LinuxDays, Geneva, 21-22 May, 2008: booth & CFP

[Julien BLACHE]

Hi,

I've got a mail from the LinuxDays 2008 organisation team, offering a
free booth for Debian and possibly a conference slot.

Is anyone handling that already? Anyone willing to do so?

I won't be able to handle this exhibition, so I'll forward contacts as
needed or decline the offer, should it come to that.

Thanks,

JB.

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[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 27/03/08 at 18:41 +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a mail from the LinuxDays 2008 organisation team, offering a
> free booth for Debian and possibly a conference slot.
>
> Is anyone handling that already? Anyone willing to do so?
>
> I won't be able to handle this exhibition, so I'll forward contacts as
> needed or decline the offer, should it come to that.

I might, but I will probably know precisely around the beginning of May
if I'll be available at that time.  Is there a deadline on their offer?
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[Julien BLACHE]

Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...> wrote:

Hi,

> I might, but I will probably know precisely around the beginning of May
> if I'll be available at that time.  Is there a deadline on their offer?

Not in this mail, but the sooner the better.

JB.

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[Luca Capello]

Hi Julien!

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:41:30 +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> I've got a mail from the LinuxDays 2008 organisation team, offering a
> free booth for Debian and possibly a conference slot.
>
> Is anyone handling that already? Anyone willing to do so?

FWIW I leave in Geneva, even if I know only 2/3 local GNU/Linux users.
I can help, but maybe someone from the debian.ch community (cc:ed) would
like to join my efforts?

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

[Adrian von Bidder]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 23.14:02 Luca Capello wrote:

> Hi Julien!
>
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:41:30 +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> > I've got a mail from the LinuxDays 2008 organisation team, offering a
> > free booth for Debian and possibly a conference slot.
> >
> > Is anyone handling that already? Anyone willing to do so?
>
> FWIW I leave in Geneva, even if I know only 2/3 local GNU/Linux users.
> I can help, but maybe someone from the debian.ch community (cc:ed) would
> like to join my efforts?

Why do they always do these conferences during the week?  I'd like to be
there, but working full-time, I'll need to think about either using
vacation days or convincing my boss that this is interesting enough (not
very likely, I guess.)  Debian being represented would be great, though...

cheers
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[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Luca Capello wrote:

> FWIW I leave in Geneva, even if I know only 2/3 local GNU/Linux users.

"Leave"??? I thought you would "live" there!
If you will not _leave_ Geneva before this event would you consider
having a talk about Debian-Med there.  I could support this by preparing
slides in common.

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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[Luca Capello]

Hi Andreas!

Please don't Cc: me, I read the list.

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:35:11 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Luca Capello wrote:
>
>> FWIW I leave in Geneva, even if I know only 2/3 local GNU/Linux users.
>
> "Leave"??? I thought you would "live" there!

Ehm, thank you for having caught it: I still *live* in Geneva and I
won't *leave* before September 2009.

> If you will not _leave_ Geneva before this event would you consider
> having a talk about Debian-Med there.  I could support this by preparing
> slides in common.

Sure, if you provide me with (most of) the necessary "background".  Feel
free to write me in private.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

[Luca Capello]

Hi there!

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:14:02 +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:41:30 +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote:
>> I've got a mail from the LinuxDays 2008 organisation team, offering a
>> free booth for Debian and possibly a conference slot.
>>
>> Is anyone handling that already? Anyone willing to do so?
>
> FWIW I leave in Geneva, even if I know only 2/3 local GNU/Linux users.
> I can help, but maybe someone from the debian.ch community (cc:ed) would
> like to join my efforts?

I'm here to confirm my offer in managing the event as well as giving a
talk about Debian-Med [1].  However, the situation didn't change a lot:
ATM I'm alone, since I know madduck we'll be in Ireland and Adrian (vbi)
is not sure yet.

If someone wants to participate and, better, help me in organizing the
booth I can offer three places to sleep [2].  OTOH, if no one is
available, IMHO the talk would be the best choice.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes:
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2008/03/msg00025.html
[2] my one-room flat has a big bed (2 people) and a couch (not the best,
    but I already slept on it and you can survive...).  If needed, I can
    sleep at some friend's, thus the three available places

[Julien BLACHE]

Luca Capello <luca@...> wrote:

Hi,

> I'm here to confirm my offer in managing the event as well as giving a
> talk about Debian-Med [1].  However, the situation didn't change a lot:
> ATM I'm alone, since I know madduck we'll be in Ireland and Adrian (vbi)
> is not sure yet.

I've passed on your email to the LinuxDays people who contacted me
(you were Cc:ed).

I wish you good luck, and hope a couple of people will be there to
help you out!

Thanks,

JB.

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[Martin Schulze-7]

Julien BLACHE wrote:
> I've got a mail from the LinuxDays 2008 organisation team, offering a
> free booth for Debian and possibly a conference slot.
>
> Is anyone handling that already? Anyone willing to do so?

What's the status?

Regards,

        Joey

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[Luca Capello]

Hi Joey!

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:17:15 +0200, Joey Schulze wrote:
> Julien BLACHE wrote:
>> I've got a mail from the LinuxDays 2008 organisation team, offering a
>> free booth for Debian and possibly a conference slot.
>>
>> Is anyone handling that already? Anyone willing to do so?
>
> What's the status?

