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When? Where? What?

• When : 21/03/2010
• Where: Oostmalle, Kemba - Oostmalle (Lierselei 177)

• What : Dipro Micro Mega Market Computerbeurs http://www.dipro.be/benl/micro_mega_market

Participants

• siegie

• RoelHuybrechts (rulus)

Fees

• paid partly by public gifts...:

Practical

• Promotion of the booth within Ubuntu-be community and outside ?

Stuff needed

paper, attachments, various

• Banner Belgian LoCo Team : (siegie)

• Posters
  • "Ubuntu highway to freedom is now open"
    • I have a few (like 10) -- rulus
    • I have 4 (siegie)
  • "Free your PC" (?)
    • I have 10 (siegie)
  • "Linux-Tux": (?)
• Flyers 2009 Ubuntu-be : I have enough (siegie)
• Flyer use of live-cd : (siegie)
• Sheet Informatie-Information_Ubuntu.odt : (siegie)
• Pen's :
  • Should be no problem, I can bring some -- rulus
• Tablecloth :
  • I can bring this -- rulus
• 1 inflatable Tux :
• x figuurtjes Tux : (?)
• Contribution urn : (siegie)
• Duct tape and other buro material : (siegie)
• 1 long power extension cords :
• 3 power strips (4 sockets minimum) : (?)
  • I can bring 1 with 6 sockets and
  • 1 with 3 -- rulus
• anti-theft cables for laptops : (?)
  • I can bring 1 for my laptop -- rulus
  • I going to buy 1 for my laptop at the fair (siegie)

electronics

• cd's ( originals + blanco) + paper bags:
  • 10 original cd's
  • 100 paper bags
  • 20 not-original cd's (siegie)
• PC :
  • I can bring a desktop pc running Hardy (maybe run live cd of 9.10/10.04)
    • + 15" LCD (maybe bigger, I'll see what I can get)
    • + keyboard
    • + mouse -- rulus
• laptops :
  • I can bring my laptop (15.4") running Debian -- rulus
  • Dell d830 running kubuntu 9.10 and ubuntu 10.04 (siegie)
• netbook :
• additional flat screen s: (?)
• eID card reader : (?)
• beamer + screen : (?)
• Audio set : (siegie)
• External cd writer : (?)
• ...
• continuous slideshow Ubuntu_short_presentation-NL.odp : (see wiki))
• iso's on a stick (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Alternate, 64 bits, etc..) : all(siegie)

• Possibility of WiFi connection : ?

• ...

What else?

• Digital camera :
  • I can bring mine -- rulus
• candies :
  • We had those!

• fresh drink : (?)

Report

The booth was organized by 2 volunteers (Thanks to siegie and rulus). As we started earlier the preparation, there was enough material, including posters, flyers and cd's. There were not so many visitors, but nearly all of them were interested in Ubuntu and Free Software. We explained to the people who didn't know Ubuntu how easy it is to try it out (live cd/usb, wubi) and got enthusiastic reactions. Some people had bad experiences from the past (older versions of Ubuntu), but agreed to try it again with a newer version (ie. Lucid). We raised 32,40 € and payed the rest of the cost ourselves.

We did cool stuff too:

• Used the new built-in PiTiVi video-editor to cut a video. With audio fade-out!

• Set-up an ad-hoc wireless network with NetworkManager so we could chat to each-other with Empathy. Geeky.

• Demonstrated desktop-sharing over this network.
• Attached a webcam and played it through VLC (no cheese available) with cool video-effects.
• Ran Lucid beta from live USB on my pc using Grub because my bios doesn't do USB booting.

Pictures