Hi, Has anyone started thinking about what we might like to encourage people to bring with them in the way of equipment? I just bought 4 TP-Link TL-WR1043ND routers (on recommendation from Holger) for instance, that I'll be bringing that should probably be listed somewhere so that people can assume they'll be turning up. Then there's are the perennial ones like the (heavy) badge punch that Holger has, which he gets told is not needed and then turns out to be needed (or vice versa) I'll almost certainly bring my paper cutter (as it doesn't take much space). If I can find my label printer I'll bring that -- I note that Aldi have Brother P-Touch printers on offer at ~20 EUR in the near future, so if people were planning on getting a printer anyway then they might want to grab one of those, but then it's worth checking it it's possible to get the tapes at reasonable prices in .ni, and otherwise buy some before we travel. I have a few walki-talkies that I can bring (to help when sorting out cabling problems and the like). I'd suggest a wiki page, but in the past I note that such a page generally gets ignored so perhaps there's a better way? We probably need a load of power strips, preferably including some Euro power strips with local plugs so that we don't end up with christmas trees of adapters wobbling about. The Euro strips will presumably not be obtainable locally, but it wouldn't take many people to turn up with one each to cover that problem -- so we should encourage people to do that. Are there a local hardware/electrical store that can supply us with a lot of power strips, electrical extensions, gaffer tape, etc.? (we should probably make a list based on what we've spent money on in previous years). If so, could one of the locals go round and point out that we are going to be there for a couple of weeks and we are likely to need quite a lot of things, so we will be selecting the shop that's willing to give us the best prices/discounts.[1] If not ... panic? Cheers, Phil. [1] We'd want to be able to go in there with some proof that it's being bought for Debconf but we probably need to be able to send different people from time to time and so have them get the discount whether we're buying all the mains adaptors they have in stock, or a couple of rolls of masking tape. It would be good if they were to stock up on the cheapest-per-socket-as-long-as-there-is-room-for-adaptors power strips for instance. Obviously, if we can borrow some or all of this sort of thing from the venue or elsewhere, even better. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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