Systems2007 takes place from Tuesday 23rd October to Friday, 26th October at the Neue Messe Munich.
Debian will have a booth at the Perspektive Open Source in Hall B2, Booth 110-2.
Talks
As part of the "Perspektive Open Source", there will be a Kongress and a Forum with talks.
The Kongress requires registration and costs 49 EUR per session, the forum is right next to the booths at "POS-Bühne" B2.110 and is for free.
All talks will most likely be held in german.
These (more or less) Debian-related talks take place at the Forum next to the Open Source area:
?CordMartens, "Zentrales Infrastruktur- und Identity-Management mit Univention Corporate Server (UCS)" on Wednesday, October 24th at 11:30
MichaelMeskes. "Debian GNU/Linux im Business" on Wednesday, October 24th at 17:00
?FlorianSchießl, "FAI/GOsa verteilt und verwaltet den Münchner ?LiMux Basisclient" on Thursday,October 25th at 12:30
?PeterGanten, "Linux-Desktop intelligent verwalten" on Friday, October 26th at 10:30
These Debian-related talks take place at the Kongress:
?KaiThorstenHambrecht, "Cluster-Lösungen mit Red Hat und Debian im Vegleich" on Wednesday, October 24th at 12:00.
?FlorianSchießl, "Das erste Jahr Linux-Clients in München - Erfahrungen und Erfolge" on Thursday, October 25th at 14:00
The full Kongress schedule can be found here, the full Forum schedule can be found here.
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).
Last year's howto by ?AndreasBarth:
http://alius.turmzimmer.net/~aba/.systems-2006/howto
FAQs
- Lenny erscheint vorraussichtlich im 2. Halbjahr 2008.
- Wodim (Ersatz von cdrecord): cdrecord wird unter einer Lizenz verteilt, die es für das Debian-Projekt illegal macht, cdrecord weiterhin zu verteilen. Die einzige Person, die das lösen könnte, weigert sich, auf sachliche Mails zu antworten, und beschimpft lieber die Debian-Leute. Wenn jemand von einer anderen Distribution kommt: gerne zur Mitarbeit auffordern.
- Firefox/Iceweasel (etc): Die Lizenzbedingungen von Mozilla verlangen von uns, das wir jeden einzelnen Patch vorab vorlegen zur Genehmigung. Das ist nicht nur unfrei, sondern macht auch effektiven Securitysupport unmöglich. Durch die Umbenennung in Iceweasel vermeiden wir das Problem. Wir finden das schade, aber - wir können das alleine nicht lösen. Und Mozilla hat sich bereits vom einstmals gefundenen Kompromiß wieder entfernt (und uns auch aufgefordert, das, was wir bisher als Firefox hatten, nicht mehr so zu verteilen).
Booth Layout
Very similar to last year, but the whole Open Source Park will be more densily packed.
We are in the middle of the FLOSS area (Hall B2, Booth 110-2), see http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/systems2007/Gesamtplan_2007.pdf
The FLOSS area is embedded into the "Perspektive Open Source" area (Hall B2, Booth 110), at the left border of Hall B2: http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/systems2007/Halle_B2_01.10.07.pdf
Booth Hardware
We got the old Gnome Event-Box computer and a TFT kindly provided by ?MurrayCumming.
What to show
- Default GNOME or KDE desktop (to the booth staff's liking).
- The Debian homepage in a browser when idle
- 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
- 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
ThomasTemplin suggested having Debian business cards with our website, logo, and a donation contact on one side, and being empty on the other side for visitors to note down people's email adresses or URLs they were pointed at. Needs organising. (Done, ThomasTemplin. First preview for discussion: http://www.gnuwhv.de/Debian-Bizcard-01.pdf)
- 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
?RolandStigges huge Debian banner, however Roland did not answer to inquiries yet.
Booth Staff
Current planning includes 2-3 people at the booth, possible two in the morning, one person reinforcing over lunch, and two in the afternoon, thus 5 shifts and at least three people per day. Systems is 4 days, so we have 20 shifts (semi-days) to fill. If we assume everybody will do two shifts or more, we need at least 10 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 |
needs ticket |
3-5 |
|
|
|
?RobertGrimm |
4-6 |
|
no |
?RobertLemmen |
4-6 |
full thursday, one other day |
yes |
2-4 |
|
no |
|
?WolfgangLonien |
8-12 |
|
yes |
0-4 |
|
yes |
Please add yourself and the amount of shifts (semi-days) you probably will have time if you want to help.
