<div dir="ltr">Howdy Chris. The pre-party is the craft beer bottle share (with wine and distillates from the southeast as well this year). The selection is pretty staggering: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12KxJJikbMnplBDW3YyJTtWYLL75YJsHUnafWHMYNP-U/">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12KxJJikbMnplBDW3YyJTtWYLL75YJsHUnafWHMYNP-U/</a> <div><br></div><div>I think you'll also find our event is put on by the community for the community, and so talks that are sales pitches are few and far between (and certainly weren't proposed to SELF as sales pitches if they were accepted). I think our /dev/random track in particular is a pretty good example of community focused content.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Chris Fowler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com" target="_blank">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div>Anyone going up to Charlotte at the end of the week?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm thinking about it.</div><div><br></div><div>My parents live about 30 miles out so I an planning on staying there with the exception of Friday. Google's pre-party would make it difficult for me at 41 to go back to their house and be back by 9am the next morning. Not sure what the "pre-party" is. I've not found my details on the after-hours activities. I may get a room for Friday night. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm still going through the BoF/talks schedule to pin down which ones I would benefit from the most.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm tend to stay away from talks at trade shows because I feel as is sales is the end game: </div><div><br></div><div>Best practices in VoiP Security.</div><div><br></div><div>Hello, glad you could join us for this talk. Our panel today of speakers telling you about the best practices in VoIP security are from "Secureyourvoip.com"</div><div><br></div><div>I'm going to guess that not only are they they experts, but they also have the equipment I need to lock it down. This makes me skeptical about anything they pitch.</div><div><br></div><div>I gave a BoF at ALS many years ago for my employer at the time. I agreed to talk about the ideas as long as I refrained about talking about who I worked for or what we sold. I felt like that for a BoF I need to not try to evangelize a product. Talk about an idea or technique and then let others talk and think about it. I may have mentioned who I worked for once. I don't think I ever mentioned our products. That was in 2000. A long time ago. :)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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