I received the confirmation that we can get a booth at the FrOSCon on 16.+17. Aug 2025 in Sankt Augustin (Cologne/Bonn area in Germany). It will be a joint booth for CentOS & Fedora.
The registration at the cfp is already done. I applied as usual for 2x 1.2*0.8m tables with 4 chairs, but the tables/chairs have not yet been confirmed.
As the last year, I plan to have a hike to Drachenfels castle on a Friday evening before the event. If anyone wants to join, let me know. The idea is to come to Bonn on Friday, check-in to a hotel somewhere near the main train station, than use a tram to Konigswinter, hike to the castle (30-60 minutes), enjoy the sunset, and go back.
There is a tram line which connects the conference venue, the main train station in Bonn and the Konigswinter, where the castle is, so logistically it is very easy.
May I ask why one project booth for both projects? Guess due to limited space.
TBH CentOS is a nogo for me as a booth personel. Nearly no knowledge about CentOS on my side to let me answer any possible questions from visitors. But I like the idea of at least some swag from more different projects.
At this time I doubt that any PC is available because of logistics issue from my side. In Sankt Augustin we used a Raspberry Pi as the preferred working solution but it fails with heavy graphics required for visual effects within KDE, Gnome or similiarly desktops. Someone (@py0xc3 ?) should bring a TFT anyways to get shown anything practically.
A good idea would be to show Xfce 4.20 as feature included in Fedora 42.
Hi
I’ll be there again this year at the Deutsche Welle booth!
I’ll be happy to demo Fedora 42 with GNOME on my DW laptop to anyone interested. Looking forward to seeing many of you at FrOSCon!
@raphgro the problem about merging Fedora/CentOS is mostly about limited personnel and being efficient/pragmatic, but given that we made a last minute reservation, it is also unclear if we had get two booths anyway. However, you do not need to worry about CentOS: my knowledge in this respect is also limited. @bookwar already confirmed that she can cover CentOS, and others can focus on Fedora. So it is NOT a requirement for people at the booth to know about both Fedora and CentOS, it is fine to know only about one of the two. If it remains one person that can tackle CentOS questions, then so be it - if people have a CentOS question while Aleksandra makes a break, they shall return later - it’s not that they paid for consulting or so Given the scope of the event, I expect the majority is interested mostly in Fedora anyway.
As far as it concerns bringing stuff to FrOSCon: I cannot bring much as I travel this time by public transport (I no longer live near the area, and in Zurich a car is superfluously ). But we already talked at Flock and @jbley is likely to attend with the possibility to transport swag. If a pc/laptop + screen would be available somehow that would be great of course, but it is not a requirement for providing a booth
Well, I would focus a little more on our mainstream and distinguishing things/variants (gnome,kdespin,silverblue,kinoite), although it might be useful to have the possibility to boot everything if people want to check out some specific variant. I mean dd some images to some USB drives for each variant to just plug in and boot whatever someone wants to test might be easy (if laptop or so will be available)
Let’s see what comes up and what we get organized until then. Still much time left. But in any case, we will survive it even if we have no dedicated laptop/pc+screen or so
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