how to run a debian booth / Re: t-dose debian booth 2026: sat 6/sun 7 june 2026, eindhoven (geldrop), .nl

Hi!

Thanks Suzanne and Pieter for your interest!

About practical stuff: I'll bring flyers, our OpenOffice friends Mechtilde (who
also happens to volunteer for our DFSG-team) and Michael will bring a PC we can
share with them and use for demo-purposes.

It would be really nice if someone™ could bring other typical booth goodies
like stickers, t-shirts, mugs etc.  Debian France,
https://www.freewear.org/?org=Debian and other parties listed at
https://www.debian.org/events/merchandise are likely able to ship to your house
in time.  Debian people can use https://reimbursements.debian.net/ to request a
refund of costs made.

As a booth volunteer you're invited to have a chat with the visitors about
Debian and Free Software.  To point people to flyers and whatever else we have
to hand out for free.  We might have a donation box (collected money should go
to one or our trusted organisations, like e.g. Debian France; see
https://www.debian.org/donations). And, (*if* we have stuff to sell), to sell
stuff.

(In the past we've had a demo of debian-installer running in a loop on a
demo-system.  Jens Möller volunteered to work on that; there's still
interesting work to do there.)

First speaker will likely start Sat at around 10.00, last lecture ends likely
at around 18.00.  On Sun speaker-program likely runs from 10.00 till 17.00.  I
expect booth staff can enter the place on Sat at around 9.00.

BTW, some orga can be reached via IRC : libera #t-dose.

Suzanne: it's great you're up to sharing Rutger's heritage.

Looking forward to meeting you all!

Bye!

Joost


Le Wed, May 13, 2026 at 08:14:56AM +0200, Suzanne van Sleen a écrit :
> Hi Pieter (and all)
> 
> About the practical stuff (like times and setup) i think Joost can tell you more.
> 
> About the days itself i can tell you from experience, @Tdose there are a lot of nice nerds, neurodivers people and friends meeting, talking about open source and life and everything in between. Food and drinks for volunteers are great organised. People are really friendly.
> 
> I hope to see you at Tdose, where i'll be handing out (together with my kids) a lot of the computerstuff my late husband Rutger van Sleen collected over the years. We want to share his heritage with all of you.
> 
> Have a great day!
> 
> Suzanne van Sleen
> 
> 13 mei 2026 07:57:20 Pieter Lenaerts <[email protected]>:
> 
> > On Sun May 10, 2026 at 6:20 AM CEST, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Joost,
> > 
> >> I've applied for a booth for us, see
> >> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/nl/2026/T-DOSE .  We're looking for
> >> volunteers to lend a hand running a Debian booth @ this years' T-DOSE, Sat 6
> >> and Sun 7 June (four weeks from now) at the Weeffabriek in Geldrop (near
> >> Eindhoven).  You don't need to be a Debian Developer for that, btw.  I'd be
> >> happy to help you in getting stuff arranged.
> > 
> > What would a day look like practically? Arriving at what time to setup?
> > What kind of tasks? How many people at the booth? Cleaned-up for the day
> > at about what time? Food/drinks?
> > 
> > Br,
> > 
> > Pieter