The Hopper conference will be held
next week (October 17-20, 2007), mostly located in the
Hilton at Disney World (Orlando, FL). The Friday Sponsor’s Night event will
be at nearby
Universal’s City Walk. As a Platinum Sponsor, we have had to make a number of
different shipments of Sun’s giveaways, conference bag stuffers, posters, marketing
materials, etc. Tanya sent our first shipment a week ago (six boxes of Sun-marked
back packs to City Walk). The second shipment goes today (conference tote stuffers).
The very cool t-shirts arrive here tomorrow, so they go into what we hope will
be the final shipment to The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, which
goes out Thursday morning. The t-shirt literally required worldwide collaboration
to design: we had contributors from China, Russia, India, and Czech Republic as
well as the USA. We are very eager to see how well they turned out.
There are a number of special things we will hand carry, including
the Sun SPOT development kit, and the
leather jacket which are Sun’s raffle prizes. Sun has 20 attendees plus 4
recruiters going to Hopper 2007. We are participating in ten panels or BOFs plus
three Sun women are
Official Bloggers. The Hopper conference takes a great deal of preparation but
it is great fun to attend: well worth all of the work!
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