To get the ball rolling again... . Da praktisch die gesamten CD's vom letzten LinuxTag dort verteilt wurden, könnten wir in der Tat überlegen, ob wir wieder eine Special Edition herstellen.
We'll have to find out who wants to sponsor them (5k CD's are about 5kDM) or if the project wants to use some of their funds for it. Alternatively if we want to charge people 1-2DM per CD we should not produce too many CD's. I'd say not more than 1.5k. This at least will ensure that only interested people will get the CD and not just anybody who tries to collect as much as he can from the exhibition. (I could imagine that Linuxland and LOB would sponsor the CDs partially, though not very likely for 5k pieces...) . Roland/Peter/Franky: Hättet ihr wieder Zeit, euch um die Herstellung zu kümmern? . Debian will again get a sponsored booth from us (LinuxTag e.V.) where the project can demonstrate what people want. - I'd like to have a couple of architectures presented there. There are contacts to Compaq and Sun who could bring one of their machines to LinuxTag to be used on the Debian booth (assuming that they will also have a booth). - At the booth I'd like to have different desktops used at the machines so visitors get the diversity we have. - I already have a couple of posters (check pictures from most recent exhibitions). I'd like to have some more, help is required: * An updated world map. (I can print A0 postscript at our university quite unexpensive if nobody else gets a chance) (It could be cool to add another dot for any of our machines, including ftp/www mirrors) * A poster with pictures of machines on which Debian GNU/Linux runs (i.e. non-ia32 boxes that look cool [like an RS6k, Amiga, Sun, AlphaServer etc.]) . We ought to have some 200 {magazine+cd} with Debian potato. Another CHIP special edition is on its way and we will get a chance to get quite some gratis issues. Since they target beginners and non-experienced users they should be handed out to exactly these type of people, imho. . Joey wrote a script iirc that sipmly unpacks every source package and recompiles it in a window. That's a nice gag as well, starting from wednesday evening and counting packages just to demonstrate automatism. Alternatively: set up a buildd that simply rebuilds one arch w/o uploading. Regards, Joey -- We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. - Linus Torvalds