[arch-events] FrOSCon 2010 planning
Okay, same procedure as every year, just more people:
Our official team members are: * Thomas Bächler * Roman Kyrylych * Thorsten Töpper * Pierre Schmitz * Jan de Groot * Andreas Radke * Jens Adam * Dieter Plaetinck * Jan Steffens We have a developer room and a booth. I will probably be at the booth all weekend, so I'll make myself our "booth manager". I'll also make Andy our devroom manager.
The devroom usually doesn't get too many visitors, but we should make it possible for them to be there. We also might have a short presentation or two at the devroom if someone wants to (if we tell the FrOSCon team that we want to make a presentation, we will get a bigger room - so a 3 or 4 hour program on Saturday afternoon would be cool if anyone volunteers).
We should be able to sleep in the devroom, but it will be small and crowded. And there probably won't be any showers on Sunday morning!
As usual, we need equipment. - One or two PCs for the booth, preferably Mini-ITX or equally small - and with hard drives that we can wipe as we please! If you bring a computer, don't bring your hard drive (Who has a car? Jens?). - As many monitors as we have computers. - Power sockets. - Our laptops :) - Ethernet cables (everyone bring some) - Ethernet switches/Wireless access points - CDs? - More??
This is what I intend to do: 1) Bring a 5 port switch, and two wireless access points with an integrated 5 port switch each. 2) Bring all the ethernet cables I can find. 3) Push out an updated ISO release with updated packages and based on the latest archiso git. I guess AIF hasn't gotten any or much work, so we'll just take what we have. This should be finished at the beginning of August, so I can order between 100 and 200 brand-new Arch CDs from icoco again. We can use donation money I guess, the CDs were something between 1 and 2€ a piece last year.
That's all I can think of for now - maybe we can revive last year's wiki page to see if I missed something.
* Thomas Bächler thomas@archlinux.org:
As usual, we need equipment. [...]
Car, yes.
I'll bring the same ITX-box as last year, the same two TFTs [*], two keyboards and mice, enough power strips, more network equipment (like 16-port 100 mbit switch) and an assortment of various stuff (wifi, bluetooth, USB/FW, DVB-T in form of USB sticks or PC cards).
* https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/froscon/2009/2009-08-22_11-58-53.jpg
Regards, Jens
Sorry guys. Me and my gf won't take part this year. Family and other duties have a higher priority this year. Maybe I can join the party again next year.
Have fun. And be social ;)
-Andy
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:13:30 +0200 Thomas Bächler thomas@archlinux.org wrote:
- Push out an updated ISO release with updated packages and based on
the latest archiso git. I guess AIF hasn't gotten any or much work, so we'll just take what we have. This should be finished at the beginning of August, so I can order between 100 and 200 brand-new Arch CDs from icoco again. We can use donation money I guess, the CDs were something between 1 and 2€ a piece last year.
Well, I don't have much time for rebuilding and testing. Maybe just take the latest release, they are not that old.
Dieter
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:13:30 +0200 Thomas Bächler thomas@archlinux.org wrote: ...
The devroom usually doesn't get too many visitors, but we should make it possible for them to be there. We also might have a short presentation or two at the devroom if someone wants to (if we tell the FrOSCon team that we want to make a presentation, we will get a bigger room - so a 3 or 4 hour program on Saturday afternoon would be cool if anyone volunteers).
We should be able to sleep in the devroom, but it will be small and crowded. And there probably won't be any showers on Sunday morning!
As usual, we need equipment.
- One or two PCs for the booth, preferably Mini-ITX or equally small -
and with hard drives that we can wipe as we please! If you bring a computer, don't bring your hard drive (Who has a car? Jens?).
- As many monitors as we have computers.
- Power sockets.
- Our laptops :)
- Ethernet cables (everyone bring some)
- Ethernet switches/Wireless access points
- CDs?
- More??
...
I'll come and probably will sleep in the room too. I can give a short presentation which will explain how our community is build up and how the ABS works. I already gave that one at my university this April[1] and who wants can take a look at the stuff from back then, I'd make it a bit more specific as we have more time and the publicum won't be 15 people that rarely know about something else than using preinstalled Microsoft products. I guess a talk about mkinitcpio would also be welcome as my translation of your post Thomas was by far the most read one in this year and is still often read.
