Re: Debian booth at FOSDEM 2021, Brussels^WInternet, sat feb 6 - sun feb 7

Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Jan 2021 21:39:04 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.events-eu
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi

Le 15/01/2021 à 08:37, Joost van Baal-Ilić a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> FOSDEM, the yearly free and open source software Conference, moved online this
> year, and it again welcomes our booth, just this time in its virtual
> manifestation.  See https://fosdem.org/2021/stands/ .  It'll be the 18th
> edition of this Debian booth.

Did not think there was one. Are there goodies sold on it? What about 
payment, if yes?

> 
> Even if our booth is not material, we still will need volunteers to staff it,
> hopefully not just virtual ones :)
> 
> As of now, 3 people are in the Debian FOSDEM booth team.  We have lots of
> opportunity for you to help: There's more preparation to do: select and upload
> (rsync and sftp to video.fosdem.org) prerecorded presentations about Debian.
> And during the conference, we still have slots to fill: hang around online with
> us (likely that will be chat: matrix with a bridge to Freenode IRC), and answer
> questions from visitors.  If you plan to join our booth sat/sun feb 6 and 7
> (less than a month from now) and want to help, do please list yourself at
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/be/2021/FOSDEM .

Could you explain how will work the gateway on the IRC? If it is simple 
via freenode or whatever, I can be there all the week-end. Only chat, 
not live I guess?

Regards

> 
> Or reply to me, e.g. via e-mail, and I'll take care of updating the wiki.
> 
> For background, there's some more technical information on this years virtual
> setup at https://github.com/FOSDEM/stands-website/blob/master/README.md , and
> some info was sent to the private FOSDEM standholders list.
> 
> Looking forward to seeing all of you this year again!
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Joost and helpers from IRC
>