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