Re: [Debconf-team] Needed/bringing equipment list on the wiki?
On 06/14/2012 05:22 AM, Philip Hands wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone started thinking about what we might like to encourage people
> to bring with them in the way of equipment?
It was always clear that _some_ things should be brought. But not
defined really what.
> 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).
Which freq. are they using?
We can get 2 FRS/GMRS (standard in the USA, but not Europe) walkie
talkies borrowed from someone here. I'd like to buy two more via
internet (for me) in the US right now and if anybody from the US can do
me a favor of bringing them (please contact me in private, thanks!), we
could use them as well for DebConf. Maybe some more people can bring
some of these Walkie-Talkies which all operates together...
> 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?
I think wiki page should be fine, at least to coordinate:
http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf12/NeededItems
Let's make some noise, once it is a more complete list and hope that it
won't be ignored :)
> 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.
Yes, we definetively should write some days before DebConf to the people
a mail with some important information including a note about this.
> 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]
Yes, we can. :)
> If not ... panic?
Don't 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.
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