[Kde-events] OpenExpo Bern

Thu Feb 21 09:35:26 CET 2008

Being stupid I need to resend my original posting ....

Good morning!

To keep the important information on top:
Me too, I thought about arriving on Tuesday late afternoon/early
evening and leaving on Thursday. Exact time depends on the train
schedule. So that's also two nights for me then.

-- Alexandra

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Franz Keferböck
<franz.keferboeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Mario Fux <foxman at lugo.ch> wrote:
>  > Am Dienstag, 19. Februar 2008 12:23 schrieb Franz Keferböck:
>  >
>  >  Good morning as well
>  >
>  >
>  >  > > OpenExpo is only about three weeks from now and I suppose some things
>  >  > > still need to be done before.
>  >  > > This is my first attempt on these things, so maybe everything is
>  >  > > already well organized and I simply don' t know...
>  >  > >
>  >  > > These things are not quite clear to me:
>  >  > > What about accomodation? Do we try to find private places or shall I
>  >  > > book the Four Seasons? Is there a usual way of handling?
>  >  >
>  >  > Hi Alexandra,
>  >  >
>  >  > Sorry for me being off the net for soooo long, but i've been out for
>  >  > medical reasons for quite some time now.
>  >
>  >  I hope it's getting better.
>
>  I'm fine now, thanks
>
>
>  >
>  >  > For one, i asked the organizers whether there is any recommendations
>  >  > hotel-wise or hostel wise or whatever. I hope to get an answer on that
>  >
>  >  I saw your email at the OpenExpo list (I'm just half an organizer ;-).
>  >
>  >
>  >  > soon and i will let you know. My intention is to book for all people
>  >  > involved and willing to take this standard booking, if you prefer the
>  >  > Four Seasons (and are willing to pay for it ;-) feel free to do so
>  >  > *gg* but let me know so i don't book a second room for you...
>  >
>  >  As I live in Switzerland (and am Swiss actually ;-) I could offer some
>  >  accommodations. But they are at least an hour away from Bern (by car or
>  >  train). But you could choose between a place near Zurich (near the airport)
>  >  or a place in Wallis. But as I said you (we) have to take the train or car
>  >  (if you have one) to go there.
>
>  There's three people on the Wiki requiring accommodation, could you
>  arrange something for us? i'll arrive tuesday and leave thursday
>  eavening, so that's two nights then. Can the others please give
>  details on that too...
>
>  And i do come  by car which we can exploit for whatever fun we want as
>  long as it's legal :-) it's even a Kar - with the KDE logo on the
>  doors, yay!
>
>
>  >
>  >  > > What needs to be prepared for the booth? Do we have material to give
>  >  > > away? How does it get to Bern?
>  >  >
>  >  > I will be at CeBIT the last of its days where we will have the Booth
>  >  > box and all equipment needed for it. I will go there by car - and if
>  >  > that's OK with the rest of the crew i'll take it back home to austria
>  >  > and bring it to Bern, that saves a lot of shipping costs i guess.
>  >
>  >  Great. I could bring at least one laptop with e.g. an installed KDE
>  >  4.0.something. Then there are two Konqis here in my room (a small one and a
>  >  big one) but I think I'll bring only the small one. Then I could offer an
>  >  projector.
>  >
>  >  But as a disclaimer I won't be at the booth all the time.
>
>  That's phantastic, esp. the projector, given we got something to
>  project on! and there will be people at the booth at all times, so
>  that should be fine...
>
>
>  >  > > What is the planned time schedule? When are we going to set up the
>  >  > > booth and all things? Who will be there to help?
>  >  >
>  >  > This was question #2 in my email to the organizers - i'll let you know
>  >
>  >  Afaik the schedule is not yet fixed but the time to set up the booth is
>  >  Tuesday evening (sorry I couldn't find the OpenExpo mail).
>
>  That's good for now, we're there then :-)
>
>
>  >
>  >  > > I suggested a screencast to show off KDE 4. I haven't yet found the
>  >  > > time to set up a VM to record anything, as Aaron suggested. I can't
>  >  > > promise that I will finally get to that. Do we want screencasts at
>  >  > > all? And is there anybody who might be able to provide any material?
>  >  > > Maybe we could use anything already existing...
>  >  >
>  >  > There's some videos of KDE 4 bling around, some of them where shown at
>  >  > the KDE 4.0 Release Event, i still got them on my box. It would be
>  >  > nice to have one screen mounted high just showing some of these
>  >  > videos, and yes, maybe additional screencasts. Not sure whether we'll
>  >  > be able to do so properly though, as we'll have a hard time mounting
>  >  > the small TFTs in the boothbox at a prominent spot not constantly
>  >  > couvered by people, and i don't know any swiss companies where we
>  >  > could rent something big(tm) for a good price.
>  >  >
>  >  > > That's it for now.
>  >  >
>  >  > Thanks for the questions, and sorry for me being absent for so long,
>  >  > but i was explicitly denied any access to computers and the internet
>  >  > in the last month...
>  >  >
>  >  > > Have a sunny day,
>  >  >
>  >  > heck, yay, it _is_ sunny :-)
>  >  >
>  >  > > Alexandra
>  >
>  >  That's it for the moment. Greets and see you in Switzerland
>  >  Mario
>
>  thank you, been of great help! looking forward to seeing you all..
>
>
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