[Ubuntu-ch] Last Todos before Saturday

[Ramon Cahenzli]

Hi Myriam and list,

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:

> @Ramon: I guess the door opening is OK for 14:00 so we can get
> everything ready for 15:00

I will be there around 12:00 and one of my friends has volunteered to help 
set up as well (because I've volunteered to check his bootloader 
configuration on Ubuntu ;)


> Also, do we have a beamer and a machine where we can show the 
> presentations on or does every speaker has to plug in his laptop? In the

Yes, we have a machine (about 2.4 GHz, Nvidia graphics so Compiz and 3D 
games work). Beamer is also no problem, in the worst case we can even get 
two beamers.

I'm slightly worried about getting the dual screen setup right, last time 
there were problems with overlay on the beamer screen, but we'll manage.

It's important that:

  * IF someone needs to use their own laptop, they should make sure to try 
to get external screens working at 1024x768 as soon as they can. Maybe at 
home, or with some screen at the RP, before their talk. Last time we lost 
a lot of time because people wanted to hook up their lappies and the 
external screen didn't play along.

  * BUT if you have your presentation on a USB stick, make sure to be at 
the RP around 13:00 so you can transfer your files to the machine and 
test.

> troubles last time... BTW, I need a token for the car park outside, same 
> as last time, is this OK?

Absolutely fine, I have 6 parking cards and can get more if I know that 
more than 6 cars are coming.

> @Daniel: you said you would sponsor the drinks, did you get in touch
> with Ramon (or someone else) to get the drinks ordered and ready for
> Saturday?

We should get all drinks fresh at the Denner and Migros next door. 
FreeBeer is very nice, but last time about 20% of the beer went off before 
we could drink it, it only stays good for about 2 months because it 
contains no preservatives etc.

So let's get our beer at the Denner this time, it's cheaper as well ;)

> @blogers: would you mind put an add on your blog so we get some more
> ads for Saturday?

Arg, I totally forgot :(  I put it on my work blogs, but not my own. Will 
do.

> I ordered and received the CD's for the Party, but almost no 64 bit
> versions and only very few Kubuntu ones, they seem to have changed the
> pack composition. So we might consider burning on demand, do we have
> images available? I will load images on my external HDs and bring some
> CDs we could burn, but most likely not on my machine, it really is not
> reliable anymore...

I will try to get an extra machine that has a burner, and perhaps I can 
get a spindle (50 pcs) of CDs sponsored from the university.

Sorry for the late reply and see you all there. I have to catch up to the 
rest of the RP discussion now, so if I made some statements that are 
redundant, sorry ;)

- rca