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See also KDEExpoList2003

["DebianUK"] > DebianExpoList2003

Tuesday

2003 October 7th

(12:00) 12:00-21:00

Exhibitors setup, only

Wednesday

2003 October 8th

(08:00) 10:30-17:00

Enjoy the day, then find somewhere for a meal

Thursday

2003 October 9th

(08:00) 10:30-16:00

Getout and tear-down, afterwards

Welcome to the Debian Presence at the LinuxExpoUK2003 show.

People

This is the list of people and maybe, what toys they're going to bring for the stand at the Expo:

Debianites

Name (Email)

Mobile

Location

Give Lift?

Tue 7th

Wed 8th

Thu 9th

Kit

Notes

James Bromberger (james@rcpt.to)

07952-042-920

Docklands, London

no car

Yes

Yes

Yes

Laptop, smile.

Can store stuff at work (Fotango) Old Street tube

Andrew Cater (amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk)

Cheltenham

No

No

Yes

No

DEC Alpha /SS20/CD burner/Wheelchair

May bring Paul Kent

Mike Crowe (mac@mcrowe.com)

Cambridge

via train

No

Poss.

Hope

Rio stuff?

Phil Hands (phil@hands.com)

07802-242-989

London/ Germany

Heike Jurzik (jurzik@guug.de)

Paul Hedderly (prh@debian.org)

07979-562-882

JonathanMcDowell

Norwich

No

No

Yes

AM only

Steve McIntyre (steve@einval.com)

07775-786-572

Cambridge

For 1, maybe 2

Yes

Yes

Yes

Laptop, Remains of party profit, full-mirror, shelves, CD-R and DVD-R writers

Peter Naulls (peter@chocky.org)

07790-023-465

Cambridge

Wants lift

Yes

Yes

XScale Iyonix, anything else ARM

ARM Linux

Stephen Quinney (sjq@debian.org)

Scott James Remnant (scott@netsplit.com)

07855-349-607

Birmingham

via train

Yes

Yes

Yes

Laptop, Debian sign

Daniel Silverstone (dsilvers@digital-scurf.org)

07900-813-595

Ely

Could bring a mipsel motherboard. Would need someone else to bring ATX supply and serial cable

May bring Rob Kendrick also

[http://www.paul.sladen.org/ Paul Sladen] (debian-wiki@paul.sladen.org)

Nottingham

via train

Prob.

Yes

Yes

ThinkPad R31, Libretto 100CT

Heading to Croydon afterwards

Martin Wheeler (mwheeler@startext.co.uk)

Glastonbury

No

Paul Cupis (paul@cupis.co.uk)

07762 821809

Sutton, Surrey

Tube

Probably not

Yes

Yes

Probably laptop

May drift between Debian and KDE stands

Other .Org's and/or Speakers

Name (Email)

Mobile

Tue 7th

Wed 8th

Thu 9th

Notes

Brian Teeman (brian@uklinux.net)

0870-740-6575

.Org-aniser

Jason Clifford (jason@ukpost.com)

0870-746-0758

Yes

Yes

Yes

[http://www.ukfsn.org/ UKFSN] More free beer - watch out for the .orgy to celebrate the first profit

MJ Ray (markj+x@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk)

07092-265-751

[http://www.affs.org/ AFFS]

[http://jriddell.org/ Jonathan Riddell] (debian-wiki@jriddell.org)

07941-948-912

Prob.

Yes

Yes

[http://www.kde.org/ KDE]

David Pashley (debian-wiki@davidpashley.com)

07980-752-297

Prob.

Yes

Yes

[http://www.kde.org/ KDE]

See also KDEExpoList2003

Anchor(village)

Stand

We don't know what the stand will actually look like. Brian was playing with various ideas for the .Org village based on the proviso that sight-lines have to be maintained across the area and everyone has to look equal <wink>.

