The ReactOS Project at FOSDEM 2015

[Colin Finck]

Hi all,

FOSDEM 2015 has ended some days ago. After five years of absence, the
ReactOS Project was finally represented with a stand again, maintained
by Aleksey Bragin, Giannis Adamopoulos, Pierre Schweitzer and me.
Turns out that FOSDEM has significantly grown over the recent years,
so our experiences really deserve a report - and should motivate
others to join us next time! :)

Our stand was born around 11 o'clock on Saturday when I arrived at the
AW building. After walking several rounds in the building and neither
finding known people nor a free table, it turned out that the coreboot
guys next to us had tried to expand their presence a bit ;)
Reclaiming our booth was a matter of a few words though, and soon we
had a sweet spot in the building with enough space for the upcoming
crowd. With Aleksey arriving shortly after that, along with several
flags and pins, our empire was finally alive and marked! Giannis and
Pierre arrived in the course of the day, right in time for the
afternoon rush hour with lots of people interested in ReactOS. Our
four person booth staff was really overwhelmed in these times. But
let's see, maybe we even got new developers through this :)

Our stock of 100 ReactOS demonstration CDs prepared by Hermès
Bélusca-Maito and me already ran out during the first day. Given our
experiences at other exhibitions and the general phase-out of CDs
these days, this came totally unexpected. But it wouldn't be the
ReactOS Project if we had no solution to the problem. On the same
Saturday evening, Pierre and me went out on a little adventure into
downtown Brussels in the hope of finding open stores that sell all we
needed: Blank CDs, labels and paper sleeves. And we were successful!
Returning with another 100 CDs, all disc drives of our laptops were
working that evening and the full other day, busy with burning new
ReactOS CDs. FOSDEM staff was kind enough to offer one of their
printers for getting the additional labels done. And our booth on
Sunday had partly turned into a CD manufacturing plant. With the
consequence of people sometimes grabbing the CD labels and trying to
read them before being presented with our real flyers :)
At the end of the conference, around 170 ReactOS CDs were in the wild.
Definitely much more than what we expected!

Of course, the culinary supply also didn't come too short in the
capital of Belgium. On Saturday evening, we met up with our friend
Nuno Brito, who had already reserved a nice restaurant for us.
Obviously, he had learned from last year! I well remember the evening,
when five hungry geeks walked for half an hour through the city,
trying to beat the unsolvable problem of finding the best restaurant
for all of us.

I've put up some of Aleksey's and my photos here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/colinfinck/sets/72157650656130121/
Maybe more to come in the next few days!

I hope you're now all eager to join us next time to this wonderful event!

Cheers,

Colin

P.S.: Feel free to use this for a news article about FOSDEM on our website

[Timo Kreuzer]

Moar pics, please!
:)

