[Ambassadors] Re: Report for the JDLL event

[Brian (bex) Exelbierd]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 9:21 PM Emmanuel Seyman <emmanuel(a)seyman.fr&gt; wrote:
>  I'm sending this on behalf of Nicolas Berrehouc, who seems to be unable
>  to post to the list.
>
>  ************************************
>  From Saturday 6th to Sunday 7th of April, the French Fedora community
>  was represented by the Borsalinux-FR association at the 20th edition of
>  "les Journées du Logiciel Libre" (Free Software Days in French) in Lyon,
>  France. More informations at https://jdll.org/ (only in french).
>
>  The event main theme was "Ecologeek: for a Community Earth".
>
>  Lots of Linux distributions and associations were there: Hadoly, Illyse,
>  LQDN, ALDIL, CoLibre, ./play.it, Debian-Facile, Debian-France, Freeduc,
>  OtterWays, Il va faire beauf !,TUBA, LALIS, Mageia, Linux & Populus,
>  Monnaie Libre, Ancestris, Parti Pirate, Solidaires informatique,
>  Borsalinux-FR/Fedora, GNOME, 0 A.D., La Mouette, Ergodis, Wikimédia,
>  OSM, Altercarto, April, Alolise, Mozilla, Nos oignons, Framasoft,
>  Khaganat, Boîtes marquetées, Picasoft, CEMEA, Grand Lyon, Tracim,
>  XCP-ng, ritimo/Coredem, openSUSE, Haiku, littleBits, LOL, LOV, Clubelek,
>  Chantier Libre, Jabber-FR.
>
>  Behind the booth:
>  * Nicolas Berrehouc (nicosss);
>  * Kévin Vaufleury (kvfy);
>  * (gaia).
>
>  On Saturday we talked with 31 people and 23 on the Sunday.
>  Various questions and comments:
>   - people who want to quit Windows OS; 
What seemed to be their motivation? Free software? Cost? Stability?
Did they have apps they couldn't live without?

>   - 5 Live-USB boot media from Fedora 29 Workstation and Xfce created;
Cool.  Were these done on the Federator?

>   - 3 people asked for playing under GNU/Linux distributions; 
Do you mean games? or what?

>   - people learned that, unlike other distributions, Fedora was
> destined
>  to have only free software;
>   - explanations were provided regarding the Red Hat link and the recent
>  IBM buyout;
>   - explanations were provided regarding what is a GNU/Linux distribution
>  and free software;
>   - thanks from Fedora users for the work done and the quality of the
>  distribution;
>   - why we didn’t have goodies for the event. 
Why didn't we?  I didn't see a mindshare ticket.  Did one get missed?

>  Only goodies we had were the Cheat Cubes from the work of nobrakal
>  https://nobrakal.fedorapeople.org/cheat_cubes_fr/ and people liked the
>  principle of this cube. 
I've always thought these were good ideas.  I wonder if people outside
of France would use them if we printed more.

regards,

bex

>  Thanks to gaia and kvfy for being here despite the distance of the trip
>  to assist me.
>  It was also an opportunity to say hello to bochecha and number80 from
>  Lyon, misc and Casper present for the week-end and GNOME community at
>  booth beside to us.
>
>  Some media of this year’s event and past editions are available at the
>  link
>
> https://epn.salledesrancy.com/evenements-et-projets/les-journees-du-logic...
>  .
>
>  Thanks everyone and see you next year in the same place!
>
>  ************************************
>
>  Emmanuel
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