loose, social and inclusive event, which is often described as combining the atmosphere of a rock concert and a computer conference.

At LugRadio Live USA 2008 we plan on bringing this unique atmosphere to the USA, and inviting around 30 speakers, a full cast of exhibiting projects and companies, an eclectic range of BOF sessions, and plenty of additional sessions such as our debate discussion panel, a showcase of five minute talks, tech demos, and of course a live recording of LugRadio in front of an audience. We expect around 500 – 700 attendees to the event.

Anyway, to the business in hand…

As mentioned, we’ll be having an exhibition area where we want to have projects and companies who do cool things. In the past we’ve had open source projects showing off their work such as KDE, Gnome, and Ubuntu, companies who work with Linux like Neuros, and distributors like Sun, Red Hat and Novell. We were wondering whether you’d be interested in having an exhibition stand at the event this year? Exhibitor space is free; we don’t charge, because LugRadio Live is a community event. The focus is on people having a great time, not in making money 🙂 We’d like it if your exhibition stand could be something fun and interactive, rather than just a table with leaflets and advertising.

We’re thinking of putting together an “Open Source Databases” exhibition area — MySQL and PostgreSQL are already coming, and we’d love to have a whole section of the exhibition dedicated to the best in OSS db technology! Another thing: as part of the event, we provide each attendee with a registration bag, containing some free items from different organisations. We try to keep the items in this bag as interesting as possible, and in the past this has included pens, badges, software, clothing and more. If you’d like to contribute something to the bag this year for LugRadio Live USA 2008, we’d be happy to include it.

Both the goodie bag and an exhibition stand are excellent ways for you to be associated with a strongly community and Open Source focused event, and the demographic it attracts. For the bag, we will need 500 of whatever you choose to contribute, and all you need to do is ship them to us, there is no charge in addition to sending the items – we will add them to the bags ready for the event.

LugRadio Live in the UK has developed a strong reputation for being ‘the’ community event in the UK, and we are looking to bring this to USA. We would love if you could be one of the organisations who helped make this happen. 🙂

If you’re not the right person to ask about attending, we’d be grateful if you could either pass it on to the right person for us or get back in touch to let us know who to contact.

You can check who is speaking and how the event is shaping up by checking http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/

Any questions or queries, feel free to drop us an email in reply to this email, and we really hope you can be a part of the event. 🙂

Thanks!
Stuart Langridge and the LugRadio Team

If you are interested, drop me an email and I will try to put you in contact with that people.