Yeha! I just got word from the LinuxTag orga team that they have by 99% chance persuaded Messe Berlin to have the dev-center! And they also signalled that we would be welcome to "hijack" at least one of the tables down there. So from this point we are set!
What I need to know *urgently* now is which "projects" will be represented there - the LinuxTag people asked me, I think they want to know this as justification against Messe Berlin. So which will we have there? For sure FSO. Will OpenEZX folks be there? Gnufiish? I think I can truthfully report GPE/G(PE)^2. What about "openmoko.org"? Is there something like such a project or has it beend superseeded by FSO? Who/what else comes to mind? Please reply ASAP! Originally they wanted to know this by today but I was travelling over the prolonged weekend so I got their request by today. Many thanks to all of you and hopefully meet you all in Berlin! Cheers nils Nils Faerber schrieb: > Stefan Schmidt schrieb: >> Hello. >> >> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 12:31, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: >>>> If I remember correctly there was a hacking area somewhere in the >>>> basement that was free for everyone to use. It provides tables, chairs, >>>> network, power, etc. Everything we need. >>>> Do we want to be present with a booth or just be there, meet and be open >>>> to visitors? The latter could be done in the hacking area too. We could >>>> setup a poster/banner that makes the gathering visible and simply meet >>>> there for a few days and hack along, exchange ourselves f2f, etc. >>>> For me this is now the most appealing alternate solution, although I >>>> would have like to make a booth but I don't want to step into that orga >>>> turmoil right now... >>> This actually sounds like a good idea to me. Lets make a non-booth, >>> combining >>> the advantages of not having to manage it all the time, having a relaxed >>> environment where we can show some interested folks what we have, and being >>> able to just hack on things in between. >> That would void my concers of spending all my time at the booth. Will be >> there, >> too. Just need to figure out if I have the time for all four days. > > It seems fate is not on our side this year - first OpenMoko's ceisure of > handset making, then the oFono "thing" and now LinuxTag getting into > some kind of commercialisation drift pushed by Messe Berlin. > > This beeing said I have to point out that the possibility of a half-way > official meeting during LinuxTag is not very high anymore - but still > not impossible! > Messe Berlin have just announced to the LinuxTag orga group that they > did quite dramatic cuts to the free and open parts of LinuxTag, namely > the open source areas have been cut by about one third and - here comes > our misery - the development center has been cut. This cause Mark Jung > to step down as open source projects coordinator. > > This is pretty unfortunate. > I am in contact with Messe Berlin and the LinuxTag team. Hopefully they > will find an alternative arrangement. I told them what we have in mind. > I will keep you updated as soon as I have news. > >> regards >> Stefan Schmidt > Cheers > nils faerber -- kernel concepts GbR Tel: +49-271-771091-12 Sieghuetter Hauptweg 48 Fax: +49-271-771091-19 D-57072 Siegen Mob: +49-176-21024535 http://www.kernelconcepts.de _______________________________________________ smartphones-standards mailing list smartphones-standards@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-standards
