Hi Boudewijn, great ideas! Am 22.10.2012 um 22:43 schrieb Boudewijn:
> On Monday 22 October 2012 12:33:33 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> FYI. >> >> To me it appears that they have less rooms to dispose than in the previous >> years. I know one other project that did have a devroom in the past 10 >> years didn't get one like us. With almost the same wording. And there were >> discussions about not using the AW building any more. > Maybe everything from AW moves to the newer building? It would be more > practical in general, and warmer, but AW got many smaller rooms. :-( > >> So what are your ideas about going to FOSDEM? Plans for presentations to >> submit to other devrooms? Some informal meeting? Should we have a Stand? > Could we transform a stand to a devstand? The tables are a bit unstable and > usually close to the wall, due to space constraints in AW. I think I can take > a projector with me. I don't have a sreen though. If we have a large enought > table, and enough chairs, we might do something more organized than trying to > hear what peoplo on the other side of the table are saying. Interesting idea! I think we have some FREEdom to modify the stand they provide (provided we get one - the call for project stands isn't even out yet). > > Besides a projector I can take an (older) LCD's with me (1280x1024 I hope, > 17"). Can the TV-out on GTA04 be hacked into supplying some signal that's > suitable for VGA? There are passive adapters available, and active adapters > in > the "wrong" direction (I did see adapters to connect the VGA-out to s- > video/YUV input, but not the other way around). Hm. I do not know how well the distros run on TVout which has a different screen aspect ratio and size. Another option could be VNC or X11 forwarding. > > Is there some hackable project we could run with the left-over Freerunner > mainboards? I still want to turn mine into a webserver (later, "when I'm > grown > up"), but with a couple of them we could maybe do some hide-and-seek with > mesh > networking (either WIFI or BT, to let Neo1979 play as well) and trying to > detect them with our GTA04s. > > It all needs preparation of course, but if we first flood the list with > ideas, > we can pick some feasible plans out of them. The least we can do, is have > last > year's presentation running in a loop on one screen and (all?) our videos on > another. Especially: on a big screen, since our devices are so miniature... Yes, we did not get that attention - even our Poster was too small and not on the wall behind us. So it did not get noticed. So we need something attracting, and a movie is definitively more attracting visitors than any piece of paper. > > One more: if "we" (sorry, I'd feel much better saying "I", but ..:-( ) get > the > FM radio running before then, we can broadcast sound for the presentation to > mobile speakers. > > On a side note (and no plug intended): I'm involved in Limesco, the dutch > telco start-up that is "open organisation"/hacker friendly. I'm not sure > whether Limesco will be at FOSDEM, but I imagine it to be somewhat connected > to our project. To my knowledge, there is no equivalent to it in another > country. The options are still limited, due to small scale (sounds familiar). > One "special feature" that is available now, is to route voice calls through > your own server, instead of that of the telco. Does something like that offer > possibilities for something interesting during FOSDEM? > > Are there some easily made GTA04 hardware extensions we could offer people to > solder in 20-40 minutes under guidance? AFAIK not yet. > > There must be some visitors from previous years on the list as well. How was > our stand perceived last year? > > Best regards, > > Boudewijn BR, Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community