Hi all, I just got this newsletter (English version at the end). They have send it quite late. We must register until May 30th. That means we need to organize some things until *this* friday; otherwise we cannot attend this year. So please reply asap. * Do we want our own room? * Do we want our own booth? Esspecially for the booth we'll need at least four or five people. (so we can exchange) Pierre ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Betreff: [FrOSCon-Newsletter] FrOSCon 2009 - Newsletter Nr. 1 Datum: Montag, 25. Mai 2009 Von: Lars Ehrhardt <le@froscon.org> An: newsletter@lists.froscon.org Die Themen diesmal: * Call for Projects * Java-Subkonferenz * Sponsoren (please scroll down for the English version) Liebe Freunde, Referenten, Sponsoren, Aussteller, Helfer und Besucher, dank der großzügigen Unterstützung unserer Sponsoren ist die diesjährige FrOSCon gesichert: Am 22. und 23. August dieses Jahres findet die vierte Free and Open Source Software Conference in den Räumen der Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg erneut statt. Beginnend mit diesem ersten Newsletter werden wir euch regelmäßig über Planung, Vorbereitung, Programm, Projekte, Workshops und andere Höhepunkte der FrOSCon 2009 informieren. Derzeit arbeiten wir daran, ein Programm zusammenzustellen, mit dem wir Euch wie in den letzten Jahren spannende Themen aus einem breit gefächerten Bereich präsentieren können.
Call for Projects <<<
Auch in diesem Jahr stellen wir Open-Source-Projekten wieder eigene Räume für Entwicklertreffen, Besprechungen oder Workshops zur Verfügung. Wir bitten die Projekte, bei Raumanfragen auch Angaben zur voraussichtlichen Nutzung des Raumes zu machen. Interessenten finden unter https://callforprojects.froscon.org/ eine Möglichkeit ihre Wünsche abzugeben.
Java-Subkonferenz <<<
Nach der PHP-Subkonferenz im letzten Jahr wird es dieses Jahr eine Java-Subkonferenz, eingebettet in das normale Vortragsprogramm, geben. Einreichungen dazu werden über das Call for Papers System, http://cfp.froscon.org, entgegengenommen.
Sponsoren <<<
Wie bereits die letzten beiden Jahre unterstützt die Bonner Firma tarent auch 2009 die FrOSCon als Platin-Sponsor. Zudem gilt unser Dank den Firmen QT-Software und als Gold-, Bytemine, Linuxhotel und Open Source Press als Silbersponsoren unser besonderer Dank. Durch ihre frühzeitigen Zusagen machen sie die Planung der diesejährigen FrOSCon erst möglich. Wir freuen uns auch über weitere Sponsoren, die ihr Unternehmen unseren interessierten und fachkundigen Besuchern präsentieren möchten und uns mit einem kleinen Beitrag die Möglichkeit geben, die Veranstaltung noch attraktiver zu gestalten. Gerne informieren wir Interessenten über unsere Sponsorenpakete - eine Mail an sponsoren@froscon.de genügt! Eine ständig aktualisierte Liste unserer Sponsoren halten wir unter http://www.froscon.de/sponsoren.html bereit. Lars und das gesamte FrOSCon Orga-Team __________________________________________ Free and Open Source Software Conference 22. & 23.08.2009 Grantham-Allee 20, Sankt Augustin, Germany FrOSCon 2009 wird unterstützt von der tarent GmbH - http://www.tarent.de ------------------------------------------ Dear friends, sponsors, exhibitors, assistants and visitors, thanks to the generous support of our sponsors this years edition of FrOSCon is confirmed: On August, 22rd and 23th the fourth Free and Open Source Conference will take place at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. Starting with this newsletter we will inform you about the preperation, program, projects, workshops and other expected highlights. Right now we are working on arranging a program to offer you new and interesting content.
Call for Projects <<<
We are able to offer dedicated rooms for Open Source Projects for developer meetings, discussion or workshops. If you are interested you can apply for such a room under https://callforprojects.froscon.org/
Java subconference <<<
After the PHP subconference last year we are glad to announce that we have this year a Java subconference. Submissions to the Java subconference can be submitted in the normal Call for Papers system, available via http://cfp.froscon.org .
