On Monday 13 December 2010 13:22:14 Jimmy Pierre wrote:
Greetings,
Here we go:
Software freedom Day Event Date : 16th October, 2010. Event Sponsors : NUI.fr openSUSE Ambassadors : Jimmy Pierre Helpers : Laurence Seigneury, Johnny Castel, Jr. Event Details Tell us about the event, What did you do? : Demonstration of installation of openSUSE 11.3, open office, chess & games, yast, ssh, WordPress, repositories, wi-fi etc. How many DVDs taken and distributed? : 100 and distributed 52 How many people were there at the event ? 27 (France was on strike, no petrol, no trains, busses, tramways, flights (http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=29085 ) even against all odds, we were present as scheduled. How did you promote the Event? Facebook : No Twitter : No Others : Usual channels (forums, rss feeds to web sites and our four domain names nui.fr jmll.fr jmll.org, jmll.info , no radio, no newspapers as they had other bones to gnaw) Any Interesting Story you will like to share with us? : Yes, two people drove 87 kms to come to see us and I learnt later that they heard about us on the radio for the last event 1.e 18th September and kept track of what we were doing. A young man took a dvd for her grandma Myrtha, aged 81. We had a sort of Jam session (not food related, but IT) with chess players who needed Internet for a party. So openSUSE was there for their party. Did you have a booth? : NUI was the only LUG present. Who staffed the booth? All of the above. Would you go again? Yes, 27th November and 1_th Decembre next. What more can you do to make it better? Swap our 16 or so boxes into laptops because it takes too much time to setup the room. Get hold of goodies. 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? We were too eager to go back home.
Software freedom Day Event Date : 27th november 2010 Event Sponsors : NUI.fr openSUSE Ambassadors : Jimmy Pierre Helpers : Laurence Seigneury, Nathalie A. Event Details Tell us about the event, What did you do? : openSUSE 11.3, libre office, chess & games, yast, WordPress, wi-fi, smeegol etc. How many DVDs taken and distributed? : 100 and distributed 37 How many people were there at the event ? 27 (The thermometer showed 3°C and we nevertheless did not cancel the event). How did you promote the Event? Facebook : No Twitter : No Others : Usual channels (forums, rss feeds to web sites and our four domain names nui.fr jmll.fr jmll.org, jmll.info, no radio, no newspapers this time) Any Interesting Story you will like to share with us? : Yes, a bunch of students and their teacher popped in and started to touch everything. I distributed some dvds of openSUSE and convinced them to play at home ☺ We fighted with smeegol for a lady who wanted to sync her iPhone, this is another story. We had a young man who has a lot of IT problems and he did monopolized some of us to sort his laptop. Thanks God, it was a Dell, so no esoteric material to configure. Did you have a booth? : NUI was the only LUG present. Who staffed the booth? All of the above. Would you go again? Yes, 27th November and 18th December What more can you do to make it better? Priority for 2011 : Swap our 16 or so boxes into laptops because it takes too much time to setup the room. Get hold of goodies. 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? We were too busy with social problems to do that.
As you can see, we had a lot of fun.
Awesomeness :D
Jimmy President nui.fr