[buug] Free LinuxWorld Exhibits Pass, on or before 2005-08-07 use ...

[Jon Phillips]

Cool! Thanks for doing the searches!

Jon

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 05:14 -0700, Michael Paoli wrote:
> Free LinuxWorld Exhibits Pass, on or before 2005-08-07 use ...
> 
> I managed to find/"stumble"* across this:
> Free LinuxWorld Exhibits Pass, use on or before 2005-08-07 ...
> Priority Code B0401
> or
> Priority Code NONE
> 
> Exhibits Pass gets you:
> Includes 3 days of Exhibits:
> http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/exposition
> Keynotes and Feature Presentations:
> http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/keynotes
> Birds-of-a-Feather Meetings:
> http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/conference/special
> 
> Gee, I thought I'd found something more interesting/useful with Priority
> Code B0401, but also looks like Priority Code NONE will still get you a
> free Exhibits Pass through 2005-08-07.
> 
> Apparently, for these Priority Codes to get you free access, it must be
> used on or before 2005-08-07, and it may be the case it only works for
> the on-line registration (I'd guestimate if not at this point, that
> soon, advance on-line registration won't result in badges and such
> being sent out, but held for pick-up at the event, likely in a
> pre-registered badge pick-up area (and one probably needs corresponding
> ID to pick up the badge - pretty much post 2001-09-11 ID is required
> anyway to pick up the required badge holder, even if the badge is
> mailed to you in advance)).
> 
> Also, Bay Area Debian (BAD):
> http://bad.debian/net
> will be meeting August 10, 2005 starting at 7:00 P.M. PDT:
> http://bad.debian.net/list/2005-July/002951.html
> including keysigning:
> http://bad.debian.net/list/2005-July/002952.html
> quite shortly after the conclusion of and conveniently close to the
> 2005-08-10 LinuxWorld Birds-of-a-Feather Meetings
> 
> 
> LinuxWorld Conference and Expo
> http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/
> 
> August 8-11 2005, The Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
> http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A
> San Francisco Online Attendee Registration:
> http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/register///CC961706
> 
> Exposition August 9-11 2005
> http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/exposition
> Exhibitor List (includes .org Pavilion organizations/groups)
> http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/exposition/exhibitorlist
> .org Pavilion
> http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/exposition/CC999813
> 
> Keynotes and Feature Presentations
> http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/keynotes
> 
> Birds-of-a-Feather Meetings
> http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO05A/conference/special
> 
> 
> *find/"stumble":
> I started with some Google searches for priority code(s) that might
> still be good for free Exhibits Pass, after some false positives (but
> long before giving up on probable search results), I searched
> backwards, case insensitive, for the string "priority code" in my
> e-mail ... first one I came across (B0401) worked.  Oddly, when I
> looked to see what e-mail that was in, it wasn't even for LinuxWorld,
> but for another IDG World Expo event.  Then I also tried "NONE", and to
> my surprise, that seemed to also cover free Exhibits Pass through
> 2005-08-07 (whereas I was expecting "NONE" to only work for that for
> free through 2005-07-15).
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