[Ubuntu-ch] Report draft - OpenExpo

Sun Sep 28 20:02:23 BST 2008


oeffentlich at gmx.ch schrieb:
> Hi Silvan,
> 
> As far as I can see, she only wrote that we sold Debian T-shirts and
> that we might consider selling Ubuntu T-shirts next time, but not that
> people actually asked for Ubuntu T-shirts. I know it's only a detail,
> but I didn't find a "more important" point.

okay, I think that needs to be discussed more in detail anyway - about
the design too ;)

> 
> On a different subject: Is it actually in order if we sell Ubuntu
> merchandise at OpenExpo? Or is selling things at a free booth against
> the rules of OpenExpo? Just wondering.
> 
We sold Debian merchandise - no complaints
and then the FreeBeer People sold their beer - I doubt that is a problem


> Kind regards,
> Manuel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 28.09.2008, 17:31 +0200 schrieb Silvan Gebhardt:
>> I think you need to read her text again - she wrote about it
>>
>> Silvan Gebhardt
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>>
>> Am 28.09.2008 um 17:26 schrieb "oeffentlich at gmx.ch"  
>> <oeffentlich at gmx.ch>:
>>
>>> 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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