Hi, Sorry for the very very very late reply to all of this; stuff intervened, and then just when I wanted to post a reply, some router decided to die on me, taking my mail server's internet link with it. Grmbl.
Anyway: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:39:23PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:55:46AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > This will be the schedule for the FOSDEM Debian developers' room: > > Fsck, what a bunch of interesting talks. Will be hard to find time for > other things. ;-) > > > Additionally, we still need to organize something for the booth. I'd > > said previously that I'd prefer not to do a babelbox this year, because > > I thought we'd already done that twice[1]; > > Hmmm, sounds if there exist people who have a different opinion: > > http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/01/29#sl2008-1 Heh. Perhaps :-) (and it's not such a bad idea, actually. > > but so far I've not heard any better suggestions (or any suggestions > > at all, really). > > Ehm, it's not that I suggested something to replace babelbox, but at > least I made suggestion (nearly full quote below) about stuff to staff > the booth a week ago. I think I missed that. Sorry. > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 05:38:05PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:50:47AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > > I should also note that it's been suggested that we don't turn the > > > > Debian booth into a pure T-shirt shop this time around, which > > > > makes sense. > > > > > > Yup, agreed. I'll have *some* with me if desired, of course. Any > > > suggestions or volunteers for demos yet? > > > > I can again bring my MicroClient Jr. (aka eBox 2300, 200 MHz Vortex86, > > MMX-compatible, 128 MB RAM, 100 GB HD, max. 15W consumption, see > > http://www.phys.ethz.ch/~abe/MicroClientJr/ for pictures and details > > in German) which I had with me already at last FOSDEM. > > > > This year I can additionally offer to bring a matching 8" touch screen > > and a floppy keyboard (swiss keyboard layout though). Unfortunately > > the touch screen drivers are not in Etch, but I got it working. (Don't > > know about Sid yet, but probably neither.) > > > > Additionally I can bring a MicroClientJr SX (aka eBox 2300 SX, 300 MHz > > Vortex86SX 486SX-compatible, 128 MB SD-RAM, 160 GB HD), which is > > slower than the box mentioned above, even with those 100 MHz more and > > the better RAM. Unfortunately Etch's X.org doesn't run on it because > > it doesn't seem to support 486(SX) although Etch is officially said to > > run on 486. It has currently a rebuilt and slightly patched X.org > > running. (Would probably need a screen for that one... Maybe a USB KVM > > switch also suffices.) > > > > Although there are some cons of the kind that both machines need > > things which are not in Debian, they also have some pros: > > > > + They don't take much booth space (especially not with the 8" flat > > screen and the floppy keyboard. ;-) > > > > + People are amazed that a full-fledged Debian runs on such small and > > low-end machines. (You don't want to have an Ubuntu running on them > > though. ;-) > > > > + They are neat, cute and attract people to the booth. Geeks love > > them. :-) > > > > + You can play Solitaire or Minesweeper with your fingers. :-) > > > > + tarzeau can play nethack on them. ;-) > > > > Both currently run Etch, so I can promise to show Etch. But maybe I > > find time to make an additional Sid installation. Both have enough > > free disk space left. This looks like an interesting idea, actually. If you could bring those with something interesting installed on them, that would sound nice. > Addition: They're probably not suitable for babelbox usage anyway > because of their speed. :-) Hehe. Right. > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:55:46AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > If people have ideas of something we could show off this year, > > please speak up now; > > See above. > > I currently plan to hear talks on Sa 14-18 and Su 10-13, so I won't be > available for booth staffing during that time, but else may have time. > > > Finally, I also need to figure out what to do with manning the > > booth. [...] At this point I'm considering to increase the time slot > > to two hours, but I'm not sure whether that will really solve the > > issue. > > .... which makes it harder to listen to a few talks for those who would > like to take over one or more shifts. Therefore I don't expect it to > do any good. Well, at this point I haven't even received many offers to be at the booth, anyway. I did receive offers to man the talk introduction thing (too many, in fact, which is always good), so people: please speak up, FOSDEM is in less than two weeks. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
