melbourne education expo

With the crazy success of CeBIT behind us, I wonder if Linux Australia
should consider taking a stand at the education show in Melbourne?

http://www.educationshow.com.au/exhibit.html

14-15 August, Melbourne Exhibition Centre
Victoria Australia

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Re: melbourne education expo

<quote who="Donna Benjamin">

> With the crazy success of CeBIT behind us, I wonder if Linux Australia
> should consider taking a stand at the education show in Melbourne?
> 
> http://www.educationshow.com.au/exhibit.html
> 
> 14-15 August, Melbourne Exhibition Centre
> Victoria Australia

SLUG/LA presence at the Education Expo in Sydney has been extremely cool for
outreach and promotional purposes. From the website, it sounds like the Melb
show will have a similarly wide audience profile, so I'd strongly support LA
involvement. Some reports from previous years:

 2005: http://lists.linux.org.au/archives/linux-aus/2005-May/msg00065.html
 2006: http://lists.linux.org.au/archives/linux-aus/2006-June/msg00174.html

The Sydney expo is coming up in June, so we'll be able to share more success
stories and strategies leading up to the Melbourne show.

Education trade shows are a high-value, high-touch, high-quality audience,
crucial target market promotional opportunity for Aussie freedom lovers. If
you want to have a real, valuable impact on FLOSS education to a very broad
audience, get involved!

- Jeff

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Re: melbourne education expo

On Sat, 5 May 2007, Donna Benjamin <donna@...> wrote:
> With the crazy success of CeBIT behind us, I wonder if Linux Australia
> should consider taking a stand at the education show in Melbourne?
>
> http://www.educationshow.com.au/exhibit.html
>
> 14-15 August, Melbourne Exhibition Centre
> Victoria Australia

As an active participant at the LA stand at the 2006 Education Expo in Sydney, 
I wholeheartedly support this. Last year, we were by far the most popular 
stand. I have found that parents and educators are very receptive to the 
principles of sharing and freedom that are so intrinsic to FOSS. Not to 
mention that FOSS is perfect for cash-strapped schools and families.

CeBIT was great, but education is where the real action and fun is :)

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Re: melbourne education expo

On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 12:57 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > http://www.educationshow.com.au/exhibit.html
> >
> > 14-15 August, Melbourne Exhibition Centre
> > Victoria Australia

> CeBIT was great, but education is where the real action and fun is :)

Well on the strength of Jeff and Sridhar's responses, and a couple of
private replies, I reckon we should pursue this.

so I've now also posted to the LUV lists and education SIG...
and have contacted the expo organisers...

It's different to the Sydney ed expo - in that it is focused on the
education sector itself and won't actively target students and parents,
but it's free entry - so who knows...

I've enquired if we can get a discount as a non-profit organisation on
the pricing listed in the exhibitors guide on their website, and the
answer was yes. They also have smaller stands available, and are willing
to discuss options for floorspace.

Apparently this is the first time they have run the event.

cheers
Donna

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Re: melbourne education expo

<quote who="Donna Benjamin">

> It's different to the Sydney ed expo - in that it is focused on the
> education sector itself and won't actively target students and parents,
> but it's free entry - so who knows...

Will they have schools exhibiting? That draws the parents and students to
the Sydney one, and is partly responsible for the breadth of audience. Might
be interesting to suggest it to the organisers. 

- Jeff

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Re: melbourne education expo

On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 14:10 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Will they have schools exhibiting? 
http://www.educationshow.com.au/exhibitors.html

Hmmm - no, it doesn't look like it. 

> That draws the parents and students to the Sydney one, and is partly
> responsible for the breadth of audience. Might be interesting to
> suggest it to the organisers. 

When I spoke to them yesterday they indicated it was already pretty
full, and they're in the process of finalising the floorplan.

The organisers also run this: http://www.vceandcareers.com.au/

There's also been a positive response in the luv and edu-sig channels so
I'll contact the organisers for pricing options.

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Re: [melbourne education expo]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 09:17 +1000, Peter Ross wrote:

> I like to help out as well, I am also happy to donate some money for the 
> booking.
> 
> Sorry, if I missed something.. but yesterday I tried to find out how to 
> book - it seems to be late already?

I have a booking form from the organisers - we just need to decide on
the size of the stand.  $1800 for a small one, $3000 for a standard one.

and more if we want more space, not that there's much left.

I'm outta time now.  more on this tonight.

- D.
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Re: [melbourne education expo]

<quote who="Donna Benjamin">

> I have a booking form from the organisers - we just need to decide on the
> size of the stand.  $1800 for a small one, $3000 for a standard one.

Website suggests the $3000 option is the standard 9sqm shell size -- that is
what we've had at the one in Sydney, and once you put a couple of tables, a
few computers, posters and so on in there, you won't have much room left. So
I think 9sqm/$3000 is definitely the way to go, if you can get LUV/LA to put
in at that level.

- Jeff

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