Sponsoring <<<
Continuing their strong commitment from the last years tarent GmbH, a company located in Bonn, supports FrOSCon as the platinum sponsor in 2009. Additionally, gold sponsors Sun and QT-Software and silver sponsors Open Source Press and bronze sponsor Bytemine, Linuxhotel and Open Source Press deserve our special appreciation. It was their early engagement that made the planning of this years FroSCon possible. If you want to present your company to our interested and competent visitors and give us the opportunity to arrange an even more attractive event, we would be glad to hearing from you. Just send a mail to sponsors@froscon.de and we will gladly inform you about our sponsoring opportunities. A constantly updated list of our sponsors can be found on http://www.froscon.org/sponsoren.html. Lars and the whole FrOSCon orga crew __________________________________________ Free and Open Source Software Conference 22. & 23.08.2009 Grantham-Allee 20, Sankt Augustin, Germany FrOSCon 2009 is sponsored by tarent GmbH - http://www.tarent.de ------------------------------------------------------------- -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
Pierre Schmitz schrieb:
Hi all,
I just got this newsletter (English version at the end). They have send it quite late. We must register until May 30th. That means we need to organize some things until *this* friday; otherwise we cannot attend this year.
So please reply asap.
* Do we want our own room? * Do we want our own booth?
Esspecially for the booth we'll need at least four or five people. (so we can exchange)
I'll be on board again and I think we should do it like last year: Have our booth, have our room (although we mainly slept in that room last year, the booth was much more interesting). We can think about doing even more cool stuff than last year, we just had a few boxes, CDs and stuff. I think the booth was not as successful as it could have been, most people were not really interested in the booths and only visited the talks, I hope the FrOSCon people do something about it. I also hope to see Chris, Andy, Jens and Jan again this year, maybe even more.
Pierre
Auch in diesem Jahr stellen wir Open-Source-Projekten wieder eigene Räume für Entwicklertreffen, Besprechungen oder Workshops zur Verfügung. Wir bitten die Projekte, bei Raumanfragen auch Angaben zur voraussichtlichen Nutzung des Raumes zu machen. Interessenten finden unter https://callforprojects.froscon.org/ eine Möglichkeit ihre Wünsche abzugeben.
We should specify that we want to use the room for a developer meeting to give it some purpose. We could announce an event like the "Arch installation party" or so (I'll have a mirror with me anyway).
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 13:03 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
I also hope to see Chris, Andy, Jens and Jan again this year, maybe even more.
I don't expect to make it this year, though there's a possibility that I might come if there's an affordable flight or train trip from Bremen to Sankt Augustin. Flying from Haugesund to Bremen is nearly free, but from Bremen it's quite a distance to Sant Augustin. I won't travel through europe by car anymore, it's far too expensive to get out of this country with it.
Hey, I'll try my best to make it to FrOsCon again, but can't promise it right now as I'm pretty busy...
I don't expect to make it this year, though there's a possibility that I might come if there's an affordable flight or train trip from Bremen to Sankt Augustin. Flying from Haugesund to Bremen is nearly free, but from Bremen it's quite a distance to Sant Augustin. I won't travel through europe by car anymore, it's far too expensive to get out of this country with it. You could try to find someone to carpool. In Germany, mitfahrgelegenheit.de has a lot of offers for cheap travelling, usually around 5€/100km. So you could go from Bremen to Bonn or Köln or something and take the local train from there.
cheers, Chris
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 14:29 +0200, Christoph Neuroth wrote:
Hey,
I'll try my best to make it to FrOsCon again, but can't promise it right now as I'm pretty busy...
I don't expect to make it this year, though there's a possibility that I might come if there's an affordable flight or train trip from Bremen to Sankt Augustin. Flying from Haugesund to Bremen is nearly free, but from Bremen it's quite a distance to Sant Augustin. I won't travel through europe by car anymore, it's far too expensive to get out of this country with it. You could try to find someone to carpool. In Germany, mitfahrgelegenheit.de has a lot of offers for cheap travelling, usually around 5€/100km. So you could go from Bremen to Bonn or Köln or something and take the local train from there.
