tosca925 Posted March 19, 2006 Posted March 19, 2006 well that serves you right for leaving the country It was worth if for one year 7 lad's comment of the weekend. After informing him he had just travelled through France, Belgium and Germany he replied "Cool, I've never been to Europe before. I have only ever been to Italy...........?"
MkII Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 Here's my suggestion for the stand banner: [feels another compo coming on! ]
russdev Posted March 20, 2006 Author Posted March 20, 2006 lol yer i dont think we are allowed to use that one....... think channel 4 might have something to say about it on serious note think best thing we can do is if we use stanadrd edugeek logo for everything on stand corprate image and all... russ
NetworkGeezer Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 EduGeek.net To Run Technical Help Point At BETT Are you mad sir!!!! There will be teachers there! Or is your plan to redirect all queries to the relevant vendors. "Problem with an RM PC madam? The RM stand is over there" "Problem with SIMS? The Capita stand is over there. Collect your baseball bat over there. Yes it is a long queue sir."
russdev Posted March 20, 2006 Author Posted March 20, 2006 mad is word that is branded around a lot but might be an apt way of describing us.. as for rest well... plan is to offeer advice so it might be that we suggest that something is good for them but we are not info point... So if they have problem with rm pc then we will give advice on how to help with it... idea is place to come that can get advice, it is not vendor ased it is advice from people working in schools... Russ
MkII Posted March 20, 2006 Posted March 20, 2006 lol yer i dont think we are allowed to use that one....... think channel 4 might have something to say about it on serious note think best thing we can do is if we use stanadrd edugeek logo for everything on stand corprate image and all... russ What - Channel 4 nicked our saying!!!
russdev Posted March 20, 2006 Author Posted March 20, 2006 lol well maybe but dont think want to take on might of channel 4 russ
ITWombat Posted October 21, 2006 Posted October 21, 2006 It's finally happened! The donations target has been met (and exceeded by £40 at time of writing). The main thing to note is that nearly 3/4 of the total has been met by commercial entities. This is true testament that you've got a hot property. Well done Dos_Box, Russ, Tony, Ric, ChrisH and all the others that make EduGeek such a great site.
russdev Posted October 21, 2006 Author Posted October 21, 2006 lol it has but we will accept more donations as if we get more then more we can do the amount we set means we can be there anymore means we just just do hell of lot more.. Russell
Dos_Box Posted October 21, 2006 Posted October 21, 2006 It's finally happened! The donations target has been met (and exceeded by £40 at time of writing). The main thing to note is that nearly 3/4 of the total has been met by commercial entities. This is true testament that you've got a hot property. Well done Dos_Box, Russ, Tony, Ric, ChrisH and all the others that make EduGeek such a great site. Thank you very much.
Grommit Posted October 21, 2006 Posted October 21, 2006 Isn't BETT pointless... Its always the same.. RM Mother Ship in the middle... Promethean Battle Cruiser manning the entrance and a little Ranger Stall back and beyond... and all the rest selling tat...
russdev Posted October 21, 2006 Author Posted October 21, 2006 well come and visit us first stand to offer you 'technical help' second is bett pointless no and here is why... 1) publicity we don’t opportunity to show edugeek off and getting chance to tell hell lot of people cant remember attendance figures from last year but numbers not to be sniffed at.. 2) it is chance to connect with various people, if noticed bett is nothing to do with products when you visit bett you visit to network and more connections we make more stuff we can do in terms of getting funding etc..... 3) This is first time bett have had some for technical staff and this major step for bett second if goes well plans I want to make for doing next years bett will be exciting. On the tat selling point for last two years bett gone through a slump and this mainly due to nature of education lot of exciting stuff not come online yet but i get feeling this year will be different and lot more exciting and new stuff.. But another point with bett is yes 1000 stands but only 10/20 true good stands (hopefully edugeek.net will be one of them) and may grommit want to come down and be our roving reporter for bett founding the real good stands for us...
john Posted October 21, 2006 Posted October 21, 2006 If I could get the time off work to spend 3 days roving around for you I would love to but I don't think that would be at all possible in my current position
tom_newton Posted October 23, 2006 Posted October 23, 2006 FWIW BETT is still one of the better shows I go to - of the others, only InfoSec is keeping up. Lots of previously huge shows now don't even exist. We (SmoothWall) are doing RSA San Fran in Feb - first time there so we'll see what the Americans are up to!
russdev Posted October 23, 2006 Author Posted October 23, 2006 I must admit i liked infosec first time went last year... Russell
GrumbleDook Posted October 23, 2006 Posted October 23, 2006 One of the good things about InfoSec is that it is run hand-in-hand with the IT Support and Helpdesk show ... and the other year you also had Document Management too ... Favourite seminars include demonstrations of hardening IIS, sniffing WiFi connections, MMC task panes for delegation of tasks and how to speak to staff (Have you tried turning it off and on again?). BETT is getting better (excuse the pun) and the drive this year is for less sales to heads / teachers who don't understand the long words and more an explaination of what things can do for improving learning, as well as an emphasis on *whole school* CPD (yes, that includes us too!!!). Most companies now are aware that staff are switched on to technical mumbo jumbo and that it will get passes on to techies to translate and so they are changing the sales pitch ... so there should be fewer white elephants. Exhibitors are putting the final touches to their information and hopefully we should have a basic guide for people to look at within the next two weeks ... we are reliant on exhibitors keeping their information up to date ... and I'll be honest, I know of at least 3 major exhibitors that decide what they are doing on their stand and what the focus will be for BETT during parties between christmas and new year. Keep you eye peeled on this site, including links to register for the show.
Dos_Box Posted October 23, 2006 Posted October 23, 2006 You can register now y'now. I've already got mine, but I'm going to get a second 'Dos_Box' one done with EduGeek as my org name.
tom_newton Posted October 23, 2006 Posted October 23, 2006 @Grumble - really, they decide at their xmas do? We've never been that organised Seriously though, we know what our message is this BETT, and SchoolGuardian 5 will be ready to walk off the production line in time as well - it's based on Advanced Firewall 2 & the v5 Guardian stuff, which is all about done now. It's the hard yards (docs, etc.) that we have left! If you want anything from us for your show guide, or if there's any more we can do to pitch in, i'd be happy to help! Tom
GrumbleDook Posted October 23, 2006 Posted October 23, 2006 The kind folk at Smoothwall covered the cost of various items on our shopping list ('net connection etc) as well as provided some other kit that will be subsequently donated to a school an EduGeek Members is helping out at (a charitable donation really) ... A full breakdown will be available closer to the event, but I must stress the point that the target was the minimum target ... every extra pound we get goes to making the stand better.
Ric_ Posted October 23, 2006 Posted October 23, 2006 I (on behalf of all the 'geeks) am very grateful to all donations - however large or small! Size isn't everything after all!
tom_newton Posted October 24, 2006 Posted October 24, 2006 @Ric - as GD said, we just bought some stuff off the shopping list - we were ordering an internet connection (512kbit - £400 for 3 days... think about that next time you complain your broadband costs too much ) so it was relatively easy to do two. Buggers gave us no discount like. Note: eForce must remain one of the most difficult to deal with companies I have ever come across. WRT to the donation to tickmike - that's still on the cards, I had hoped to get it sorted before I fly to Kenya (tonight.. wooohoo!) but we've been snowed under due to product releases. I should hope we get him sorted pre-BETT, anyway! Looking forward to meeting you guys at BETT - we're still pretty "hands on" round here, and i'll be down during the stand build day, always hard work but good for a laugh!
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