Same here. Just let a hat go round at the next meeting. :-)

Something else: Talking about juice, how could it be arranged to have electricty at a booth where none is available (e.g. club rio). A
fully charged large UPS might work (if you can haul it around), but maybe there are better solutions and rentable?

Any ideas?

-Armin

Lucas Vogel wrote:

> I'd be happy to chip in $10 towards his reimbursement, even though I was
> never even there...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: der.hans [mailto:PLUGd@LuftHans.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 1:32 PM
> To: quatsch
> Subject: ITEC cost
>
> moin, moin,
>
> due to a misunderstanding with how the ITEC stuff worked PLUG had to come
> up with the $70 for electricity on the spot for our booth during
> ITEC. Having juice helped our presentation. It allowed us to show off
> Linux, demonstrate a sponsor's (RNi) capabilities and let people sign up
> for the mailing list from the booth :).
>
> Robbie of Viking Systems dipped into his pocket to pay for it at the time,
> but he should get reimbursed. Viking Systems was already helping us out by
> giving most of their staff those two days off to work the booth as well as
> paying the printing costs on the flyers we had, buying us the cool banner
> that we'll have at next month's meeting and providing most of the
> equipment for the booth.
>
> We had another sponsor that was going to pony up with some cash to help
> PLUG out for ITEC and other things. We were planning on paying Robbie back
> from that, but unfortunately that sponsorship money hasn't materialized.
>
> So, the question is: Do we have a company out there that will provide us
> with the money to repay Robbie for the PLUG expense he fronted us?
>
> We, of course, can promise nothing in return except our public gratitude.
>
> ITEC was very successful for us. Events like this help us promote Linux as
> well as give us an opportunity to help our sponsors who provide us with
> all the SWAG Jim gets for givaways at the meetings.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
> --
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