Greetings Debian event team! I'm known as _max_ , and i am one of the volunteers who work for Dreamhack. Currently the worlds largest LAN festival.
Currently at dreamhack there is a great absence of Scene, Hacking and Linux. However this is something that we are -really- trying to change. Me and a few other people who work for Dreamhack are trying to bring together people to create a linux section for dreamhack, At Elmia (the exhibition center dreamhack is held in) there is a area called "E area", in this area we want to achieve 4 things. 1. A Keynote/Hearing area where different distributions, security people, hacking people, scene people can give lectures, hold hearings and keynotes with a bigscreen projector and pa system. 2. A Distro area, an area where many large distributions have their own small areas with some pc's setup with their distro, where people can have a hands on experience, and be told why they should use specifically that distribution. Hopefully these pc's will be sponsored by one of Dreamhacks hardware sponsors. 3. A hacking area, where we have setup different operating systems with price money upon finding a system exploit. 4. A Chill lounge with lots of beanbags, sofas and tables where people can sit down and just talk about the good stuff in life :) So my question to Debian is if there are any people that are interested in coming to Sweden for a 4 day event, where they can talk and spread the word of Linux. Sofar distributions such as Ubuntu, Redhat, SuSE, Gentoo have been contacted, trying to get in touch with some more though :) If anyone would like to come, are these people skilled in keynote/talking in front of people? Does Debian have a budget for PR? If not we might have a solution for this. If you have any questions, i'm sure i missed tons of info in this email =/ please don't hesitate to reply with any questions :) Best Regards // _max_
