LCA Open Day plans

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Monday 08 January 2007 13:44, Craige McWhirter <craige at mcwhirter.com.au> 
wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 21:45 +1030, Paul Schulz wrote:
> > I have no difficulties with Craige's suggestion..
> > -- What demonstrations does he find the most effective for attracting
> > people?
>
> noisy, shiny, pretty.
>
> supertux, gcompris, Wesnoth etc and Compiz. That stuff reels in casual
> passer-bys, then you show them the less interesting meat: email,
> OpenOffice, gimp, f-spot, depending on their usage. Heaps of other
> standard everyday use apps so they realise it's all very familiar.

Don't forget instant messaging apps, like Gaim and Kopete. Teenagers love 
them, especially after they realise that they can handle multiple protocols 
and logins at once.

WINE, whether it be the official version or the Cedega or Crossover variants, 
would be nice. We could show desktop applications like Photoshop and MS 
Office running on Ubuntu, as well as 3D programmes like games.

Commercial applications and games would be good to demonstrate as well. We 
need to show that GNU/Linux has solid commercial support behind it, and is 
not a 'hippie OS'.

> A digital camera, USB stick and an mp3/ogg player would be "musts" too.

Demonstrating iPod compatibility would be brilliant. Everyone seems to own one 
these days, so compatibility is essential. That will also allow us to show 
applications like Amarok and Banshee.

I'll bring my digital camera and USB memory stick, as well as a few memory 
cards to show off the card reader on my laptop.

> A machine dedicated to showing off Compiz (3D) would be good - but don't
> demo much else on it - many apps are allergic to a GL desktop. I'll rig
> one of mine up for XGL.

I have Composite going on my laptop. It delivers some of the same effects as 
XGL/AIGLX, but is much easier to get going on Edgy (no need to install extra 
packages).

There are some great videos we can show off as well. Elephants Dream is a 
must, as is the Nelson Mandela video that comes with Ubuntu. I have some 
great recordings of Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen explaining free 
software, as well as a copy of Revolution OS.

Don't forget to demonstrate the simple, essential things, like the system 
tools. We can demonstrate how easy it is to install applications through 
Synaptic, and how simple it is to manage your system.

-- 
            Secret hacker rule #11: hackers read manuals.
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