I checked my options today: - plane, have to travel from Wednesday to Wednesday, Ryanair only does flights on Wednesdays and Saturdays. This means taking off a full week for 2 days of fun, while I'll be bored for the other 5 days. - Instead of flying with Ryanair, fly with SAS, but that's $$$ - car + boat, or just car completely. This will cost me somewhere between 200 and 250 euros. I think that's quite expensive for two days of fun. I don't like these three options. I have plans to come back to the Netherlands for two weeks halfway september, and I don't think my employment allows me to add 3 weeks in front of that.
count me in. CU all there. Maybe also in Berlin at Linuxtag. Being a plain visitor can be funny too :D -Andy
Am Dienstag 26 Mai 2009 12:49:30 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
That means we need to organize some things until this friday; otherwise we cannot attend this year.
OK, I think we should be enough to attend this year, too. Let me summarize: Andreas Daniel Jens Pierre Thomas and maybe: Christoph Jan Of course any additional support is more than welcome. I think everyone has to sign up at https://callforprojects.froscon.org/ We also need to fill out the project registration form at that site. It would be nice if someone would spend some time help on this. We have to send this today. The form looks like this: http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/tmp/froscon-register.pdf -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
Am Freitag 29 Mai 2009 11:23:24 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
Of course any additional support is more than welcome.
I think everyone has to sign up at https://callforprojects.froscon.org/
We also need to fill out the project registration form at that site. It would be nice if someone would spend some time help on this. We have to send this today. The form looks like this: http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/tmp/froscon-register.pdf
Its time to get it done. I have set up a wiki page at http://wiki.archlinux.de/title/FrOSCon_2009_Application Please have a look. You don't need to register to edit that page. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
* Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>:
Am Freitag 29 Mai 2009 11:23:24 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
Of course any additional support is more than welcome.
I think everyone has to sign up at https://callforprojects.froscon.org/
We also need to fill out the project registration form at that site. It would be nice if someone would spend some time help on this. We have to send this today. The form looks like this: http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/tmp/froscon-register.pdf
Its time to get it done. I have set up a wiki page at http://wiki.archlinux.de/title/FrOSCon_2009_Application Please have a look. You don't need to register to edit that page.
Good job Pierre! It's looking fine and complete to me, so if there isn't anything left to discuss, I think you should submit it. Are there any other opinions, perhaps even from people that won't attend? Looking forward to see you all, Jens (byte/jra)
I am sending a copy of this to the dev list, as few people read the events list: I have registered the Arch Linux project at the FrOSCon website. So far, these people have confirmed their participation: Andy Daniel (ise) Jens (byte) Pierre Thomas (me) With a big maybe: Christoph (delmonico) An even bigger maybe: Jan (JGC) All of you should register at https://callforprojects.froscon.org/ and join the Arch Linux project there. Also, others might consider joining us (Ronald is from the Netherlands and Dieter is from Belgium, so it's not too far for them (any of you guys interested?), of course anyone from our dev or TU team can join us, please write to the arch-events list or reply to this email). We should get a booth (with 2 tables this time, yay) and a room for both days if they accept our application. I think we should at least have posters and CDs this year, presentation machines and maybe more cool stuff, ideas are welcome.
Am Sat, 30 May 2009 16:20:18 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>:
We should get a booth (with 2 tables this time, yay) and a room for both days if they accept our application.
I think we should at least have posters and CDs this year, presentation machines and maybe more cool stuff, ideas are welcome.
Don't make too much efforts. Keep in mind that its character is more a meeting between the developers and other projects. We haven't seen many new(bie) users there (which we would always send to Wobo back...) Maybe I'll also bring my gf + the hacking dog along with me. -Andy
On Sat, 30 May 2009 16:20:18 +0200 Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
I am sending a copy of this to the dev list, as few people read the events list:
I have registered the Arch Linux project at the FrOSCon website. So far, these people have confirmed their participation:
Andy Daniel (ise) Jens (byte) Pierre Thomas (me)
With a big maybe: Christoph (delmonico) An even bigger maybe: Jan (JGC)
All of you should register at https://callforprojects.froscon.org/ and join the Arch Linux project there. Also, others might consider joining us (Ronald is from the Netherlands and Dieter is from Belgium, so it's not too far for them (any of you guys interested?), of course anyone from our dev or TU team can join us, please write to the arch-events list or reply to this email).
We should get a booth (with 2 tables this time, yay) and a room for both days if they accept our application.
I think we should at least have posters and CDs this year, presentation machines and maybe more cool stuff, ideas are welcome.
