[opensuse-marketing] Report Software Freedom Day Saturday 17th December, 2016.
Greetings, So we planned the last SFD event of 2016 on Saturday 17th. We can report that there were ~35% less visitors and those who attended were new comers on one hand and our usual “suspects” were lying on their couch moaning about the economy, and/or following their partner in the Xmas fever spree. Our venue is adjacent to the shopping mall of Rouen, so this is our barometer. When there are loads of people in the walkways, then we are gratified with visitors. We had: 1. The Chess Club President who came to greet merry Xmas 2. Our Greek lady with some issues. 3. A new lady with FireFox issues 4. Our motor cycler with VLC issues and Leap 42.2 (tip of ice berg) 5. Olivier came to help out as usual. 6. Laurence same sort of things but more patient with ladies in particular beginners. 7. Two new comers who were in another LUG 8. 7 “chance” visitors, looking around, just asking what we do and when we are back in. 9. openStreemap was there (a representative that is) 10. A young student from another LUG fond of many distributions and being converted/evangelized to openSUSE. 11. Nathalie to give morale support, tea, coffee, juice, cakes and make people wait when they arrive… 12. Myself Nothing much happening, apart from sharing knowledge, applications, usage, debugging. Until our moto cycler after hearing the lady complaining about FireFox was motivated to change his desktop to Mate (not our idea) and people from 7 and 10 above jumped on this opportunity for approximately 3 hours. The 4G router was red hot downloading with yast (29GB for the day). The whole story ended in a nightmare. I had to take the laptop home, reinstall Leap 42.2 fresh and went to deliver on Sunday :) There was on top of all this a couple that needed a Dell with Vista migrated. Olivier spent the whole afternoon on this case. We thought that we had won when it asked to reboot after installation. No, blank screen, the video card is not on the HAL list and clearly not supported. Also tried Tumbletweed, KO as well. Vista has some happy days to live on. I did distribute Leap 42.2 DVDs and stickers… It was my step daughter’s birthday so we closed on time and were quite happy that we were asked for January dates, which BTW is 28th. I have 5 new people who have confirmed their presence *plus* one lady with her desktop already in the starting blocks :D However a smaller audience, we had a lot of fun :) Best, Jimmy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org
Thank you Jimmy. Excellent report. Perhaps the crowd will get bigger once it starts to warm up. v/r Doug On 01/18/2017 11:07 AM, Jimmy PIERRE wrote:
Greetings,
So we planned the last SFD event of 2016 on Saturday 17th.
We can report that there were ~35% less visitors and those who attended were new comers on one hand and our usual “suspects” were lying on their couch moaning about the economy, and/or following their partner in the Xmas fever spree.
Our venue is adjacent to the shopping mall of Rouen, so this is our barometer. When there are loads of people in the walkways, then we are gratified with visitors.
We had:
1. The Chess Club President who came to greet merry Xmas
2. Our Greek lady with some issues.
3. A new lady with FireFox issues
4. Our motor cycler with VLC issues and Leap 42.2 (tip of ice berg)
5. Olivier came to help out as usual.
6. Laurence same sort of things but more patient with ladies in particular beginners.
7. Two new comers who were in another LUG
8. 7 “chance” visitors, looking around, just asking what we do and when we are back in.
9. openStreemap was there (a representative that is)
10. A young student from another LUG fond of many distributions and being converted/evangelized to openSUSE.
11. Nathalie to give morale support, tea, coffee, juice, cakes and make people wait when they arrive…
12. Myself
Nothing much happening, apart from sharing knowledge, applications, usage, debugging. Until our moto cycler after hearing the lady complaining about FireFox was motivated to change his desktop to Mate (not our idea) and people from 7 and 10 above jumped on this opportunity for approximately 3 hours. The 4G router was red hot downloading with yast (29GB for the day). The whole story ended in a nightmare. I had to take the laptop home, reinstall Leap 42.2 fresh and went to deliver on Sunday :)
There was on top of all this a couple that needed a Dell with Vista migrated. Olivier spent the whole afternoon on this case. We thought that we had won when it asked to reboot after installation. No, blank screen, the video card is not on the HAL list and clearly not supported.
Also tried Tumbletweed, KO as well. Vista has some happy days to live on.
I did distribute Leap 42.2 DVDs and stickers…
It was my step daughter’s birthday so we closed on time and were quite happy that we were asked for January dates, which BTW is 28th. I have 5 new people who have confirmed their presence *plus* one lady with her desktop already in the starting blocks :D
However a smaller audience, we had a lot of fun :)
Best, Jimmy
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