[Cryptech Core] Introductory presentations at Berlin Workshop

[Leif Johansson]

On 2016-07-05 23:49, Phil Roberts wrote:
> 
> 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.

gimme at most 15 miutes - I could go as low as 5

> 
> 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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