That said, we do know where the .Org village and where Debian will be within it:

Draft-v0.1

OLYMPIA 2  Main Floor (Entrance Floor)   Back Left

   _____________Stairs________________________..
  |             |    |
  |   UKLinux?  |    |  "Cansys"?
  |_____________|    |________________________..
  |
  |     __________12m_________      __________..
  |    |                      |    |     |
  |    |                      |    |     |
  |    |        .ORG 1        |    |.ORG2|
  |   7m        12m*7m        7m   |2m*5m|
  W    |.......               |    |_____|
  a    |Debian:  19/20 stands |    |Orbit|
  l    |______:_______________|    |_____|____..
  l
  |     ______________________      __________..
  |    |          |           |    |
  |    |          |           |    |
  |    |LinuxMag? |   MSFT    |    |   HPaq
  |    |          |           |    |
  :    :          :           :    :

The .ORG Village has moved (was going to be at the Back Right). Now at the Back-Left, on the Main Floor, next to the goods door you come through for setting up. There's only one floor in use this year.

Redmond are going to be right next to the Village!BR (The wifi signal should be even stronger... )

Brian says. "There should be some form of wireless internet in the .Org Village. (possibly a vsat link) trying to finalise details on the week of September 15th"

The .ORG stand is composed of two sections:

  12m * 7m  (4 sides)
   2m * 5m  (2 sides)

The .ORG extension (".ORG2") wasn't on offer to Debian as Debian would just end up taking over 100% of it. There are about 20people/groups that need fitting in, I missed some on the phone to Brian, but I think they include:

  Community Wireless, Dasher, Debian, Dyne:bolic (Distro?), KDE,
  LFS, LPI, Lonix/GLLUG, M-Station, Mailscanner, Mambo, OpenOffice,
  Rosegarden, Scribus, UKFSN, UKUUG, OpenBSD, AFFS, CDR, Others.

Out of the areas on offer, the Bottom-Left corner seemed the best for Debian--which will be the biggest stand on in it. This gives Debian two corridors to fill with people--one of which is the side wall and so there isn't going to be a problem with blocking other [paying] stands.BR

  • Find out Layout/Tables-required from Brian Teeman

    • Brian says "I can't give you an exact stand layout just yet as it is still being approved by the stand contractors."
    • Brian says "You have plenty of space - dont worry about that."
    • Brian says "Counters wil be provided but Steve's shelves may be of use."

Activities

Things we have done at our stand in previous years, to help plan what stuff would be useful to bring:

  • Chat to the punters about Free software and why Debian rocks in a non-biased way.
  • Sell stuff, then give them free-beer (see: stuff to buy first)

  • Show off lots of weird (and not so weird) hardware running Debian.
  • Boast about being the biggest GNU/Linux distro to show up(!)

Also see the:

TODO

Things _you_ need TODO

Things "somebody" needs TODO

Need to arrange with John Winters (maybe also UKLinux t/a DebianShop?) to get:

  • Metric bucket-load of Binary i386 single CD sets
  • Stack of Knoppix (or Morphix?) i386 CD's
  • Smaller stack of i386 DVD's
  • Debian T-Shirts (the Phil Hands Classick, in off-white cotton ?)

  • Buy free-beer, to give away if they buy a CD (also non-alcholic ones too)

  • Get 200 CDR blanks for other Archs + Sources
  • Little "download the source here" stickers/labels for the CD's

Possibilites:

  • Flyers bragging about Debian
  • Matching Black Debian polo-shirts for everyone (see: [http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/31465.html El Reg slagging a la Debian])

  • Canvas Banner that can be rolled up and re-used for other shows (Maggie said they'd sponsor one?)

Things _me_ (Paul Sladen) needs TODO

  • Pickup the smaller signs from UKLinux in Stockport and Debianise them

Miscellaneous Questions

  • How to get exhibitors' passen?

    • Brian says "Exhibitor passes should be being sent directly to me. If you need one please email me."
  • Whose mobile to ring when we get stuck?

    • Brian Teeman 07989-584-668
    • Steve McIntyre 07775-786-572

  • Car-passes and parking arrangements? (Getting in is impossible otherwise)

    • Brian says "Car park passes for setup only should be being sent directly to me. If you need one please email me."
    • Parking at rear of Olympia costs 20GBP last year and closed at 11pm on Tuesday and Thursday, but 7pm ish on the Wednesday
    • Brian says "You can book advance car parking tickets for during the show with ECO Car PArks on 0800 056 8444"

Accommodation

It's London, it's all expensive. Here's a vox-pop:

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