For the clothes: I don't own a shirt with our logo by now, as I don't want to design one(very bad skill of mine) is it okay if I order the one[2] Sven introduced with his TU-Application? As I don't want to order two I'd ran around in an i3-shirt the other day. If there are no objections till Monday I'll do the order ;)
I currently hardly fight with my hardware so I can not say yet if I can bring something else than laptop, cables and sockets with me, I'll give a clear list at last 7 days before the fun. However I'll try to get enough space at my laptop so I can also bring a local mirror for [extra] next to my usual [core] one so we can help people with fast complete installations and set ups if there again people who need so. (The main interest ist to fasten the installation at presentation machines up but *shhh*. ;-))
Well that's everything I can say for now, Thorsten
[1] http://github.com/Atsutane/talks/tree/master/de/archlinux-psm-hs/ [2] http://www.linux-onlineshop.de/Fanartikel/Shirts-/-Kleidung/T-Shirts/Distri-...
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:16:37 +0200, Thorsten Töpper atsutane@freethoughts.de wrote:
I'll come and probably will sleep in the room too. I can give a short presentation which will explain how our community is build up and how the ABS works.
I could assist you if you like. I should probably able to talk about "behind the scenes" without much preparations. This would be about how we maintain packages, organize things, our servers, mirrors etc..
I currently hardly fight with my hardware so I can not say yet if I can bring something else than laptop, cables and sockets with me, I'll give a clear list at last 7 days before the fun. However I'll try to get enough space at my laptop so I can also bring a local mirror for [extra] next to my usual [core] one so we can help people with fast complete installations and set ups if there again people who need so. (The main interest ist to fasten the installation at presentation machines up but *shhh*. ;-))
Afaik Thomas has always a local mirror and me too. So you wont need to delete important stuff from yours.
Greetings,
Pierre
Am 08.08.2010 18:27, schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
Afaik Thomas has always a local mirror and me too. So you wont need to delete important stuff from yours.
I did have one on my old laptop. Hasn't been synced for months.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 20:13, Thomas Bächler thomas@archlinux.org wrote:
We should be able to sleep in the devroom, but it will be small and crowded. And there probably won't be any showers on Sunday morning!
I can stay in a hostel in Bonn this year, since I have to book for 3 nights anyway (otherwise the German consulate will find it suspicious that I don't have one night booked in some ho(s)tel)
As usual, we need equipment.
- One or two PCs for the booth, preferably Mini-ITX or equally small -
and with hard drives that we can wipe as we please! If you bring a computer, don't bring your hard drive (Who has a car? Jens?).
I can bring a very small mini-ITX box in this case: http://www.mini-box.com/M350-universal-mini-itx-enclosure I even have VESA mount screws, so it can be mounted on a TFT display. It's has no CD-drive, so installation should be done from a flash drive (could someone please bring one? mine is always filled with some data and backups) the HDD inside will be fully available for any experiments (repartitioning, formatting etc.)
- As many monitors as we have computers.
In case someone will find a reason for using it - I can also take a small 2-port KVM switch: http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?pid=20070420164543001 (note: DVI only!)
- Power sockets.
- Our laptops :)
- Ethernet cables (everyone bring some)
- Ethernet switches/Wireless access points
- CDs?
- More??
Order these laptop stickers: http://schwag.archlinux.ca/product/laptopsticker/ If we will have CDs - these should go with each CD, if not - we could still give out the stickers to people anyway, especially to those who will install Arch in our devroom ;-)
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 20:13, Thomas Bächler thomas@archlinux.org wrote:
We should be able to sleep in the devroom, but it will be small and crowded. And there probably won't be any showers on Sunday morning!
I can stay in a hostel in Bonn this year, since I have to book for 3 nights anyway (otherwise the German consulate will find it suspicious that I don't have one night booked in some ho(s)tel)
As usual, we need equipment.
- One or two PCs for the booth, preferably Mini-ITX or equally small -
and with hard drives that we can wipe as we please! If you bring a computer, don't bring your hard drive (Who has a car? Jens?).
I can bring a very small mini-ITX box in this case: http://www.mini-box.com/M350-universal-mini-itx-enclosure I even have VESA mount screws, so it can be mounted on a TFT display. It's has no CD-drive, so installation should be done from a flash drive (could someone please bring one? mine is always filled with some data and backups) the HDD inside will be fully available for any experiments (repartitioning, formatting etc.)
- As many monitors as we have computers.
In case someone will find a reason for using it
- I can also take a small 2-port KVM switch:
http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?pid=20070420164543001 (note: DVI only!)
- Power sockets.
- Our laptops :)
- Ethernet cables (everyone bring some)
- Ethernet switches/Wireless access points
- CDs?
- More??
