Re: Paying for trade show booths?

[shaleh@clifford.livenet.net]

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> On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 09:07:02AM -0400, shaleh@clifford.livenet.net wrote:
> > > (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..)
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> > 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.
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> Would you say then that paying for a big booth is NOT worth a lot of
> money but paying for a big enough stack of CDs that people who want them
> can have them is?
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Between linux central and cheap bytes the debian booths at ALS and Linux Expo
(in October and currently) have given us like 1000 cds.  We then tell people
to buy them from those people.  We both gain.