Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] LinuxTag 2001 Infomail #4
From: Jörn Nettingsmeier (nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 12:06:53 EEST
hello frank !
sorry for being a little quiet, i'm awfully short of time right now.
we're having a major reform process gone mad at our hochschule, and
i'll be enjoying a 12-hour senate conference later today :(
i had hoped things would work out smoothly and i could devote more
time to the linuxtag stuff, but now that things are all haywire,
i'll be able to start only tomorrow.
> Hardware
> --------
> So far, my list of hardware that people will bring with them looks like
> this:
>
> - Me:
> PC, monitor, keyboard, amp, speakers, expander, mixer, microphone
> - Jörn:
> PC, microphone, maybe some small parts (could bring more if someone
> else gave him a lift, but that looks uncertain right now)
can someone PLEASE bring a screen for my machine ? i don't see how i
can possibly haul one over by train.
i have just convinced my girlfriend to lend me her g3 powerbook as
well, so we can use that for admin jobs on the presentation machines
while folks are playing with them.
> Insurance
> ---------
> Yesterday I got the offer from the insurance company, but it does not
> really make me happy :-(. I gave them an estimated value of about 20000
> Deutschmarks for the equipment we have there (that figure should come
> close, I hope), and their offer was to provide insurance for a total of
> 345,- DM for all 4 days,
> including taxes. This is quite lot, and I don't know who is going to pay
> for that. I won't pay it all by myself, maybe we should all donate some
> $$..? Or, rather pray and see that nothing is damaged or stolen. By the
> way, their insurance does _not_ include any damage caused by. e.g.
> driving speakers too loud.
>
> This is the point I'm most unhappy with at this point; I welcome any
> suggestions on what to do here. Personally, I'm willing to pay some,
> say, 50DM for the insurance, and if others would follow me there, we
> could get this working.
50 dm is okay for me. but not more.
> Sound
> -----
> As I had written in the previous infomail, a local music shop does not
> (as I had hoped) offer to lend hardware for free. Instead, I could rent
> a pair of good speakers + amp for about 100DM for the entire time. I'll
> probably do so because I might want to buy that equipment afterwards
> anyway (my current
> "sound system" at home consists of Soundblaster active
> speakers+subwoofer, and the frequency range has a rather gaping hole in
> the middle range..). So, that's the sound for one demo station; as for
> the second, I think I'd like to ask Robert Schrem if it's still ok with
> him to lend us his near-field speakers - Robert, is that ok? We'll
> probably also need an amp then, unless these are active speakers (which
> I doubt they are).
perhaps people can bring headphones as well ? i'll bring mine. might
make up for a quieter booth :)
> Networking
> ----------
> We will get Internet access (maybe direct, maybe through masquerading)
> on the fair, but there will only be one cable at our booth. Alexander
> Ehlert offered to bring a 4x100MBit hub. This should be enough, but if
> someone could also bring a hub (oh, and network cables?), that would
> probably be a good idea.
i'll bring a few cat5 cables and 2 spare 3com nics.
can't bring my hub, my girlfriend needs her internet fix at home :)
as to the leaflet, should we do it english-only, german-only or
bilingual ?
regards,
jörn
-- Jörn Nettingsmeier home://Kurfürstenstr.49.45138.Essen.Germany phone://+49.201.491621 http://icem-www.folkwang-hochschule.de/~nettings/ http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/
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