FOSDEM 2007

Stand Overview

From the Front:

File:FOSDEM 2007 FRONT.png

From Top:

File:FOSDEM 2007 TOP.png

ToDo:

• request a Stand at FOSDEM organizers
• find out exact dimensions
• update the plan
• determine final size and number of posters we can place

Merchandise and Give-Away

Merchandise	Price	Number	Responsible	Comment
T-Shirt	x EUR	20 L, 20 XL	tbd	what is a fair price? http://www.cafepress.com/buy/gnustep/ http://www.cafepress.com/GNUSTEPU
Mouse Pad	x EUR	tbd	tbd	what is a fair price?
Live CD Photo	5 EUR	100?	tbd	which version? http://www.linuks.mine.nu/gnustep/ http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
GNUstep stickers	free	1000	tbd	tbd
GNUstep brochure	free	200?	tbd	see download on Introduction_to_GNUstep
GNUstep booklet	free	200?	tbd	see download on Introduction_to_GNUstep

To-Do:

• We have to define how many units of each we have produced and define a reasonable price.
• We could ask someone who already sells CDs and T-Shirts to give us some - and we return those that have not been sold.

Demos

Showing something and let people touch. We need permanently 2 persons to keep some eyes at the booth.

System	Device	Responsible	Requirements	Comments
GNU/Linux	PC with Linux	tbd	space for PC+Screen	2xpower, Kensington locker
BSD	PC with BSD	tbd	space for PC+Screen	2xpower, Kensington locker
Windows	PC with Windows	tbd	space for PC+Screen	2xpower, Kensington locker
Mac OS X	Mac mini ?	tbd	space for Mac+Screen	2xpower, Kensington locker
Linux PDA	Sharp Zaurus	N. Schaller	space for device, 1xpower outlet	confirmed

Books to Show

We should have some Cocoa and Objective-C training books.

Title	Author	Responsible
tbd	tbd	tbd

Posters

Posters should have size DIN A0 in colour.

Topic	Size	Responsible	Comments
GNUstep banner	2m x 30cm?	tbd
Gorm	DIN A0	tbd
Cross Platform Development	DIN A0	tbd
embedded GNUstep (mySTEP)	DIN A0	N. Schaller	confirmed
...	DIN A0	tbd	please propose!

Someone should take care of

• setting a deadline,
• collecting the PDF files from the authors and,
• have them printed in same quality at a local copy shop.

Who will attend the meeting

One of the main reasons people attend the meeting is that you can meet, and talk directly to, other developers, whom you would otherwise meet only virtually (on mailing lists, emails, newsgroups, IRC etc.). We expect many lead developers and contributors to be present, so if you have never met them, you shouldn't miss this occasion!

The following is a list of people of GNUstep fame (in alphabetical order of first name) who have confirmed (or denied) that they will be able to join us at the GNUstep meeting at FOSDEM 2007:

Name	Presence	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Special comments
Helge Hess	yes				OpenGroupware.org
Lars S.-Helldorf	yes				-
Nicola Pero	yes				GNUstep-make
Saso Kiselkov	yes		x	x	ProjectManager
Nikolaus Schaller	yes		x	x	mySTEP
Richard Frith-Macdonald	yes				GNUstep-base
Gürkan Sengün	hopefully				http://livecd.gnustep.org

If you plan to join us at the meeting, please let us know here in the wiki. Knowing how many people will attend will help in organizing the event, and will encourage other people to join.

Who is at the booth

We should have teams of 2 plus one volunteer for fall-back if someone can't attend at all. And, please be there!

Day	Time Slot	First Name	Second Name	Fall-back
Sa. Feb 24, 2007	09:00 - 10:00	set-up by all responsible
	10:00 - 12:00	N.N.	N.N.	N.N.
	12:00 - 14:00	N.N.	N.N.	N.N.
	14:00 - 16:00	N.N.	N.N.	N.N.
	16:00 - 18:00	N.N.	N.N.	N.N.
	18:00 - 18:30	tear down
So. Feb 25, 2007	09:00 - 10:00	Set-up by all responsible
	10:00 - 12:00	N.N.	N.N.	N.N.
	12:00 - 14:00	N.N.	N.N.	N.N.
	14:00 - 16:00	N.N.	N.N.	N.N.
	16:00 - 18:00	N.N.	N.N.	N.N.
	18:00 - 18:30	tear down

Dev-Room Presentations

Day	Time Slot	Author	Title
Sa. Feb 24, 2007	13:00 - 14:00	N.N.	History and Future of GNUstep (should be made part of the general FOSDEM presentation track!)
	14:00 - 15:00
	15:00 - 16:00
	16:00 - 17:00
	17:00 - 18:00	moderator?	GNUstep Roadmap, User and Developer Meeting
Sa. Feb 24, 2007	12:00 - 13:00
	13:00 - 14:00
	14:00 - 15:00
	15:00 - 16:00

Note: Does anyone have a projector for the talks? The FOSDEM organisation will gives us one if needed, but having our own would be more convenient (if only to have a good one, remember last year)

Questions / To-Do List

• How to secure valuable devices?
• How to collect payments? Who is treasurer?
• Request a Dev-Room - done
• Request additional presentation to the main audience - done (not avilable)
• Clarify size of booth tables, posters with FOSDEM organizers
• Clarify number and price of merchandise to create
• Define demonstrations
• Define posters to show and confirmation
• Who collects poster's PDFs and takes care of printing them?
• Define presentations and get presenters' confirmations
• Post a Call for Presentations/Demos/Posters/Volunteers' to news:gnu.gnustep.discuss - http://groups.google.de/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/browse_frm/thread/72edf3ed1ab86119/?hl=de#

Organizing Committee

• A. Fedor
• H. Hess
• N. Roard
• N. Schaller
• volunteers welcome!

Older Material/Thoughts (to be deleted when worked in)

Few ideas

• by Sašo Kiselkov

Extract

• use Live CD - even re-released last version
• Perhaps some GNUstep merchandise, like GNUstep T-shirts, GNUstep mouse pads, GNUstep stickers, etc. Though I'm not sure we could easily afford these yet. Quickly lurking through the Internet, I calculated that 20 T-shirts come to around 60 EUR, 30 T-shirts to ~85 EUR, and 50 T-shirts around ~130 EUR.
• perform a [Survey]

Portability demonstration

Use several machines side-by side with:

• GNUstep with Camaelon, and perhaps the Etoile system
• some Apple hardware for showing that the same applications can run on GNUstep and OSX
• some Linux machine
• some BSD machine
• some x86 hardware to show that GNUstep is even available on Windows
• some other hardware (connected to the LCD we had) showing a presentation/video on GNUstep - something flashy, with sound and talk