Hello all, Yesterday, (Saturday 18), was our LDD event in a Palm Springs, California school. We are happy about the result. We have some good and bad point about it. Bad point. ----------- Fortunately as of now, I see only one. Our local newspaper, refused to publish our event. It was not enough to go in person to their office, fax them the info, call them, resend some faxes with some official school paper. They just did not get it. We hope one day they will wake-up. Good points. ----------- Meanwhile, we still managed to distribute ourselve the official LDD flyers, (some left over I printed for "Linux World Expo" In San Jose). I simply printed our local event on the back side. This way we had great looking flyer with the LDD logo in color on one side and our events info on the other side. On glossy paper, it is a great looking flyer. We had a relativley small crowd, but we are not in a big city either. What was unexpected and almost astonishing to me, was how long the visitors stayed. Most of them stayed between 2 and 5 hours. We had some great talk. Visitors where about 50% male and female ratio. They were mostly "regular peole", it was not a geeks only show, that was good as LDD was for everybody. ;-) A part of the visitors work in the graphic field, so we naturaly had some questions aound this subject. Some are Radio Ham, it was another subject of talk. Some schools principals and school state level people came too. Here are some of the questions we had : ----------------------------------------------- This was a question from some school official: Can we run Ms-Word with this Linux thing ? When we showed them "Maxwell", "Applix", "Star Office" and "WordPerfect" they felt better. A remark from some other school people: I am surprise there are already books printed about your Linux thing. I thought it was you, (me) that wanted to sell us something... Several questions from Graphics people. They were pretty "techy" question. Similar to: Does Linux support the industry format ? Or, who is using it in the graphical field ? Several about "CMYK", "RGB", stuff. What is differend between the "Gimp" and "Photoshop" ? etc. Miscenaleous others: Is their a prg that update data in real time from "JPL" ? (JPL="Jet Propulsion Laboratory", it is in Pasadena). Can we do Satellite traking in real time ? Your games are cool, do you have some others one ? Can I stay to play the "Myth" demo all day ? Regarding applications: --------------------------- To answer some questions, we used the apps list I created at the begining of the project. It was helpfull and visitors had a chance to browse it themsleve, they were impressed by the quantity of software that exist for Linux. It is still a draft, but you are welcome to use it. Her is a link to it : http://www.cvlug.org/hp/lxd/lxd_02_1.html The setup we had : ----------------------- We did our LDD event in a classroom. At the end of the day we donated about half the machines to the school we had the demo in, including three dot matrix printers. Basically we kept our own. AMD K6-350, 128MB RAM, 13 GB hard drive. AMD K6-350, 64 MB RAM, 3 GB hard drive. AMD K5-100, 64 MB RAM, 3.2 GB hard drive. AMD K5-100, 48 MB RAM, 1.2 GB hard drive. AMD K5-100, 16 MB RAM, 1.2 GB hard drive. Pentium P-133 MHz, 48 MB RAM, 1.2 GB hard drive. Pentium P-90 MHz, 24 MB RAM, 4 GB hard drive. Apple Imac, tangerine. Laptop Gateway 2000 Solo 2500, P-II 266 MHz, 128 MB RAM. We did show Samba and some Linux connectivity with one of the K6 running Win95 and the Imac running Mac Os 8.x. All the machines were connected, (except one) using two hubs. We installed the following distributions: Suse, Mandrake, Caldera. We planned on Debian and others, but did not have the time to setup all the hardware. We where only two volunteers for the technical part of the show. The school teatcher that lent us his classroom, was very helpfull in the administrative part of the show. He really supported us. He had the opportunity to show some apps, he was happy to be able to show some wordproccessors. He also directed the visitors and the "techy" questions toward one of the two of us. He feel so much more confident now, that last night we already started to talk about the software he will want to show to his students next week. Ok, that's it for now. Eugene Clement http://www.linuxdemo.org/francais/ http://www.cvlug.org/index.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com --- This message was automatically sent by the Linux Demo Days mailing list To remove yourself from this list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the "unsubscribe" in your message body.
