SIGAda EC and OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: We are one week from booth setup at Object World-West in SF, and for the first time ever we have no volunteers to work the booth. Earlier msgs sent by Ed and my URGENT msg last week failed to get any responses. While I am willing to fly up next Monday afternoon (costing only about $200) to erect the booth, I can not be there during the primary exhibit days Tues-Thurs AM (July 22-24); I could probably get back Thursday afternoon to pack & ship the booth. Ed does have a short list of names in the SF area we could contact individually about working partial days, but I think the risk is high that we won't have sufficient staff without one dedicated full-timer, even if we spent a lot of time this week calling the potential part-timers. (A potential ACM staffer from the Advertising Department who might have attended and probably would have managed on our behalf OK, has gotten conflicted and will not go.) SO, do we cancel if no one immediately steps forward as pretty much a full-time booth manager in SF next week? Or do we just set up the booth unattended with lots of handouts in the racks & and tables and try to find someone to stop by and restock the racks daily? Which looks less bad for Ada & SIGAda -- being a no-show or having a booth with no people? I can't believe this is a show so unimportant that not a single Ada champion's employer could be persuaded to invest 4 days of time. I can believe that it's too late to start asking now. Ugh, -- Hal