The minnowboard is pretty slick looking for sure. It would allow us to make a much more robust device.
In all it looks like SCALE had a good result for you, wich is awesome! On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all you awesominals! > > Fosdem ain't here yet but SCALE14x is over and I thought I owed you all a > bit > of a report. The TL;DR is " it was and you are awesome", read on for > details. > > So SCALE14x had an ownCloud booth staffed by the Dynamic Duo Matt McGraw > and > yours truly. We had the usual flyers, posters and stickers but Matt had > also > brought a big monitor and Mountain Dew (by far not as natural as the name > suggests. Hint: it is fluorescent green). > > # The Story of the Mountain Dew > The plan with the drinks was to hand them out to people who would mention > Chris' hair (the Linux Action Show host) - Matt had told people to come by > our > booth and ask about it to get a drink. Sadly, nobody did show, either due > to > fear of Mountain Dew (my bet) or there were few or no Linux Action Show > viewers... > > # Pi Drive Kits > The monitor had another purpose: demo ownCloud, of course. That turned out > real cool: upon arrival at my hotel, I had received a package with the > latest > prototypes of our Pi Drive kits! The casings have a cool ownCloud logo on > them > and there was a custom, 3d-printed cover to close the thing off on the top, > looking real slick with ownCloud log cut-out! I'll show pictures later, > will > probably blog about it. Keep an eye on owncloud.org/news. > > Anyhow, we assembled one Pi kit, put ownCloud on it (duh) and ran it from > the > screen so we could demo ownCloud. The other kit we kept in half-assembled > state for people to check out. We had a *lot* of people who were > interested, > we certainly sold many of the existing Pi Drive kits (you can already get > them, without ownCloud though, from the WD store) while many others will > wait > for us to release the PiDrive with ownCloud. Maybe I'm very optimistic here > but the excitement was so great I have the feeling we'll sell those 500 in > no > time. > > On a related note, the Western Digital team working on the Pi > Drive/ownCloud > project came by the booth for a chat, too. It was great to meet them and > shake > hands in real life! > > # Booth visitors > So we talked to people at the booth. I must've talked to about 500 people, > my > throat is soar (and you all know I have plenty experience talking as I > usually > can't stop - so this is saying something). Some highlights from me (I'm > hoping > Matt will share some of his): > > * talked to Ubuntu people about the Pi project, they love it and want to > work > with us on that and other things. > * Cory Doctorow came to our booth to tell us how much he loves what we do. > Took pic of him with ownCloud poster, see twitter > * A photography-loving couple came by our booth and they were super duper > excited to hear about ownCloud. For them, a better way of sharing pictures, > esp large amounts (dropbox ain't so good with the tens of gigabytes) was > really interesting. The girl claimed that if you could see emoticons IRL > she'd > have hearts flying out of her head. Yeah, disturbingly geeky, but fun! > * talked to CEO of XO-ware. > http://www.xoware.com/frequently-asked-questions/ > - they found a way through the firewall of routers which involves an > external > server but no proxy-ing. They plan on open-sourcing their stuff next > month, we > should look into it for ownCloud Proxy and the Pi-Drive project. > * talked to Intel people about Minnowboard - intel Pi like board. Might be > interesting for our Pi Drive project - at least it has USB 3, Sata, room > for a > MSATA card (!) and loads of ram. Of course, there is price but - let's see. > * Talked to the community manager from Digital Ocean, we'll do some promo > together. He also asked if we could give feedback on their ownCloud > setup/one- > click-install image. I've asked for a free login to check it out, I'll then > ask around soon if anybody is interested in checking out what they have and > giving them tips on improving it. > I'll also ask how many users they approximately have ;-) > * In the plane I bumped into a movie music composer (you can hear him in > the > latest X-men, for better or worse) who was completely happy once told about > ownCloud - he's now shuffling gigabytes of music files with Dropbox but > not too > happy with it. We might become big in Hollywood ;-) > > Talked to many, many more interesting, nice, sweet, peculiar people from > all > over but there's one last special thing I must share: I did not hear A > SINGLE > COMPLAINT. None. Nada. Zilch. Sure, people were happy to hear we're > working on > stuff like the upgrade process, but none of them complained. Maybe it was > the > sunny weather but I just think you're all doing a GREAT job, because that > is > what people told me ;-) > > So a big THANK YOU relayed from SCALE14x. Hugs all around: *you all rock!* > > # Talks > I gave two talks, one about ownCloud scalability and Raspberry Pi. That is > a > weird combination indeed, it was inspired by Joas' cool BananaPi Cluster > project. I couldn't use that, though, as he hasn't made much progress and I > myself didn't have time to experiment much either. Thus, instead, I talked > about scalability, different Pi devices and the Western Digital project > (again, lots of people excited about that). > > The second talk was a longer version of the lightning talk I did at the > conference. Clearly, that was compressed too much, this one worked out far > better and people said they liked it a lot. Well, hey, if I insult you and > yet > you come ask for more, either I do something right or you do something > wrong, > right? ;-) > > # more > I did also talk to some press people, spend sleepless nights due to jetlag > and > found decent Blueberry Pancakes. I miss good bread whenever I visit the US > (and UK) but pancakes, oh boy, THAT they do right like nobody... Hmmmm. > > Of course I had fun dancing the security theater at the airports I went > through, with some special fun at Gatwick (where I'm waiting to resume my > trip > atm). Going through a very comprehensive security check right after > stepping > off your plane from Los Angelos seems... beyond useless. And all those > comprehensive checks didn't notice there's a typo in my name on the > tickets. > Ahum. I'd probably be stuck here if they really read my email AND had the > resources to actually do something with it - but we all know that they > rather > throw more hay on the stack than spend time finding the needle so I feel > quite > safe sending this email. > > Well, that's it, if you read through all of it to this point I tip my hat > to > you for your commendable stamina enduring my writing. If you want that hat > tip > on camera, look me up on FOSDEM and we'll take a pic with me tipping my > hat to > you :P > > Take care! > -- > Disclaimer: > Everything I do and say is based on my view of the world today. I am not > responsible for changes in the world, nor my view on it. Everything I say > is > meant in a positive and friendly way, unless explicitly stated otherwise. > find me on blog.jospoortvliet.com > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@owncloud.org > http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen
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