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2003-06-03 Thread Martin Schulze
FYI

Maybe somebody around here is interested in reporting about one
or more topics.

Regards,

Joey

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Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 23:56:42 +0200
From: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Moin,

für den Debian-Day auf dem LinuxTag (Freitag ganztägig) wurde
Interesse an einigen Themen bekundet, für die wir bisher noch keine
Vortragende bzw. BoF-Ausrichter haben.

Im Moment steht nur fest, daß das Konferenzprogramm zum Debian-Day am
Freitag stattfinden wird.  Welche Vorträge letzendlich angenommen
werden, muß noch entschieden werden.  Ich würde mich freuen, wenn die
folgenden Themen dabei wenigstens in die Auswahl kämen.

Wer erpicht ist, einen Vortrag zu einem der Themen zu halten, kann den
Vortrag auf jeden Fall am Donnerstag oder Sonntag halten, dort sind
noch genügend Slots frei, auch wenn das Thema auf dem Debian Day nicht
angenommen werden sollte.

Gewünscht wurden folgende Themen:

 . Experiences with Debian splitoffs (Trusted Debian, Progeny, Stormix etc.)

 . Debian in embedded environments

 . Problems of the Debian Project (developers view)

Die Vorträge müssen nicht notwendigerweise auf Englisch gehalten
werden, allerdings würde Deutsch unsere nicht deutschsprachigen
Entwickler, die sich für den LinuxTag angekündigt haben, etwas
langweilen...

Es wurden auch noch ein paar nicht Debian-spezifische Themen
gewünscht, für die auch noch kein Vortragender gefunden ist:

 . Effects of the SCO Disaster

 . Effects of the Jugendschutz Disaster

 . Technical goodies: kernel 2.6, ipsec, evms2 and lvm2

Vielleicht findet sich ja hier jemand, der Interesse hat, über eines
der angegebenen Themen zu referieren oder einfach eine BoF-Session
dazu zu moderieren (Einführung, Diskussionsleitung).

Planungen: http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/events/LinuxTag2003/day.html

Gruesse,

Joey

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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 03:22:52PM +0200, Andreas Mueller wrote:
> There are 3 i386, 1 Alpha, 1 Sparc, 1 mac, 1 PS2 this should
> be enough. 

I could bring a hppa 712 if we want to add some more arches. It's quite
slow though, so would only run text-mode.


Michael




Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> * Martin Loschwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030602 23:20]:
> 
> > Besides, what information should such a plate contain? I thought of Name,
> > E-Mail address and IRC nickname, if it exists. Any objections to this?
> I don't think its usefull to print your email address on the nametag.
> Just a Swirl, Name and IRC-Nick (for seome personalitie) should be
> fine.

Comments about the attached files which I hacked together quickly.

Regards,

Joey

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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Daniel K. Gebhart
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:27:37PM +0200, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> Comments about the attached files which I hacked together quickly.

nice, but where can I get openlogo-nd.eps?

sl,
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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:27:37PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> > * Martin Loschwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030602 23:20]:
> > 
> > > Besides, what information should such a plate contain? I thought of Name,
> > > E-Mail address and IRC nickname, if it exists. Any objections to this?
> > I don't think its usefull to print your email address on the nametag.
> > Just a Swirl, Name and IRC-Nick (for seome personalitie) should be
> > fine.
> 
> Comments about the attached files which I hacked together quickly.

All elements necessary for identification of group and person there, got
my vote. My IRC nick is Dalric.

Cheers,
Nick.nick("Dalric");

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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi,

Daniel K. Gebhart wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:27:37PM +0200, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > Comments about the attached files which I hacked together quickly.
> 
> nice, but where can I get openlogo-nd.eps?

http://www.debian.org/logos/

Regards,

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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Martin Loschwitz
Martin Schulze wrote:

>
> Comments about the attached files which I hacked together quickly.
>

Looks ok. Given the fact that the plastic jackets will be 90x54, I
needed to adjust the size a bit, but that's no real problem.

I thought about how these nameplates would look if the Debian swirl
was on the left instead of the right side, thanks goes to Joern
Heissler for changing the .tex-file to make it look that way (see
atachment, comments welcome).

However, I am also okay with Joey's proposal. I hope I'll be able
to bring my laptop to LT, additionally i'll bring some spare jackets.
So if more are needed at the booth, we will have no problems to
create them (if we manage to find a printer, but that shouldn't be
a real problem, I hope)

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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi,

> However, I am also okay with Joey's proposal. I hope I'll be able
> to bring my laptop to LT, additionally i'll bring some spare jackets.

Laptops won't be a problem there I suppose :-)

[ snip ]
> \badge{Michael Meskes}{}
^
IIRC feivel..

> \badge{Rene Engelhard}{rene}

\_rene\_ please since _rene_ is the nick I use on freenode, rene is
registered by someone else...

Oh, and btw, doing a s_ne_n\'e_ would be the "Tüpfelchen auf dem i"
;-)

> \badge{Roland Rosenfeld}{RoRo}
> \badge{Simon Richter}{}
^
GyrosGeier

Regards,

René
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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Rene Engelhard wrote:
> [ snip ]
> > \badge{Michael Meskes}{}
> ^
> IIRC feivel..

I wonder if I met him on IRC at all... 

> > \badge{Rene Engelhard}{rene}
> 
> \_rene\_ please since _rene_ is the nick I use on freenode, rene is
> registered by someone else...

Ok.

> Oh, and btw, doing a s_ne_n\'e_ would be the "Tüpfelchen auf dem i"
> ;-)

Never saw that umlaut in your name except in your signature now.
Will try to keep the name correct all the time.

Regards,

Joey

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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Loschwitz wrote:
> > Comments about the attached files which I hacked together quickly.
> 
> Looks ok. Given the fact that the plastic jackets will be 90x54, I
> needed to adjust the size a bit, but that's no real problem.

Will they definitively be of that size?  I checked several different
jackets that were floating around and 88x55 seems to be quite common,
for one it was even too wide.  Hence, I don't buy that unless it is
decided that the badge jackets that will be used allow the size you
used.

> I thought about how these nameplates would look if the Debian swirl
> was on the left instead of the right side, thanks goes to Joern
> Heissler for changing the .tex-file to make it look that way (see
> atachment, comments welcome).

Well, since the name is more important than the logo and since
humans in the western world tend to read from left to right,
the logo was placed on the right side.  The same should apply
to the nickname / realname, but unfortunately the realname often
is so large that I would have to resize the logo if I wanted to
place the name in the middle of the badge.

> However, I am also okay with Joey's proposal. I hope I'll be able
> to bring my laptop to LT, additionally i'll bring some spare jackets.
> So if more are needed at the booth, we will have no problems to
> create them (if we manage to find a printer, but that shouldn't be
> a real problem, I hope)

When I have the name on Saturday before LinuxTag I can print and
cut them, as well as the last page filled with blanks.  For any
later people, somebody else needs to go ahead.

Regards,

Joey

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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi,

Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Oh, and btw, doing a s_ne_n\'e_ would be the "Tüpfelchen auf dem i"
> > ;-)
> 
> Never saw that umlaut in your name except in your signature now.
> Will try to keep the name correct all the time.

Jup. I do not put in in my header and my key to be safe from
encoding problems. (my ID card doesn't show the é either...)

the é is not _that_ important, i consider the common mistake
writing Engelhardt instead of only -d more grave :-)

Moreover, I had used "nodeadkeys" recently and switsched tgo deadkeys
recently which allows me to actually enter the é ;-)

Regards,

René
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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030603 16:15]:

> Well, since the name is more important than the logo and since
> humans in the western world tend to read from left to right,
> the logo was placed on the right side.
Ist it? Please estimate how man people remember the name "Alexander
Schmehl" (or any other Name) and how much recognize the Swirl.


Sincerely
  Alexander
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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Alexander Schmehl wrote:
> * Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030603 16:15]:
> 
> > Well, since the name is more important than the logo and since
> > humans in the western world tend to read from left to right,
> > the logo was placed on the right side.
> Ist it? Please estimate how man people remember the name "Alexander
> Schmehl" (or any other Name) and how much recognize the Swirl.

How are you called usually?  Mr. Swirl or Alex, Alexander or Mr. Schmehl?

Regards,

Joey

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Re: status update LT 2003 CD

2003-06-03 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi,

Am Mon, 2003-06-02 um 15.26 schrieb Alexander Schmehl:
> > I don't think that we would follow this law with a parody. IMO it's a
> > way of protest against this law.
> Then I think we should make the parody as clear as possible and make
> the "18+ only contains freeciv" label as big as possible, so every damn
> idiot should understand that as an parody.

Well, this might be paranoid, but what if freeciv turns out to be too
bad to be for all ages (You do wage war and try to gain world domination
in this game. Which is sadly quite realistic, but still could have a
"bad influence" on kids). I thought about what other game would fit, and
I'd propose tuxracer (the opensource version), but maybe somebody else
knows a well known, open source, totally and unquestionably good as in
not evil game?

Joachim

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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:31:51PM +0200, Martin Loschwitz wrote:
> I thought about how these nameplates would look if the Debian swirl
> was on the left instead of the right side, thanks goes to Joern
> Heissler for changing the .tex-file to make it look that way (see
> atachment, comments welcome).

You get problems with long names, fabbione's seems to be off-limits for
example. Setting the full name right-adjusted would look quite dull, too
I guess. So apart from the psychological reasons Joey mentioned, I guess
having the swirl on the right is better.

Two other small things:

1. the debian corporate cards have 'Debian GNU/Linux Developer' typeset
in small-caps fonts, perhaps also typeset 'Debian Projekt' in small
caps?

2. How about 'Debian Project' instead of 'Debian Projekt' to make those
badges a bit more international? I'd keep mine for other, perhaps
international, events if possible.


Michael




LinuxTag 2003 - Ports Booth

2003-06-03 Thread Sebastian Raible
Hi,

I just bought an Apple PowerBook G4 12" and successfully installed sid
on it, I would love to show it in the ports section of the debian booth
this year.
However, this is my first and only notebook so I would have to use it
from time to time (probably even take it with me for some time).
Additionally, I am a LinuxTag Supporter so I won't be able to be there
all the time to watch the PowerBook.. I'll try to leave it at the booth
though if you watch it for me :)

Things that aren't working yet:
- Nvidia doesn't have a driver for ppc so bzflag and 3D stuff isn't so
much fun
- no power management
- with 2.4.20-benh10 the console is limited to 80x30 chars and isn't
propperly redrawing here either
- Airport Extreme (that is 802.11g, 54Mbit/s WLAN) card has no drivers
for that reason I don't have one
- external monitor (vga, tv-adapter)

I'll install patches, improvements and additional drivers if/when
available.

Things I got working:
- Sound
- X
- DVD playback works pretty fine, some stutteringly sometimes (same goes
for divx and stuff) -- we should need some css-free dvd, probably some
trailer thing..

Things I couldn't test:
- FireWire (is told to be working but I don't have any devices yet)
- BlueTooth (same goes for this one)

Tell me what you think, what I should add, install..

Bye,
Sebastian

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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Michael Banck wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:31:51PM +0200, Martin Loschwitz wrote:
> > I thought about how these nameplates would look if the Debian swirl
> > was on the left instead of the right side, thanks goes to Joern
> > Heissler for changing the .tex-file to make it look that way (see
> > atachment, comments welcome).
>
> You get problems with long names, fabbione's seems to be off-limits for
> example. Setting the full name right-adjusted would look quite dull, too
> I guess. So apart from the psychological reasons Joey mentioned, I guess
> having the swirl on the right is better.