I would definitely be interested in getting together with fellow Arch guys, and it doesn't look too far, so I'm interested, but: 1) I am much more interested in the social aspect and/or meaningful IRL discussions, rather then sitting in some booth promoting arch to (potential) users. do you guys plan to get a devroom and/or do more meaningful things then "booth-sitting" ? 2) The link "program" on their site links to "call for papers", is there a way to get an up to date view of what talks there will be? 3) are the talks mostly in german? how much of a problem is it that I don't speak german? 4) is there an entrance fee? 5) do you guys plan to go both days? Thanks Dieter
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 18:55 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
I would definitely be interested in getting together with fellow Arch guys, and it doesn't look too far, so I'm interested, but: 1) I am much more interested in the social aspect and/or meaningful IRL discussions, rather then sitting in some booth promoting arch to (potential) users. do you guys plan to get a devroom and/or do more meaningful things then "booth-sitting" ?
I think, like last year, there will be a devroom, which will be populated by some devs hacking on archlinux during the conference.
2) The link "program" on their site links to "call for papers", is there a way to get an up to date view of what talks there will be?
This will be announced shortly I think.
3) are the talks mostly in german? how much of a problem is it that I don't speak german?
I think the amount of english/german talks is 50/50. I don't speak german, though I understand 80% of it because I'm dutch.
4) is there an entrance fee?
Entrance fee for people not belonging to booths or devrooms pay 5 euros for both days. This is cheap.
5) do you guys plan to go both days?
Froscon comes with a social event taking place on the night. Even the social event on its own is interesting enough to justify a visit to froscon. Froscon isn't froscon if it wouldn't be two days.
Am Samstag 30 Mai 2009 18:55:07 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
1) I am much more interested in the social aspect and/or meaningful IRL discussions, rather then sitting in some booth promoting arch to (potential) users. do you guys plan to get a devroom and/or do more meaningful things then "booth-sitting" ?
This is definetly not about sitting at a booth and waiting for people. We will have a dev room, there will be a social event on saturday evening. Last year I had no time booting up my notebook. (talking to lots of people visiting other projects etc.)
2) The link "program" on their site links to "call for papers", is there a way to get an up to date view of what talks there will be?
they are still on planning the event
3) are the talks mostly in german? how much of a problem is it that I don't speak german?
That shouldn't be a problem. Lot's of talks are in English and pretty much everybody should understand you. But you might ask Jan about how he felt last year.
4) is there an entrance fee?
Sure, as community project we'll get vip badges. So we'll have drinks and food for free, too.
5) do you guys plan to go both days?
Yes. If you don't want to stay at a hotel you can sleep in our dev room. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
On Sat, 30 May 2009 19:14:30 +0200 Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Am Samstag 30 Mai 2009 18:55:07 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
1) I am much more interested in the social aspect and/or meaningful IRL discussions, rather then sitting in some booth promoting arch to (potential) users. do you guys plan to get a devroom and/or do more meaningful things then "booth-sitting" ?
This is definetly not about sitting at a booth and waiting for people. We will have a dev room, there will be a social event on saturday evening. Last year I had no time booting up my notebook. (talking to lots of people visiting other projects etc.)
2) The link "program" on their site links to "call for papers", is there a way to get an up to date view of what talks there will be?
they are still on planning the event
3) are the talks mostly in german? how much of a problem is it that I don't speak german?
That shouldn't be a problem. Lot's of talks are in English and pretty much everybody should understand you. But you might ask Jan about how he felt last year.
4) is there an entrance fee?
Sure, as community project we'll get vip badges. So we'll have drinks and food for free, too.
5) do you guys plan to go both days?
Yes. If you don't want to stay at a hotel you can sleep in our dev room.
Thanks for the clarifications, it seems much more interesting now :) My status is now "maybe". I'll apply on the website. Dieter
Dieter Plaetinck schrieb:
I would definitely be interested in getting together with fellow Arch guys, and it doesn't look too far, so I'm interested, but: 1) I am much more interested in the social aspect and/or meaningful IRL discussions, rather then sitting in some booth promoting arch to (potential) users. do you guys plan to get a devroom and/or do more meaningful things then "booth-sitting" ?
