Antwerp rocks! I think the dual boot option is the most attractive for beginners to try it out. I always suggested to get the help of one of the support points to install this, if the user is not confident in re-partitioning a drive..
What I found that worked well, is to make it a challenge: Sacrifice 10GB of your drive for a dual boot and try it oyut, and you'll see you won't turn back to Windows after 6 months. Another thing that was attractive for some, was the option of re-using their old computer. All in all a great fair and wonderful result. Regards, Jan. On 9/14/09, jean7491 <jean7...@free.fr> wrote: > > Booth report (has been added to the wiki, pictures will follow) > > The booth has been organized as described in this wiki : > - with 7 volunteers (Bram, Koen, Jan, Jean, Thijs, Ward, Willem), the work > schedule was improved and better adapted : 2 all the day, 4 from 09.00 h. > till 14.00 h. and 1 from 14.00 till the end), > - enough hardware (4 laptops, 2PC, 1 additional TV screen ) and additional > material. > > The Dipro Computer fair was coupled with a musical fair at the same > location. The Ubuntu-be booth was located closed to the music part at a > unfavourable location, but next to the booth of Computerclub C&T. There was > not enough place for visitors to walk. > > The work was organized as follow : > - 1 TV screen + 1 desktop at the beginning of the booth, with 1 or 2 > volunteers at the corner of the booth (for an easier contact with visitors), > to address the public attracted by the presentation (see wiki : > Ubuntu_short_presentation-NL.odp), > - 4 laptops and 1 PC All-in-screen, with 3 volunteers in front of the > tables, giving explanations and demonstrations, distributing flyers and cd's > ; > - 1 volunteer at the other side of the booth for general control and > security of the booth. > > Our booth (3 tables for the price of 2) was well adapted to our deployment. > We lacked of depth back of the booth due to other booths material. > We should ask the Dipro organization at least 3 tables and a better > location (like at a wall and close to the main entrance). > > The booth was correctly decorated with table cloth, posters, flyers, > plastic stands with A4 flyers. > We improvised a kind of support to fix 4 posters as background of the > booth. Working with laptop on the table is not easy when you and the visitor > are standing in front of the table, we used 1 wooden box to elevate 1 laptop > ( ± 30 cm high). We should find other easy solutions. > > There was no WiFi, nor internet connection. > > We distributed approximatively 200 flyers, 30 information sheets, 100 > explanation sheet about live-cd's and 90 cd's Ubuntu 9.04 (+ a few other > versions), always on request of interested persons and with explanation. > With a stock of 15 original cd's and 20 home-burned cd's, we had to burn 80 > cd's and used home-printed CD sleeves. We should prepare the fair by burning > at home more cd's and printing decorated cd sleeves. > > From 10.30 to 15.00 h. : many interested visitors, we were permanently busy > with questions, explanations and demonstrations (full manning of the > booth!). From 15.00 to 16.30 h. : less public, but permanently visitors with > questions. > > Generally visitors knew about Ubuntu and were interested by additional > information. Some people did not know about the existence of Ubuntu, likely > they were more interested by the music instruments fair than in computer, > but we sometimes succeeded to attract their attention. > The (slide show) general presentation of Ubuntu has been successful for > this public. > Many questions about the co-existence Ubuntu - Windows (dual boot) and how > to work with a live-cd. > > Suggestion : we should prepare short video's (with or without comment) as > demonstration to explain : > - how to use a live-cd; > - the step “Partitioning – where to install Ubuntu” during the install > process, > - the dual-boot Ubuntu – Windows. > *Who has the experience skin and possibility to realize such video-clips ? > > *Finance > 106 euro gifts, booth fee 50 euro, we bought 3x50 cd's (12,50 > euro/spindel), 4 x 50 cd sleeves (2,50 euro/each), the remaining 18,50 euro > will be transferred to Ubuntu-be account by Jean7491. > The remaining stock of blanco cd's and cd sleeves will be used in the next > events. > > *Summary* > It was a very successful event for Ubuntu promotion, with enough motivated > volunteers (6) from the Antwerp area. > We need video-clips as explanation support, boxes to elevate the laptops > and supports for posters. > We already started the preparation of the Dipro comuters fair in Antwerp on > 29/11/2009. > > -- > Jean > *Ubuntu Belgium Events Team* > -- Microsoft programs are like Englishmen. They only speak Microsoft.
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