[Ubuntu-ch] Report draft - OpenExpo

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Hi Myriam,

Thanks for your extensive work, it looks great to me. The only thing I
could think of that you could add was that several people asked for
Ubuntu shirts when they saw the Debian ones.

Best regards,
Manuel



Am Samstag, den 27.09.2008, 14:39 +0200 schrieb Myriam Schweingruber:
> Hi all,
> 
> Find below my report for the OpenExpo in Winterthur. Please, Daniel,
> Manuel and Silvan, complete what's missing! We will then put it on the
> wiki
> 
> The booth was on Wednesday and Thursday, 24/25 September at the
> Eulachhallen in WInterthur [1].
> 
> During these two days, Daniel Stoni, Manuel Schmid, Silvan Gebhardt
> and myself presented Ubuntu and it's variants to the public.
> 
> We mainly gave away the Swiss Remix DVD which really is a great
> promotional tool! We received a pack from the ch-open guys and almost
> all are gone. Luckily they also include KDE and Xfce so we could
> answer nearly all the demands as we only had very little Kubuntu 8.04
> left and none of the official Ubuntu 8.04. Only very few people asked
> for CD's (as they didn't have a DVD slot).
> Great thanks to ch-open[2] and Matthias Stürmer in particular who had
> this brilliant idea!
> 
> We also had some Kubuntu KDE 4 remix CDs which we had to hand out
> carefully as it includes a KDE 4.0 aimed at developers and people had
> to upgrade ASAP to 4.1.2, currently aimed at advanced users. We have
> to be very careful with the upcoming Kubuntu 8.10 as it will include
> 4.1.2 and it definitely is not a "beginners" version. This will be
> done with 9.04 which will include KDE 4.2 considered as final.
> 
> There were a few demands for the Server Edition and we pointed them to
> the download page as we didn't prepare any ISOs for that. ToDo for
> next time.
> 
> Idem for Edubuntu, as we had a some people willing to spread it in
> schools. Surprisingly we had a few people asking for the "Children's
> Edition", one even expected it to include Internet filters for small
> children... we reminded him that filtering is something the parents
> should do and every browser includes such tools. I did a small
> presentation of Gcompris to one of the persons too.
> 
> There also were demands for support, either professional or for
> individuals. Problems which could not be saved at the booth ("what do
> I do if the printer stops working?") were oriented to the contacts
> list in our wiki and I sent one professional request to Puzzle Inc.
> who also had a booth and who are listed in the Ubuntu marketplace [3].
> Sorry if I missed another booth of Ubuntu partners.
> ToDo: our website should be worked on ASAP to include links to support
> partners and present Ubuntu in Switzerland more obviously than the
> wiki page.
>  @Daniel, are you still interested in working on that?
>  @Patrick: how fare are you with the website?
> 
> Another request was for training classes. I showed the LPI courses
> available in his region (Migros school, etc.), pointed this person to
> the LPI booth and explained the Ubuntu certification. He was more
> interested in beginners classes and this should be considered too in
> our website.
> @Wiki contacts in the Lucerne region, you might get some support requests!
> @those interested in offering training: there is a new program by
> Canonical which a friend of mine is coordinating. Talk to me if you
> need to get in touch!
> 
> We also met Philipp Gassmann, who wrote an introduction to Ubuntu (in
> German) for his Matura work. He will put it on his wiki as soon as
> it's finished. He won a well deserved OSS Award Switzerland in the
> Youth category [4]. Congratulations, Philipp!
>  ToDo: link to Philipp's excellent work ASAP!
> 
> Some thoughts about the OpenExpo in general:
> 
> Catering was awesome! The tables could be larger, especially if we
> consider selling T-Shirts for next time (I picture an Ibex and the
> ubuntu-ch logo, doesn't this sound nice?). Now where does this idea
> come from? Well, Debian.ch registered a booth and didn't have the
> necessary people to man it, so we agreed to sell their T-Shirts [5].
> One more way to give back to Debian ;)
> Parking should be available for free and that's where Winterthur is
> not necessarily an ideal place for such an expo, as the parking
> available was totally taken by the Topsoft booth people unless one
> arrived 2 hours earlier. Thanks again to Debian.ch for sponsoring our
> parking ticket on Thursday!
> 
> Hope I didn't forget important things, please, booth mates, complete
> what's missing so we can publish that on the wiki and the
> LoCoReportPage.
> 
> Greets
> 
> Myriam
> 
> PS Big thanks also to Silvan who offered bed and breakfast for Mark
> and me and another thanks to Carlos who organised a dwelling for the
> Free Software booth people in Winterthur!
> 
> [1] http://www.openexpo.ch
> [2] http://www.ch-open.ch
> [3] http://webapps.ubuntu.com/marketplace/europe/
> [4] http://www.ossaward.ch/
> [5] http://madduck.net/blog/2008.09.26:ubuntu-giving-back/
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