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Systems 2001 co-ordinating work is being devolved & spread wider. Volunteers Welcome.
Volunteers Co-ordinators are needed; some initial nominees include, but (do not exclude others too):
(***) Those above, &/or other replacements &/or co-workers are requested to Volunteer Please.
(*) The deal would be: take page, maintain & add to it from mail list etc, with no particular input me, how you want, in whatever language(s) you want, with whatever [BSD] tools you want. Page maintainer will direct upload to bim.bsn.com. This would not be restricted to "diffs-only to the bim.html.m4 source, etc", (unlike the top page of http://bim.bsn.com).
I keep an archive of BIM mail localy, but there's no on-line copy currently. ( I had to remove it over a year ago, to avoid crawlers harvesting addresses for spam mail ). The archive is available for whoever inherits systems2001.html, (I stopped editing just before Snake's impressive list of hardware :-)
(room for max 2 BIM staff + 2 visitors. Half day or full day shifts. Half a day does not stretch from mid morning to mid afternoon ;-)
Information for Stand Personal
Freddy Meerwaldt:
I would be glad to help with a few *BSD Machines?
Perhaps not only Intel-Based ones?
Julian: People will want to see glitzy applications I guess, so for most ports, I guess Free or Open rather NetBSD ? There's only really room for one machine on the mini stand which is maybe 1.2 metres wide. I think if we keep one machine there all week & just change the human demonstrator/exhibitor in front of it each day/half day, it'll save work.
Ralf Gebhart offered a range of machines. Other people may have offered stuff too.
Freddy Meerwaldt:
I would also do the contact-work (i.e. mails to the sponsors, ...)
Der Ort ist wie jedes Jahr das Messegelaende in Muchen (das neue). Dieses befindet sich auf dem Gelaende des alten Flughafens Muenchen Riem, direkt neben der Autobahn A94 im Osten von Muenchen (das ist die Passauer Autobahn). Fuer die nichtmotorisierten: die UBahn U2 faehrt direkt zum Messegelaende.
Montag, 15. Oktober 2001 - Freitag 19. Oktober 2001
09:00 - 18:00
Subject: Anyone got or know of data & Makefile to generate a BSD leaflet ?
Anyone got or know of data & Makefile to generate a BSD promotional leaflet ?
Either a "What BSD Is" or failing that, a "What FreeBSD Is" I'd take what I'm offered, but ideally double sided, A4, 2 parallel folds making a 9.9 cm wide by 21 cm high leaflet. ( 2.54 cm = 1 inch ).
I want it for a BSD (not just FreeBSD) user club stand within the Linux-Park area of a trade show this Autumn (Systems 2001 http://www.systems.de), & for other trade shows too.
Such a leaflet could be used pretty much round the world, just needing to be maintained current & translated periodically. so if someone has something similar, we would just translate it to German.
I do _not_ want URLs of raw material to include &/or reference, thanks ! (For if BIM (Berkeley In Munich http://bim.bsn.com) has to produce it, it won't be me, but will be a German speaker, probably on German BSD lists.
If a leaflet does not exist, & BIM produce one of their own, we will then place what we have on http://bim.bsn.com for others to use, & I'd hope to remember to mention it here too :-).
To: bsd@bim
Subject: Nov. 2001 Systems: BSD stand @ Linux Park
From: "Julian Stacey" jhs@jhs
Hi BIM people, Though this in English I suggest response in German.
Last year at Nov. 2000 Systems Linux Park there was no BSD stand. So I enquired of the sponsor Linux New Media AG who was sponsoring Plattform fuer kommerzielle Aussteller und Open-Source-Projekte.
She was quite willing to also sponsor a stand for *BSD for 2001. She said I should contact her 6 months before to arrange details for 2001 ... about now.
Last year there were various sponsored stands for XFree86, KDE, SSL, & Linux user group Augsburg (who said Linux Muenchen group aren't very active at exhibitions). BIM can have a free stand to promote *BSD if we arrange it. The majority of stands in the Linux Park were non sponsored normal commercial stands from companies selling Linux based products.
We'll need someone to recontact the sponsor initialy, (me I guess) & someone else I can hand over to as future contact, as there's no point burdening the sponsor with my German grammar :-)
We'll need a machine - no problem, we can use bsd.bsn.com (which still hasn't gone back into service yet but finally seem stable hardware :-) ... so I'll withdraw it from service when needed for the week, if we dont find one elsewhere.
We'll need a rota of people prepared to spend some time on the stand during the week.
We'll need to get organised, & have one central point of contact who knows what's happening, preferably someone who also puts up a web page with info such as timetable of people maning the stand, & other contact info.
Some CDs for visitors would be nice too, but before everyone gets distracted with what to put on CDs, frankly, that doesnt matter [yet], what matters is to contact Linux New Media AG with a firm proposal to take a stand, & man it with a sequence of at least 1 BIM volunteer for most/all of the week.
Some small leaflets promoting BSD might be useful, I'd suggest something with many URLs to www.*bsd.org etc, & cheap to print (there's no-one offering us free leaflet printing so if one of us has to pay, it better be Cheap !
I can also tell you, stand visitors will _not_ want to see complete BSD installs, they'll probably want 3 minutes of chat &/or glitz, (or what CNN likes to call "eye candy").
I might possibly be able to get us a little sponsorship from German Government (someone else I met there last year), but I won't approach him unless we get a plan & sufficient commitment.
Is this a good idea ? Should we commit our time & even some expense (ie money), to promote BSD in Munich & Germany ? (or if there's insufficient support should we not ?) Please discuss at the Stammtisch next week, &/or here on this list bsd@bim
Comments ? Meinungen ? Angeboten von mit-hilfen usw gern genommen !
Julian Stacey