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)?
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