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LUGOD at the Government Technology Conference
What Is It?
![[GTC]](gtc.gif)
The Government Technology
Conference, held in Sacramento, is "the nation's largest and most
respected technology conference for state and local government."
The kinds of people who attend GTC include:
Agency Executives, Chief Administrative Officers, Chief Information
Officers, City Managers, Computer Operations Managers, Contracts Managers,
County Administrators, Data Processing Managers, Department Directors,
Deputy Directors, Elected Officials, Finance Officers, IT Directors,
MIS Directors, Procurement Officials, Program Managers, Programmers,
Project Managers, Senior Program Analysts, Telecommunications Managers,
and Web Managers.
LUGOD acquired booth space at the 2003 and 2004 GTC events, as well.
Learn about our booth in 2004, and
check out the photos from our 2003
exhibit.
LUGOD at GTC West 2007
LUGOD is hoping to attend this year's event,
GTC West
2007, which takes place the week of May 14th.
Expo Floor hours are:
- Wednesday, May 16th - 10:30am - 4:00pm
- Thursday, May 17th - 10:30am - 4:00pm
- Friday, May 18th - 9:30am - 1:00pm
If needed (see below), booth set-up would occur Tuesday.
Break-down would take place immediately after the event, on
Friday afternoon.
This year, Bart Battaglia (Director of Technical Resources of
Stanfield Systems Inc. in Folsom) is organizing a
"Professional Organizations of Sacramento" presence at the event,
which LUGOD has been invited to take part in. Once specifics are known,
they will be posted to LUGOD's event coordination list,
vox-outreach, and eventually
updates will appear here.
Where Is It?
GTC is held at:
Sacramento
Convention Center
1400 J Street
Sacramento, CA.
(Interactive map
at Maps.Yahoo.com.)
From Davis, and points west, take I-80 east towards Sacramento.
Continue on Business-80 towards downtown. Then take I-5 north, and
exit at J Street. The Convention Center is on the right, at
14th & J.
GTC West 2007 Floor Plan
Our Purpose:
- To talk to people about Linux, and get the word out about the local
Linux user community and user groups
- To hand out pamphlets containing information about LUGOD, Linux and
Open Source
- To hand out CDs containing useful software:
- Ubuntu
A popular Linux CD that also acts as a 'Live CD'.
(Available for free from Canonical's
ShipIt.)
- Knoppix
A no-commitment, bootable 'Live CD' of Linux.
- TheOpenCD and
GNUWin II
Collections of popular Open Source software, but compiled for
Windows.
To-Do:
(Updated 2007-Apr-16)
- GTC and WEF planning at
April 16th LUGOD meeting
- Coordination Meeting with Professional Organizations of Sacramento
to discuss booth set-up and final check lists;
scheduling of staffing the booth.
(See Bart Battaglia's
post
to vox-outreach and
later
follow-up):
Thursday, April 19, 5pm-7pm
Celestin's Caribbean Restaurant
1815 K St (Cross Street: 18th Street)
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 444-2423
Map at
CitySearch.com
- Provide a sixty (60) word profile for the Conference Guide
(due to GTC by April 6th). Send to Barrt at Prof. Orgs. of Sac.
by April 4th.
(See ExhibitorProfileFormW07.doc)
- Review GTC Exhibitor Instructions. Provide feedback to Bart
by April 4th.
(FIPW07.doc)
- Review GTC Product Locator. Provide feedback to Bart
by April 6th.
(Product_LocatorW07.doc)
- GTC Exhibitor Personnel Registration -- volunteers who wish to staff
the booth must visit the following page to obtain a badge.
Please review by April 4th.
GTC Exhibitor Personnel Registration page
- For speaking opportunities, reivew the Speaker Application
by April 9th
(GTC_West_07_Speaker_Application.doc)
- Furniture and Carpet Order for services is due April 23rd;
General and Electrical Order for services is due May 7th
(GTC_West_07_Speaker_Application.doc)
- Provide all contact information, logos, registration links, meetings for 2007 and other information for submission to the
SacramentoITevents.net website (which will be displayed at the booth).
Due May 1st
(http://uat.sacramentoitevents.net/)
- Professional Organization profile on standard template
(logo, abstract, contact info) is due April 27th.
- ...for more, see Bart Battaglia's
post
to vox-outreach...
| Name: | Subramaniyam Pooni |
| Position: | Organization / Volunteer |
| Attending: | ??? |
| Coming From: | Roseville |
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| Name: | Siva Prasad |
| Position: | Volunteer |
| Attending: | ??? |
| Coming From: | ??? |
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| Name: | Govind Tatachari |
| Position: | Volunteer? |
| Attending: | ??? |
| Coming From: | ??? |
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| Name: | Bill Kendrick |
| Position: | Coordination Help / Website Updates / Announcements |
| Attending: | Cannot attend |
| Coming From: | Mountain View |
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| Name: | Don Werve |
| Position: | Volunteer |
| Attending: | ??? |
| Coming From: | Sacramento |
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| Name: | Nick Schmalenberger |
| Position: | Volunteer |
| Attending: | ??? |
| Coming From: | Davis |
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