[FOSDEM-Devrooms] Devroom request: World of OpenPhoenux
Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
hns at goldelico.com
Fri Oct 26 08:38:46 CEST 2012
Hi Boudewijn,
great ideas!
Am 22.10.2012 um 22:43 schrieb Boudewijn:
> On Monday 22 October 2012 12:33:33 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>> FYI.
>>
>> To me it appears that they have less rooms to dispose than in the previous
>> years. I know one other project that did have a devroom in the past 10
>> years didn't get one like us. With almost the same wording. And there were
>> discussions about not using the AW building any more.
> Maybe everything from AW moves to the newer building? It would be more
> practical in general, and warmer, but AW got many smaller rooms. :-(
>
>> So what are your ideas about going to FOSDEM? Plans for presentations to
>> submit to other devrooms? Some informal meeting? Should we have a Stand?
> Could we transform a stand to a devstand? The tables are a bit unstable and
> usually close to the wall, due to space constraints in AW. I think I can take
> a projector with me. I don't have a sreen though. If we have a large enought
> table, and enough chairs, we might do something more organized than trying to
> hear what peoplo on the other side of the table are saying.
Interesting idea! I think we have some FREEdom to modify the stand they provide
(provided we get one - the call for project stands isn't even out yet).
>
> Besides a projector I can take an (older) LCD's with me (1280x1024 I hope,
> 17"). Can the TV-out on GTA04 be hacked into supplying some signal that's
> suitable for VGA? There are passive adapters available, and active adapters in
> the "wrong" direction (I did see adapters to connect the VGA-out to s-
> video/YUV input, but not the other way around).
Hm. I do not know how well the distros run on TVout which has a different screen
aspect ratio and size. Another option could be VNC or X11 forwarding.
>
> Is there some hackable project we could run with the left-over Freerunner
> mainboards? I still want to turn mine into a webserver (later, "when I'm grown
> up"), but with a couple of them we could maybe do some hide-and-seek with mesh
> networking (either WIFI or BT, to let Neo1979 play as well) and trying to
> detect them with our GTA04s.
>
> It all needs preparation of course, but if we first flood the list with ideas,
> we can pick some feasible plans out of them. The least we can do, is have last
> year's presentation running in a loop on one screen and (all?) our videos on
> another. Especially: on a big screen, since our devices are so miniature...
Yes, we did not get that attention - even our Poster was too small and not on
the wall behind us. So it did not get noticed.
So we need something attracting, and a movie is definitively more attracting
visitors than any piece of paper.
>
> One more: if "we" (sorry, I'd feel much better saying "I", but ..:-( ) get the
> FM radio running before then, we can broadcast sound for the presentation to
> mobile speakers.
>
> On a side note (and no plug intended): I'm involved in Limesco, the dutch
> telco start-up that is "open organisation"/hacker friendly. I'm not sure
> whether Limesco will be at FOSDEM, but I imagine it to be somewhat connected
> to our project. To my knowledge, there is no equivalent to it in another
> country. The options are still limited, due to small scale (sounds familiar).
> One "special feature" that is available now, is to route voice calls through
> your own server, instead of that of the telco. Does something like that offer
> possibilities for something interesting during FOSDEM?
>
> Are there some easily made GTA04 hardware extensions we could offer people to
> solder in 20-40 minutes under guidance?
AFAIK not yet.
>
> There must be some visitors from previous years on the list as well. How was
> our stand perceived last year?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Boudewijn
BR,
Nikolaus
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