2002: Most recent feedback; Here are my notes, including two useful email messages. Beware that many of the smaller companys have been acquired by larger companys. I believe that two of the 2001 vendors were represented by Rick Adams. Furthermore the books for some of the different tables arrived with the same return address.....? Clearly, there has been a lot of consolidation in the industry lately. Take care, --MM-- ---------------------------------------------------------------- To: Mary Donnelly McGraw-Hill Higher Education Mary Jo Donnelly (Exhibits Manager) Addison-Wesley & Benjamin Cummings To: Karen Gettman Marketing Mgr: Kim Dawley 617-848-6529 From: "Georgina Edwards" Georgina Edwards, Marketing Manager AI/Architecture/Networking/Programming Morgan Kaufmann Publishers an Imprint of Elsevier Science and Technology Books 340 Pine Street, 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 415-392-2665 x239 g.edwards@elsevier.com Rick will be attending but does not use Email Rick Adams 614-784-0782 / -1502 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Are you interested in showing books at SIGCOMM 2002? We are continuing our tradition of offering table space for for publishers to exhibit and promote their books. This year space will be provided in the terminal area, right next to the main presentation room, for the duration of the main technical program (from Wednesday morning until Friday at 2pm). The fee for exhibiting is $1000, which includes one complementary registration so the representative managing the exhibit can attend the various events (including the social events). SIGCOMM does not permit open recruiting (e.g posting or distributing job descriptions). This policy is common to most research conferences so that employers can comfortably send their key technical staff members. Please let me know if you are interested or if you have further questions. Thanks, Matt Mathis ---------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Instructions for SIGCOMM You can ship books directly to the hotel at: Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Place Pittsburgh PA 15219 Hold for ACM Sigcomm Attention: Lora Peluso Date: August 19, 2002 Please note that material may not arrive more than 3 business days before the conference. Storage space is limited. There will be 1 table for your books in a rather large room with other book vendors and the public laptop area, right next to the main venue. Although it will be locked at night, we are not providing security. Since we are using the badges to control admission, it would be best if you could pre-register (before the start of business Monday) so we can pre-print your badge. Please register at https://campus.acm.org/register/sigcomm02_comp/ with the reserved complementary code of CommPA02 . Thanks for participating in SIGCOMM. -- --MM-- ------------------------------------------- Matt Mathis http://www.psc.edu/~mathis *************************************************************************** From owner-sigcomm97-ex@sophia.inria.fr Thu Jun 19 11:51:55 1997 Received: from sophia.inria.fr (sophia.inria.fr [138.96.32.20]) by mail.cs.utexas.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA12833 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:51:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: by sophia.inria.fr (8.8.5/8.7.3) id SAA19695 for sigcomm97-exmls; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:50:25 +0200 (MET DST) X-Return-Path: mccarren@hq.acm.org Received: from mail.acm.org by sophia.inria.fr (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA19689; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:50:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from LAN-GATEWAY.hq.acm.org (lan-gateway.acm.org [199.222.74.87]) by mail.acm.org (8.8.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id MAA21590; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 12:49:50 -0400 Received: by LAN-GATEWAY.hq.acm.org with Microsoft Mail id <33A98C5D@LAN-GATEWAY.hq.acm.org>; Thu, 19 Jun 97 12:45:33 PDT From: Patrick McCarren To: owner-sigcomm97-ex , sigcomm97-ex Subject: RE: (Fwd) ACM SIGCOMM 97 Conference Date: Thu, 19 Jun 97 12:21:00 PDT Message-ID: <33A98C5D@LAN-GATEWAY.hq.acm.org> Encoding: 63 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Status: ORS It is up to the conference to decide if they want table top book publishers. Depending on if there is room in the meeting area outside the main conference room. Some conferences charge the publishers $500-$750 US dollars. Last year I think that Craig Partridge negotiated free space but the publishers offered a % off the price of the books for conference attendees. Please keep in mind that the main reason that the publishers want to be at the conference is to make contact with potential authors not to sell books. If the conference decides to allow book publishers, please let them know that the one rule is that the conference is not responsible for stolen books. I would advise against inserting anything in the registration packet, it will already be full of conference information and tickets. Pat ---------- From: owner-sigcomm97-ex To: sigcomm97-ex Subject: (Fwd) ACM SIGCOMM 97 Conference Date: Thursday, June 19, 1997 10:47AM How shall we treat this kind of request ? --- Forwarded mail from "Jean Walmsley" Date: Thu, 19 Jun 97 09:41:36 BST From: "Jean Walmsley" To: huitema@bellcore.com Cc: Jacqueline_Harbor@mailserver.prenhall.co.uk Subject: ACM SIGCOMM 97 Conference Dear