Hope you feel better now. :)<br>i agree to join the Free Media . i can provide Live Gnome and DVD for my area . will add myself soon!<br>Looking forward to join the Release party this month!<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Frankie Mangoa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frankiemangoa@gmail.com">frankiemangoa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Great!!!!<br>
congratulations!seems like a success to me.<br>
<br>
2010/2/18 mak <<a href="mailto:mahayalamkhan@gmail.com">mahayalamkhan@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Dear All,<br>
><br>
> We had a great event. We enjoyed a lot all through 5 days of the exhibition.<br>
> We arranged FAD in that Expo and almost all Fedora Ambassador from<br>
> Bangladesh met for the first time in a place.<br>
><br>
> The first day expo had less visitors, it might happened due the extra<br>
> security for the Finance minister who inaugurated the expo. Almost all<br>
> visitor of that day were other booths/stalls attendees. Our Fedora DVD<br>
> (locally produced) was very catchy and everybody was asking price of the<br>
> medium and were excited to get one free. We distributed only DVD and kept<br>
> the T-Shirts for the other crowded day. Earlier this month we received a<br>
> OLPC XO laptop from George Hunt, which we kept in our booth for display, it<br>
> fetched lot of kids to our booth.<br>
><br>
> The second day plenty of Linux users flocked in front of our booth, informed<br>
> via newspaper about our Fedora Both. They were telling about there problems<br>
> and troubles, few brought their laptops and told they couldn't manage to<br>
> connect mobile broadband, we tried to make them happy. In this day we<br>
> distributed DVD and Fedora Stickers along with our Fedora handbills. We<br>
> setup a PC to burn DVD for those who brought blank media.<br>
><br>
> 3rd day was public holiday. The expo had the record number of visitors in<br>
> it's history and we were exhausted. Fedora Ambassador Rejaul Islam joined<br>
> me and shared half of the pain :) He proved to be very good at preaching,<br>
> and later I found he is a man of Marketing. This day we finished almost half<br>
> of our DVD and other swags. We were happy to introduce Fedora to lot's of<br>
> school boys, Rejaul informed them about the Fedora Scholarship and inspired<br>
> to apply.<br>
><br>
> 4th Day was public holiday too, but schools were open. Crowd was limited but<br>
> everyone was stopping by our booth to get a free DVD, the word must have<br>
> spread via various Bangladeshi mailing lists. we had adopt<br>
> prize-for-the-quiz before giving a free DVD. We just inquired if they use<br>
> any Linux distro or if they have heard about Fedora, even asked what are the<br>
> 4 Fs and so on. But, the most important part of this day was the first ever<br>
> real FAD for Bangladesh. We had already announced that long ago through<br>
> mailing lists, and FB event page was there. Almost all Fedora Ambassador of<br>
> Bangladesh showed up along with Fedora Users. Imtiaz Rahi told us about<br>
> fedoraproject and it's various sub projects and inspired us to join other<br>
> sub projects as well. I told them about l10n subproject and found that<br>
> everyone wanted to do some localization. We met Rana Khan, who planned a<br>
> Fedora 12 Release party at his University, he was asked to make an entry in<br>
> the event page. I decided to give 50 DVD for his party, all other ambassador<br>
> agreed to attend his event. We agreed to arrange series of events through<br>
> out 2010 and thought. Imtiaz Rahi also requested to step ahead for the Free<br>
> Media project and asked to mail him if anyone is interested. Mizan agreed to<br>
> that from his city Chittagong. At the end we distributed DVD, T-Shirts,<br>
> Stickers, clicked group photos and had food. Here is a photo stream:<br>
> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ankur_bangladesh/sets/72157623334524467/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/ankur_bangladesh/sets/72157623334524467/</a><br>
><br>
> 5th and last day was a less happening cause it is the starting day of the<br>
> week in our country, though we finished all our DVD (except 50 for the<br>
> release party). A group from workshop named WALCOM(!) held in an university<br>
> came to our booth and discussed technical things.<br>
><br>
> Later I became ill, standing throughout the 5 days of the expo and hence<br>
> reporting lately. But I was excited to meet all the Ambassador of my country<br>
> for the first time, this is the time I had the one of the F (friends); I<br>
> want to do this again and again.<br>
><br>
> regards<br>
> Mahay Alam Khan (mak)<br>
> Fedora Ambassador<br>
> Bangladesh.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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