Report for the JDLL event

[Emmanuel Seyman]

I'm sending this on behalf of Nicolas Berrehouc, who seems to be unable
to post to the list.

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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;
 - 5 Live-USB boot media from Fedora 29 Workstation and Xfce created;
 - 3 people asked for playing under GNU/Linux distributions;
 - 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.

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.

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-logiciel...
.

Thanks everyone and see you next year in the same place!

************************************

Emmanuel

[Brian (bex) Exelbierd]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 9:21 PM Emmanuel Seyman  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-logiciel...
> .
>
> Thanks everyone and see you next year in the same place!
>
> Emmanuel
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[Nicolas BERREHOUC]

Hi,

I'm now able to post here.

Their motivation was essentially about stability, viruses and User
Interface who seems more simple (Gnome and KDE were quoted).

Problem is that they think they could use all their Windows applications
but some of them are only available on Windows and they don't know that
there are a lot of alternatives available under GNU/Linux distributions
or multi-OS.

No Fedorator on the booth but I know that eseyman (from the French
community) was working on it a while back. The Live-USB were created
with MediaWriter tool.

Yes sorry, it was about games, not playing with parameters under the
hood :-)

I think the ticket was not done, but a request should be done shorly for
next events by the French Association.

I don't know, I printed them myself so as to have something to
distribute with the last remaining stickers. But people like to play
with the cube and build it. It may be possible to do a test on future
events to see how people react.

Regards,

Nicolas

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