Re: My CeBIT review

From: Andreas Tille (tillea@rki.de)
Date: Tue Mar 18 2003 - 08:25:22 CET

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    On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Alexander Schmehl wrote:

    > Andreas Tille arrived very early, and tried to fix the X11 problem, but he
    > didn't succeed, too, because the computer decided to run stable for himself.
    > Perhaps he just wanted to be touched by a real DD, not just a guy with to
    > much spare time and a self invented title ;)
    But it is a really goof title. ;-)

    > He installed his debian-booth [5] pakage, too. It configures a nice
    > x-planets backgrounds and gives you some good configuration examples (e.g.
    > sudo).
    Just a warning: It is a far from ready package and I really do not want
    to maintain it actively. It is just a little playground to dive in when there
    are no visitors around the booth and a lazyness package for avoiding doing
    always the same stuff when setting up a booth computer. If someone likes
    to maintain the package, feel free to grab it.

    > district Rheinland-Pfalz. He was very busy, but I got some boxes of his
    > Knoppix, so we could give them to such people.
    Many people was very happy to leave our booth with a Knoppix CD in their pocket.
    :)

    > There were some visitors, who just want to tell us, how much they like
    > Debian. there was even a guy from Korea, who was a real fan. We discussed a
    > little bit about i18n, and he considered showing up again, when Grisu has
    > arrived. He realy wanted to help us, and so we thought, that he might start
    > a korean translation of the pakage descriptions [6].
    Giving hints to the DDTP project is one important thing for exhibitions. The
    other thing is to introduce people to the BTS. I was astonished how less
    people use the BTS or even know about its existence. So we just do not get
    response from our users because they just do not know how to respond. This
    should be really enhanced.

    > Of course we exchanged fingerprints, too. (Yes, I'm too lazy to take a look
    > at the fingerprints to remeber the lost names.)
    At least we might name Filip Van Raemdonck who visited the booth at last
    Wednesday.

    > Sometimes newbies (or even wannabe newbies) asked, which distribution they
    > should use, and I usaly pointed them to the LUGs. I showed them the
    > Pro-Linux List of LUGs [16] and told them, that it would be the best for
    > newcomers, to install, what their LUG is using. So they find a good
    > reference in their LUG if they encounter problems, and they don't waste
    > money, since they can get a copy from one of their LUG.
    Good hint.

    > Want we could make better next year:
    > - Having more FAI flyers.
    Might be easy ...

    > - Having a faster machine at the demo point, most things went fine, but it
    > was to slow to show nice things like make-kpkg, zgrep Contens-i386.gz and
    > sucht hings.
    Seems necessary.

    Alexander, many thanks for your efforts and this long report. If you ask
    me the donations are well spend if you pay your travel and food costs with
    it.

    Kind regards

           Andreas.

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