Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Ken Thompson video
I think exhibitors can make the decision to be responsible and go back to their exhibit at the appropriate time. Best of both worlds. Why should attendees have a talk limited by the availability of the exhibitors? On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 1:42 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
At least now we know in the future to allow exhibits to open WHILE the keynote is still going on
Bad idea. The exhibitors would have to worry about the public pawing at their systems unsupervised. That's why I kept a schedule of the keynote and THEN the exhibits, so the exhibitors were free to attend the keynote without fear.
Do it however you like. Just sharing my experience, as another steering committee member recently reached out to me and requested I do more. I felt responsible for exhibitor's stuff. I did not want to make them choose one or the other. Easy answer, separate schedules, with the museum(s) and other attractions open, so attendees who did not want to attend the keynotes still had something to do.
Overall flow and schedule and all that is hard to maintain when it's not all in the same place. People can bring "look but don't touch" signs or guidance stanchions to place in front of their exhibits for times when no one is present to guard the goodies. Of course I never did this, but as a veteran exhibitor it's frustrating that you can't really walk around as much as you'd like, and you miss the things going on at the festival sometimes. Bill On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 1:57 PM Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I think exhibitors can make the decision to be responsible and go back to their exhibit at the appropriate time. Best of both worlds. Why should attendees have a talk limited by the availability of the exhibitors?
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 1:42 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
At least now we know in the future to allow exhibits to open WHILE the keynote is still going on
Bad idea. The exhibitors would have to worry about the public pawing at their systems unsupervised. That's why I kept a schedule of the keynote and THEN the exhibits, so the exhibitors were free to attend the keynote without fear.
On 11/10/20 11:06 AM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Overall flow and schedule and all that is hard to maintain when it's not all in the same place. People can bring "look but don't touch" signs or guidance stanchions to place in front of their exhibits for times when no one is present to guard the goodies. Of course I never did this, but as a veteran exhibitor it's frustrating that you can't really walk around as much as you'd like, and you miss the things going on at the festival sometimes.
Bill
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 1:57 PM Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I think exhibitors can make the decision to be responsible and go back to their exhibit at the appropriate time. Best of both worlds. Why should attendees have a talk limited by the availability of the exhibitors?
When I've exhibited at the PNW show, the exhibits are open all day, even while the keynotes are going on. As an exhibitor, I always took the approach that I'm part of the show, one of the performers if you will, that the attendees have just paid money to come see. I'm member of the body of VCF, evangelizing about my particular interest niche, educating passers by on why it's the coolest thing in the world and worthy of preservation. I'm not arguing for one approach over the other, just sharing how I look at it, which helps assuage the disappointment of missing Joe Decuir's keynote last year, even while I was exhibiting a system he designed. :) --Jason
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