Order these laptop stickers: http://schwag.archlinux.ca/product/laptopsticker/ If we will have CDs - these should go with each CD, if not - we could still give out the stickers to people anyway, especially to those who will install Arch in our devroom ;-)
For the schwag, Dieter and Dusty are in toronto right now. You might want to contact Dusty and ask him to give a few stickers to Dieter before he goes back to europe. It might cost less to ship them afterwards
-- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) _______________________________________________ arch-events mailing list arch-events@archlinux.org http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-events
For the schwag, Dieter and Dusty are in toronto right now. You might want to contact Dusty and ask him to give a few stickers to Dieter before he goes back to europe. It might cost less to ship them afterwards
I don't think I have enough on hand with me here.
Dusty
On 24.07.2010 15:53, Dusty Phillips wrote:
For the schwag, Dieter and Dusty are in toronto right now. You might want to contact Dusty and ask him to give a few stickers to Dieter before he goes back to europe. It might cost less to ship them afterwards
I don't think I have enough on hand with me here.
Dusty _______________________________________________ arch-events mailing list arch-events@archlinux.org http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-events
Not trying to promote the competitors here but if you guys totally, absolutely need some stickers quickly, try here (http://www.linux-onlineshop.de/Fanartikel/Aufkleber-/-Sticker/Notebook-Stick...). I got mine from there along with my Arch shirts so I wouldn't have to pay for the expensive international shipping.
-- Sven-Hendrik
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 17:13, Sven-Hendrik Haase sh@lutzhaase.com wrote:
Not trying to promote the competitors here but if you guys totally, absolutely need some stickers quickly, try here (http://www.linux-onlineshop.de/Fanartikel/Aufkleber-/-Sticker/Notebook-Stick...). I got mine from there along with my Arch shirts so I wouldn't have to pay for the expensive international shipping.
They have different design, but yeah.. it's easier to order locally.
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 16:53, Dusty Phillips dusty@archlinux.ca wrote:
For the schwag, Dieter and Dusty are in toronto right now. You might want to contact Dusty and ask him to give a few stickers to Dieter before he goes back to europe. It might cost less to ship them afterwards
I don't think I have enough on hand with me here.
Not a problem. You can give Dieter what you have, and if then when you order some more - send them via air mail, we have almost one month ahead.
Am 21.07.2010 19:13, schrieb Thomas Bächler:
We should be able to sleep in the devroom, but it will be small and crowded. And there probably won't be any showers on Sunday morning!
I am not entirely sure right now if I can make it to FrOSCon. And I definitely won't stay for the social event on Saturday, and won't sleep at FrOSCon.
- Push out an updated ISO release with updated packages and based on
the latest archiso git. I guess AIF hasn't gotten any or much work, so we'll just take what we have. This should be finished at the beginning of August, so I can order between 100 and 200 brand-new Arch CDs from icoco again. We can use donation money I guess, the CDs were something between 1 and 2€ a piece last year.
I didn't have the time to take care of this, so I am sad to inform everyone that there will be no free CDs this year.
So who's coming? Thomas is unsure, Andy&wife cancelled.
Roman and Thorsten are coming, I *assume* Pierre, JanDG, and Jens as well. did Jan Steffens confirm?
Thomas posted a list of people earlier in this thread ( http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-events/2010-July/000301.html) but these are also not confirmed people right? (I definitely didn't confirm, and I'll probably not make it all)
Dieter
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:13:40 +0200 Thomas Bächler thomas@archlinux.org wrote:
Am 21.07.2010 19:13, schrieb Thomas Bächler:
We should be able to sleep in the devroom, but it will be small and crowded. And there probably won't be any showers on Sunday morning!
I am not entirely sure right now if I can make it to FrOSCon. And I definitely won't stay for the social event on Saturday, and won't sleep at FrOSCon.
- Push out an updated ISO release with updated packages and based
on the latest archiso git. I guess AIF hasn't gotten any or much work, so we'll just take what we have. This should be finished at the beginning of August, so I can order between 100 and 200 brand-new Arch CDs from icoco again. We can use donation money I guess, the CDs were something between 1 and 2€ a piece last year.
I didn't have the time to take care of this, so I am sad to inform everyone that there will be no free CDs this year.
Well I already made a mirror so that won't be a problem at least for people who have their machines with them I can do installations for them using my laptop and the stick and if I get some CD-Rs I guess I can burn them directly if people want some for other machines. They don't look nice but it would be a simple solution.
I'll only bring my laptop, sockets and Ethernet cables with me, as the hardware I also thought of to bring isn't suited to be a presentation machine(hardware behaves strange lately), if I get it fixed till Friday I'll take it with me as reserve machine but I think that won't happen.
