I'll be there; and badges
I'll be on the Expo. I'm taking Thursday and Friday off from work all day, but I don't think cruising the Expo floor will take two days. Tom sent me the schedule for the climbing tree. I want to spend most of my time there. However, anyone who wants to break away and do something else, let me know.
Sean, thanks for thinking up badges. One of my ideas was for a way to distribute them. Probably easiest would be for someone who'll be working a well-known equipment supplier's booth, but I don't want to volunteer anyone else. My idea would be for those of us who have color printers to print out a half a dozen sheets or so, and buy a handful of Sharpie markers. Anyone seeing anyone else with an AS badge could go up to them and introduce themselves. Give the new person half your remaining badges and pens and repeat. Kind of a binary recursive tree algorithym, so to speak.
Anyone want to get together in a group for dinner or bar-hopping? Let me know what kind of food you're up for. Little Italy(
http://www.livebaltimore.com/neighbor/little_italy.html or
http://www.littleitalymd.com/) is great for Italian food, and has restaurants with big dining rooms for groups. Fells Point (
http://www.fellspoint.us/ or
http://www.livebaltimore.com/neighbor/fellspt.html) has lots of bars to stroll between. Both can be just a long walk from the Convention Center and downtown hotels, or a short water taxi ride.
Let me know if I can help.
-Kevin