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1. Garbage We will provide you with garbage bags in our office. Please drop by if you need additional garbage bags. Please drop them at the booth in the back area so that visitors are not offended by a dirty booth with garbage. You can get as much bags as you need, so you don't have to clutter the booth with garbage. You would help us a lot if you could move filled up bags to the open floor in the when the show is over (i.e. each evening), so that cleansing personnel can pick them up. 2. Tables and Chairs There is a general rule of thumb for calculating the number of conference tables and chairs that a booth in the exhibition hall may use. It goes like this: For every 9 qm there are two tables and four chairs. There will be a general storage area for these where you can pick chairs and tables on your own. If you need more and haven't contacted me already, please let come into our office and talk to me. I have ordered a few more tables so I hope that there will be sufficient, but one never knows. If it should happen that some booths have way too few tables on Tuesday evening, we need to reconfigure. I hope you'll understand that in such a case "table-rich" booths would have to release a table. There's a different calculation for the booths in the conference building (Stadthalle). There's also a different calculation for the KIT furniture. 3. Cables Please ensure to take enough power and network cables with you. Please also take enough power multipliers with you. We are not able provide enough such equipment to support all projects booths, hence you should take enough equipment with you. Extension chords would be a good idea as well. So are hubs/switches for the TCP network. 4. Wavelan Planning: Access Points Our Wavelan experts ahve anticipated problems when you hook your own WLAN access point to the network. Last year we discovered some problems that were the results of competing access ports. Therefore, I'd like to ask and urge you not to hook an access port to the network without prior negotiation with Henning Wackernagel, who is reachable through our office during LinuxTag. If you have an access point of your own that you would like to run during LinuxTag, in order to help gate the booth lan into the wlan and/or to improve wlan accessability, please come to our office first and talk to Henning. 5. Photos Many of you will probably take their digital cameras with you and take pictures during LinuxTag. Joey plans to provide a list of picture galleries again. Hence, if you publish your pictures on a web page, please tell him so he can add your pictures to the list. 6. Reports If you are going to write a report or blog entry about this years' LinuxTag event, which will be published on a website, please give Joey the URL so he can add your report to the list of reports. 7. Problems Not everything will go as smooth as one planned it. That seems to be a law or something. Hence, if you experience any problems during LinuxTag which could be alleviate by the LinuxTag team or for which the LinuxTag team is even responsible for, please don't hesitate to meet Joey in the LinuxTag office. The worst thing that could happen is that nothing changes. However, chances are good that there may be ways to mitigate the oddity. The LinuxTag team can only help when they know about a problem in time. Since we probably won't have enough time to read mail or hang around in IRC channels sending mail or "talking" to us via IRC may not be the best way to reach us. Hence, please don't hesitate to meet us in the office. 8. Reaching LinuxTag If you need to reach the organisation during LinuxTag or during the last days of preparation, you'll have to use the phone. You can send interrupts at 0721/3720-4224. If there is a problem during LinuxTag, the last four digits can be used as internal phone numbers in case you see an internal phone near by. 9. Arriving at LinuxTag When you try to get here, don't follow the signs "Messe/dm arena". They lead to the new exhibition ground. Instead follow the signes "Kongresszentrum" or "Europahalle", they lead to the exhibition and conference center we are using.
