LUGOD at the Government Technology Conference 2004

What Is It?

LUGOD had booth space at the 2004 Government Technology Conference (GTC West 2004) in Sacramento. Government Technology Conference is "the nation's largest and most respected technology conference for state and local government."

Reports from GTC:

• Day 1 report by Rob Rogers
• Day 2 report by David King
• Wrap-up report by Rob Rogers

Also check out the photos of our booth

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. See also: 'Who Attends', at GTC's website.

We had a booth in 2003, as well. Check out the photos from our 2003 exhibit .

When Was It?

The exhibit hall was open from Wednesday, May 12 through Friday, May 14th.

The hours of the show were 9:30am-4:00pm on Wednesday and Thursday, and 9:30am-2:00pm on Friday.

We set up our booth on Tuesday. Set-up hours that day were 11:00am-7:00pm. Volunteers arrived between 12 and 1pm to begin setting up.

Where Was It?

GTC was held at:

Sacramento Convention Center
1400 J Street
Sacramento, CA.

(Interactive map at Maps.Yahoo.com.)

We have received booth 1632 on the exhibit floor.

(Exhibit floor map (PDF).)

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:
  • Knoppix
    A no-commitment, bootable 'Live CD' of Linux.

  • TheOpenCD and GNUWin II
    Collections of popular Open Source software, but compiled for Windows

  We purchased a set of discs from CheapBytes.

  
  

Volunteers: