[Cryptech Core] Introductory presentations at Berlin Workshop

[Phil Roberts]

I¹m pulling together a draft agenda with times based on the text Leif
circulated earlier.  I¹d like to send this to all the alpha testers who
have said they plan to attend.

The overviews sound great!  Is an hour long enough for these overviews?  I
don¹t want to rush people but I also don¹t want people to feel like they
need to fill up time.

I have us starting at 0900 Friday with coffee and mingling and formally
getting going at 0930, going until 1700.  Lunch is being brought in.

On Saturday starting at 0900 and wrapping up at 1300 with the last two
hours for feedback.  Do you think that will give enough time for people to
have adequate experience with it?

If these timings are wrong or inadequate please let me know - I¹m not
driving, just writing stuff downŠ.



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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