I was sitting at the booth a lot last year, but many of us where in the dev room. I also talked to some KDE people and viewed a total of two talks. At least two people should be at the booth at all times though! If you would come, we could talk about the AIF stuff and try some test installations, collect thoughts for improvements and so on, that's why your name popped into my mind when I saw you were from Belgium.
3) are the talks mostly in german? how much of a problem is it that I don't speak german?
For the social part, it is no problem. You can only visit the English talks then, but talking to Arch devs, other Open Source people - virtually everyone in the Open Source community speaks English. Jan was there in 2007 and he rejoined us in 2008, so it can't be THAT bad.
4) is there an entrance fee?
There will be a day in June or July when the FrOSCon people will want to know all the names of the project members that will join Arch at FrOSCon. If you can give us a definite yes until then, we will sign you up as part of the Arch project and there will be no fee. Last year we had: - Free food at noon on Saturday - Free food at the social event - Free beer at the social event - Free accomodations (we could sleep on the floor in our dev room, it's not too comfortable, but cheap) - Free breakfast on Sunday - Free food at noon on Sunday I have no idea if they will repeat that, but I would imagine they will.
5) do you guys plan to go both days?
We're planning to have a booth, so we MUST stay both days, otherwise the organisers will be very angry. However, keep this in mind: We only submitted our application so far, we haven't been accepted yet - although I think we will be.
Hello, I was at the FrOScon the last two times and I guess I will come this year too. I look forward to chat with you guys, since I missed that opportunity the last two times. cheers max
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 17:20, Thomas Bächler<thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
I am sending a copy of this to the dev list, as few people read the events list:
I have registered the Arch Linux project at the FrOSCon website. So far, these people have confirmed their participation:
Andy Daniel (ise) Jens (byte) Pierre Thomas (me)
With a big maybe: Christoph (delmonico) An even bigger maybe: Jan (JGC)
All of you should register at https://callforprojects.froscon.org/ and join the Arch Linux project there. Also, others might consider joining us (Ronald is from the Netherlands and Dieter is from Belgium, so it's not too far for them (any of you guys interested?), of course anyone from our dev or TU team can join us, please write to the arch-events list or reply to this email).
We should get a booth (with 2 tables this time, yay) and a room for both days if they accept our application.
I think we should at least have posters and CDs this year, presentation machines and maybe more cool stuff, ideas are welcome.
Isn't it too late for me to register? I'm obviously late, didn't read mails until recently... -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
Am Samstag 06 Juni 2009 17:05:42 schrieb Roman Kyrylych:
Isn't it too late for me to register? I'm obviously late, didn't read mails until recently...
I don't think its too late. We even don't know if our application has been accepted. So go ahead register and join us. :-) -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 17:20, Thomas Bächler<thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
I think we should at least have posters and CDs this year, presentation machines and maybe more cool stuff, ideas are welcome.
I can make printed or lightscribed CDs/DVDs as I have equipment for this, just need some up-to-date images. Thayer, can you provide some? As for the hardware, I will be able to take only my laptop, mini-ITX box and a DSLR camera, and probably will need some papers to help me get a visa. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:37:57 +0300 Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 17:20, Thomas Bächler<thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
I think we should at least have posters and CDs this year, presentation machines and maybe more cool stuff, ideas are welcome.
I can make printed or lightscribed CDs/DVDs as I have equipment for this, just need some up-to-date images. Thayer, can you provide some? As for the hardware, I will be able to take only my laptop, mini-ITX box and a DSLR camera, and probably will need some papers to help me get a visa.
1) i accepted you :) 2) we will know the result very soon. http://twitter.com/froscon/statuses/2034579756/ 3) we may (should) see a new official arch release before mid august. Mind if I ask what Thayer has to do with this? We "release engineers" are the newcomers in the arch developer group, so maybe i'm missing something ;) 4) Is the text in the "application form" publicly visible or is it only meant for the froscon organizers? It looks a bit like sales talk imho. Dieter
Dieter Plaetinck schrieb:
1) i accepted you :)
There is no way to list everyone who joined the project. I accepted Pierre and Andy initially, no idea what happened since then.
2) we will know the result very soon. http://twitter.com/froscon/statuses/2034579756/
This seems to be about the Call for Papers, projects are another thing. Apparently, we'll also get an E-Mail soon, I was talking to some guy in #froscon who said there was trouble because some projects didn't fill out the application completely (we did).
