[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Open Source day

Wassim K. wk.20050201 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 16 11:12:41 UTC 2006


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Yesterday took place an Open Source day at l'École Nationale des
Sciences de l'Informatique, an engineers school in Manouba (10 km from
Tunis) organized by a Tunisian association DFSA http://www.dfsa.org.tn
After the conferences and theorical debates, we moved to workshops
where I had to present Fedora Core. The guests (almost all students)
had no idea about what Fedora is, and were interested by SuSe and
Mandriva. I could nevertheless convince some of them to assist at the
Fedora Installation.
All was fine along the configuration through the Anaconda GUI till the
last step, then Anaconda crashed with a strange error: The partition
is mounted so the installation will abort. Never happened to me before
and I felt as ridiculous as Bill Gates did when 98 crashed. Very
difficult when the only thing they know about Linux is the penguin.
Anyway, I could quickly restart the procedure and the installation was
without any problem. Later, some students came with their laptops
wanting to install Fedora on their machines; I helped the ones I could
and, it was already 18:15, I promised the others to come back to help
them to install Fedora Core 5 once it's released.
I could "convert" at least 7 people to install Fedora on their
machines, explaining what SE Linux is, how stable, secure,
user-friendly Fedora is, letting them trying different hardware on
Fedora (Digital cameras, MP3 flash, Nokia's), I also explained to
those familiar with old Redhat versions the efficiency of yum instead
of the classical RPM "manual" installation. Newbies liked the Gnome
interface with Blue Curve theme; I promised those who did not like the
idea of substituting MP3 by OGG to install  MP3 players and
converters, all the DivX codecs and DVD players if they only dare
install Fedora.
Here was a report of my first activity as Fedora ambassador; next Open
Source day will occure after one month, probably in another
university. All suggestions are welcome so that I contribute to
promote our distribution.
Regards,
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