On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 07:34 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote: > On 2011-12-01 12:19:09 (+0100), Henne Vogelsang <hvo...@opensuse.org> wrote: > > On 01.12.2011 00:07, Richard Brown wrote: > > > I'm volunteering to co-ordinate an openSUSE stand at FOSDEM this February > > Cool :) > > > > > Even if you're not coming this year, I especially welcome advice and > > > guidance from FOSDEM veterans. What worked in previous years? > > * Bring the Touchsmarts, people like to grope things. > > * Bring 12.1 DVDs, stickers and folders, people like to snatch things. > > * Bring Beer and T-Shirts, sell them for 1€ and give the proceeds to > > the university. They will love you. (Pascal knows whom to give it to) > > * Have 2 guys, you can rely on at any time, to be on the booth. People > > like to wander off into the awesome program. One minute it might seem > > that you have a gazillion people on the booth and the next one it's > > deserted because RMS speaks. > > True, but I'd even plan a bit more than 2 people if possible. > > Thing is, there will probably be around 400 sessions during the > weekend, with more than 20 in parallel at all times and, hence, > it's very likely that people will want to see a few talks as > well. Ideally, have people check the schedule once it's > available, find their "must see" talks, and make a schedule. > Only gotcha: the schedule will be published really late (that's > inherent to the way FOSDEM works, projects arrange their own > schedule for the devrooms). > > Henne, as you won't be able to be there (*sad* :(), will someone > else take care of travelling with the openSUSE stand and > touchsmarts and stuff from Nürnberg to Brussels, as usual ? > Are you coordinating on the Nürnberg side of things, or is > someone else ? If so, whom ? :) > > > * Try as hard as possible to avoid that people leave their shit on > > the booth. The corridors are narrow, the boths are small, there are > > more and more people each year. If they all leave their Jackets, > > laptops and bags on your booth there is no room to operate anymore. > > Well actually, we (FOSDEM) will move the stands to a different > location, into a new building, which means that the corridors > won't be narrow :) > It won't be a lonely spot either, as there are several > interesting devrooms in that building, as well as one of the > main track rooms. > > > > what do I need to know? > > > > * You get two tables and a couple of chairs in a windy corridor > > No windy corridor :) > > > * It's friggn cold and drafty > > Not any more :) > > > * Don't try to plan anything, it's chaotic. > > Yeah, it's definitely a *very* busy place, with insane amounts > of people going around, and most of them will be people who > already contribute to FOSS projects, so they're more likely to > ask what's specific about openSUSE as compared to others, how the > community is working/like, about OBS, openQA, etc... -- rather > than "oh, what's this Linux thing ?" ;) > > > * Have Pascals number on speed dial. He's the man. > > I'll broadcast it around to a few people who will go to FOSDEM > in due time. Generally speaking, exchange phone numbers before > going there, because you don't just randomly run into the people > you want to see, it's too much crowd for that :) > > > * Get drunk as early as possible :-) > > Be *very* careful at the beer event on Friday, or with belgian > beer in general, and I'm not kidding, it's really strong stuff. > > Actually, I rather had in mind that we (openSUSE people going to > FOSDEM) will coordinate to go some place for food on Friday > evening, before going to the beer event and then possibly some > quieter place too. I can take care of arranging things, but I > will need to know how many people will show up. > And we'll prolly do the same for Saturday evening too. > (No one is forced to, just a proposal :)) > > I'll send an email to the project list in due time (mid > January). > > > > what do I need to avoid? > > * Belgian "Beer". At any cost. > > Well, definitely consume with great care, it's not the kind of > coloured water they sell in Germany ;) > I recommend Tripel Karmeliet, Delirium Tremens, Kwak, ... :D > > Oh, and if you haven't booked a hotel yet, definitely do that > ASAP. Due to the large amount of people, and Brussels being a > tourist and business hot spot anyway, several hotels are already > booked out. > For low budgets, one option that works surprisingly well is > couch surfing: http://couchsurfing.org > As of which hotel to pick, it's not that important as the venue > is a little bit off the historic center and you'll have to > travel by public transport or cab anyway (not an issue, > explained at http://fosdem.org/2012/transportation) > > If there are any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with > me, by email or on IRC (I'm "yaloki" there). > > cheers
If possible could someone bring a monitor with at least DVI in, preferably HDMI? Reason I ask is that the ARM team should be able to have a unit to display, running openSUSE ;-) Thanks, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa IRC: FunkyPenguin GPG: 0x3A36312F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+ow...@opensuse.org
