Thanks for participating! Please look at https://9ol.es/deb26/ there's been some last hour aesthetic changes.
Thanks! On Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 17:56 Christopher McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > It has been brought to my inattention that the UNL ATE hotel has the > perfect aspect ratio to serve as a canvas for the Debian swirl logo. > > With a colleague from the icy north of Winnipeg we constructed a guide for > lighting up the hotel with a Debian swirl. > > We propose doing this Wednesday night from 8 p.m. until potentially 9 > (unless you need to use the room I guess). > > We will give these plans to the hotel so they can facilitate access to > unoccupied rooms. > > By utilizing curtain technology we can get 4 whole bits of brightness per > window! Here is what it looks like: beautiful in a monospace font and goofy > in a proportional font. > > ................................ > ........##################...... > ....##########################.. > .########.......#####....######. > #####.......##########.....####. > ####........##........##...####. > .###........#####..##.#######... > .#####........###########....... > ..######........................ > .....######..................... > .........#########.............. > > With shell magic we have our marching orders! Here is the room number > followed by one of the following: > > 0000: You stay in darkness > 1111: Curtains wide open, lights on. > (the other numbers) - 0 is where your curtain is. Your lights remain on. > For example, 0110 is curtains half open closed on the two sides and open > on the middle. > > 1001 0000 > 1002 0000 > 1003 1111 > 1004 1111 > 1005 1111 > 1006 1111 > 1007 1100 > 1008 0000 > 901 0000 > 902 1111 > 903 1111 > 904 1111 > 905 1111 > 906 1111 > 907 1111 > 908 1100 > 801 0111 > 802 1111 > 803 1000 > 804 0000 > 805 1111 > 806 1000 > 807 0111 > 808 1110 > 701 1111 > 702 1000 > 703 0000 > 704 1111 > 705 1111 > 706 1100 > 707 0001 > 708 1110 > 601 1111 > 602 0000 > 603 0000 > 604 1100 > 605 0000 > 606 0011 > 607 0001 > 608 1110 > 501 0111 > 502 0000 > 503 0000 > 504 1111 > 505 1001 > 506 1011 > 507 1111 > 508 1000 > 401 0111 > 402 1100 > 403 0000 > 404 0011 > 405 1111 > 406 1111 > 407 1000 > 408 0000 > 301 0011 > 302 1111 > 303 0000 > 304 0000 > 305 0000 > 306 0000 > 307 0000 > 308 0000 > 201 0000 > 202 0111 > 203 1110 > 204 0000 > 205 0000 > 206 0000 > 207 0000 > 208 0000 > 101 0000 > 102 0000 > 103 0111 > 104 1111 > 105 1100 > 106 0000 > 107 0000 > 108 0000 > > source for calculation and inspection is at > https://9ol.es/tmp/deb26-lights.tgz > > It will be marvelous! >
