[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Open Source day

Alex Maier lxmaier at gmail.com
Mon Mar 20 15:42:55 UTC 2006


Wassim,

Despite the fact that other Ambassadors were not informed of your
initiative, here is a big Thank you for actively spreading the word
about Fedora.

I have to join Thomas in asking you to add your future endeavors to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents so people can do two
things:
a) know about what you are doing and come to your event
b) help you out with organization etc.

Thank you once again and keep up the good work!

Cheers,
Alex

On 3/16/06, Wassim K. <wk.20050201 at gmail.com> wrote:
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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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