Christina Huitema We are Prentice Hall, publishers of excellent academic books and we are interested attending the above conference in Cannes on 14-18 September. Please could you let me have the following information: a} cost of taking a stand and exhibiting books b} contact name, address and telephone number for conference venue c} could we insert leaflets into delegetes packs, if this service is available, please quote price, deadline and address to send leaflets. d} what accommodation is available, if any. If there is any other information relevant, please send. Many thanks for your time and help Best regards ---End of forwarded mail from "Jean Walmsley" -- Christian Huitema From owner-sigcomm97-ex@sophia.inria.fr Thu Jun 19 13:07:29 1997 Received: from sophia.inria.fr (sophia.inria.fr [138.96.32.20]) by mail.cs.utexas.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA17295 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 13:07:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: by sophia.inria.fr (8.8.5/8.7.3) id UAA21132 for sigcomm97-exmls; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 20:05:25 +0200 (MET DST) X-Return-Path: craig@aland.bbn.com Received: from aland.bbn.com by sophia.inria.fr (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA21125 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 20:05:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from craig@localhost) by aland.bbn.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) id LAA09836; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:03:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199706191803.LAA09836@aland.bbn.com> To: huitema@bellcore.com (Christian Huitema) cc: sigcomm97-ex@sophia.inria.fr, craig@aland.bbn.com Subject: Re: (Fwd) ACM SIGCOMM 97 Conference In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 19 Jun 97 10:47:37 -0400. <9706191047.ZM19325@seawind.bellcore.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 97 11:03:36 -0700 From: Craig Partridge Status: ORSr How shall we treat this kind of request ? Usual rule is we give them a table -- they offer a discount on books purchased at the conference. The table is free but they have to staff it and we provide no security. If they want stuff packed into packets, they pay the costs. Craig From owner-sigcomm97-ex@sophia.inria.fr Thu Jun 19 14:50:26 1997 Received: from sophia.inria.fr (sophia.inria.fr [138.96.32.20]) by mail.cs.utexas.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA23706 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:50:23 -0500 (CDT) Received: by sophia.inria.fr (8.8.5/8.7.3) id VAA22723 for sigcomm97-exmls; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 21:49:35 +0200 (MET DST) X-Return-Path: dragon@cs.utexas.edu Received: from mail.cs.utexas.edu by sophia.inria.fr (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA22717 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 21:49:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from bigbird.cs.utexas.edu (dragon@bigbird.cs.utexas.edu [128.83.143.202]) by mail.cs.utexas.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA23626; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:49:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: by bigbird.cs.utexas.edu (8.8.5/Client-1.5) id OAA30760; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:49:29 -0500 Message-Id: <199706191949.OAA30760@bigbird.cs.utexas.edu> From: dragon@cs.utexas.edu (Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:49:29 -0500 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Craig Partridge Subject: Re: (Fwd) ACM SIGCOMM 97 Conference Cc: huitema@bellcore.com (Christian Huitema), sigcomm97-ex@sophia.inria.fr Status: O ( after writing this, I saw Christian's email response to Jean, but I am still sending it out to everybody, and will archive it with our discussion in the SIGCOMM conference planning web page for those to follow. ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just to wrap this all up about our policy for allowing book exhibitors: We HAVE allowed those who asked ( typically 1-2 companies ) at SIGCOMM 95 in Boston and SIGCOMM 96 at Stanford to set up a "booth" and at the MobiCom conference. (I know one of the companies was Morgan Kaufmann, and the other one may have been Prentice Hall? ) And we typically charge them something: for example the conference registration fee, because the person will want to attend the social events as a way of meeting people. ( The M.K. person told me that our fees were quite minimal ... ) But, Craig's negotiating a % discount works also, although they may agree to do this anyway??? As Pat M. so aptly put it, they are more interested in the "networking" than the selling. I also prefer not putting in book materials in the packet because they can have the info sheets at their display table. Craig's idea of charging for the inconvenience could work, but stuffing packets is time-consuming enough, as it is. And has Pat has explained: we provide no guarantees of security for their books. I seem to recall that at least once, the remaining books were donated to the local arrangements person to give to the local students. If you say yes, then your local arrangements person will need to provide them with a table in a reasonably centrally located space, e.g. down the hall from the registration desk ( as in both '95 and '96 ). And I think it works best if the local arrangements person is their contact, not the exhibit hall. Sounds good! Chris