On Tuesday 21 September 2010 21:08:48 Jimmy Pierre wrote:
Greetings,
The car had to be towed to a Dealer because, the windscreen was smashed.
OK, SFD 2010, where do I begin?
We solicited the Propaganda machine: News papers: Paris - Normandie, Rouen Magazine National Radios : RTL and France Bleue RSS : All LUGs in France Forums: Our usual partners alionet.org Mailing lists : opensuse-fr, interlug, april.org . Posters: printed on A3 in colour Uniforms : no openSUSE t-shirts, we indulged in Novell shirts Banners : Novell Users International DVDs : Thanks to openSUSE 11.3 only as we gave all our stock of 11.1 at RMLL in Bordeaux. Material : 5 laptops with openSUSE 11.3 and in standby 16 Boxes with openSUSE 11.1 - 11.2, WI-FI: Our partners of Rouen-Wireless were there Room for the venue : Rouen City Associations House Logistics, refreshments & food : NUI.fr Participants: NUI.fr, wikimedia France & LANPOWER Websites: nui.fr jmll.fr jmll.org jmll.info & softwarefreedomday.org Ranking and web submission : AddWeb
We were overwhelmed by the visitors. We distributed 211 openSUSE 11.3 DVDs to the casual visitors and a few SUSE 11 SP1 to people from the Ministry of Education.
We started sfd with demonstration of CMS, we showed fresh installation and tweaking of software from http://opensourcecms.com This took a couple of hours because the process was challenging and over a wireless link sometimes falling at 2mb.
Coffee break and we struggled our way into FOSS games. The audience was quite interested that you could use Linux to work but also to play games and some of them are "clones" of Windows games. We gave some advice on using Wine, but demonstrated that installation of openSUSE 11.3 alongside with Windows would be their best bet. Dual booting and showing how to configure in Yast.
We taught people into installing openSUSE 11.3 (OK we cheated here) on a particular laptop (a fast one). There were a few challengers. Some people deeply anchored into Ubuntu and Debian were a bit cold on doing the big move! One guy even came with his laptop loaded with CentOS not to nag us but to ask advice on wireless. I showed him how easy we were connected with 5 makes of laptops (Asus, HP, Packard bell, Compaq) with wireless. He will give openSUSE a try!
We had our usual visitors and fans and in particular the Chess Club of the city. He wants to interface his Chess board with a Linux box. Well, if any of you has some ideas..
We had a debate on Gnome and KDE 4. This does drain your brains because it's like loving automatic car v/s a manual car. Both cars work fine, it's like tea with sugar or just tea.
Wikimedia France was there and gave a lecture on wikis, that was interesting, I did learn a few things as well. We showed the wiki of softwarefreedomday.org and we were the *only* LUG in France doing something.
We finished the day with practical labs on openSSH, mRemote, Xen, blogs (mainly WP), CSS.
Each visitor was given a pen to write our email down and then they could keep it! What a pity, no pens left, not even for me!
There were many other stories, but time is of essence, so I'll keep it short. We are now getting ready for the next round 16th October, 2010.
We ran out of battery for our camera so here are the pics secured :
http://www.nui.fr/linpha/viewer.php?albid=14&stage=1
Best wishes, Jimmy
Dude that is one heck of a report! I think such extensive reports should be articles on news.opensuse.org! Or at the least end up as a blog on planet... What do you think, should this be an article? What do others think, should we make articles of these events? We can do a weekly article about the events our ambassadors have gone to? Anyone who feels like he/she can set up such a weekly page (I will help editing)?