FOSDEM 2007

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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 Special comments
Helge Hess yes OpenGroupware.org
Lars S.-Helldorf yes -
Nicola Pero yes GNUstep-make
Nikolaus Schaller yes 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

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
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