!!! We're low on NetBSD booth staff! If you're at/near the Systems roadshow in Munich and can help out at the NetBSD booth, esp. Wed/Thu/Fri, send mail to hubertf@NetBSD.org. Thanks!

Besides CeBit, Systems is the second largest computer show in Germany for "business professionals" and "information technology". Thanks to the work of Rosa Riebl from Computer- und Literaturverlag (CUL) and Daniel Ettle, there are a number of booths for Open Source projects again this year, and NetBSD is among them. Being the poor sod who's manning the booth, here are some first impressions from today, which consisted mostly of arrival and booth setup, the show will open its doors to the public tomorrow at 9am:

• Driving to Munich & booth setup

• Daniel Seuffert brought some NetBSD flags, flyers and his Xen showcase (machine with NetBSD/Xen preinstalled plus 19" TFT)

• Material from me includes more flyers, posters, my Shark running a slideshow, and some candy to attract people. I expected things like t-shirt sales to not be allowed at Systems and left them at home; I only learned later that it would have been ok. Oh well.

• I had a chat with a guy from the Joomla booth, and they asked when we will import Joomla into pkgsrc. Given the short episode (import & immediate removal due to "security reasons") the other day, I think there's some more focussing needed in pkgsrc to get to it's goal of providing software easily (and not making it NOT available because our current procedures can't handle things).

  It would be nice to offer such systems like Joomla to be available out of the box with a full set of packages, without further fiddling. (see usability/user friendliness...)

• FreeBSD and OpenBSD will have several people manning their booths all the time. Unfortunately the NetBSD people that helped out in past years are all either sick or busy this year, so that I'll have to run the NetBSD booth alone all the time, and Danie 'DaN' Ettle will help me out on thursday and friday, when I'll have to get back to my job, too. I'd hope for a bit more activity from our user community:

  !!! We're low on NetBSD booth staff! If you're at/near the Systems roadshow in Munich and can help out at the NetBSD booth, esp. Wed/Thu/Fri, send mail to hubertf@NetBSD.org. Thanks!