IMO, Melissa makes the most relevant points here. The target of the Drupal community's criticism should be twofold: (1.) the firm that actually hired the booth-babes and (2.) the companies that would make an actual purchasing decision around the physical appearance of those monitoring a trade-show booth. With that said, can we publicly say and validate who the company is that hired these booth-babes at Drupalcon Denver? An effective form of protest would be starting a petition, sending it to the company, and asking them to not utilize this form of marketing again to promote their services for the reasons that Brock has articulated. We can make the petition public, which will discourage others that are considering engaging booth-babes at future Drupal events.
Thanks for the post, Dave (Mediacurrent)
IMO, Melissa makes the most
IMO, Melissa makes the most relevant points here. The target of the Drupal community's criticism should be twofold: (1.) the firm that actually hired the booth-babes and (2.) the companies that would make an actual purchasing decision around the physical appearance of those monitoring a trade-show booth. With that said, can we publicly say and validate who the company is that hired these booth-babes at Drupalcon Denver? An effective form of protest would be starting a petition, sending it to the company, and asking them to not utilize this form of marketing again to promote their services for the reasons that Brock has articulated. We can make the petition public, which will discourage others that are considering engaging booth-babes at future Drupal events.
Thanks for the post, Dave (Mediacurrent)