grml development blog - events

Results of the FrOSCon 2009 Grml contest

nospam@example.com (mika) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:48:00 +0200

At the grml booth at FrOSCon we had a contest for the best release name, feature request,... for grml. Out of 16 contributions we elected the first five places. That's the result:

Sebastian Harl: Release-Name: "Grmlmonster"
Axel Beckert: Release-Name: "Hello Wien"
Axel Beckert: zsh should set terminal title to previous jobtitle instead of 'fg'
Christian Vervoorts: choose i386/amd64 automatically depending on the architecture
Christian Bricart: ship libsmbios-bin for flashing BIOS

The winner (Sebastian Harl) will receive a special grml USB pen and a copy of the german LinuxUser magazine edition (2009/08) featuring the Grml-DVD. Places 2 to 5 receive a copy of the german LinuxUser magazine edition (2009/08). Thanks to all contributors for participating and hope to see you at FrOSCon 2010!

Event: grml at FrOSCon 2009

nospam@example.com (mika) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:01:00 +0200

Several core developers of the grml team will be available at FrOSCon (Free and Open Source Software Conference) on 22nd and 23rd of August 2009 in Sankt Augustin/Germany. We'll have a grml booth featuring grml CDs, usb pens with multiboot ISO setup, grml t-shirts, flyers.... Mika will present some nifty tips and tricks what you can do with grml (including topics like useful bootoptions, Zsh, USB booting and remote access via iSCSI) in his german talk "grml - das Schweizer Taschenmesser der Linux-Notfallsysteme". Please come and visit us!

grml booth at Grazer Linuxdays 2009

nospam@example.com (mika) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:12:00 +0200

You can meet several core developers of grml at the grml booth at Grazer Linuxdays 2009 on 25th of april in Graz/Austria. We'll have multi-ISO usb devices with us and present some nifty features of the upcoming grml release. Hope to see you there!

results of the bugsquashing party on 2009-02-12

nospam@example.com (mika) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:43:58 +0100

Some stats for the bugsquashing party on 2009-02-12:

starting at 223 open bugs
finished at 199 open bugs
filed 3 new bugreports
overall result: closed 27 bugreports

Participants (alphabetically):

Alexander 'z3ttacht' Steinböck
Andreas 'jimmy' Gredler
Frank 'ft' Terbeck
Henning 'lazyboy' Sprang
Michael 'mika' Prokop
Ulrich 'mrud' Dangel

Thanks for your contributions!

grml bug squashing party on 2009-02-12

nospam@example.com (mika) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:04:00 +0100

On 2009-02-12 starting at 02:00p.m. (with open end) a grml bug squashing party takes place via IRC. Coordination takes place on channel #grmldev on freenode. Everyone is welcome to join. Further details are available at the bug squashing party in the grml-wiki.

grml at Grazer LinuxDay 2008 (Austria)

nospam@example.com (mika) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:18:00 +0200

Several grml developers met at the Grazer LinuxDay (Austria) on 19th of april 2008. Alexander held a talk about Nagios3, Jimmy talked about Backups, Gebi held a talk about "Lockless Multithreading using Erlang" and I (Mika) was talking about "Systemadministration++ - What really helps". Check out the gallery to get an idea of the event. Oh, and at the grml-booth we had a Lenovo X300, running grml of course. :)

grml at Chemnitzer Linuxdays 2008

nospam@example.com (mika) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:48:00 +0100

Several grml developers will be at the Chemnitzer linuxdays 2008 on the following weekend (1st and 2nd of march). We would highly appreciate to meet grml users at the grml booth. We will present the new stable releases (CDs are being printed right now!), will sell grml-on-USB pens, a demo system and will have a developer meeting. If you have any questions, feature requests or feedback please meet us at the grml booth!

grml at FrOSCon 2007 and Linux User Group Moenchengladbach

nospam@example.com (mika) — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:16:00 +0200

My submission of contribution regarding a talk about grml for the Call for Papers has been accepted for FrOSCon 2007! FrOSCon 2007 takes place on 25th and 26th August at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, in St. Augustin near Bonn, Germany. This means we will have grml hackdays at FrOSCon 2007!

Oh and on 28th of august 2007 I'll held another grml-talk at Linux User Group Moenchengladbach (thanks for the invitation, Spida!). On 29th of August I'm flying back to austria then...

grml at linuxdays - photo

nospam@example.com (mika) — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:24:00 +0200

I'm sitting at the grml booth and we ran out of grml-cds sooner than expected (now burning some more blank CDs on our own). Oh, BTW - the grml booth is featured at derstandard.at. :)

My grml talk starts in less than 3 hours, I'm just checking my slides once more.

grml at linuxdays vienna 2007

nospam@example.com (mika) — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:03:00 +0200

From 31st of May until 2nd of June the Linuxdays Vienna take place. My train is leaving Graz within the next few hours, you can meet me in Vienna for the next few days at the grml-booth as well as in my (german) talk about grml on friday, 1st of June. Hope to see you there!

grml talk and booth at grazer linuxdays 2007

nospam@example.com (mika) — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:05:07 +0200

Grazer Linuxdays 2007 will take place on 19th of May at FH Joanneum. I'll give a (german) talk about grml and we will have a grml booth at the event. We (several grml developers are there!) will present grml 1.0 of course, showing all the cool and rocking features. Hope to see you there! :-)

grml developer meeting: stable release

nospam@example.com (mika) — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:04:00 +0200

We will have a grml developer meeting on 17th of may in Realraum Graz (Sporgasse 16) starting at 2 o'clock pm ("14 uhr" local time ;-)). Alexander 'formorer' Wirt is visiting Graz for a few days and will be at the develmeeting too. We will do some further bughunting and if everything goes fine we will finalize the stable release. If you want to help us on getting out the new stable releases you're invited to join us!

grml at chemnitzer linuxdays 2007

nospam@example.com (mika) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Chemnitz Linuxdays 2007 were great. Several grml developers (including myself) have been there, we even had our own grml booth:

We had two Efika boards at the grml booth (one from formorer and the other one from myself). Formorer and me did some further work on the ppc-port of grml:

The grml-team had the chance to test one server of the Linux cluster in chemnitz [Chemnitzer Hochleistungs-Linux-Cluster (CHIC)] with grml. The server is a IBM System x3455 featuring Dual-Core AMD Opteron Processor, DDR2-RAM and AMD's virtualization technology 'Secure Virtual Machine' (SVM). The cluster machine running grml:

Output of /proc/cpuinfo running grml:

The server at the grml booth:

Oh, and as you can see in the last picture we had CDs of a special grml release (0.9-5) at the grml-booth!

grml at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2007

nospam@example.com (mika) — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:55:00 +0100

grml will be present at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2007 (in germany) which take place on 3rd and 4th of march 2007. Several grml developers will be there and have a develmeeting. We plan to provide a special release available on the event exclusive. You can meet us at the grml-booth, hope to see you there!

grml @ german live-radio

nospam@example.com (mika) — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:27:00 +0200

Today (2006-09-03) grml will be part of the german Ulmer CCC /dev/radio. Listen to the live-stream/podcast or grab the mp3/ogg from the archive afterwards!