3) we may (should) see a new official arch release before mid august. Mind if I ask what Thayer has to do with this? We "release engineers" are the newcomers in the arch developer group, so maybe i'm missing something ;)
Thayer is our artwork guy, so he can design covers for the CDs. I asked him last year and we didn't have a FrOSCon logo in svg, I'll organize that this time.
4) Is the text in the "application form" publicly visible or is it only meant for the froscon organizers? It looks a bit like sales talk imho.
I wrote it, and I was actually selling Arch to them. The application is only for the FrOSCon people, but some of the rest is for the website.
Hi all, and sorry for the late. wonderful! I hear now of this event and I like to come with one my friend (Arch Linux user obviously). I already registered and account on FrOSCon and did a request to join in the Arch Project. I am going to check the fly!!! :) On 06/06/2009, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Dieter Plaetinck schrieb:
1) i accepted you :)
There is no way to list everyone who joined the project. I accepted Pierre and Andy initially, no idea what happened since then.
2) we will know the result very soon. http://twitter.com/froscon/statuses/2034579756/
This seems to be about the Call for Papers, projects are another thing. Apparently, we'll also get an E-Mail soon, I was talking to some guy in #froscon who said there was trouble because some projects didn't fill out the application completely (we did).
3) we may (should) see a new official arch release before mid august. Mind if I ask what Thayer has to do with this? We "release engineers" are the newcomers in the arch developer group, so maybe i'm missing something ;)
Thayer is our artwork guy, so he can design covers for the CDs. I asked him last year and we didn't have a FrOSCon logo in svg, I'll organize that this time.
4) Is the text in the "application form" publicly visible or is it only meant for the froscon organizers? It looks a bit like sales talk imho.
I wrote it, and I was actually selling Arch to them. The application is only for the FrOSCon people, but some of the rest is for the website.
-- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer
Andrea Scarpino schrieb:
Hi all, and sorry for the late.
wonderful! I hear now of this event and I like to come with one my friend (Arch Linux user obviously).
I already registered and account on FrOSCon and did a request to join in the Arch Project.
I am going to check the fly!!! :)
Wow, this is getting big. We are becoming MANY people, so it is possible that the FrOSCon people will not allow everyone to come for free (we said 5-7 people, we are now 8 with you), so it is possible that you have to pay - in the end, we have to see if the FrOSCon people will allow 8 people for such a small project, I surely hope so. Anyway, I would love to meet you there, I just accepted you in the Arch Linux project. I didn't expect to have so many people coming, especially from that far away (Roman is coming from Ukraine, you from Italy, wow).
2009/6/11 Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>:
Wow, this is getting big. We are becoming MANY people, so it is possible that the FrOSCon people will not allow everyone to come for free (we said 5-7 people, we are now 8 with you), so it is possible that you have to pay - in the end, we have to see if the FrOSCon people will allow 8 people for such a small project, I surely hope so. ok, anyway I want to know if I can sleep at froscon. And in this case if my friend can also (I think no, but I ask).
Anyway, I would love to meet you there, I just accepted you in the Arch Linux project. I didn't expect to have so many people coming, especially from that far away (Roman is coming from Ukraine, you from Italy, wow). I am not only from Italy...I am from SUD sud Italy (Lecce - Bonn: 1800km) but also I like the idea to meet all you and this is a good occasion; also to know to others projects we are not small at the end :)
-- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer
Andrea Scarpino schrieb:
2009/6/11 Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>:
Wow, this is getting big. We are becoming MANY people, so it is possible that the FrOSCon people will not allow everyone to come for free (we said 5-7 people, we are now 8 with you), so it is possible that you have to pay - in the end, we have to see if the FrOSCon people will allow 8 people for such a small project, I surely hope so. ok, anyway I want to know if I can sleep at froscon. And in this case if my friend can also (I think no, but I ask).
Our room is only 20m², it will be tight, but I guess we can arrange it (Pierre will probably go home, that still makes 8 people, hmmm). I forwarded a mail from the FrOSCon people the other day, I should translate it all to English.