Am 06.02.2015 um 00:06 schrieb Colin Finck:
> Hi all,
>
> FOSDEM 2015 has ended some days ago. After five years of absence, the
> ReactOS Project was finally represented with a stand again, maintained
> by Aleksey Bragin, Giannis Adamopoulos, Pierre Schweitzer and me.
> Turns out that FOSDEM has significantly grown over the recent years,
> so our experiences really deserve a report - and should motivate
> others to join us next time! :)
>
> Our stand was born around 11 o'clock on Saturday when I arrived at the
> AW building. After walking several rounds in the building and neither
> finding known people nor a free table, it turned out that the coreboot
> guys next to us had tried to expand their presence a bit ;)
> Reclaiming our booth was a matter of a few words though, and soon we
> had a sweet spot in the building with enough space for the upcoming
> crowd. With Aleksey arriving shortly after that, along with several
> flags and pins, our empire was finally alive and marked! Giannis and
> Pierre arrived in the course of the day, right in time for the
> afternoon rush hour with lots of people interested in ReactOS. Our
> four person booth staff was really overwhelmed in these times. But
> let's see, maybe we even got new developers through this :)
>
> Our stock of 100 ReactOS demonstration CDs prepared by Hermès
> Bélusca-Maito and me already ran out during the first day. Given our
> experiences at other exhibitions and the general phase-out of CDs
> these days, this came totally unexpected. But it wouldn't be the
> ReactOS Project if we had no solution to the problem. On the same
> Saturday evening, Pierre and me went out on a little adventure into
> downtown Brussels in the hope of finding open stores that sell all we
> needed: Blank CDs, labels and paper sleeves. And we were successful!
> Returning with another 100 CDs, all disc drives of our laptops were
> working that evening and the full other day, busy with burning new
> ReactOS CDs. FOSDEM staff was kind enough to offer one of their
> printers for getting the additional labels done. And our booth on
> Sunday had partly turned into a CD manufacturing plant. With the
> consequence of people sometimes grabbing the CD labels and trying to
> read them before being presented with our real flyers :)
> At the end of the conference, around 170 ReactOS CDs were in the wild.
> Definitely much more than what we expected!
>
> Of course, the culinary supply also didn't come too short in the
> capital of Belgium. On Saturday evening, we met up with our friend
> Nuno Brito, who had already reserved a nice restaurant for us.
> Obviously, he had learned from last year! I well remember the evening,
> when five hungry geeks walked for half an hour through the city,
> trying to beat the unsolvable problem of finding the best restaurant
> for all of us.
>
> I've put up some of Aleksey's and my photos here:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/colinfinck/sets/72157650656130121/
> Maybe more to come in the next few days!
>
> I hope you're now all eager to join us next time to this wonderful event!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin
>
> P.S.: Feel free to use this for a news article about FOSDEM on our website
>
> Ros-dev mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

[James Tabor]

What about that Dell laptop? We use to have those at work! Does it run
ReactOS?

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Timo Kreuzer [e-mail] wrote:
> Moar pics, please!
> :)
>
> Am 06.02.2015 um 00:06 schrieb Colin Finck:
>
> Hi all,
> > FOSDEM 2015 has ended some days ago. After five years of absence, the
> > ReactOS Project was finally represented with a stand again, maintained
> > by Aleksey Bragin, Giannis Adamopoulos, Pierre Schweitzer and me.
> > Turns out that FOSDEM has significantly grown over the recent years,
> > so our experiences really deserve a report - and should motivate
> > others to join us next time! :)
> >
> > Our stand was born around 11 o'clock on Saturday when I arrived at the
> > AW building. After walking several rounds in the building and neither
> > finding known people nor a free table, it turned out that the coreboot
> > guys next to us had tried to expand their presence a bit ;)
> > Reclaiming our booth was a matter of a few words though, and soon we
> > had a sweet spot in the building with enough space for the upcoming
> > crowd. With Aleksey arriving shortly after that, along with several
> > flags and pins, our empire was finally alive and marked! Giannis and
> > Pierre arrived in the course of the day, right in time for the
> > afternoon rush hour with lots of people interested in ReactOS. Our
> > four person booth staff was really overwhelmed in these times. But
> > let's see, maybe we even got new developers through this :)
> >
> > Our stock of 100 ReactOS demonstration CDs prepared by Hermès
> > Bélusca-Maito and me already ran out during the first day. Given our
> > experiences at other exhibitions and the general phase-out of CDs
> > these days, this came totally unexpected. But it wouldn't be the
> > ReactOS Project if we had no solution to the problem. On the same
> > Saturday evening, Pierre and me went out on a little adventure into
> > downtown Brussels in the hope of finding open stores that sell all we
> > needed: Blank CDs, labels and paper sleeves. And we were successful!
> > Returning with another 100 CDs, all disc drives of our laptops were
> > working that evening and the full other day, busy with burning new
> > ReactOS CDs. FOSDEM staff was kind enough to offer one of their
> > printers for getting the additional labels done. And our booth on
> > Sunday had partly turned into a CD manufacturing plant. With the
> > consequence of people sometimes grabbing the CD labels and trying to
> > read them before being presented with our real flyers :)
> > At the end of the conference, around 170 ReactOS CDs were in the wild.
> > Definitely much more than what we expected!
> >
> > Of course, the culinary supply also didn't come too short in the
> > capital of Belgium. On Saturday evening, we met up with our friend
> > Nuno Brito, who had already reserved a nice restaurant for us.
> > Obviously, he had learned from last year! I well remember the evening,
> > when five hungry geeks walked for half an hour through the city,
> > trying to beat the unsolvable problem of finding the best restaurant
> > for all of us.
> >
> > I've put up some of Aleksey's and my photos here:
> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/colinfinck/sets/72157650656130121/
> > Maybe more to come in the next few days!
> >
> > I hope you're now all eager to join us next time to this wonderful event!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Colin
> >
> > P.S.: Feel free to use this for a news article about FOSDEM on our website
> >
> > Ros-dev mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
>
> Ros-dev mailing list
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> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

