Late report - FLISoL, Santiago de Chile.
Event Date: 30/04/2011 (heck, I know!) Event Sponsors: Ministerio Secretaría General de Gobierno; Desarrollo digital del Ministerio de Economía; CORFO, Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos; Colegio de Profesores; Universidad de Chile, and Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM). openSUSE Ambassadors: Ricardo Varas Santana. Helpers: n/a. Event Details ========= -Tell us about the event, What did you do? I got to talk about the openSUSE Project in one of the offical talks. Official name was "openSUSE, Linux in Green and for all". So I talked about how to contribute to openSUSE from a non-developer point of view, showing how the community is organized and how cool it is to be part of it. Also pointed out about the SUSE Studio and Build Service platforms. -How many DVDs taken and distributed? I used old 11.3 DVDs and T-shirts I had from back then, so it was around 400 units of DVDs, plus 5 t-shirts. -How many people were there at the event? Out there over 1000 people the whole day for many talks at the same time, I just stayed half of it. Sadly, only 12-15 were in my talk. Not looking for cheap excuses, but room location was not very accessible, first round in the morning, install-fest going on, etc. That was not good at all. -How did you promote the Event? I used mostly Twitter and Facebook. -Any Interesting Story you will like to share with us? Met 12 years old kid who wanted to install and try openSUSE. He was very enthusiastic about that, didn't care to delete the whole Ubuntu system :). He had excellent Linux skills, already knew about partitions, a few shell commands, software for specific tasks, etc. We had problems with the wifi drivers, and then added the proper repos and problems fixed. That was awesome to him. Anyway, his father promised to get me a beer for the time installing and setting up the new openSUSE powered system. Hell yeah! :) -Did you have a booth? Nop. -Who staffed the booth? n/a -Would you go again? Definitely. -What more can you do to make it better? Well, I was not organizing it, but here are my 2 cents. Event did not start on time, and there was a sort of miss-information about the rooms/talks/time, so I guess that is one of the strongest reasons for having low number of people attending the talk. I wish there were more Ambassadors/Members around so we can show openSUSE's power in a massive way. -Other Comments like Will you blog about the event - and where? Who staffed the booth? Did you have a talk? Which topic? Would you organize again? I didn't have the time to blog about it, it's been almost crazy at work --that is a lot of tickets to fix--, but I managed to put together a lot of information about the openSUSE Project myself, and you know, it's never easy to make it fit within an hour of time. Most of the people in the room did not know about SUSE Studio, and they were less curious about the Build Service, as the audience was not coming from a technical background pretty much. They asked a lot about the SUSE Studio, things like ways to customize it, details about the final output for the appliances, how free it is to use, etc. Then questions about the openSUSE-Educational spin, and how easy it is to set up a development environment. I walked down to the install-fest, saw a lot of people taking one of our DVDs, and they looked amazed when I pointed out it's 32bits on one side and 64bits on the other. I don't think there is any other Linux distro providing that coolness. Again, they asked me about the differences between us and Ubuntu, or why they should pick up openSUSE instead of Fedora, differences between SLEx and openSUSE, hardware compatibility, multimedia drivers, and so on. It was a lot of fun to share time with people in the install-fest area. I wish we had an openSUSE stand. I hope this report is OK, I don’t think I am too good at it, so next time it will be better. Regards everyone! -- Ricardo Varas Santana openSUSE Member, Ambassador, and Translator. http://ricardovs.wordpress.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org
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Ricardo Varas Santana