Debian at
Linux@work Amsterdam 2001

When & Where

• Friday June 15, 2001
• Radisson SAS Hotel Amsterdam Airport (Schiphol), route

Who

• Anne Bezemer (mail)
  Will bring: laptop 486 DX/50 with 10Mbit BNC/UTP network, CompactFlash adapter; Digital still camera 640x480 using CompactFlash cards. Assorted other stuff.
• Joost van Baal (mail)
  May bring: SPARCstation 20, T-shirts to sell, posters.
• Marcel Harkema (mail)
  Travels by train from Hengelo or Leeuwarden.
  May bring hub(s), utp stuff etc.
• David van Leeuwen (mail) -- not confirmed.
• [Wouter Verhelst (mail)]
  May come if there's Antwerp-Amsterdam transportation available.
  Can bring: Mac Centris 650 (m68k-machine).

Anyone else?

REGISTRATION !!!

• People staffing the Debian booth: go register here.
  Enter your personal info, and the following standard items to have them see us as one group:
  Company: Debian
  Position: empty (except if you are DPL or something ;-)
  Website: http://www.debian.org/
  Type of Organization: User Group   (for the free booth)
  Job Function: Software Developer, Programmer, whatever
  No. of Employees: 500 to 999

• People NOT staffing the Debian booth ("just visiting"): register here (this is a different form).

  Registration is free in both cases. The personal ticket will then be delivered by snail mail (takes less than a week).

Coordination

Organization and coordination of things will be done on the debian-events-eu mailing list (subscribe, archives), and with this page (that's http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/linuxatworkamsterdam2001). You can of course also mail me directly. Because we may have non-Dutch participants, language will be mainly English.

Location details

Available on the LTT site, and the hotel's site (much info there!).

Floor plan is available on the LTT site in .pdf format (local copy) and here in .gif format.

Christiane Sattler: "For your exhibition space, we will provide you with: 1 table, 2 chairs and a power connection."

Access times:

Exhibits hours: 9:00 - 17:00
Conference: 8:00 (registration) - 18:00
Extra exhibitor setup/dismantling access: unknown at this moment.

Route to the hotel.
"The Radisson SAS Hotel Amsterdam Airport offers 160 parking places, exclusively reserved for its hotel guests. The costs are normally Dfl. 4,00 per hour, but for our meeting guests we offer a parking place for Dfl. 20,00 per day."

TODO

Several things have to be done/made/organized (in no particular order):
• Sizable poster(s) with the Debian `swirl', "The universal Operating System", "The most software, the most people", "The biggest is still the best", "When code matters more than commercials" etc.
  Available here - get Everything.
  (ps2pdf will make nice .pdf versions (apt-get install gs gsfonts))
  -> Joost van Baal
• Flyers with info on what/why-Linux and what/why-Debian
  Available here too.
  -> at least 500 copies still available.
• CDs to hand out and/or sell
  -> 100+ 2.2rev3 Binary-1 CDs available.
• Dutch manuals to sell
  -> 100+ copies available.
• Computers for demo purposes + monitors/speakers/network cards/cables etc.
• Extra chairs since we get only 2. Extra table(s)?
• Printed t-shirts/other garments, both to sell and wear ourselves
  Artwork is here.
• Check about Internet connectivity

More?

And: Who'll do what?

Visitor profile

"This year's event will again be a conference/exposition designed to provide corporate IS (managers, strategic planners, developers and consultants), and the Linux Community (professional user associations, user groups and education) with first-hand information on the most important Linux topics. These will include -- development, compatibility, desktop applications and the strategies for deploying them, and support & reliability issues"

Graphs with visitor profiles of last year's Linux@work tour.

Based on this, I expect most visitors to the Debian "booth" will want to know:

1. What is this "Debian" and how is it related to Linux?
2. Why would I choose Debian and not a "competitor"?

Miscellaneous

• Report of last year's Linux@work tour.
• One more Amsterdam picture here
• Postscript Tux (section 3.4)
  Enhanced version (local, much faster). Use
      gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=LinuxLogo_CS1.jpg LinuxLogo_CS1.eps -c quit
  to get a .jpg preview (much better than gv for some reason).