Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ambassadors (105 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nitin,

On Friday 01 October 2010 18:10:34 Nitin K Sookun wrote:
> Hello friends,
>
> First of all a big thanks to Andreas, I received the promo DVDs on time.
> We had our openSUSE Linux event on UoM's campus yesterday, 30 September
> 2010. It was rocking and we received plenty feedback. Got students
> interested from faculties of management, humanities, agriculture
> etc...contrary to our belief that this event will attract computer
> science & engineering students only.
>
> Many of them are newbies, and openSUSE will be their first taste of
> Linux. I'm thus providing them some support through mail, will soon
> start and openSUSE blog here in Mauritius. I've explained them how they
> can get support and advice through IRC etc.

This is great! Hope it's not only you doing the support ;)

> I've seen that the computer labs at the University are currently using
> Ubuntu 10.04 and Linux Mint. I've distributed some DVDs there also.
>
> In total we've distributed some 500 DVDs on the University's campus and
> a few dozens among Linux enthusiasts at Indra Cybercafés.
>
> We got openSUSE geeko printed on some tshirts for this event :)
>
> Here are some photos of that event:
> http://s669.photobucket.com/albums/vv53/ishwon/openSUSE-UoM-2010/

thanks for sharing this!

Andreas
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