LSA publisher's booth

[Jeff Good]

Heidi,

Thanks so much for looking into this. I think you're suggestion of
contacting ELAR and DoBeS is a good one. If AILLA is able to contribute
$200 then I imagine it should be possible to find the other $400 if we
start asking now.

I know E-MELD/Linguist is not able to commit money to a booth because they
have their own expenses relating to outreach at the LSA meeting, but, unless
there are objections, I think we should invite them to join us at the
booth without contributing. They were gracious enough to allow us to be
part of their office hours last year (and, I believe, invited us this year
for that too). And, they almost certainly would have spare manpower--so,
they'd be able to contribute quite a bit to the cause no matter what.

I'll volunteer to contact Steven and Gary (who are probably reading this
anyway) to see if any projects they are involved with might be able to
commit any money to a booth. We probably should also ask Gary Holton at
some point when he can answer us to see if the ANLC has money.

Jeff

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Heidi Johnson wrote:

> Dear Outreachers,
> I got a letter last week from Mary Niehbuhr, the Advertising/Exhibits Manager
> for the 2005 meeting in San Francisco, about publisher's booths. Booth space
> is available for $600.00 per booth. That includes an identification sign and
> booth drapery, whatever that is. A booth is 8' x 10'.
>
> She sent me a booth reservation form, which is due, with payment, no later
> than October 4.  There are no instructions regarding how payment is to be
> rendered, I'll have to write to her to ask about multiple payers.
>
> What do y'all want to do? I can commit AILLA to $200. (We happen to have a nice fat
> slush fund, thanks to the return of some of our NSF indirect costs monies.) Who else
> can we ask to contribute?
>
> I think the identification sign should say OLAC, but I will also undertake to elicit some
> kind of IMDI & DELAMAN banners or something that can be prominently displayed,
> so as to be perfectly inclusive.  But OLAC is our superset, so it makes sense to make
> that the major heading, so to speak.
>
> I can also commit AILLA to some proportion of manpower - I'm sure we can
> persuade at least a couple of our grad students to help out, and I am happy to have
> an excuse to miss talks :-).
>
> Mary's letter says that "booths will be assigned as applications are received." I don't
> know how competitive this is, or if it is competitive at all, but I would be happier if we
> could get this nailed down by early September. I'm going to be in Mexico for a
> couple of weeks right before this deadline - it should definitely be done before I go.
>
> I will write to Mary right now about multiple payers and methods of payment. If
> necessary, maybe we could work a fiddle like AILLA pays the whole $600 and
> someone else picks up $400 of my travel expenses....
>
> Please think about likely contributors, and perhaps even write to them, if they are
> people you know. If not, I'll google them up and write to them myself. Also, we should
> now think more concretely about what we want to do with this booth.
>
> Should I go ahead and write to Peter Austin & Peter Wittenburg about it? Peter
> Austin intimated that he might have a nifty textbook to sell from the booth, the papers
> from the first DELAMAN meeting. I don't know how OLAC-oriented his group is, but
> they might be interested in doing something on ELAR's behalf.
>
> Heidi
>