[Cryptech Core] Introductory presentations at Berlin Workshop

[Phil Roberts]

When will folks be arriving?  I¹ll be there Thursday morning so can make
sure the room is all set.  Karen is double checking on the projector
request.

On 7/5/16, 10:17 AM, "Core on behalf of Rob Austein"
<core-bounces at cryptech.is on behalf of sra at hactrn.net> wrote:

>Presumably we will need some introductory presentations in Berlin
>before diving into playing with the toys.  Several of us were kicking
>ideas on this around and here's what we've come up with so far.
>
>We probably need both:
>
>* A brief song and dance about the project (not so much intro for
>  walk-ins, as I don't think we have any of those, but
>  bring-up-to-speed for people who have not been tracking closely or
>  who want to know how we've been spending their contributions); and
>
>* A short series of brief presentations about major hardware and
>  software components of the Alpha.
>
>Fredrik volunteered to talk about the overall hardware architecture.
>
>Pavel volunteered to talk about the FPGA.
>
>Paul volunteered to talk about the HSM software architecture, command
>line interface, and RPC mechanism
>
>I got volunteered to talk about PKCS #11 and the (other) client side
>software, including how to configure.
>
>Leif, by virtue of not being party to the conversation, got
>volunteered to give the overall intro at the beginning.
>
>We should figure out roughly how long all of this will take so we can
>see if it fits the overall agenda, and, if not, adjust something.
>
>We also need a slide or two to have up during the hands-on part of the
>workshop itself: while we hope to have net, we can't bet the whole
>workshop on it, so we need something self-contained rather than just
>"go read this page on the wiki".  By same token, we should have backup
>plan to serve software packages on LAN in the room if necessary (I
>have one such plan and will bring kit for it, would not be a bad idea
>for someone else to have such a plan as well given that Bad Things can
>happen to kit while in transit).
>
>Giving presos implies that we should have a projector :)
>
>Projector discipline to avoid wasting audience time: all presos should
>be ready in advance, preferably in PDF, and all loaded onto one
>designated laptop which will drive the projector (so maybe one of you
>folks based in Europe bring a spare if nobody wants their own tied
>up).  Debug hookup of laptop to designated projector in advance.
>
>Comments?  Suggestions?  What have we missed?  What should we change?
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