[Ambassadors] Fedora Tunisia at SIB expo. in Tunis (Tunisia)

[Ilyes Gouta]

Hi Gerold,

> but why you don't post such events a little earlier, so that maybe
> someone from the rest of Europe can attand and support you all, that you
> guys out there get in touch with us and we with you to improve spreading
> the word ....

Actually we got ourselves a bit in a hurry for that event, the three
of us had professional obligations. But we did pull it off :)

Maybe the next iteration or major event? :)

Thanks,

-Ilyes

2010/12/1 Gerold Kassube <gerold at lugd.org>:
> CONGRATLUATION, ....
>
> but why you don't post such events a little earlier, so that maybe
> someone from the rest of Europe can attand and support you all, that you
> guys out there get in touch with us and we with you to improve spreading
> the word ....
>
> of friends, ...
> features, first and
> freedom ...
>
> regards
>
> Gerold
>
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 01.12.2010, 19:30 +0100 schrieb Ilyes Gouta:
>> (reposted with the proper subject formatting)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This year's local expo SIB [1] and [2] has just wrapped up down here
>> in Tunis and we're glad to announce that we, Tunisian Fedora
>> Ambassadors, were there at the event where we had a dedicated booth
>> (albeit for a limited time) to present Fedora, the project and the
>> distribution.
>>
>> The expo itself is an opportunity for the local companies, businesses
>> and telecoms to expose their latest computer software/hardware
>> offering and services. For this year's exhibition, the local emerging
>> open source community (mostly university clubs, few businesses)
>> negotiated with the organizers a dedicated booth that would be
>> allocated for every group according to a time table [3].
>>
>> Fedora presence has been scheduled for the 25th of November and for
>> the occasion we decided to produce some Fedora 14 DVDs to distribute
>> them among the attendees. Nihed brilliantly took care of the task and
>> these were actually ready only on the last day of the expo (Saturday
>> the 27th) just on time for the last and biggest meeting for the local
>> open source attendees at SIB. We're going to distribute the remaining
>> stock of the produced DVDs in the forthcoming days, during meet ups at
>> universities and Engineering schools.
>>
>> The booth was managed by me, Nihed and Zied during our time slot. We
>> had mostly students from the Engineering schools asking a lot of
>> questions about open source, Linux, Fedora, the 4 Fs, the difference
>> vs. the other distributions. We used [4] as a basis for our
>> presentation and [5] as a custom poster for the event. Eventually,
>> Nihed managed to get interviewed by the local radios [6, 7] which are
>> thriving for interesting and exciting content, where he mainly spoke
>> about open source as a viable alternative for user.
>>
>> It was an amazing opportunity to meet people, talk about a common
>> passion, think about how we could improve things and do better.
>>
>> One of the coolest highlights was Tech. and Engineering school
>> staffers and students asking us to organize practical days and
>> workshops on site, that's in their own schools, to talk about Fedora,
>> Linux and open source in general. We already asked to provide us the
>> major themes/concepts they’re interested in and started brainstorming
>> and drafting a program/course. Indeed, this would bring a lot to the
>> student as far as awareness, competence, visibility and communication
>> are concerned.
>>
>> -Ilyes Gouta
>>
>> 1. http://www.sogefoires.com/index.php/salon-sib.html
>> 2. http://www.tekiano.com/tek/tek-news/3-4-2919/tunisie-le-sib-it-2010-comme-si-vous-etiez.html
>> 3. http://www.tekiano.com/tek/soft/3-10-2910/tunisie-le-logiciel-libre-a-l-honneur-au-sib.htm
>> 4. http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/a/af/FOSSMeet09.odp
>> 5. http://ilyes.fedorapeople.org/Fedora%20Poster%20Final_2000x1000.png
>> 6. http://www.mosaiquefm.net/index/a/Actif/Cat/57
>> 7. http://www.radioexpressfm.com
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