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Wrap up from linux.conf.au
by John Newbigin 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

On Saturday we hosted a CentOS booth at the linux.conf.au openday http://linux.conf.au/programme/open-day All in all it was a very successful day. I had Rob Shaw along with me to help. We gave away about 120 CentOS 5.1 i386 install DVDs and over 100 CentOS stickers. We ran out of DVDs after about 2 hours but had plenty of stickers left over. All of the people we spoke to were very positive about CentOS, many already use it, others were looking to try it and others were just testing the Linux waters and might give it a try. We had a 40" LCD display so we ended up putting our table against the back wall with the LCD on that. We could then stand in front of the table and engage with the visitors as they walked past. I think this worked much better than most of the other booths where the people sat behind the table and had to wait until a visitor would stop and talk to them. We did not have anything interesting to show on the LCD but even when it was turned off it seemed to draw a crowd. We ended up with the CentOS 5.1 release notes page from the wiki. We also had a notebook for people to play with if they wanted to see what CentOS was like. I have uploaded the artwork that I used to the wiki: - a stamp for the DVDs. This worked a treat - a poster. This looked good but was too small beside the TV - the stickers. These were printed on matte paper and a little bit small, but they were OK. The Gentoo booth beside us had a large (~ 1m x 1m) vinyl gentoo banner which they mail around the world. Perhaps this would be a good model for a CentOS banner. Thanks to everyone who helped with the organising of the open day and lending of equipment for the day. Special thanks to: - Steve Walsh for getting things in motion - Rob Shaw for manning the booth - Kon Mouzakis for the loan of the LCD screen - Richard Newbigin for transport - Nicu B for the 3D look logo John. -- John Newbigin ITS Senior Analyst / Programmer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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Deadline for FOSDEM devroom is TODAY
by Dag Wieers 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

So please fill out all information if you are giving a presentation at FOSDEM. The CentOS introduction will be put on both days, we could also have a CentOS Quiz, a public CentOS meeting (feedback and discussion around topics), an rpmrepo discussion, a CentOS Wii tournament and more... If you have some spare time to fill in the content, add it to the Wiki. Thanks in advance, -- -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]

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FOSDEM: deadlines + hotel (fwd)
by Dag Wieers 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

FYI -- -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pascal Bleser <loki(a)fosdem.org> To: Peter Vandenabeele <peter(a)vandenabeele.com>, Dag Wieers <dag(a)wieers.com>, Bart Coppens <coppens(a)kde.org>, Frederic Hornain <fhornain(a)gmail.com>, Wouter Verhelst <wouter(a)debian.org>, Martin Lasarsch <mlasars(a)suse.de>, Luc Verhaegen <lverhaegen(a)suse.de>, Philippe De Swert <philippedeswert(a)scarlet.be>, Louis Suarez-Potts <Louis.Suarez-Potts(a)Sun.COM>, Israel Herraiz <herraiz(a)gsyc.escet.urjc.es>, Daniel Seuffert <DS(a)praxisvermittlung24.de>, Christophe Fergeau <teuf(a)gnome.org>, Tom Marble <Tom.Marble(a)Sun.COM>, Mary Colvig <mary(a)mozilla.com>, Joeri Poesen <joeri(a)symbiotix.net>, Pablo Machón <machon(a)fsfeurope.org>, Volker Dormeyer <volker(a)ixolution.de>, Jos Poortvliet <Jos(a)mijnkamer.nl>, Michael Lauer <mickey(a)vanille-media.de>, Philip Van Hoof <pvanhoof(a)gnome.org>, Tomas Gustavsson <tomas(a)primekey.se>, Wim Vandeputte <wim(a)kd85.com>, Hubert Freyer <hubertf(a)NetBSD.org>, Axel S. Gruner <asg(a)bsdcg.org>, Thorsten Glaser <tg(a)mirbsd.de>, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <ads(a)pgug.de>, David Fetter <david(a)fetter.org>, Benoit Mortier <benoit.mortier(a)opensides.be>, Bas de Lange <bas(a)softwarefreedomday.nl>, François Revol <revol(a)free.fr>, Jan Claeys <ubuntu(a)janc.be>, Ralph Meijer <ralphm(a)wat.moet.ik.nu>, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns(a)computer.org>, Greg Casamento <greg_casamento(a)yahoo.com>, Helge Hess <helge.hess(a)opengroupware.org>, Gerold Rupprecht <geroldr(a)bluewin.ch> Cc: FOSDEM DevRooms <devrooms(a)fosdem.org> Organization: FOSDEM Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:50:14 +0100 Subject: FOSDEM: deadlines + hotel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all 1) DEVROOM SCHEDULE REMINDER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ First of all, a reminder for all the Devroom coordinators: the deadline for sending in schedule information is ***************************** ***** Friday 2008-02-01 ***** ***************************** which is *end of this week* (I hope I stressed it enough ;)). If you already have content (speaker bios, talk abstracts, ...) that is confirmed, please already send it to me (at devrooms(a)fosdem.org), even if the whole schedule isn't complete. That'll save me a few sleepless nights to hack all the content into our CMS. And please remember that the devrooms will only be available from 14:00 on on Saturday (from 09:00 on on Sunday). I'm not kidding, because unfortunately university courses are still being taken in most of those rooms on Saturday morning. Hence it would be a good idea to start your schedule at 14:15 (umm.. yeah, I should have mentioned that earlier I guess ;)). 2) HOTEL DISCOUNT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Second, we have a bunch of hotel rooms left at a preferential rate at the Novotel Grand'Place [1], at 105 EUR / 115 EUR (single/double room, including breakfast) per night (it's 50% off the regular price). I know it's really short notice, and the deadline is *end of this week*, but if you're interested use the PDF form attached to this email and send it directly to the hotel, either by fax or by email (see PDF). About 20-25 rooms are left, first come first served ;) [1]http://www.novotel.com/novotel/fichehotel/gb/nov/1030/fiche_hotel.shtml 3) STANDS ~~~~~~~~~ Nothing particular ;) As explained in my stand confirmation email, the tables will have paper sheets with assignment sticked on them, and you can always get more information at our InfoDesk (right at the entrance). It would be kind if you could quickly stop by at the InfoDesk and have your name ticked by our staff, just to know who's there and who's not. If you feel like bringing some decoration (banners or such) for your stand, definitely do so -- I'm afraid they're a bit dull compared to shiny-big-expensive-commercial-events ;) cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser <loki(a)fosdem.org> http://www.fosdem.org /\\ FOSDEM 2008 :: 23 + 24 February 2008 in Brussels _\_v Free and Opensource Software Developers European Meeting -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHnjH2r3NMWliFcXcRAvSYAJ0VJHmtghHqS9XJvOh0aPt10hew7ACePXRa tizAb6GGXPUuo20xIwdEdLY= =pYfN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Linuxtag 2008
by Ralph Angenendt 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

