things and stuff to bring for our FOSDEM devroom

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

From my notes of last year:

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:

> stuff which is nice to have for the Dev-Room:
>
> - feedback sheets where attendees of the talks can rate the talks  
> would be a good idea I think

I hope to be able to prepare those on friday morning in brussels (a  
paper version only, maybe we can have some online questionnaire next  
year)

> - power cords with multiple plugs

I'll bring one short extension cord with multiple plugs, but it would  
be good to have more.

> - adaptors, adaptors, adaptors. Don't forget those. For power  
> (every european country has still its own "standard") and to plug  
> your laptop into the projector. Richard had to go to the Apple  
> Store to get one (since he forgot to bring his) and sadly this  
> adaptor was useless in the end since the projectors didn't came  
> with a DVI-input.

I'll bring one DVI to VGA adaptor. Don't forget to bring something to  
connect your computer to the projector (FOSDEM states their  
projectors have VGA, 1024x768)

> - one or two Ethernet hubs/switches are useful. FOSDEM did provide  
> WLAN in each room but they didn't got it to work reliably until  
> late Saturday afternoon.

I'll bring one small 8-port switch. But ethernet-cables you'll have  
to bring yourself.

> - loudspeakers (for video conferences or sound in the presentations)

Does somebody have loudspeakers which he can bring?

> - an own projector (FOSDEM does provide some but you never know  
> what you'll get, the first day we had one with a resolution of only  
> 800x600 and a somewhat broken keystone)

Having an own projector would really be great (since the projectors  
FOSDEM provides sometimes have their quirks). Can somebody bring one?

> - If you're going to record the sessions on video, a small digicam  
> should be sufficient. Be sure to have at least two batteries (so  
> you can charge one while using the other) and two memory card (one  
> to record while saving the contents of the other onto your laptop).  
> You also need a small tripod (which can be used on desk - I brought  
> my gorillapod http://joby.com/products/gorillapod/2 ). Recording in  
> 320x240 @ 15fps is the absolute minimum to get somewhat usable  
> video (this is what I did since my digicam allows only for 2GB SD  
> Cards which gave me about 70 to 80 mins recording time) but don't  
> forget that the slides are unreadable at that resolution (even at  
> 640x480 it will be hard to read slides projected at a higher  
> resolution than 1024x768)

Tim brings his DV-cam and a tripod. I organize a FireWire cable.

> - a clip microphone to record the speaker would increase the sound  
> quality of the recorded speech by a magnitude

Niels, you offered to bring a microphone. Is this offer still valid?

> - a printer would also be nice (to print brochures/flyers or  
> announcement of last minute talks ;-) but then again there ought to  
> be a b/w laser printer at the front desk (and they let you print  
> stuff if you're friendly and come with a PDF ready to print on an  
> USB stick)

well, a printer seems a bit to heavy and big to carry it by train or  
plane. Sadly Gerold can not come this year (he brought a printer with  
his car in the years ago).


thanks,

        Lars