On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 07:48:11AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:53:08AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > 1.1 What do we want to demonstrate? > > > > One Idea: Have one (or more) Systems their and show the Install of > > Debian. Let the User install Debian and give help, so they can walk > > through a complete Setup of Debian and if they have Problems they can > > ask for help. So they can go home with a little knowledge about the > > Installer. > > We can show a debian installation if we get a forum or beamer at the > booth. Maybe we can show something at the debianday, but imho a show at > the booth is better. I'd like to man the booth too and could perhaps offer a portable beamer from my university (I got it for the 60th birthday of my mother so LinuxTag should be no problem :) Maybe we should also show other great and characteristic things, like: 1. show how easy a regular update with apt is (we just have to create a slightly old harddisk image so we can show it again). We could also show the power of apt-cache search and aptitude 2. a demonstration of pppconfig to show that getting into the net is very easy even with Debian :) 3. DSL is of course a hot topic, unfortunately a demonstration of pppoeconf has to remain theoretical... 4. Of course installation. Letting a user do it is a nice idea but we have to try this first. If there are too much problems/questions it'll be quite boring for the visitors. 5. Using gnupg is interesting too, creating keys, uploading them, signing, web of trust, ... Let's annoy the secret services ;-) Thoughts? I could also offer to talk about Debian on Laptops (set it up so that variable net location may be used), either as a special demo or by wearing a button "Ask me about laptops" in the booth :) By the way: we should talk about who is experienced with what part of Debian so that we can pass on questions in the booth. And a last comment: I don't think that cramming as much architectures as possible into the booth is a good idea, because it looks more like an internet cafe... We should concentrate on the main archs we expect to get questions about: <radical> PowerPC is important because may Apple-Owners would like to use Linux on their machines (demonstration?), Hurd is very interesting. Maybe add an Alpha and a UltraSPARC and we're done </> (I don't want to hide the many archs but we can't show them all with hopefully less Debian people in the booth...) Ok, now you can beat on my ideas :) CU Thimo -- Thimo Neubauer <thimo@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 frozen! See http://www.debian.org/ for details
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