Hi all,
Later than expected, here are the meeting-minutes of yesterday's LinuxTag meeting.
Let me know if something is unclear or if I have the responsiblities wrong. Please *do* look if your name is mentioned :)
Entry passes: + Special setup/breakup exhibitor passes: 10 in mailbox -> Action Dag: send 2 to Axel and 2 to Ralph [DONE] + Exhibitor passes: 10 are validated: (add list of names) -> Action Dag: make sure everyone involved has an exhibitor pass [DONE] + Visitor passes: 25 of which 22 still unused -> Action Axel: Send list of FU-Berlin people that need free entrance
Contact information: + Ralph was going to send his mobile phone as central contact hub [DONE] + Axel was going to send the shipping address [DONE]
Flyers: + We still have plenty good quality flyers from FOSDEM + We could already start improving the current flyers (but posters are more important) -> Action Ralph and Dag: bring flyers to LinuxTag
Posters: + We decided the booth needed decent durable posters - But printing a few is not cheap - Printing many lowers the price per poster drastically (200, 500, 1000 ?) - We may be able to sell these, if they are attractive -> Action Gideondk: Try to come up with one or more attractive designs ASAP + We decided that we want to have a parallel track for designing ordinary posters that can be printed by Lance on demand. -> Action *everyone*: Design a few 'normal' posters or slogans and help gideondk (this design can be used in the future for other purposes eg. LUGs)
Stickers: + Stickers are cheap and very wanted, can we give these away for free ? (We could give them to people that promise to put them on servers or laptop or that can proof they run CentOS already by means of a quiz ?) -> Action Lance: bring plenty of cheap stickers
Businesscards: + At LinuxWorld London I used businesscards to write down information on the back. We could use special CentOS cards with already printed contact info (list, irc, forum) -> Action Dag: make a few designs, discuss, and print them (vistaprint.com?)
Merchandizing: + Lance asked for selling CentOS merchandizing, Ralph mentioned this needed approval. We ask for approval or work using donations. -> Action Dag: ask organisation for approval [DONE] + Lance couldn't bring stuff with ryanair -> Action Lance: ship the goods to Axel if required
Demo-systems: + We decided to show off 3 different things at LinuxTag - Axel's system demonstrating Xen (Dell OptiPles has no VT-X !) -> Action Danieldk: prepare this demo - One system to show of anaconda-loop installations in step mode -> Action Danieldk (?): prepare this demo - One system to show compiz 3D cube together with applications and slids -> Action Tim: prepare this demo (not beryl! :))
Other gear: + Flyerholders -> Action Dag: look at the AVA store for these (Brenda already looked an they were not cheap :/) + Adhesive tape/Wires for posters and tape for taping wires to the floor -> Anyone ? + Hub Ethernet cables, power cords -> Action Ralph: bring gear (hub no longer required) + Ethernet switch -> Action Dag: search for, find and bring ethernet switch + Mirror of CentOS, Atrpms, Rpmforge, Karan -> Action Axel: fill the 160GB disk as best as you can :) + Photo camera: -> Action Ralph: bring it + Demo PC + Beamer -> Action Axel: bring PC + Beamer + Demo PC + 22" LCD screen from FOSDEM that Frederik Kaputa happily offered for LinuxTag as well if insured -> Action Dag: pick up in Hasselt and bring to LinuxTag
Arrivals: + Axel is already there :) + Ralph is there from saturday + Meier arrives tuesday afternoon + Danieldk arrives tuesday at 17h + Dag and Tim arrive tuesday at 20h
Social activities: + Keysigning and CACert -> Action Ralph and Danieldk: lecture Dag and make it happen ! + Linuxnacht: there were cheaper tickets if we were fast -> Action Dag: order cheaper tickets for everyone [DONE] we don't know if we have enough, since they will be distributed depending on demand, we will take the average price (between 15 and 25 Euro per person)
Insurance: + Ralph needed information from everyone involved to know how much needed to be insured. -> Action Ralph: send out insurance order [DONE] + General liability insurance. Ralph informed us that it was only 82 Euro for the whole team. -> Action Ralph: check with Lance to see if CentOS can sponsor this
CentOS shirts: + Since most of use have nice CentOS shirts: -> Action *everyone*: bring themà + Tim and Meier do not have CentOS shirts, Danieldk and Gideondk have nameless shirts -> Action Dag: inquire arrfab to see if more can be made (these will not be free though !)
That was it folks.
Attached to this mail is the complete meeting log (from 20:00 until 22:00)
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 03:41 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
- One system to show of anaconda-loop installations in step mode -> Action Danieldk (?): prepare this demo
Confirmed.
Social activities:
- Keysigning and CACert -> Action Ralph and Danieldk: lecture Dag and make it happen !
Here's the deal: get an account on CACert.org. With this account and an e-mail probe, you can create certificates with your e-mail address. To be able to make certificates with your name in it, you need at least 50 points. You can get points by getting your identity checked by an assurer (e.g. Ralph or me). I can give you 15 points, and I think Ralph 25 (according to CACert.org), so you will have to visit the CACert booth to get 50 points (with 100 points you can assure others too).
