[http://www.systems.de Systems2008] takes place from Tuesday 21st October to Friday, 24th October at the Neue Messe Munich. Organization takes place on this wiki page and on the area-muc@teams.debian.net list.
Debian will have a booth again, the "Perspektive Open Source" area is organized by LinuxTag this year.
Booth Schedule
Systems is open for visitors from 9:00-18:00 h and accessible for people with the exhibitor pass from 7:30-19:00 h.
Time |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
9-12 |
?JohannesWiedersich |
?RobertGrimm |
?AndreasBarth |
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12-15 |
?RobertGrimm |
?RobertGrimm |
?AndreasBarth |
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?JohannesWiedersich |
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15-18 |
?RobertGrimm |
N.N. |
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?FranziskaLichtblau |
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?FranziskaLichtblau |
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HOWTO
in paar Grundregeln, die eigentlich jeder weiß, aber in der Hitze des Gefechts schonmal vergessen werden:
- Wir repräsentieren Debian - mit allem, was wir tun. Daher sich so verhalten, daß Debian würdig vertreten wird (hey, wir sind eines der ältesten und würdigsten Projekte!) und niemand im Projekt beschädigt wird (Gegenbeispiel: Die "Diskussion" neulich in Frankreich um Firefox/Iceweasel)
- Ruhig zugeben, wenn man was nicht weiß - eventuell einen Hinweise geben, wann jemand da ist, der mehr weiß (Standplan siehe oben). Niemand kann alles wissen, und das ist auch nicht schlimm. Halbwissen schadet bei sowas mehr als es nutzt - und nicht spekulieren.
- Offen für die Besucher sein - auch wenn Netz da ist, IRC hat keine Priorität. Durchaus auch auf Leute zugehen ("Hallo, kann ich Ihnen helfen" etc).
- Für spezielle Fragen ist die Systems nicht unbedingt der richtige Ort. Also durchaus mal unterbrechen, wenn es lange dauert mit einem Besucher, und andere Leute was kurzes wollen (aber da ist dann Fingerspitzengefühl angesagt).
2006 howto by ?AndreasBarth:
http://alius.turmzimmer.net/~aba/.systems-2006/howto
Booth Staff
Current planning includes 1-2 people at the booth, possible one in the morning, another person reinforcing over lunch, and one in the afternoon, thus 3 shifts and at least two people per day. Systems is 4 days, so we have 12 shifts (semi-days) to fill. If we assume everybody will do two shifts or more, we need at least 6 people.
The following people are volunteering to staff the booth (numbers of shifts and preferred days/times subject to change):
Name |
shifts |
preferred days/times |
phone number |
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?RobertGrimm |
2 to 3 days |
- |
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2 days |
not Friday |
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?JohannesWiedersich |
Wednesday |
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0173/1731042 |
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1 to 2 days |
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0157/71822629 |
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?FranziskaLichtblau |
2 shifts |
Tue/Thu starting at 15:00 |
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Arne and Franziska will preferably take shifts together
Please add yourself and the amount of shifts (semi-days) you probably will have time if you want to help, or contact area-muc@teams.debian.net.
Booth Layout
Similar to last year, i.e. an infopoint for one poster and a notebook/desktop, see [http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/systems2008/Demopoint.pdf this] image.
Booth Hardware
Same machine as last year with a TFT brought by MichaelBanck.
Account name is "debian", password is "debian"; the debian user has sudo access, the root password is "debian" as well.
What to show:
- Default GNOME (or KDE desktop, if installed) (to the booth staff's liking); either etch or lenny (dual-boot). Please do not needlessly change/pimp up the default desktop so visitors can see what they can expect from installing Debian
- The Debian homepage in a browser when idle
The following needs to be done by somebody:
- compiz on demand
- Graphical d-i on demand
Some OpenOffice.org rolling demo if somebody organises it
- The d-i i18n install rolling demo if somebody organises it
- Debian Live demo if somebody organises it
- other ideas?
Booth personell can also bring their own notebook (only one will fit though), but in this case should create a default user and show the default Debian desktop as well usually.
Booth Decoration
Possible stuff:
- A Debian poster
- Printed out A4 swirls for people to recognize us
- A tip jar
- A list with things we can show/present on demand (see below)
- A list of booths of companies of other projects which might be of interest to our visitors
- A small flyer from FFIS with donation contact for Debian and FFIS
- Flyers
- The Gnome project used to have a post-it wall with things people think suck/are great about the project. Very good for user feedback. Unfortunately, the space is very probably too limited for this
Name Plates
Booth staff should have name plates. Usually, it is easy to gather plastic name plate bags with some sponsor's keychain. Somebody (volunteers?) needs to print the name tags though.
CDs
To be determined.
Merchandise
- Flyers: Credativ will provide them.
- for free, to be given to interested and non-interested people
- T-Shirts: Credativ will provide them, both "debian/rules" male shirts and black lady shirts
- to be determined
- Stickers: Credativ will provide them.
- to be determined
- Key chains: Credativ will provide them
- to be determined
- Posters: Probably not this year
- 5 EUR
- CDs: Might get burned at the expo
- 0-3 EUR, depending on how much they cost and whether they got a printed label.
Tickets
We will likely get a small amount of exhibitor passes, which are transferable.
Booth staff who get free tickets through other means (e.g. as promotion from computer magazines or through their university or employer) should use them if possible.
Otherwise, boot staff people can obtain a ticket ID [wiki:DebianEventsDeSystems2008Tickets here], which can be used to get a ticket vouchre [http://systems.de/de/Home/besucher/ticket-preise/online-ticket-registrierung here].
For questions, ask area-muc@teams.debian.net.
Related Booths
- Skolelinux/debian-edu: B2/315
- Limux/Auswaertiges Amt: B2/419, B2/420
- Bull GmbH: B2/327B
- GeNUA GmbH: B3/321
- Gonicus GmbH: B2/317
- Univention GmbH: B2/426A
Meeting
We will probably have a meeting somewhere in the city center on Wednesday or Thursday.