Western Washington University 2007

Project Overview

• Status: Complete

  Type: Event

  Date: June 8th

  Location: Western Washington University, Bellingham Washington

  Links: Project discussion and feedback Presentation Video

Purpose/Problem Statement

Introduce people to Ubuntu

Mission

Advocate Ubuntu and distribute CD's and literature.

Objectives

• Setup demo table
• Give Speech
• Advocate Ubuntu

Communication Plan

Team will utilize our mailing list (ubuntu-us-pnw@lists.ubuntu.com) and associated forum site for communication. Team will also meet in Bellingham before the Fest begins.

• Project Lead: DanShufelt

  Project Team: DanShufelt and Paul Bartell

  Meeting Details: 17 May 2007, 18:00 PST at #ubuntu-pnw, irc.freenode.net. Agenda

  Event Details: http://www.wwu.edu/techcenter/tech_expo/2007/

Quality Management Plan

Test demo machines and practice review speech

Project Outline and Scope

• Planning

  • Obtain media (CD's and flyer's)

  • Confirm equipment
  • Verify team members have made transportation
  • Create Slides
• Setup
  • Setup tables
  • Plug in and test equipment
  • Ensure media is accessible
• Project closing
  • See about obtaining a copy of the recorded session
  • Postmortem documentation
  • Send closing email

Tasks

Notes

Presentation Slide Show: OpenOffice.org PDF

Example videos used: Nelson Mandella Interview Mark Shuttleworth Interview

Issues

* It was difficult to re-engage the audience after the previous presenter lost them. * Dan Shufelt kind of winged the speech; it would only have been better with practice. * Insufficient notice to order more fliers and stickers. * No internet connectivity for demo PC's

Lessons Learned

Overall this project was a huge success. We were accomplished everything we set out to do and were able to make several contacts.

There were a few things we could do to further improve our demo computers. In the future we should ensure that our demo computer installation is as close to the default OS install as possible. The demo computer that I brought had Ubuntu and Kubuntu installed in the same partition making for some ugly menus.

Toward the end of the day we ran out of labeled CD's. I think this can be avoided in the future by having 500 or so CD's made.

Perhaps our largest challenge however was trying to regain the crowds interest (about half the crowd walked out during the first presentation). Next time we give a speech I believe we should have a team of two people on stage. This will allow one person to stay focused on maintaining the crowds interest while the other person runs the slides and demo's features.

I really think we need to drum up some ways to really get audience participation... Perhaps we could have small contest or invite the audience to come up and walk them through accomplishing applicable tasks in front of everyone.

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