Re: Manning GNOME booth @ LinuxLive, London Olympia, Oct 23..25

[Michael Wood <admin x3n me uk>]

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 11:37 +0100, Aidan Delaney wrote:
> Dear all,
> 	I previously stated that I'd cover 24th and 25th.  I'm now going to
> take responsibility for the 23-25th including the event box (unless
> someone already has).  I'd really appreciate it if others could spare
> half a day to help on the stand.  If you're quite new to GNOME(-uk),
> this is a great way to get involved in the project and to meet some
> people in meatspace.
> 	The last year (which was 18 months ago) we had our Love/Hate wall which
> was a good gimmik.  What I'd like to do this year is have three demos;
> GNOME for corporate desktop, GNOME for developers (and cross-platform
> development) and GNOME mobile.  This is based on my experience of what
> the crowd at the Olympia have previously wanted to see.
> 	So one box running Fedora/Ubuntu in standard desktop mode.  With some
> wifi hacking I'd hope that we could have a corporate email/calendar
> sharing backend running i.e. hopefully Alex would be happy to host Bongo
> on his stand and for us to consume the services on our stand.  This is
> our corporate _stable_ system.  Another box running, essentially
> GARGNOME, or something more bleeding-edge.  And a final box running only
> the GNOME mobile libraries and some UI (maybe Maemo).  I've got an N810,
> but it belongs to the research group I work with.  I'd be unhappy
> letting members of the public have access to such a portable device.
> 	Does anyone know how we could restrict access to devices such as an
> N810 or hopefully a FIC Freerunner, so that we could demo GNOME mobile
> in a more mobile manner?
> 	Obviously, feel free to critique/improve on my ideas.
> --
> Aidan


Thanks Aidan, 

All sound like good ideas, I should be able to help out though can't
commit right yet. 

With restricting access, do you mean physically or the software side of
things ? - With the Nokias it may be just simpler to re-flash them after
and before the event and you may also be able to connect a thinnish
Kensington Lock to the N810's stand thing ?

Michael