Advantages:
- You can create X.509 certificates with your name and e-mail address in it to sign/encrypt e-mails. - You can sign GPG keys with your CACert identity. - Because trust is central, it has less hassle than GPG keys. - If you have enough points, you can also create certificates for SSL webservers. - It's you and your account that are trusted, so you can create new certificates when you want them, without having to build trust for that key again a la GPG.
Disadvantages:
- Not every distro includes the CACert root cert (but CentOS and a few others do!). - Some people trust GPG more, because they personally signed other people's keys. Of course, this has the downside that you check a lot of keys personally to build a proper trust web.
Personally, I use both GPG and CACert. When the use of GPG is required, I have my GPG key signed by CACert.
Required arrangements (if someone is interested):
- You need a CACert acccount. - You have to bring it least one proper ID, preferably more than one. - We have to bring a few CACert forms. If there is interest, I can print and bring along a bunch.
-- Daniel
Dag Wieers wrote:
-> Action Dag: send 2 to Axel and 2 to Ralph [DONE]
Arrived today. Thanks.
Insurance:
- Ralph needed information from everyone involved to know how much needed to be insured. -> Action Ralph: send out insurance order [DONE]
- General liability insurance. Ralph informed us that it was only 82 Euro for the whole team. -> Action Ralph: check with Lance to see if CentOS can sponsor this
Invoice is here, I'll transfer the money to them *today*. So we and our gear is going to be insured.
Cheers,
Ralph
Axel Thimm wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:58:17PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
-> Action Dag: send 2 to Axel and 2 to Ralph [DONE]Arrived today. Thanks.
The other two also arrived.
Good. Do we meet on Tuesday in the afternoon to be there first? The others seem to be on schedule somewhat later.
I probably just give you a call on Pfingstmontag.
Cheers,
Ralph
PS: The gpg key you signed your message with is expired ...
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 08:46:35PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Axel Thimm wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:58:17PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
-> Action Dag: send 2 to Axel and 2 to Ralph [DONE]Arrived today. Thanks.
The other two also arrived.
Good. Do we meet on Tuesday in the afternoon to be there first? The others seem to be on schedule somewhat later.
I probably just give you a call on Pfingstmontag.
When will you arrive, on Monday?
Cheers,
Ralph
PS: The gpg key you signed your message with is expired ...
Try gpg --refresh-keys :)
Axel Thimm wrote:
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 08:46:35PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Good. Do we meet on Tuesday in the afternoon to be there first? The others seem to be on schedule somewhat later.
I probably just give you a call on Pfingstmontag.
When will you arrive, on Monday?
I'm leaving Munich tomorrow morning. But Pfingsten is booked out for visiting friends.
I'll probably have internet access, though.
PS: The gpg key you signed your message with is expired ...
Try gpg --refresh-keys :)
So now it's my fault? Sheesh. =:)
Ralph
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Axel Thimm wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:58:17PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
-> Action Dag: send 2 to Axel and 2 to Ralph [DONE]Arrived today. Thanks.
The other two also arrived.
Good. Do we meet on Tuesday in the afternoon to be there first? The others seem to be on schedule somewhat later.
I have the sorry task to report that we may not be there before 22h after all as we may not be able to leave in Belgium at 14h. More likely we'll leave at 17h instead and only arrive after midnight.
How that works out for the next morning is to be seen :)
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
Dag Wieers wrote:
I have the sorry task to report that we may not be there before 22h after all as we may not be able to leave in Belgium at 14h. More likely we'll leave at 17h instead and only arrive after midnight.
How that works out for the next morning is to be seen :)
Not too good, I assume, as the booth should be up and running on tuesday evening. :(
Are we going to offer a CentOS mirror now on one of the machines? Someone has to write back to the LinuxTag guys about that if we want to do it.
Cheers,
Ralph
On Sat, 26 May 2007, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
I have the sorry task to report that we may not be there before 22h after all as we may not be able to leave in Belgium at 14h. More likely we'll leave at 17h instead and only arrive after midnight.
How that works out for the next morning is to be seen :)
Not too good, I assume, as the booth should be up and running on tuesday evening. :(
Can you tell the organisation that we are coming from Belgium and cannot come earlier ? We need to make sure we can sneak in the LCD and PC hardware either before or just after 9h.
Are we going to offer a CentOS mirror now on one of the machines? Someone has to write back to the LinuxTag guys about that if we want to do it.
I think so, Axel prepared a mirror. Axel, can you discuss with the organisation how they want this done ?
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 12:57:07AM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Sat, 26 May 2007, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Dag Wieers wrote:
I have the sorry task to report that we may not be there before 22h after all as we may not be able to leave in Belgium at 14h. More likely we'll leave at 17h instead and only arrive after midnight.
How that works out for the next morning is to be seen :)
Not too good, I assume, as the booth should be up and running on tuesday evening. :(
Can you tell the organisation that we are coming from Belgium and cannot come earlier ? We need to make sure we can sneak in the LCD and PC hardware either before or just after 9h.
I'll get the PC in on either Monday or Tuesday, don't worry about that. I also have two construction site passes.
Are we going to offer a CentOS mirror now on one of the machines? Someone has to write back to the LinuxTag guys about that if we want to do it.
I think so, Axel prepared a mirror. Axel, can you discuss with the organisation how they want this done ?
OK, will do so, I'll keep you on the Cc.
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Axel Thimm -
Dag Wieers -
Daniel de Kok -
Ralph Angenendt