From Sugar Labs

Contents 1 LinuxTag 2009 1.1 Event Details 1.2 Sugar Organizer 1.3 Attendees 1.4 Sugar Activities 1.5 Sugar Booth 1.5.1 Shifts 1.5.2 Storage Space 1.5.3 Power and Internet Connectivity 1.5.4 Lunch 1.5.5 Flyer 1.6 TODO 1.7 Equipment 1.8 Lodging 1.9 Schedule 1.9.1 Tuesday, June 23 1.9.2 Wednesday, June 24 1.9.3 Thursday, June 25 1.9.4 Friday, June 26 1.9.5 Saturday, June 27 1.9.6 Sunday, June 28 1.10 Impressions

LinuxTag 2009

Event Details

LinuxTag is the most important place for Linux and open source software in Europe. In 2009, the 15th LinuxTag presents news for professional users, decision makers, developers, beginners and the Linux community - from 24th until 27th June on the Fairground in Berlin. For more information, go to the LinuxTag 2009 website.

Here are instructions how you get to Linuxtag.

Sugar Organizer

Simon Schampijer | simon at sugarlabs dot org will be organizing Sugar's presence at LinuxTag 2009.

Attendees

Are you planning to attend? Add your name and contact info below!

1. Simon Schampijer
2. Tomeu Vizoso
3. Sebastian Dziallas
4. David Van Assche
5. Fabian Affolter
6. James Zaki
7. Sean Daly
8. Adam Holt
9. Greg Dekoenigsberg
10. Tony Anderson
11. Bert Freudenberg

Sugar Activities

Sugar does advocate the concepts of activities - you learn through doing, so if you want more learning you want more doing. So the Sugar Labs team wants to get engaged at Linuxtag:

1. We will have a booth located at 7.2a 110a.
2. Greg gives the talk: "Education, Innovation, and Free Software" (Saturday, 27.06 - 15.00-16.00 Saal 5)
3. Simon gives the talk: Sugar - a software playground for learning about learning" (Saturday, 27.06 - 17.00 Saal 5)
4. Sebastian will be giving a barcamp session at FUDCon about various educational efforts, mainly SoaS (Linuxtag Fudcon project)
5. Pablo Casal and Eduardo Blanco from Netlabs are giving the talk: "Plan Ceibal - A country-wide OLPC deployment in Uruguay" (Saturday 27.06 - 16.00 Saal 5). They designed the initial proposal for Ceibal's network, and are currently consultants for the project.

Sugar Booth

Our booth will be at 7.2a 110a. We share this booth with our friends from:

• OLPC Deutschland e.V.
• Squeak Germany
• Skolelinux Germany
• Linux4Afrika
• X2go

Please list your availability if you are interested in helping with the booth. Or if you already know which shifts you want to take, feel free to add yourself in the second table. German skills are welcome - but not needed. Ideally a shift is two people, but given the space reserved at the booth size I think we can get away with one as well. Helping at the booth means answering questions regarding Sugar and Sugar Labs, demoing Sugar and flashing Soas on request. People helping at the booth will get a Linuxtag ticket.

Shifts

Availability:

Name	German	24.06.09	25.06.09	26.06.09	27.06.09	Note
Simon Schampijer	Native	yes	yes	yes	not available from 16.00 to 18.00 as he has a talk there	is there in the mornings to make sure everything is set up
Tomeu	None	?	?	full day?	full day	x
Sebastian Dziallas	Native				will arrive in the morning	yes
David Van Assche	Native	yes	yes	yes	yes	in between sugar and opensuse booths...
Sean Daly	None	no	no	full day	full day	I will bring 2 booth banners, 2 balloon trees, SoaS A0 poster
James (jzGreen)	None	second half only	50%	50%	50%	I want to be roaming around a fair bit (hence 50%)
Tony Anderson	None	yes	yes	yes	yes	I will be available to help as needed
Adam Holt	None	no	no	yes	yes	x

Plan:

Day	10.00-12.00	12.00-14.00	14.00-16.00	16.00-18.00
24.06.09	Simon	David	Tony	James
25.06.09	Simon	James	David	Tony
26.06.09	Sean	Adam, Simon	Sean	Tomeu, Adam
27.06.09	Tomeu, Simon	Sean, Tony	Sebastian, James	Sean

• Tuesday 23.06.09 - 15.00: Booth Setup
• Saturday 27.06.09 - 18.30++: Booth tear-down and cleanup after the exhibition hall closes.
• all times are local Berlin times

Storage Space

We have a coops (Germans would say Kabüffchen as a diminutive of Kabuff) at the booths. As this is only meant for booth equipment all the other belongings like jackets, luggage etc can be stored at the wardrobe without any cost.

Power and Internet Connectivity

Power and Internet will be provided by LinuxTag and Messe Berlin for the project booths. What we need are:

• extension cords
• long network cables

Not permitted by Linuxtag:

• wireless access points (You are not permitted to operate your private wireless LAN. Please take this serious. There will be several site surveys to ensure this.) - Mesh networking is allowed though
• coffeemakers, kettles and cooking stuff
• connect visitors to the project's network

Lunch

Linuxtag is offering Lunch for the helpers. If we want to participate we would need helpers and not only eaters. More information can be found at.

Flyer

• german version PDF
• englisch version PDF

TODO

• Flyers with information about: Sugar, Sugar Labs, The times for the Sugar talks at Linuxtag
• Poster - From the Linuxtag Team: Please prepare at least one large poster (A1 or A0) to be placed on the walls of your booth or infocounter, so that visitors understand what the booth is all about, or what the particular machine in front of them intends to demonstrate. Without posters or other similar stuff the booth will probably look a bit deserted and not that interesting at all. -- You can use adhesive tape to fix the posters on the walls. If you plan to demonstrate fancy hardware at your booth, it is very helpful to describe these particular pieces of hardware in a poster or a large sign, so that visitors recognize its value or notice that it is extraordinary.
• Project Workshops / BoFs: Linuxtag still have quite some slots left for workshops. The ultimate deadline for asking for a space for a workshop will be reached on Sunday, June 21st, 2009. More info

Equipment

• Booth Banner - Sean has one and ordered a second one (Banners are 80cm x 200cm), both should be ready Monday the 22nd but will arrive LinuxTag on Thursday evening only
• 100 brightly colored branded Sugar Labs balloons in different colors, with plastic cup mounts on 2 "trees" - Sean
• 21 inch screen for demoing Sugar at the booth - Erikos
• Extension cords - Erikos

Lodging

• Accommodation Information from Linuxtag
• Pension Freiraum
  • Nice area with bars restaurant cafe, about 25 minutes to the conference
• Hotel Funkturm
  • right next door to the conference area (room 4-6 persons, 100euro per night for the room, inclusive breakfast)

Schedule

Tuesday, June 23

• 15.00-16.00: Booth Setup

Wednesday, June 24

• 10.00-18.00: Linuxtag (Including the SugarLabs booth)

Thursday, June 25

• 10.00-18.00: Linuxtag (Including the SugarLabs booth)
• 11:30: Interview with RadioTux
• 19.00: LinuxNacht - Get-together of speakers, exhibitors and the LinuxTag team at E4

Friday, June 26

• 10.00-18.00: Linuxtag (Including the SugarLabs booth)
• 14.00-16.00: Hackfest, Sharing Journal Data, part one: setting goals (at FUDCon space)
• 16.00-18.00: Keysigning Party

Saturday, June 27

• All day: Bar Camp Sessions at FUDCon
• 10.00-18.00: Linuxtag (Including the SugarLabs booth)
• x:00 hall 7.2b: Sugar Labs at "Papers Fast Forward", 2 minutes (2 slides) to highlight your most exciting exhibit
• 15.00-16.00 Saal 5: Greg gives the talk: "Education, Innovation, and Free Software"
• 16.00-16:30 Saal 5: Pablo Casal and Eduardo Blanco from Netlabs are giving the talk: "Plan Ceibal - A country-wide OLPC deployment in Uruguay". They designed the initial proposal for Ceibal's network, and are currently consultants for the project.
• 17.00-17:30 Saal 5: Simon gives the talk: Sugar - a software playground for learning about learning"

Sunday, June 28

• All day: Hackfest, Sharing Journal Data, part two: writing some code (at FUDCon space)

Impressions

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Here's my Flickr photostream from LinuxTag - Sean