Thanks to Julien, this morning I got a first mail by the organisation
team (cc:ed), so I'd say that Debian will be present at the LinuxDays
2008!

I'll announce it on the list as soon as all the details will be set.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

[Julien BLACHE]

Luca Capello <luca@...> wrote:

Hi,

> Thanks to Julien, this morning I got a first mail by the organisation
> team (cc:ed), so I'd say that Debian will be present at the LinuxDays
> 2008!

Great, good news :)

I think I forgot to Cc the list on my previous mail when I forwarded
the contact information.

JB.

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[Luca Capello]

Hi all!

As previously confirmed on this list [1], on May, Wednesday 21st and
Thursday 22nd, at the LinuxDays 2008 [2] in Geneva (Switzerland), Debian
will be present with a booth and also a talk about the Debian-Med
subproject [3].

Many thanks to the LinuxDays 2008 organizers for the invitation!

The main coordination page is available on the Debian Wiki [4].  The
Debian.ch community mailing list [5] is also available for further
discussion.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes:
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2008/04/msg00003.html
[2] http://www.linuxdays.ch
[3] http://www.linuxdays.ch/index.php/fr/Conf%C3%A9rences/Par-jour/22-mai-2008/Le-projet-Debian-Med
[4] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEventsSwissLinuxDays2008
[5] http://lists.debian.ch

[Adrian von Bidder]

Hi all!

> ... LinuxDays, Geneva, 21-22 May

Less than a month to go ...

> The main coordination page is available on the Debian Wiki [4].  The
> Debian.ch community mailing list [5] is also available for further
> discussion.

I noticed that Luca is the only one so far listed on the Wiki page.  I am
still not sure if I can come at all (and if, it'll be one day at most -
probably Thu).

cheers
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> [4] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEventsSwissLinuxDays2008
> [5] http://lists.debian.ch



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[Luca Capello]

Hi there!

Reply-To and Mail-Followup-To set to the debian.ch mailing list, please
change those if you need differently, thanks!

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:05:58 +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
> As previously confirmed on this list [1], on May, Wednesday 21st and
> Thursday 22nd, at the LinuxDays 2008 [2] in Geneva (Switzerland),
> Debian will be present with a booth and also a talk about the
> Debian-Med subproject [3].

Some words about the LinuxDays 2008.  General information as well as
some PDFs and recordings for various talks are available at the
LinuxDays website [1].

[1] http://www.linuxdays.ch/index.php/fr/Téléchargements

Disclaimer: I spent most of my time at the Debian booth, except when
talking about the Debian-Med project.

This was the first conference I was in charge of and while tiring I
consider it as a success for the Debian project (but read below for some
negative notes).

The Debian presence was managed by debian.ch, but because of work
constraints all the other debian.ch members couldn't come.  However, I
wasn't alone since Arne Wichmann from Munich kindly offered his help and
I thank him very much.

The booth was setup on Wednesday morning, just before the beginning of
the conference: we had one big table with a big board behind us.  In
terms of hardware, there was a PIII desktop machine (Debian
Etch-and-a-half) and Arne's and my laptops (which OTOH we didn't need
for demos).  As merchandise, we gave away Debian flyers (around 15, in
French and English [2]) and sold around 25 debian.ch T-Shirts [3].
After previous agreement [4], Debian CDs were available at the
Swisslinux.org booth, but AFAIK only 1/2 CDs were distributed.

[2] http://debian-flyers.alioth.debian.org/
[3] http://lists.debian.ch/community@.../2008/msg00117.html
[4] http://lists.debian.ch/community@.../2008/msg00177.html

The booth experience was good: there wasn't a massive participation, but
enough to keep us working.  There were different types of questions,
varying from technical one (e.g. missing firmware for ipw2200) to more
general (e.g. what Debian is).  On Wednesday there was a friendly
discussion with various people about the SSL problem, which then turned
into "how Debian interact with upstream": similar to what Noèl reported
for the Linuxtag 2008 [5], I don't remember anyone really angry about
that (and the OpenBSD booth was just in front of our...).  Pictures of
the booth were taken by the Swisslinux.org people and available at [6].

[5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-events-eu/2008/06/msg00001.html
[6] http://luca.pca.it/photos/geneve_ch/LinuxDays2008/Swisslinux.org/

My talk about Debian-Med went smoothly: however, because of a
concomitant talk by Microsoft, only 4 persons were present.  While their
comment were positive, at least one of them was expecting something more
general about Debian (philosophy, infrastructure, etc.).  The PDF as
well as the LaTeX sources are available at [7].  Many thanks to Andreas
Tille for guidance as well as the English version of the same talk [8].

[7] http://people.debian.org/~gismo/talks/20080521.22_LinuxDays2008/
[8] http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200707_lsm_med/index_en.html

The most negative aspect was the distinct separation between the
associations (Debian, OpenBSD, Swisslinux.org, and SliTaz [9]) and the
commercial companies (international and local [9]), especially given the
fact that the latters were more centrally placed that the formers.

[9] http://www.linuxdays.ch/index.php/fr/Exposants

Finally, I'd like to thank again all the people involved:

- Michaël Dupont (and Linalis) for the invitation
- Andreas Tille for the Debian-Med talk
- debian.ch for the support
- all the Swisslinux.org crew for having shared the experience
- Arne Wichmann for his help and presence

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca