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Hi all, The Belgian Amateur radio organisation (UBA) had a small infobooth at FOSDEM 2015 promoting ham-radio. For 2016, we like to expand this with some practicle demos and a permanent station. Concidering FOSDEM is an event with many thousands of visitors, there might be some practicle and safety issues we would like to discuss. Who in the FOSDEM organisation and/or the ULB can we contact for this? Cheerio! Kr. Bonne (ON1ARF)
Hello Kristoff, 2015-08-09 18:39 GMT+03:00 Kristoff <kristoff@skypro.be>:
Hi all,
The Belgian Amateur radio organisation (UBA) had a small infobooth at FOSDEM 2015 promoting ham-radio. For 2016, we like to expand this with some practicle demos and a permanent station. [...] Who in the FOSDEM organisation and/or the ULB can we contact for this? The call for participation (stands) has not been sent out yet. As an indication, last year, this happened on September 19.
Kind regards, Mark -- Mark Van den Borre https://fosdem.org staff
Hi Mark, (inline reply) On 09-08-15 18:50, Mark Van den Borre wrote:
Hi all,
The Belgian Amateur radio organisation (UBA) had a small infobooth at FOSDEM 2015 promoting ham-radio. For 2016, we like to expand this with some practicle demos and a permanent station. [...]
Who in the FOSDEM organisation and/or the ULB can we contact for this? The call for participation (stands) has not been sent out yet. As an indication, last year, this happened on September 19.
Thanks. The thing is that, for us, "participating" is more then just "a room with a projector and a timeslot to give a talk". As explained, we have a couple of ideas for actual demonstrations (i.e. real ham-radio stations with real antennes emitting real RF signals), so we are very well aware that there practicle issues and -more importantly- safety-issues to look at. (part of ham-radio is about doing our hobby safely for ourselfs and for others. It's actually in the exam for the ham-radio license :-) ) In a practicle sence, it does not make sence to make a proposal for participation to FOSDEM saying "we would like to set up a HF station", if we aren't even sure if there is a place to put up an antenne far enough away from the thousands of people visiting FOSDEM. Hence, it will probably be usefull for us to have a talk beforehand with the FOSDEM and/or ULB people to know what is possible and what not, so we can then make the request for participation based on that.
Mark Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.
On 2015-08-09 19:19:18 (+0200), Kristoff <kristoff@skypro.be> wrote:
The thing is that, for us, "participating" is more then just "a room with a projector and a timeslot to give a talk".
Were you the people who wanted to set up an antenna on the lawn this year? If you want to participate in a way that (you think) falls outside 'developer rooms', 'stands' or 'main track presentations', it's probably best to get in touch with info@ directly so we can see what we can do.
In a practicle sence, it does not make sence to make a proposal for participation to FOSDEM saying "we would like to set up a HF station", if we aren't even sure if there is a place to put up an antenne far enough away from the thousands of people visiting FOSDEM.
In case it's not obvious: most FOSDEM attendees are software with zero background in electronics, let alone RF. Having said that, the "radio people" participation in recent years has been really popular, so we may want to see how we can do more with that. If you want to set anything up, please do get in touch with info@. Philip [ON4PHP - I do know something about RF ;)] -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information
Hi Philip, (inline reply) On 09-08-15 22:33, Philip Paeps wrote:
The thing is that, for us, "participating" is more then just "a room with a projector and a timeslot to give a talk". Were you the people who wanted to set up an antenna on the lawn this year? If you want to participate in a way that (you think) falls outside 'developer rooms', 'stands' or 'main track presentations', it's
On 2015-08-09 19:19:18 (+0200), Kristoff <kristoff@skypro.be> wrote: probably best to get in touch with info@ directly so we can see what we can do.
That was indeed our initial idea, but then we kind-of realised that from practicle (and especially safety point of view) that might be not such a good idea. Hence our question to have a small discussion beforehand. OK, I will send a follow-up message to info@
Philip [ON4PHP - I do know something about RF ;)] Kristoff - ON1ARF
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