From kdevelop Mon May 07 11:30:08 2001 From: Ralf Nolden Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 11:30:08 +0000 To: kdevelop Subject: Linuxtag 2001 Stuttgart organization X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kdevelop&m=98923561126079 Hi all, as the subject says, this is about the upcoming LinuxTag 2001 in Stuttgart, Germany. The expo will be from Thursday, July 5 to Sunday, July 8. As last year has proven, there will be *lots* of KDE Developers there. Because of this, we have to organize this a little bit to avoid the situation that we have 4 or 5 developers doing demo's on computers and 10 to 15 developers sitting on the floor inside the booth with their laptops and earplugs coding and listening to mp3's, not to speak of the developers *behind* the booth :-) Also, this is about organizing hardware for the expo itself. a) booth space -------------- I've written Joey (the contact for the booth arrangment) that there will be about 20 developers around so he should provide enough space, at least more than last year. Due to the masses of people bugging us with questions, I've asked for two open sides of the booth, so we may get a booth that is on a corner to have two sides open. The booth space *may* be larger than last year, but that mustn't be the case necessarily. b) KDE contact persons for organizing the booth ----------------------------------------------- Contact persons will be Torsten Rahn, Eva Brucherseifer and me. Please CC everyone of us if you're sending one of us a mail about the linuxtag. c) PLEASE notify us that you're coming -------------------------------------- Send *all* of us a mail if you intend to come and for how long (e.g. Thu-Sun or Fri-Sun for example). We'll probably have to set up a webpage with a table who'll be there. This will also allow you to decide if you want to come at all if the developers you want to contact or speak to yourself are not there for example. d) hardware for expo and demo ----------------------------- There will be presumably 4 desks for permanent demo. These have to be equipped with hardware to advice users if they have questions and demoing KDE itself. Now, if you'll bring hardware with you on expo's, especially desktop machines and large monitors, you're risking severe transport damage. Consider this before bringing along your development machine. Also setting up machines and tearing them down in the evening will cost you time and work. Due to this, we will require 4 laptops that are at the demo points, one for each. The specification for these are a resolution of at least 1024x768 and PIII processors (if possible). Also they should have Antialiased font support. I could bring mine and presumably my brother's so there's two machines left to bring for demo. For these 4 machines we need TFT displays ideally or large monitors. I know that Martin Konold could presumably bring the 21" HP monitor like last year if possible, Torsten has a 15" TFT display. So we would need two other TFT displays or large monitors. If someone has one to bring with him, please drop me a mail so we don't have 10 montitors around we don't need. (Martin, Torsten, is that OK with your two monitors/displays ?) I also assume Martin will bring his big Konqui. How about some additional fan stuff like mousepads and little konqui's as well as KDE mugs, t-shirts ? Also, could we burn CD's with a KDE 2.2 (maybe final, but if it's not released yet, the latest beta) ? If stuff is going to be sold on the booth, we would require a little desk where we could do that and one who is responsible for that. e) KDE-Women present -------------------- Eva is setting up and planning something for the KDE women for LinuxTag. This will probably prevent developers coding if there are women on the KDE booth as personell, but you have to get used to that :-) I hope I've covered the most important points that are currently of general interest. Feel free to come there and join other developers. It's a good opportunity and I guess it'll be half of an official KDE meeting anyway. Looking forward to that :-)) Please write us a note as soon as you know if you're going to be there. Hubs are also welcome if you have one, so we can assure that the developers sitting around have an internet connection to check in their code ;-) Cheers, Ralf -- Finally, even I have to admit that being myself was the best thing that ever could have happened to me. - Le Grand Charmeur ********************************** Ralf Nolden The KDevelop Project http://www.kdevelop.org nolden@kde.org rnolden@kdevelop.org ********************************** - to unsubscribe from this list send an email to kdevelop-request@kdevelop.org with the following body: unsubscribe »your-email-address«