Sorry I was a bit busy to follow the thread in details but if it is only
for my name just shorten it. "Massimo" can be omitted or replaced with
"M."

Thanks
Fabio

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Re: status update LT 2003 CD

2003-06-03 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:26:37PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote:

Hi,

> Well, there is this "backdoor" used by MS and others for their
> Software. Windows contains Minesweeper, Solitair and other small games,
> and has no USK rating. But their products are "allowed" to be sold to
> children.
> 
> "Allowed" is in this case a little difficult. I refer to c't 10, Page
> 18ff (http://www.heise.de/ct/03/10/018/ last but one question) , the
> interview with Mr. Karle from the rheinland-pfälzischem ministry for
> education, woman and youth.
> 
> He got asked, why MS may ship their products with games, and if Linux
> Distributions may do the same.
> He distinguishs beetween "Bildträger" und "Trägermedium". The first one
> needs the USK rating, the later one, may go without, if the hole
> character of the product has no influence, compareable to the influence
> of movies oder games, to the evolution of children and youngster, and
> if the product has a complete different purpose.
> 
> "This applies for example on on lexical works with small motions
> picture sequences, and - at the present general legal conception - on
> the products named above [MS Produkts and Linux Distributions]."
> 
> So I ask again: Anything we know for sure?
Nope there is nothing for sure - it's a law ;) 
The problem is without a judgement it's hard to tell what might happen.

> Honestly I don't know how many games are on the CD, I guess it isn't
> that much and we don't ship ego shooters. So I think the disc might
> fall through this "backdoor".
Well shipping the engine for a shooters without the maps is useless anyway
and free maps are very rare. 

> > In cases where a CD (or DVD etc.) is not rated and has no offical label
> > it's for 18+ only. So if we don't pay and give away the CD to minors Grisu,
> > myself and maybe Joey will have the risk to get sued.
> 
> Okay, I think I see this point, but I realy dislike to tell a
> seventeen year old teenager, that I'm not allowed to give him a CD (and
> I'll keep on giving away Knoppix CDs, after a talk about Linux in a
> school).
Well if the teenager is fourteen or seventeen is uninteressting in this
case it's a law. We can follow it or ignore it and hope for the best.

> So what about this "solution": Everyone at the booth formaly gets his
> own quantum of discs, for whome he and only he is responsible. So I can
> give the seventeen year old teenager a disc, and if a "official" sees
> this, he will sue me, since neither you, nor grisu or joey are
> responsible for my act.
I'm not a lawyer so I don't know how a court would judge in such a scenario.

Sven

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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> > You get problems with long names, fabbione's seems to be off-limits for
> > example. Setting the full name right-adjusted would look quite dull, too
> > I guess. So apart from the psychological reasons Joey mentioned, I guess
> > having the swirl on the right is better.
> 
> Sorry I was a bit busy to follow the thread in details but if it is only
> for my name just shorten it. "Massimo" can be omitted or replaced with
> "M."

Too late, I already made it fit, so it'll stay. :)
(except when the badges need to be smaller...)

Regards,

Joey

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Re: status update LT 2003 CD

2003-06-03 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:03:57AM +0200, Nicolas Kratz wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:32:26PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote:

Hi,

> > Links:
> >  1: http://www.usk.de/JuSchG/PDF/usk-sticker-JuSchG.pdf
> 
> Ready to serve, Milord. Behold, the Power of The GIMP.
> 
> http://www.janasfam.de/nick/images/hammer.png
> http://www.janasfam.de/nick/images/suspected.png
> http://www.janasfam.de/nick/images/hardhat.png
> 
> Not quite parodies, but I do hope they get the point across.
> Comments? Suggestions?
I dislike the 3D thing, anyway is the montavista tux modification
for free? I don't think that they would like to have their
company associated with such political things and the Debian
project at all.

