What about that Dell laptop? We use to have those at work! Does it run ReactOS?
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreu...@web.de> wrote: > > Moar pics, please! > :) > > Am 06.02.2015 um 00:06 schrieb Colin Finck: > > Hi all, >> >> FOSDEM 2015 has ended some days ago. After five years of absence, the >> ReactOS Project was finally represented with a stand again, maintained >> by Aleksey Bragin, Giannis Adamopoulos, Pierre Schweitzer and me. >> Turns out that FOSDEM has significantly grown over the recent years, >> so our experiences really deserve a report - and should motivate >> others to join us next time! :) >> >> Our stand was born around 11 o'clock on Saturday when I arrived at the >> AW building. After walking several rounds in the building and neither >> finding known people nor a free table, it turned out that the coreboot >> guys next to us had tried to expand their presence a bit ;) >> Reclaiming our booth was a matter of a few words though, and soon we >> had a sweet spot in the building with enough space for the upcoming >> crowd. With Aleksey arriving shortly after that, along with several >> flags and pins, our empire was finally alive and marked! Giannis and >> Pierre arrived in the course of the day, right in time for the >> afternoon rush hour with lots of people interested in ReactOS. Our >> four person booth staff was really overwhelmed in these times. But >> let's see, maybe we even got new developers through this :) >> >> Our stock of 100 ReactOS demonstration CDs prepared by Hermès >> Bélusca-Maito and me already ran out during the first day. Given our >> experiences at other exhibitions and the general phase-out of CDs >> these days, this came totally unexpected. But it wouldn't be the >> ReactOS Project if we had no solution to the problem. On the same >> Saturday evening, Pierre and me went out on a little adventure into >> downtown Brussels in the hope of finding open stores that sell all we >> needed: Blank CDs, labels and paper sleeves. And we were successful! >> Returning with another 100 CDs, all disc drives of our laptops were >> working that evening and the full other day, busy with burning new >> ReactOS CDs. FOSDEM staff was kind enough to offer one of their >> printers for getting the additional labels done. And our booth on >> Sunday had partly turned into a CD manufacturing plant. With the >> consequence of people sometimes grabbing the CD labels and trying to >> read them before being presented with our real flyers :) >> At the end of the conference, around 170 ReactOS CDs were in the wild. >> Definitely much more than what we expected! >> >> Of course, the culinary supply also didn't come too short in the >> capital of Belgium. On Saturday evening, we met up with our friend >> Nuno Brito, who had already reserved a nice restaurant for us. >> Obviously, he had learned from last year! I well remember the evening, >> when five hungry geeks walked for half an hour through the city, >> trying to beat the unsolvable problem of finding the best restaurant >> for all of us. >> >> I've put up some of Aleksey's and my photos here: >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/colinfinck/sets/72157650656130121/ >> Maybe more to come in the next few days! >> >> I hope you're now all eager to join us next time to this wonderful event! >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Colin >> >> P.S.: Feel free to use this for a news article about FOSDEM on our website >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ros-dev mailing list >> Ros-dev@reactos.org >> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >
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