[Arm-netbook] CEBIT & Rhombus

[lkcl luke]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:45 AM, moo cow <magcrap at gmail.com> wrote:
> If anyone knows of the Yubikey (little press button one time password
> generator) ..
>
> the lady who founded it on a shoestring needed to get some visibility for it
> at the start and couldn't afford stands at the tradeshows (and only had  a
> couple of non working prototypes) so she used to go on her own to the trade
> fairs (CES, CEBIT etc) with some brochures and her dummy prototypes and hang
> around the stairs near the stands of big boys in the networking and security
> players and used to grab people as they left their stands ... shes
> probably reasonably attractive which i bet helps .. but she was quite
> successful with this approach ... She had this Steve Gibson guy (from
> TWIT:Security Now podcasts ) twisted around her little finger and he used to
> generate so much publicity for her and yubikey from this :-)
>
> What you guys could do is get some nifty double sided plasticised
> flyers (harder to screw up and throw in the bin ;-)  knocked up with some
> mock up pics of the likely final board and connector and some key points
> (costs and performance being one) on it and the projects ... and a couple of
> people should go to CEBIT (only £30 a ticket) and hand them out and get some
> extra visibility maybe
>
> The Rasp. Pi launches anytime now (should have done by CEBIT in mid march )
> and its created a big splash internationally and domestically (UK)  ..  If
> you guys make sure you replicate (if thats what you want to do) the pi's i/o
> interface then it pretty much should be compatible with this "Gert Board"
> another of the Broadcom people has developed for the pi (that way your kit
> can piggy back on it potentially) which interests a lot of the
> beagleboarders, schools, hobbyists etc
>
> hope it helps

 yes, i think there are some great ideas here.  is anyone in germany
already who's considering going to CEBIT?

l.