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When I'm at the booth versus a guy, I think we get more traffic.

First he went to the IBM booth, told them he'd heard about OS/2, and would like to develop for it.

"She appears panicked and quickly reads over the spec sheet behind her booth.

I remember manning the booth at one of those college campus events and it was very lonely.

Our booth was reasonably busy, but the SpaceX booth had a gigantic mob surrounding it at all times.

Learned this the hard way. Back when LinuxCon was still called LinuxCon, I made the mistake of making a beeline to the first "booth" I saw that was manned by a fellow female.

They don't see alot of women in high positions in the Valley, but they hire them for booth candy or front office whatnots.

This is a very specific problem that is harmful to the industry and to all the non-booth babes out there.

A couple of years ago at a Linux conference in Germany I had a discussion with a Microsoft employee at their booth.

He could have gone into the voting booth and voted which ever way he wanted on Prop 8 and no one would have known anything about his position on the issue.

Seriously, you just linked Violet Blue's odious post tagging an application developer as a "booth babe" because of the fit of her shirt.

You should see the lines of students at my university's career fair when they come, you almost can't even see the recruiters behind the sea of undergrads swarming their booth.

This is exactly the OP's point---the existence of booth babes has conditioned us to be surprised when an attractive woman, or possibly any woman at all, is "intelligent, informed, competent".

Jiminy Christmas, if you don't already know why you support your Senate and Congressional candidates and can't be bothered to go look up their positions on real issues, please stay the hell away from the voting booth.

If you need a tl;dr, or if you read it quickly, this is the most important line in the post:> What you end up with is the situation where you, as a conference goer, walk up to a booth and, because youre no stranger to how this works, ignore any attractive woman and talk directly to a male at the booth.

> As a counter example, I have been to a number of conferences where the speakers/presenters/panelists and volunteers were expected to pay the full registration fee,At TechEd, Microsoft picks you, guides your session abstract wording, reviews and changes your slides, specifies your clothing, tells you when to show up for booth duty at the Microsoft booth, and pays you for it.