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http://blogs.sun.com/katysblog/date/20071009 Tuesday October 09, 2007

2nd Shipment to Orlando Today (for Hopper 2007)

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!

Posted at 03:16PM Oct 09, 2007 by katysblog in Hopper - Anita Borg Institute  | 

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