[ubuntu-us-in] IU LinuxFest Decompression

[Michael Schultheiss]

Simon Ruiz wrote:
> Note: Don't make the bookmarks at Kinko's next time. They ended up
> being about $0.25/bookmark. Though I really liked the glossy
> cardstock.

In the future we could possibly print them ourselves (although inkjet
ink is extremely expensive) and possibly save money.

> I was sorely over-optimistic making 50 Install CDs, and left probably
> 20-30 Edgy Install CD-Rs in the care of CINLUG, to be used as coasters
> and/or frisbees as Feisty comes out in two weeks.

Feisty comes out a week from today (April 19 iirc) - CINLUG still has
plenty of Dapper and earlier disks to give out as well.  The beauty of
Ubuntu and other Debian based distros is that you can install once and
upgrade forever via apt, aptitude, synaptic, etc.

> We had a couple of demo laptops with plain vanilla Ubuntu install
> (courtesy of my employer) set up, and Michael had one computer with a
> big monitor, huge resolution, and Beryl effects.

Note: Once your demo machine is verified to work, don't change settings
;)

> The USSG had a few boxes running Beryl, and I guess they were also
> demonstrating how easy it was to install Linux, but I must admit I
> didn't leave our booth much.

I think USSG had a better Beryl demo than CINLUG (they had more of the
eye candy like water and rain working from what I saw).  I plan on
contacting some people I know in USSG to see how they got Beryl to
enable the extra eye candy.  I did notice that all their Beryl demo
machines were running Ubuntu :)

> I didn't have slides, just a couple of sheets of notes to keep me on
> track, but I barely turned to them except to make sure I covered
> everything I'd planned to. All in all I think I talked for a little
> under 45 minutes. People seemed to be interested (I didn't notice
> anyone nodding off or anything), and asked some really good questions
> at the end. Though, when I first finished, there was a long silence
> before the first brave soul asked a question and I was afraid maybe
> I'd bored everyone catatonic. 

I enjoyed the part of your talk that I saw.  I stepped out of the room
to finish my lunch and found I was locked out :(

> I did manage to video record my presentation on the Mustek DV-5500 I
> got at HECC this year, and I'm wondering how to convert and compress
> the .ASF file into something more universally accessible than a 215MB
> file in a Microsoft proprietary format (though the case on the thing
> says "MPEG4"). In case anyone would find it interesting, I'd like to
> make it available to people.

I'd like to see the video, especially since I missed most of the talk.

> P.S. Of course the Conference Pack from Canonical was in my mailbox
> when I got home. Figures.

Heh - as I said at LinuxFest, CINLUG could probably use it at ITEC in
June unless there's another conference before then.