[CentralOH] Ohio LinuxFest table

[Catherine Devlin]

Hey, COHPy'ers,

Saturday is Ohio LinuxFest, yikes!  (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday,
actually, but the exhibit hall is just Saturday.)

We have a table reserved for PyOhio, so we need to figure out quickly
what to do with it.  Hopefully some of this can be figured out at
COHPy's Monday meeting (which I can't make, sorry) but here's a
preliminary list:

Volunteers
  The complicated way:
    Make a preliminary list of time slots with volunteers at COHPy,
that would be great.  100% coverage is not necessary (unless we want a
cashbox for T-shirt sales, see below).  Then we can try an online
appeal to fill in blanks.

  Or the simple way:
    We could just go with the existing meetup page at
http://www.meetup.com/Central-Ohio-Python-Users-Group/events/83568632/?a=socialmedia
    The only real drawback here is we don't know in advance if we'll
have 100% coverage, which makes it harder to plan on whether and where
to keep a cashbox and/or laptop.

A big PyOhio sign
  Do we have one?  Besides the legendary Shroud of PyOhio, which I may
or may not be able to find by Saturday.

PyOhio business cards (I'll bring these)

If you've got any COHPy-specific handouts, obviously bring those too

"About Python" handouts .
  I have about 100 leftovers from last year.  A new handout would be
nice - something low in jargon, I think, since all buzzword-enhanced
programmers probably know something about Python by now anyway

Spare PyOhio programs from previous years
  I'll bring these

PyOhio T-shirts to raffle
  And a jar to collect submissions
  And blank slips for people without business cards
  We should decide how exactly to run the raffle.  Should we draw once
in the early afternoon and again near the end of the day, and post the
names for people to pick up their shirts?  Should they need to pick it
up in person?
  Obviously, we'd love to put all raffle entrants on the PyOhio
announcement mailing list - but should it be opt-in or opt-out?

PyOhio T-shirts for sale
  Our same money-handling procedure should be used from PyOhio itself
- I don't actually know how this was run.  A Square application?  And
a cashbox?  With change?
  And, in this case, someone will need to be in custody of cash all
the time - if we don't have a continual presence at the table, someone
will need to keep it on their person

A laptop - very optional
  Something to show on the laptop (videos from past PyOhios?)
  This is neat, but tricky - there's no telling whether we'll have
electricity at our table,
  and if we don't have a volunteer at the table all the time it would
be best to have a cable lock
  to keep the laptop safe.
  Also, one year, somebody brought an awesome stand that angled a
laptop screen nicely, but I don't remember who

Anything else?

If anybody has and can bring any of these things, let me know...
otherwise I'll see what I can round up.

Thanks,
-- 
- Catherine
http://catherinedevlin.blogspot.com