Hi, Linuxtag is going to happen again! And it is in one of Europ's most sexy towns, Berlin. So if you want to help us showing off CentOS between May 28th and May 31st in Berlin, drop us a note. We'd definitely like to be there. The call for projects ends on Feb. 21st - so there's still a little time for you to decide to help the project with telling people why CentOS is the best distribution there is. See <http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/home/welcome.html> for more information. I'd like to add ourselves to the projects having a booth there. It's going to be fun! Cheers, Ralph

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Re: details as requested
by John Newbigin 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Looks like we are going to linux.conf.au! From experience I know that for a good booth you need big posters, big screens and lots of things for your visitors to take. For linux you also need penguins, thats a given. The big three I think are: - Posters - CD/DVDs - Stickers In the past I had the benefit of a marketing department who arranged all that for me but I guess this time I'll have to do some work. Is there a recommended procedure for getting everything together? Is there money available for printing? I'll need to get things underway this week because next Monday is a holiday down here. Thanks John. Karanbir Singh wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I just wanted to establish contact and also followup on what you said a > few days back(?) about CentOS presence at Linuxconf.au - if we can get > something there, that would be fantastic! If there is anything that you > might need from us at this end, let me know. I am happy to act as > contact point from this end. > > This email is also CC'd to John Newbigin, who is based down in those > parts of the world, and might be also heading down to LCA. > > Regards, and thanks for taking this up at your end! > > - KB > > Steve Walsh wrote: > >> 04:22 < z00dax> evil_steve: hey >> 04:22 < z00dax> evil_steve: whats your full realname :D - if possible, >> email me >> >> As you probably guessed, Steve Walsh :) >> >> regards >> >> Steve >> > > -- John Newbigin ITS Senior Analyst / Programmer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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Fosdem 2008 materials ..
by Fabian Arrotin 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Wake up Folks ... :-) Here is a list of things that we need for the Fosdem ... Add your item to the list if i forgot something ;-) - Flyers (after a discussion with Dag, it seems we have still enough. Dag : how much ? and can you bring them ?) - Posters : the ones we used last year seems not usable anymore (iirc they were used also for the Linuxtag). is it possible to have newer ones ? - Flag ? we discussed last year about the fact of having a CentOS flag that can be exposed on a wall/on the booth itself. Maybe this could be considered as an investment (lasts longer than a paper poster i think) .. but that's just my opinion ... ideas ? - System/Monitor ? do we need a computer for the booth to stay powered on to show something (last year there was a dogtail script showing compiz on centos 5 beta) ... ideas ? - <AddYourIdeaHere> -- Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin(a)arrfab.net> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc

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Fosdem 2008 status
by Fabian Arrotin 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Hi folks ... Here is an unofficial status of the Fosdem 2008 preparation and the list of possible presentation (as discussed on IRC, so subject to change) : - Ralph : SELinux presentation - Tim : Virtualization on CentOS (xen, qemu, kvm) : base on Daniel's presentation - Karanbir : DC in a Box - so pxe environment using cobbler, kickstart - Fabian (?) : CentOS Introduction (as nobody spoke of that introduction, i can take that in charge, if nobody mind ... ;-) ) Other presentations ? volunteers ? -- Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin(a)arrfab.net> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc

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Centos Shirt/Polo order for Events
by Fabian Arrotin 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Hi folks Fosdem is very close now and i'll order the shirts/polo's this week-end ! I need to have the Fosdem wiki page updated to send the definitive order <subliminal message>deadline is Sunday 6pm : Order Now !</subliminal message> You already know the price (everything is on the wiki) -- Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin(a)arrfab.net> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc

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call for papers for Fosdem 2008
by Karanbir Singh 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Hi guys, Just wondering what the status on this is, should we send something out ? It would be good to have feedback and peoples names and presentation content done soon'ish I suppose. Also, if we get the agenda up on the wiki and the fosdem site, it allows visitors and developers time to plan their own schedule. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

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Fosdem 2008 plans
by Karanbir Singh 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

hi, Is there a plan or a schedule that we are working on for Fosdem ? I'd like to make bookings and buy train tickets before prices go so high that I cant make it. Essentially, there is only one thing I need to reconfirm - are we having the centos developers day on Friday before drinks or the Monday after the show ? Personally, I'd vote for Friday since people will be fresh and we can get more stuff done if action points are taken - we will have 2 days Sat/Sun to work on the points. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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