LinuxTag 2002 June 6th - 9th, 2002 Karlsruhe, Germany

Infomail #6 - May 31th, 2002 - Litter, Network, Furniture etc.

1. Booths are Ready
2. Litter
3. Rented Furniture
4. Exhibition Network
5. Keysigning

1. Booths are Ready

Good news, all booths are already built, furniture should be delivered tomorrow or Wednesday. Due to architectural requirements some more walls than expected are built. I've updated the map to reflect the current situation. Hope this finds you approval.

2. Litter

I have finally found out how litter removal is to be handled during this exhibition. There will be a daily cleaning run for the entire exhibition. We will hand you litter bags daily. Please use them and put them outside of your booth at the evening. The cleaning team will pick them up and remove them. If you need more bags, please stop by at our office.

3. Rented Furniture

Please handle the furniture of your booths carefully. It is rented, and the company where we got it from will be mondo pissed if there are scratches all over. For machines and monitors without rubber feet please use some stacked paper as unterground for the machines.

4. Exhibition Network

We are going to have a network for projects booths. However, as usual we may run into problems with long distances within the booth, so you'd better take all long cables with you. You should, of course, also take enough short cables with you so you can connect your machines to the switch in question. I was asked to ask you to take a 30m cable with your, for each project. Well, please check what you can arrange. Additionally, please take all your switches and hubs with you in order to serve the network inside of your booth.

5. Keysigning

Marc Mutz is organising a Keysigning Party. It is scheduled to take place on Friday in room R 2.05, 17:00-18:00. Here is what he wrote me:

Judging from last year, we expect more than 50 people coming there, so a bit of organization might be in order. To this end, you might want to send the output of

gpg --with-fingerprint --list-keys

to Marc Mutz . Please include the string LT2002-PGP in the subject. Marc will compile a sheet of paper with the collected fingerprints and hand them out in the session. Then, everyone only needs to show his credentials (passport, driver's license, visa photo card) and read his fingerprint out loud. Everyone else just checks the fingerprint against his copy of the sheet and the time needed is instantly reduced from O(n^2) to O(n) ;-)

Please also note that the German Heise Verlag will have a booth on LinuxTag again, taking OpenPGP keys for signing. You have to send them your key before LT (pgpCA@ct.heise.de, IIRC) or give it to them on a floppy on LinuxTag. You need to go to their booth, show your passport and sign a sheet of paper with your fingerprint on and that's basically it. This is esp. interesing for people from Germany, since getting your key singed by Heise makes it verifyable to every German bothered enough to go to the next kiosk and check Heise's fingerprint against the one printed in every issue of c't.

Regards, Joey