[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: Linuxtag 2006

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego Biurrun said:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 04:02:09PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>
>> Diego Biurrun said:
>> >
>> > I'm glad that finally somebody else is taking the initiative to push
>> > this forward.  I will be there for the whole duration of the event and I
>> > will help you with the organization.  So will Roberto.
>>
>> Great.  I've registered the project on the Linuxtag website.  It's
>> shouting at me for not providing a German description of the project.
>> Is that a requirement?  My German isn't quite up to the task, I'm afraid.
>
> Fill in the English stuff and add a few people to the project.  Once I
> have an account I can quickly translate the texts to German.

I can't add people until it's been accepted.

>> > So what can we do?
>> >
>> > * Put up the obligatory MPlayer poster, but also something more, maybe a
>> >   diagram that explains the inner workings of multimedia players/files
>> >   or NUT-related stuff.
>>
>> Who can print large formats?
>
> FYI, I still have the big MPlayer logo poster from last year.

Good, remember to bring it.

>> > * Live-CDs, we wanted to make one last year, it did not get finished in
>> >   time..
>>
>> How far did it get?  Are there some rotting bits on someones hard drive that
>> could be revived, or is it better to start afresh?
>
> Luca Barbato wanted to create a Gentoo live CD.  Dunno how far he got in
> the end.

Luca, are you around?

>> > * Collect donations, sell CDs with multimedia software on it.  We were
>> >   asked about this constantly the last two years.  Download seems to be
>> >   nice, take away better...
>>
>> We could burn these on demand, and avoid wasting blanks.
>
> Given the price of blank CDs this should not be a big issue.

True.

> It would
> be nice if we could at least print a logo or something on the CDs.  We
> had some preliminary logos last year, IIRC Alexander Strasser made them.

Alexander, do you still have them buried somewhere?

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