The only problem I have left is, that we drive to Bonn at Friday and I don't have a location yet where I can spend the night to Saturday. If someone knows a cheap location with an easy connection to St.Augustin where I can spend the night I'd be happy to know about that.
Also how's the state with your visa Roman? I'm not familiar with this stuff so I was quiet with that, I'm sorry if this was wrong.
Thorsten
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 18:04, Thorsten Töpper atsutane@freethoughts.de wrote:
The only problem I have left is, that we drive to Bonn at Friday and I don't have a location yet where I can spend the night to Saturday. If someone knows a cheap location with an easy connection to St.Augustin where I can spend the night I'd be happy to know about that.
I'm staying at Max Hostel (http://max-hostel.de/), it's nice, reasonably cheap and located a good place.
Also how's the state with your visa Roman? I'm not familiar with this stuff so I was quiet with that, I'm sorry if this was wrong.
No luck with German visa. Will travel with a Swedish business visa.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:13:30 +0200, Thomas Bächler thomas@archlinux.org wrote:
Okay, same procedure as every year, just more people:
Our official team members are:
- Thomas Bächler
- Roman Kyrylych
- Thorsten Töpper
- Pierre Schmitz
- Jan de Groot
- Andreas Radke
- Jens Adam
- Dieter Plaetinck
- Jan Steffens
We have a developer room and a booth. I will probably be at the booth all weekend, so I'll make myself our "booth manager". I'll also make Andy our devroom manager.
So we have a few days left. Am I correct that the banners we had used broke last time? I'll try to get new ones. It would also be nice to when you guys plan to arrive. It seems to open at about 8:00 on Saturday; but I don't expect those with a long journey to arrive that early.
For those that are new to this con: there is quite a big shopping center very near. We could also ask Aaron for some money to buy some CDs etc..
Btw: should we make a short announcement?
Greetings,
Pierre
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:37:37 +0200 Pierre Schmitz pierre@archlinux.de wrote:
So we have a few days left. Am I correct that the banners we had used broke last time? I'll try to get new ones. It would also be nice to when you guys plan to arrive. It seems to open at about 8:00 on Saturday; but I don't expect those with a long journey to arrive that early.
You (or maybe someone else, but I think you) gave them to me last year, because you said they were too old and "wrinkled". They are now decoration in my office :)
I could remove them here if you need them back, the only problem is I'm not coming to froscon :/
Dieter
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:42:07 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck dieter@plaetinck.be wrote:
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:37:37 +0200 Pierre Schmitz pierre@archlinux.de wrote:
So we have a few days left. Am I correct that the banners we had used broke last time? I'll try to get new ones. It would also be nice to when you guys plan to arrive. It seems to open at about 8:00 on Saturday; but I don't expect those with a long journey to arrive that early.
You (or maybe someone else, but I think you) gave them to me last year, because you said they were too old and "wrinkled". They are now decoration in my office :)
I could remove them here if you need them back, the only problem is I'm not coming to froscon :/
Don't worry. I guess we'll find a solution. :-)
Am 16.08.2010 14:37, schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:13:30 +0200, Thomas Bächler thomas@archlinux.org wrote:
Okay, same procedure as every year, just more people:
Our official team members are:
- Thomas Bächler
- Roman Kyrylych
- Thorsten Töpper
- Pierre Schmitz
- Jan de Groot
- Andreas Radke
- Jens Adam
- Dieter Plaetinck
- Jan Steffens
We have a developer room and a booth. I will probably be at the booth all weekend, so I'll make myself our "booth manager". I'll also make Andy our devroom manager.
Our team is now smaller: * Thomas Bächler * Roman Kyrylych * Thorsten Töpper * Pierre Schmitz * Jan de Groot * Jens Adam * Jan Steffens
We should collect the hardware we have again, I lost track. Roman offered something, so did Jens. Please, everybody add their info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FrOSCon_2010_planning so we know what is missing.
I could bring my computer and monitor, but I would prefer not to - especially the computer.
So we have a few days left. Am I correct that the banners we had used broke last time? I'll try to get new ones.
Please do that, thanks.
It would also be nice to when you guys plan to arrive. It seems to open at about 8:00 on Saturday; but I don't expect those with a long journey to arrive that early.
I'll try to be there around 8.
Btw: should we make a short announcement?
What would you announce?
