As a side note, it was interesting to note that the way people look at ReactOS changed a bit. Cannot say why though. We're still a hobby project for many, but some start thinking about things they could do with ReactOS.
One project is considering shipping ReactOS as a LiveCD to allow their users to flash their USB devices without using Windows. I won't give name here, I let them study how suitable ReactOS is for their needs, and come back at us/release if that's OK. If I've got more news on this, I'll forward. On 02/06/2015 12:06 AM, Colin Finck wrote: > Hi all, > > FOSDEM 2015 has ended some days ago. After five years of absence, the > ReactOS Project was finally represented with a stand again, maintained > by Aleksey Bragin, Giannis Adamopoulos, Pierre Schweitzer and me. > Turns out that FOSDEM has significantly grown over the recent years, > so our experiences really deserve a report - and should motivate > others to join us next time! :) > > Our stand was born around 11 o'clock on Saturday when I arrived at the > AW building. After walking several rounds in the building and neither > finding known people nor a free table, it turned out that the coreboot > guys next to us had tried to expand their presence a bit ;) > Reclaiming our booth was a matter of a few words though, and soon we > had a sweet spot in the building with enough space for the upcoming > crowd. With Aleksey arriving shortly after that, along with several > flags and pins, our empire was finally alive and marked! Giannis and > Pierre arrived in the course of the day, right in time for the > afternoon rush hour with lots of people interested in ReactOS. Our > four person booth staff was really overwhelmed in these times. But > let's see, maybe we even got new developers through this :) > > Our stock of 100 ReactOS demonstration CDs prepared by Hermès > Bélusca-Maito and me already ran out during the first day. Given our > experiences at other exhibitions and the general phase-out of CDs > these days, this came totally unexpected. But it wouldn't be the > ReactOS Project if we had no solution to the problem. On the same > Saturday evening, Pierre and me went out on a little adventure into > downtown Brussels in the hope of finding open stores that sell all we > needed: Blank CDs, labels and paper sleeves. And we were successful! > Returning with another 100 CDs, all disc drives of our laptops were > working that evening and the full other day, busy with burning new > ReactOS CDs. FOSDEM staff was kind enough to offer one of their > printers for getting the additional labels done. And our booth on > Sunday had partly turned into a CD manufacturing plant. With the > consequence of people sometimes grabbing the CD labels and trying to > read them before being presented with our real flyers :) > At the end of the conference, around 170 ReactOS CDs were in the wild. > Definitely much more than what we expected! > > Of course, the culinary supply also didn't come too short in the > capital of Belgium. On Saturday evening, we met up with our friend > Nuno Brito, who had already reserved a nice restaurant for us. > Obviously, he had learned from last year! I well remember the evening, > when five hungry geeks walked for half an hour through the city, > trying to beat the unsolvable problem of finding the best restaurant > for all of us. > > I've put up some of Aleksey's and my photos here: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/colinfinck/sets/72157650656130121/ > Maybe more to come in the next few days! > > I hope you're now all eager to join us next time to this wonderful event! > > > Cheers, > > Colin > > P.S.: Feel free to use this for a news article about FOSDEM on our website > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > -- Pierre Schweitzer <pie...@reactos.org> System & Network Administrator Senior Kernel Developer ReactOS Deutschland e.V.
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