The Debian Project

Debian @ Linux-Kongreß 1999

– September 8th - 10th, 1999 –
– Augsburg, Germany –

Our Ideas

This page should summarize the discussions what will be presented or what is suggested. If something is missing, drop me a note.

BoF's

  • Installing Debian on a Notebook. Hardware is there if needed.

Computerpresentation


  • bb-Demo
  • X Window
  • Demos:

    • A preliminary version from Frank for a demo with the swirl logo can be found here. It's a cycling swirl logo and an "decorated" swirl.

  • Graphics tablet with Gimp. Editing photo cd images and present various ttf fonts (both latter things from Frank Neumann.
  • Dependency tree
  • gnome-apt, console-apt
  • Presenting the build daemon
  • Various thoughts

    • Turning a base system into a Server
    • Presenting a news system, like Edcom.

Dimensions of the booth

  • 4 m^2
  • 1 desk
  • 2 chairs
  • ? walls

Hardware

  • PII-400 + 17" Screen (from Andreas Jellinghaus)
  • Monnitorswitch (Joey)
  • Graphics tablet for gimp (Frank Neumann)
  • 2 Notebooks (Jürgen Erhard, Othmar Pasteka)
  • Stefan Luetkebrune (he offers that much so an extra list for him :-))
    • 19" monitor with PII-400 for bb-demo
    • Satellite boxes and subwoofer
    • DDS2 tape drive
    • cdrom burner
    • Hauppauge PCI
    • 10/100 hub (TP), 100 hub and 3 STP cables

Presentatin of the booth

  • Sweets (loads of that)
  • Signs, which computer is which architecture
  • Poster with all the supported architectures
  • Poster from LinuxTag
  • T-Shirts will also be sold. The motives can be found at this site (and no, the underware isn't available ;)).
  • Frank Neumann did an excellent job and made the Debian Flyers with GNU tools. The source is either available from his website or from here.
    The tar-ball contains the sources and also precompiled ps and dvi versions of the flyer. The flyer is either available in English or German.