Anyway, I would love to meet you there, I just accepted you in the Arch Linux project. I didn't expect to have so many people coming, especially from that far away (Roman is coming from Ukraine, you from Italy, wow). I am not only from Italy...I am from SUD sud Italy (Lecce - Bonn: 1800km) but also I like the idea to meet all you and this is a good occasion; also to know to others projects we are not small at the end :)
It's nice to hear, I'm also looking forward to it.
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:03:30 +0200 Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Our room is only 20m², it will be tight, but I guess we can arrange it (Pierre will probably go home, that still makes 8 people, hmmm).
Maybe we should maintain a wiki page "who will come", "who will sleep there" etc. especially when froscon is coming really close it can be useful to have such a page Dieter
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 22:50, Thomas Bächler<thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Wow, this is getting big. We are becoming MANY people, so it is possible that the FrOSCon people will not allow everyone to come for free (we said 5-7 people, we are now 8 with you), so it is possible that you have to pay - in the end, we have to see if the FrOSCon people will allow 8 people for such a small project, I surely hope so.
Did you get a response already? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
Did you get a response already? IIRC its only 5 bucks for the weekend anyway - including the beer flatrate and all you can würstchen...
Roman Kyrylych schrieb:
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 22:50, Thomas Bächler<thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Wow, this is getting big. We are becoming MANY people, so it is possible that the FrOSCon people will not allow everyone to come for free (we said 5-7 people, we are now 8 with you), so it is possible that you have to pay - in the end, we have to see if the FrOSCon people will allow 8 people for such a small project, I surely hope so.
Did you get a response already?
They didn't say anything yet, maybe they don't care. I should change the number in our applications. I will forward an informational mail to this list, which was sent in English.
On Wed 24 Jun 2009 11:15 +0200, Christoph Neuroth wrote:
Did you get a response already? IIRC its only 5 bucks for the weekend anyway - including the beer flatrate and all you can würstchen...
http://www.froscon.de/en/admission.html Damn that sounds good.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:33, Dieter Plaetinck<dieter@plaetinck.be> wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:03:30 +0200 Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Our room is only 20m², it will be tight, but I guess we can arrange it (Pierre will probably go home, that still makes 8 people, hmmm).
Maybe we should maintain a wiki page "who will come", "who will sleep there" etc. especially when froscon is coming really close it can be useful to have such a page
Speaking about sleeping. I think I won't be able to get a sleeping bag with me due to limitations in a size and volume of baggage in Wizzair to stay low-cost. Can someone bring an extra sleeping bag for me so I can sleep in the dev room? (If not then I will look for some hostel in S.A. or Bonn) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
Hi, as you may or may not know we want to put out a new release by froscon (see http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2009-July/000564.html for example ) now, there was some talk a while back when froscon 2009 came first up about cdroms with lightscribe and artwork or whatever. afaik Roman and Thomas were involved/interested in this. (http://www.mail-archive.com/arch-dev-public@archlinux.org/msg08206.html) Anyway, I'm only saying: Gerhard, Aaron and I will take care of the iso's/img's, so whoever who will take care of the physical media to distribute can get in touch with us for details if needed. (this release will also bring new documentation btw) Dieter
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 15:29, Dieter Plaetinck<dieter@plaetinck.be> wrote:
Hi, as you may or may not know we want to put out a new release by froscon (see http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2009-July/000564.html for example )
now, there was some talk a while back when froscon 2009 came first up about cdroms with lightscribe and artwork or whatever.
afaik Roman and Thomas were involved/interested in this. (http://www.mail-archive.com/arch-dev-public@archlinux.org/msg08206.html)
Anyway, I'm only saying: Gerhard, Aaron and I will take care of the iso's/img's, so whoever who will take care of the physical media to distribute can get in touch with us for details if needed. (this release will also bring new documentation btw)
LightScribed and/or printed CDs would be great (I can do both). @Thayer: if you could make a couple of cool labels for official CDs in 2-3 weeks - that would be awesome. ;-) Note that since labels for LightScribe disks have a larger hole [1] there will be two types of labels needed. [1] http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Articles/Sources/LightScribe_Comparison/Imag... -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
Roman Kyrylych schrieb:
LightScribed and/or printed CDs would be great (I can do both). @Thayer: if you could make a couple of cool labels for official CDs in 2-3 weeks - that would be awesome. ;-) Note that since labels for LightScribe disks have a larger hole [1] there will be two types of labels needed.
