Wow, that sounds like a great idea if done! It showcases the versatility of Debian beautifully, but is it possible to pull it together?
On 2 June 2016 at 05:03, shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Warning - Would be slightly longish mail. Apologies for noise. > > Maybe it's too late in the day but for quite sometime I had been > thinking/dreaming if we could have/show-cased Debian running on > various hardware doing different things, unusual things . While Debian > on the desktop, workstation and server and Debian on ARM is somewhat > known there are and would probably be some unusual devices where > Debian or a sub-set/blend is used. > > For instance, Debian-Edu would be a good candidate to share and > showcase as well as Debian Med and other such blends which run/use > specific hardware which ties in debian, for instance the galileo > package which just entered Debian archive just today which works with > 'fitbit' devices (have no idea what they are.). > > There would also be quite some equipment which probably is integrated > or in process of being integrated/reverse-engineered which people > would love to see. > > IIRC, even HP one of the main sponsors of debconf, is/was bringing out > 'The Machine' although later we don't know what is happening to it, > > http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/207897-hp-kills-the-machine-repurposes-design-around-conventional-technologies > > One of the DD's was working with HP 'The Machine' project. I also > remember that some VR packages were made for Debian (and are the > archive I *think*) , it would be good/nice if are able to try out HP's > backpack for VR > > http://www.in.techradar.com/news/gaming/HP-and-MSIs-backpacks-put-a-new-spin-on-VR/articleshow/52467485.cms > and see what can be worked within the Debian universe. > > Similarly as there would be kids (as well as big kids/adults) who > might like to blow off steam once in a while, we could have few > systems where we have games like 0ad or/and vdrift, supertuxkart among > others who could get some potential new users while having good PR for > Debian too. > > The only downside I see here is that we would need slightly large > number of volunteers than some of the other choices that indiebio has > outlined. https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/DebianDay > > What do people think/make of above ? > -- > Regards, > Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल > My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com > EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-discuss mailing list > Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss > -- Keerthana Krishnan Freelance Developer : http://keerthanakrishnan.in/ B.Tech Computer Science (2012-16) Govt. Model Engineering College Creative Director, Teezonic Studio Email : keerth...@teezonic.com IEEE CS Student Member Blogger : https://cutencrazyindie.wordpress.com/
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