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 |
?WolfgangLonien |
?CajusPollmeier |
?RobertLemmen |
?WolfgangLonien |
|
?CajusPollmeier |
?RobertGrimm |
?RobertGrimm |
?RobertLemmen |
12-15 |
?WolfgangLonien |
?CajusPollmeier |
?RobertLemmen |
?WolfgangLonien |
|
?RobertGrimm |
?RobertGrimm |
?RobertLemmen |
|
|
?JanMarekGlogowski |
|
||
15-18 |
?WolfgangLonien |
?RobertGrimm |
?RobertLemmen |
?WolfgangLonien |
|
?JanMarekGlogowski |
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
ADR (Hall B2 Booth 325) will press CDs for us. We will likely have to pay around 0.60 EUR (maybe less or nothing) per blank CD. We ordered 300-500.
We need to organize paper covers, ThomasTemplin is probably doing this.
Merchandise
- CDs: Will get burned at the expo
- 0-3 EUR, depending on how much they cost and whether they got a printed label.
- Flyers: Credativ will provide them, they need to be picked up at their booth.
- for free, to be given to interested and non-interested people
- Posters: Credativ will provide them, they need to be picked up at their booth.
- 5 EUR (?)
- Foil stickers: Not this year, unless somebody organises.
- Key chains: Credativ will (probably) provide them, they need to be picked up at their booth.
- 3 EUR
- T-Shirts: Not this year, unless somebody organises.
Tickets
We got 3 exhibitor passes, which are transferable.
People 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.
For others, we are able to provide guest ticket numbers, which can be used to obtain "online ticket vouchers" at http://www.systems.de/ticket. You need to register online with a registration code, and will then get a link to an online ticket voucher which you can print out and which includes an MVV pass to get to Systems.
For questions, ask area-muc@teams.debian.net.
If you need a ticket, or if you have tickets you don't need please drop a mail at area-muc@teams.debian.net or mail to lists@news.robgri.de
Related Booths
The following Debian-related projects and companies will be present at Systems:
credativ GmbH, Hall B2, Booth 110-09: "Am Partnerstand von Bull Deutschland GmbH und der credativ GmbH informiert das Open Source Support Center (OSSC) der credativ über seine Debian GNU/Linux Supportleistungen. Bull Deutschland präsentiert seine Debian GNU Linux zertifizierten Bull ?NovaScale Server und mehrere neue Debian/PostgreSQL Pakete inklusive umfangreicher Supportpakete für Hard- und Software."
GeNUA mbH, Hall B3, Booth 321: "Die GeNUA mbH bietet Systemverwaltung für Debian an."
GONICUS GmbH, Hall B2, Booth 110-22: "Die GONICUS GmbH bietet Dienstleistung rund um Debian - von der Beratung über die Implementierung bis zum Support ihrer Infrastruktur. Im speziellen finden Sie auf der Systems Informationen zum Management und Deployment von Debian Systemen mit GOsa/FAI."
LiMux Projekt, Hall B2, Booth 110-27: "Das ?LiMux Projekt der Stadt München zeigt den vollständig auf Debian 3.1 (sarge) basierenden ?LiMux Basisclient, der auf den PC-Arbeitsplätzen der Stadtverwaltung eingesetzt wird."
Univention GmbH, Hall B2, Booth 110-17: "'Univention Corporate Server (UCS)' basiert auf der größten freien Linux Distribution 'Debian GNU/Linux' und integriert ein Standort- und Plattform-Übergreifendes Identity- und Infrastrukturmanagement."
Partey
The FLOSS area party is on Thursday, and will be organised by SimonRichter.
SimonRichter will provide Sushi.
Post Mortem
- Booth location and visibility was very bad, visitors walking strolling around likely missed us
- keychains sold very well, one bag was not enough (they were sold out on Thursday afternoon I think)
- 1 Box of flyers is far too much, we returned almost all of them
- Sold around half of the posters (16 were left, did not count at the beginning)
- Beer arrived too late (around 18:15) for the booth party, should be there 17:30-17:45 next year to make people not go home before the party starts
- Have some snacks or other food available that people can immediately eat so not everybody has to wait for the preparation of the food
- It is handy to have two Computers at the booth, given there is enough space (because of the "Herdentrieb")
- We should have had a working standard installation of the stable version on-hand at any time
- Maybe it is reasonable to have a dress code