Re: Paying for trade show booths?

[shaleh@clifford.livenet.net]

> 
> Okay, next question would be then:  Do we want to be paying for large
> booths at trade shows?  I agree, LinuxWorld was a _MADHOUSE_, but is it
> something we want to spend donation money on?  ie, do people think the
> trade shows are that terribly important to us?
> 
> (I was at LinuxWorld and I must say it was cool!  Worth going, and even
> worth the financial nightmare it created in my life that is just now
> getting resolved a couple months later..)
> 

We talked about this at the Expo last night over IBM's free wine.  The 
consensus was that it was important for us to have a face.  However money was
not really worth spending.  A small booth was good enough.