“In 2005, the Toronto Linux User Group had a booth at the
LinuxWorld Canada Show at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, and
this worked out very well for the group, as I noted in my article
about the 2005 show. In planning for this year’s show, our group
looked at what went well and what could have been done better.
Things that were done well included over-staffing the booth so that
at any given time many of the volunteers could be looking at the
other booths, drinking the show in. In the not so good category was
the consensus that electrical power in the booth wasn’t worth what
the convention center charged us. In the ‘just different’ category,
during the past year as an organization, the Toronto Linux User
Group had legally changed names to become the Greater Toronto Area
Linux User Group (GTALUG), meaning that the banner and paperwork
from last year could not be reused…”