[Pierre Schweitzer]

As a side note, it was interesting to note that the way people look at
ReactOS changed a bit. Cannot say why though. We're still a hobby
project for many, but some start thinking about things they could do
with ReactOS.

One project is considering shipping ReactOS as a LiveCD to allow their
users to flash their USB devices without using Windows.
I won't give name here, I let them study how suitable ReactOS is for
their needs, and come back at us/release if that's OK.

If I've got more news on this, I'll forward.

On 02/06/2015 12:06 AM, Colin Finck wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> FOSDEM 2015 has ended some days ago. After five years of absence, the
> ReactOS Project was finally represented with a stand again, maintained
> by Aleksey Bragin, Giannis Adamopoulos, Pierre Schweitzer and me.
> Turns out that FOSDEM has significantly grown over the recent years,
> so our experiences really deserve a report - and should motivate
> others to join us next time! :)
>
> Our stand was born around 11 o'clock on Saturday when I arrived at the
> AW building. After walking several rounds in the building and neither
> finding known people nor a free table, it turned out that the coreboot
> guys next to us had tried to expand their presence a bit ;)
> Reclaiming our booth was a matter of a few words though, and soon we
> had a sweet spot in the building with enough space for the upcoming
> crowd. With Aleksey arriving shortly after that, along with several
> flags and pins, our empire was finally alive and marked! Giannis and
> Pierre arrived in the course of the day, right in time for the
> afternoon rush hour with lots of people interested in ReactOS. Our
> four person booth staff was really overwhelmed in these times. But
> let's see, maybe we even got new developers through this :)
>
> Our stock of 100 ReactOS demonstration CDs prepared by Hermès
> Bélusca-Maito and me already ran out during the first day. Given our
> experiences at other exhibitions and the general phase-out of CDs
> these days, this came totally unexpected. But it wouldn't be the
> ReactOS Project if we had no solution to the problem. On the same
> Saturday evening, Pierre and me went out on a little adventure into
> downtown Brussels in the hope of finding open stores that sell all we
> needed: Blank CDs, labels and paper sleeves. And we were successful!
> Returning with another 100 CDs, all disc drives of our laptops were
> working that evening and the full other day, busy with burning new
> ReactOS CDs. FOSDEM staff was kind enough to offer one of their
> printers for getting the additional labels done. And our booth on
> Sunday had partly turned into a CD manufacturing plant. With the
> consequence of people sometimes grabbing the CD labels and trying to
> read them before being presented with our real flyers :)
> At the end of the conference, around 170 ReactOS CDs were in the wild.
> Definitely much more than what we expected!
>
> Of course, the culinary supply also didn't come too short in the
> capital of Belgium. On Saturday evening, we met up with our friend
> Nuno Brito, who had already reserved a nice restaurant for us.
> Obviously, he had learned from last year! I well remember the evening,
> when five hungry geeks walked for half an hour through the city,
> trying to beat the unsolvable problem of finding the best restaurant
> for all of us.
>
> I've put up some of Aleksey's and my photos here:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/colinfinck/sets/72157650656130121/
> Maybe more to come in the next few days!
>
> I hope you're now all eager to join us next time to this wonderful event!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin
>
> P.S.: Feel free to use this for a news article about FOSDEM on our website
>
> Ros-dev mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
-- 
Pierre Schweitzer [e-mail]
System & Network Administrator
Senior Kernel Developer
ReactOS Deutschland e.V.

