Linuxfest2007

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Linuxfest Organization 2007

(For reference, link to LinuxFest 2006)

Design

Same as in 2006 We have 4 Rooms:

  • Tux Café - used as show room, selling stuff and drinks and to discuss.
  • Class Room for the courses.
  • Class Room for the installations
  • Class Room for the LAN Party

General

  • Date June 30th and July 01
  • Time: Saturday 8:00 to late night, Sunday 10:00 to 19:00
  • Location LGL (Lycée de Garçons) Luxembourg Limpertsberg
    • ONT website [1] in the agenda: Try to add Linux Fest

Manpower during Fest

Please add your name here and say when you may come and what you want to do)


  • AlexLoes : Saturday & Sunday: bring my AMD64 (if someone could help me carrying this) + Laptop, webcam
  • AlainKnaff : All the time. Bring my laptop
  • Bob Wiscourt
  • Eric Dondelinger
  • Thierry Coutelier

Advertisement/Publicity

  • Make poster (http://www.linux.lu/Fest2007/Posters). We have now possibility to print large (A0/A1) posters (in reasonable quantities) on the new plotter at the LGL.
  • Hang it out in schools (prepare 4 weeks in advance, hang out 2 1/2 week in advance)
  • Hang it out at work or elsewhere (only authorized places please.)
  • Print as A5 (URL to be defined) and A6 (URL to be defined) flyer and distribute it (Clubs, Mailboxes, Shops ...)
  • Create a WEB-banner and distribute/advertise it.
  • Add the event to all calenders you know off.
  • Post to all mailing lists.
  • Prepare commercial advertisement.
  • Prepare Press Release CpLinuxFest2007
  • Coordinate release: Proposed Release Date (to be defined)
    • Luxemburger Wort
    • La Voix du Luxembourg
    • RTL
    • Letzebuerger Revue
    • Radio 100,7
    • PaperJam
    • Buy add space in Telecran
    • Revue?
    • Sipress (?) ==> coordination publicites dans presse ecrite mpk.lu presse.lu
    • Spiral (?)
    • Linuxmagazin & Linuxuser & Easylinux (Linux NewMedia)
    • Do we make contact cards? (Visitenkaart) (PascalSteichen: at least a generic one, without personal names would be great)
    • [please complete if you have more ideas & contacts]
    • Luxbox newsletter (cf. Eric Dondelinger - tried, but they accept submissions only from paying subscribers)
    • Creating space on sendar, where photos of the Linuxfest could be downloaded. AFAIK our gallery doesn't work.


Press Release : - in French : CpLinuxFest2007 - in English :

IMPORTANT

Coordinate before sending. According to Pascal, PauloRibeiro is away. Who should coordinate?

Goodies / Freebies

  • Use what we have.
  • Kubuntu -> Thierry will check feasibility


Administrative

  • make price list
  • print forms to note down sales and new memberships

Organized pricelist with prepared sheets to write down what has been sold.

"LAN Party" (actually, more of a demo for games...)

  • Juri Chomé, Pit Wiscourt
  • Get list of available native Linux games -> There are plenty of games in (K)ubuntu.
  • Registration website: [registrations closed] or via [registrations closed]
  • 2 game PCs should be enough
  • Test in exact same configuration as being used at Fest (being careful about peripherals, such as USB mice too!)
  • Organize games (2 weeks in advance)

Demo

  • Games
    • [complete this list please]
  • Software
    • kstars (Alex)
    • ekiga (Alex, Alain K.) doesn't work due to firewall of RESTENA


Food & drinks

  • Order soft drinks (Ets. Rossi in Dudelange)
    • 3 boxes each of Coke, Vittel, Beer should be sufficient (1 week in advance)
    • Order less ice-tea than 2005, we had leftovers! (one box of each type should be enough!)
    • A few bottels of Beckerich, Viva
    • Maybe some Rosport (Blue)
  • Contact Transfair for
    • Coffee
    • Wine
    • Snacks
  • Food
    • Order Pizza in time to start at 14.00.
  • Free (as in liberty) Beer: VoresOel (EricDondelinger)
    • Eric will start this weekend (May 26/27)

CDs

  • We should have a couple of CDs of various distributions to hand out. 2 of each kind should be largely enough
    (most people actually have either already bought a version themselves, or buy one at our stand)
    • Kubuntu
    • Fedora
    • Knoppix (possibly customized LiLux version, needs time (!), yes i think its too late now, but for next year we could think of it ...) -> cf. HURD :-)
    • SuSE
    • Debian
    • Mandrake
    • OpenCD
    • Plan for enough blank CDs in case we run out of one distro
    • Ubuntu & Kubuntu: check when the official version may be shipped...

Material

Everyone MAKE SURE YOU MARK YOUR ITEMS!

  • Ethernet Cables
  • Hubs / switches
  • Spare keyboards
  • Spare monitors
  • "multiprises"
  • Wi-Fi access point
  • Demo computers
  • "Dymo" labelling machine
  • Our Goodies: I think that we should buy new goodies such as Mousepads, Baseballcaps.. with a Linux Logo. What do you think?

For demo:

  • Astronomy programs demo AlexLoes: As I am member of AAL, I will do it.
  • Sun Ultra 30 running Debian

Tutorial

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