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 15:04, Thomas Bächler thomas@archlinux.org wrote:
Our team is now smaller:
- Thomas Bächler
- Roman Kyrylych
- Thorsten Töpper
- Pierre Schmitz
- Jan de Groot
- Jens Adam
- Jan Steffens
We should collect the hardware we have again, I lost track. Roman offered something, so did Jens. Please, everybody add their info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FrOSCon_2010_planning so we know what is missing.
Done.
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 16:31, Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 15:04, Thomas Bächler thomas@archlinux.org wrote:
Our team is now smaller:
- Thomas Bächler
- Roman Kyrylych
- Thorsten Töpper
- Pierre Schmitz
- Jan de Groot
- Jens Adam
- Jan Steffens
We should collect the hardware we have again, I lost track. Roman offered something, so did Jens. Please, everybody add their info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FrOSCon_2010_planning so we know what is missing.
Done.
I won't be able to take the two empty HDDs I mentioned earlier (totally forgot that I gave them to my cousing for sale, and he's in another city, so I won't be able to get them tomorrow), so only the one inside the mini-ITX box will be available. I updated the page.
Am 19.08.2010 21:32, schrieb Roman Kyrylych:
I won't be able to take the two empty HDDs I mentioned earlier (totally forgot that I gave them to my cousing for sale, and he's in another city, so I won't be able to get them tomorrow), so only the one inside the mini-ITX box will be available. I updated the page.
It doesn't matter as long as we have one hard drive for each box that we can play around with. As far as I understand it, Jens' box has a hard drive too.
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 23:51, Thomas Bächler thomas@archlinux.org wrote:
Am 19.08.2010 21:32, schrieb Roman Kyrylych:
I won't be able to take the two empty HDDs I mentioned earlier (totally forgot that I gave them to my cousing for sale, and he's in another city, so I won't be able to get them tomorrow), so only the one inside the mini-ITX box will be available. I updated the page.
It doesn't matter as long as we have one hard drive for each box that we can play around with. As far as I understand it, Jens' box has a hard drive too.
More interesting change possible: due to new more strict hand baggage policies by Wizzair I may have to take out something from my backpack (I asked a friend to come with me so I will not have to leave things at the airport). In that case I guess it's better to take mini-ITX box instead of laptop, right?
Am 20.08.2010 14:29, schrieb Roman Kyrylych:
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 23:51, Thomas Bächler thomas@archlinux.org wrote:
Am 19.08.2010 21:32, schrieb Roman Kyrylych:
I won't be able to take the two empty HDDs I mentioned earlier (totally forgot that I gave them to my cousing for sale, and he's in another city, so I won't be able to get them tomorrow), so only the one inside the mini-ITX box will be available. I updated the page.
It doesn't matter as long as we have one hard drive for each box that we can play around with. As far as I understand it, Jens' box has a hard drive too.
More interesting change possible: due to new more strict hand baggage policies by Wizzair I may have to take out something from my backpack (I asked a friend to come with me so I will not have to leave things at the airport). In that case I guess it's better to take mini-ITX box instead of laptop, right?
Jan S. has a spare Desktop in case one of the mini-ITX is missing/broken.
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Thomas Bächler thomas@archlinux.org wrote:
Jan S. has a spare Desktop in case one of the mini-ITX is missing/broken.
In that case, should I bring monitor and peripherals or is that accounted for?
I'm having some occasional trouble with my knee since yesterday, I hope it doesn't act up tomorrow.
If it does, I won't be able to drive a car until the pain subsides. At best I'll be late, at worst I'll be visiting a hospital. :(
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:04:24 +0200, Thomas Bächler thomas@archlinux.org wrote:
We should collect the hardware we have again, I lost track. Roman offered something, so did Jens. Please, everybody add their info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FrOSCon_2010_planning so we know what is missing.
I could bring my computer and monitor, but I would prefer not to - especially the computer.
We could just connect a notebook to a monitor if in doubt.
So we have a few days left. Am I correct that the banners we had used broke last time? I'll try to get new ones.
Please do that, thanks.
Alreay done. Btw: Should we somehow collect costs so we can get refund from Aaron?
It would also be nice to when you guys plan to arrive. It seems to open at about 8:00 on Saturday; but I don't expect those with a long journey to arrive that early.
I'll try to be there around 8.
Btw: should we make a short announcement?
What would you announce?
just telling people to meet us at the con like every year?
participants (11)
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Andreas Radke
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Dieter Plaetinck
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Dusty Phillips
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Gregory Eric Sanderson
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Jan Steffens
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Jens Adam
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Pierre Schmitz
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Roman Kyrylych
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Sven-Hendrik Haase
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Thomas Bächler
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Thorsten Töpper