Hi Folks, unfortunately I was sick this week and no-one else did write some lines, so I do it...
1. Booth We did have a nice booth at mostly the same location as the year before (thanks Helge). The ggod thing was that the Debian Project at the next booth did find a better location and so we simply could use two tables! We have shown: Open Groupware (on 2 Notebooks) mySTEP (OpenMoko, Zaurus, Acer n30) GNUstep on Debian (MiniPC/NanoPC) GNUstep on Debian (Desktop PC) The "gadgets", i.e. the OpenMoko phone and the Nano PC were really magnetic but some visitors explicitly asked for groupware. What we should do better: * we were lucky that we did not need 20m of 230V cable. * we should prepare something againts the airconditioner outlets directly behind the booth. * we should have new posters and leaflets next year even more focussing on the "develop once run everywhere" idea 2. Preparation was mainly done by Fred and myself who did a test setup in the lobby of the SUN hotel. Some others (Richard and others) helped to fix some compiling and installation issues on Saturday morning. 3. Posters thanks to good express mail (thanks, Quentin) we received the GNUstep banners in time and could glue them to the glass window. I also did a 8xA4 printout of the leaflet and placed it to the windows. 4. Leaflets We did have 50 on Saturday which was NOT enough. So, I printed 100 more for Sunday and when I had to leave on Sunday, most of them had been distributed. So i think we could have easily distributed 200 leaflets. 5. Hotel Well, the SUN hotel wasn't expensive but can't be recommended as a team hotel for next year (please ask those who have been there). On the positive side: Location is ok and the WLAN in the breakfast room did work well. 6. Team Dinner on Saturday We just met at the SUN hotel and walked some minutes to find a nice Thai/Vitenamese Restaurant. Alshough there had been some surprises what the ordered dishes were but my impression was that everyone was happy. Thanks to Gerold to sponsor this event. 7. Presentation I was scheduled for a presentation in the "Embedded Devroom" (we did not have our own this year). Unfortunately I had lost my voice so Gerold made it a jam-session and did talk about the background of GNUstep and I just demonstrated downloading, cross-compiling and running the Apple Sample code "Polygons" on the OpenMoko device. The slides are available through wiki.gnustep.org 8. Next Steps All felt that we really should have a developer workshop (other projects call this a hackathon) in addition. Time around FOSDEM or during FOSDEM is too short to really discuss or hack anything. So, I will soon come with a proposal for a "FrankenSTEP" workshop (somewhere between Frankfurt and Nürnberg). Frankfurt, because it is a large airline hub with up to 5 intercontintental flights per day to all major destinations. This should make it more easy for our US developers to come. @other participants: please add your impressions and suggestions. Nikolaus _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