[Hermès BÉLUSCA - MAÏTO]

Wow guys!! Russian video made by Aleksey ^^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ-c9MqmScA (seen from http://habrahabr.ru/company/reactos/blog/249917/ ) :D
H.

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As a side note, it was interesting to note that the way people look at ReactOS changed a bit. Cannot say why though. We're still a hobby project for many, but some start thinking about things they could do with ReactOS.

One project is considering shipping ReactOS as a LiveCD to allow their users to flash their USB devices without using Windows.
I won't give name here, I let them study how suitable ReactOS is for their needs, and come back at us/release if that's OK.

If I've got more news on this, I'll forward.

On 02/06/2015 12:06 AM, Colin Finck wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> FOSDEM 2015 has ended some days ago. After five years of absence, the 
> ReactOS Project was finally represented with a stand again, maintained 
> by Aleksey Bragin, Giannis Adamopoulos, Pierre Schweitzer and me.
> Turns out that FOSDEM has significantly grown over the recent years, 
> so our experiences really deserve a report - and should motivate 
> others to join us next time! :)
>
> Our stand was born around 11 o'clock on Saturday when I arrived at the 
> AW building. After walking several rounds in the building and neither 
> finding known people nor a free table, it turned out that the coreboot 
> guys next to us had tried to expand their presence a bit ;) Reclaiming 
> our booth was a matter of a few words though, and soon we had a sweet 
> spot in the building with enough space for the upcoming crowd. With 
> Aleksey arriving shortly after that, along with several flags and 
> pins, our empire was finally alive and marked! Giannis and Pierre 
> arrived in the course of the day, right in time for the afternoon rush 
> hour with lots of people interested in ReactOS. Our four person booth 
> staff was really overwhelmed in these times. But let's see, maybe we 
> even got new developers through this :)
>
> Our stock of 100 ReactOS demonstration CDs prepared by Hermès 
> Bélusca-Maito and me already ran out during the first day. Given our 
> experiences at other exhibitions and the general phase-out of CDs 
> these days, this came totally unexpected. But it wouldn't be the 
> ReactOS Project if we had no solution to the problem. On the same 
> Saturday evening, Pierre and me went out on a little adventure into 
> downtown Brussels in the hope of finding open stores that sell all we
> needed: Blank CDs, labels and paper sleeves. And we were successful!
> Returning with another 100 CDs, all disc drives of our laptops were 
> working that evening and the full other day, busy with burning new 
> ReactOS CDs. FOSDEM staff was kind enough to offer one of their 
> printers for getting the additional labels done. And our booth on 
> Sunday had partly turned into a CD manufacturing plant. With the 
> consequence of people sometimes grabbing the CD labels and trying to 
> read them before being presented with our real flyers :) At the end of 
> the conference, around 170 ReactOS CDs were in the wild.
> Definitely much more than what we expected!
>
> Of course, the culinary supply also didn't come too short in the 
> capital of Belgium. On Saturday evening, we met up with our friend 
> Nuno Brito, who had already reserved a nice restaurant for us.
> Obviously, he had learned from last year! I well remember the evening, 
> when five hungry geeks walked for half an hour through the city, 
> trying to beat the unsolvable problem of finding the best restaurant 
> for all of us.
>
> I've put up some of Aleksey's and my photos here:
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/colinfinck/sets/72157650656130121/
> Maybe more to come in the next few days!
>
> I hope you're now all eager to join us next time to this wonderful event!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin
>
> P.S.: Feel free to use this for a news article about FOSDEM on our 
> website
>
> Ros-dev mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

--
Pierre Schweitzer [e-mail]
System & Network Administrator
Senior Kernel Developer
ReactOS Deutschland e.V.