[1] http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Articles/Sources/LightScribe_Comparison/Imag...
Thayer already made a new logo. http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/froscon-white-cd-2009a.svg http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/froscon-white-cd-2009b.svg Last year, Pierre printed 100CDs somewhere, can we do it this way again? BTW, don't worry about the multiarch ISO. When we have an ISO for i686 and one for x86_64, a script can easily merge them into one ISO!
Am Donnerstag, den 23.07.2009, 15:37 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bächler:
Thayer already made a new logo. http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/froscon-white-cd-2009a.svg http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/froscon-white-cd-2009b.svg
Last year, Pierre printed 100CDs somewhere, can we do it this way again?
BTW, don't worry about the multiarch ISO. When we have an ISO for i686 and one for x86_64, a script can easily merge them into one ISO!
Only to mention: This will be not a "special froscon ISO" as last year (ok, if we merge them as multiarch then it will maybe be.. <g>). In fact 2009.08 will be official images... Gerhard (for german: Call me a "Korinthenkacker" <g>)
Gerhard Brauer schrieb:
Only to mention: This will be not a "special froscon ISO" as last year (ok, if we merge them as multiarch then it will maybe be.. <g>). In fact 2009.08 will be official images...
It is special because it has a special cover and we give it away on froscon and it is multi-arch!
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:06:46 +0200 Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Gerhard Brauer schrieb:
Only to mention: This will be not a "special froscon ISO" as last year (ok, if we merge them as multiarch then it will maybe be.. <g>). In fact 2009.08 will be official images...
It is special because it has a special cover and we give it away on froscon and it is multi-arch!
You're both right. The "iso" is not special, but the resulting product will have "added value" ;-) Dieter
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 16:37, Thomas Bächler<thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Roman Kyrylych schrieb:
LightScribed and/or printed CDs would be great (I can do both). @Thayer: if you could make a couple of cool labels for official CDs in 2-3 weeks - that would be awesome. ;-) Note that since labels for LightScribe disks have a larger hole [1] there will be two types of labels needed.
[1] http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Articles/Sources/LightScribe_Comparison/Imag...
Thayer already made a new logo. http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/froscon-white-cd-2009a.svg http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/froscon-white-cd-2009b.svg
The copyright/trademark text will be slightly cropped by the special ring on LightScribe CDs. Can you adjust this, Thayer? Also, it would be nice to have a single-arch non-FrOSCon versions at the time of release (so people like me can burn nice CDs for people who would like to try Arch).
Last year, Pierre printed 100CDs somewhere, can we do it this way again?
I'll try to make as much as I can, expect at least 20 printed CDs, and at least 20 lightscribed.
BTW, don't worry about the multiarch ISO. When we have an ISO for i686 and one for x86_64, a script can easily merge them into one ISO!
In a way that makes it possible to select the desired arch during boot? Will all those large grub menus become nested in another "Select Architecture" menu? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 17:50, Dieter Plaetinck<dieter@plaetinck.be> wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:06:46 +0200 Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Gerhard Brauer schrieb:
Only to mention: This will be not a "special froscon ISO" as last year (ok, if we merge them as multiarch then it will maybe be.. <g>). In fact 2009.08 will be official images...
It is special because it has a special cover and we give it away on froscon and it is multi-arch!
You're both right. The "iso" is not special, but the resulting product will have "added value" ;-)
BTW maybe double-arch isos will be popular downloads if we make them available? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:25:06 +0300 Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 17:50, Dieter Plaetinck<dieter@plaetinck.be> wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:06:46 +0200 Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Gerhard Brauer schrieb:
Only to mention: This will be not a "special froscon ISO" as last year (ok, if we merge them as multiarch then it will maybe be.. <g>). In fact 2009.08 will be official images...
It is special because it has a special cover and we give it away on froscon and it is multi-arch!
You're both right. The "iso" is not special, but the resulting product will have "added value" ;-)
BTW maybe double-arch isos will be popular downloads if we make them available?
If you want official iso's to support this, help us out :) http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10753 Dieter
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Andrea Scarpino
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Christoph Neuroth
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Dieter Plaetinck
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Gerhard Brauer
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Jan de Groot
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Jens Adam
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Loui Chang
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Pierre Schmitz
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Roman Kyrylych
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