What about removing all text from the red label inkluding the
usk and "Keine Jugendfreigabe" bla bla. Then kill the
"Strichmaenchen" and add only the penguin.
Where the "usk" label is you'll insert a greater label and
write something like "Linux" "Free unrated Software" or something
like this on it. In the red field I would add something like
"unrated software" or "contains tetris".

We should write a explanation about this whole issue and but it
on the CD so that we can write on the cover that you can find
more information inside. Ah and for all the underaged people
who have no chance to obtain a CD we should print it on a big
sign at the boot.

Just some random suggestions.

Sven

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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Noèl Köthe
Am Die, 2003-06-03 um 12.27 schrieb Martin Schulze:

> Comments about the attached files which I hacked together quickly.

\badge{Noel Koethe}{noel}

Please change it to:

\badge{NoÃl KÃthe}{noel}

Thank you!

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Re: status update LT 2003 CD

2003-06-03 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Joachim Breitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030603 19:01]:

> > Then I think we should make the parody as clear as possible and make
> > the "18+ only contains freeciv" label as big as possible, so every damn
> > idiot should understand that as an parody.
> Well, this might be paranoid, but what if freeciv turns out to be too
> bad to be for all ages (You do wage war and try to gain world domination
> in this game. Which is sadly quite realistic, but still could have a
> "bad influence" on kids). I thought about what other game would fit, and
> I'd propose tuxracer (the opensource version), but maybe somebody else
> knows a well known, open source, totally and unquestionably good as in
> not evil game?

"It's not paranoia if they are realy after you". So okay I wasn't sure,
if the disc contains tuxracer, and the first other game, which game in
my mind, was freeciv.

Sincerely
  Alexander


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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030603 17:19]:

[ Name more important than swirl ]
> > Ist it? Please estimate how man people remember the name "Alexander
> > Schmehl" (or any other Name) and how much recognize the Swirl.
> How are you called usually?  Mr. Swirl or Alex, Alexander or Mr. Schmehl?

Well, what I was trying to say, was, that people, who read my name
probaly don't know very much. I'm not that famous, that people know my
name and can put it in the right category.
But if they see the Swirl, most people will know, that I have something
to do with the Debian Project, no matter how I'm called.

So I tried to argue, that the name isn't more important than the swirl.


But hey, it doesn't matter, if they first read my name and then the
swirl or otherwise...

Sincerely
  Alexander


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Re: status update LT 2003 CD

2003-06-03 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030603 22:35]:

> Well if the teenager is fourteen or seventeen is uninteressting in this
> case it's a law. We can follow it or ignore it and hope for the best.
Replace fourteen or seventeen with any other age, last year there were
some kids, in the report of HCT were kids, and when I did a talk and
left the booth on a small event allone, more than 35 discs were taken,
after talks in schools, it is nice to give away knoppix cds.

So, shall I put the discs in a safe, before I leave, the kid not
allowed to play, and the kids, which might come this year, too, told,
they won't get a cd, and somebody must start a knoppix splitoff without
games.

Sigh, that seems quite unfair, and I see a proper solution.

> > So what about this "solution": Everyone at the booth formaly gets his
> > own quantum of discs, for whome he and only he is responsible. So I can
> > give the seventeen year old teenager a disc, and if a "official" sees
> > this, he will sue me, since neither you, nor grisu or joey are
> > responsible for my act.
> I'm not a lawyer so I don't know how a court would judge in such a scenario.

If we have a "hacking area" behind our booth like last year, I could
put the private disc stock (or perhaps even some burned one - that
would look quite more like a private gift) there. And if a youngster
wants to have disc, I take him with me behind the wall, and give him
the disc there.

Or we just hope that all kids arrive with their parents, or that they
prohibit them to visit LT (and any other event).

God damn it, it keeps on making no sense at all.


Sincerely
  Alexander


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Re: LinuxTag - 2003

2003-06-03 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Martin Schulze wrote:

> Too late, I already made it fit, so it'll stay. :)
> (except when the badges need to be smaller...)

I think i can live with that ;)

Thanks
Fabio

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