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Re: Linux Demo Day



Orr Dunkelman wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Yoni Elhanani wrote:
> 
> > Hello.
> >
> > I think we should orginize ourselves to the linux demo day.
> > (which I've taken the responsibility as the ILUG coordinator)
> That would be a good idea. However, 12-18/9 is too early in my opinion.
> remember that this is the holiday period, meaning, people are out of
> state, out of their minds etc.

Ahh,
but, as you see, it's an international worldwide effort,
and it is said to be linux's birthday.
also, holidays bring people to malls.
(I'm not sure if 12-18 is a holiday though, I didn't check a hebrew
calender)

> > We need space, preferably in a large shopping mall in tel aviv.
> > Can we book the same place we had in may? (dizengoff center).
> I guess if it will be later on (somewhere in the middle of October) we can
> get some space here in the technion - up - it's gonna be free. down - it's
> in haifa.

Yes,
but it's in haifa - Personally one reason i couldn't come is that it was
in haifa.
also, this is a demo day, not only installfest, which means we should
draw people's mind,
and people don't shop in the technion.
In may I recall many people passing by and showing interest in linux.
(one asked me if i can help him with windows 98 ;-))

The reason demoday was founded was to raise awareness.
(this is why it's international, to get media coverage)

> > The name "Mesibat Hatkana" sounds a little bit dorky,
> > maybe we can find a good name in hebrew that will draw more attention.
> InstaParty is fine with me

It sounds a bit geeky...
A friend of mine asked me if he had to dress like a startrek
charecter... :-)

> > Here are some suggestions and points for the event:
> >
> > - Instead for people having to wait to a specific installer holding
> > their computers,
> >   we should put them in a queue, and while the computers are in the
> > queue, the owners will watch the
> >   tutorial/demonstarion[s].
> We wanted to do it in the last instaparty, but the utrials weren't ready.
> the people stand in the line, ate and drank while the nerds of linux
> installed it on their computer.

The problem is not with people standing up,
but the fact that there are many installaters mean several lines,
and people get confused, some lines are very long, some very short, 
some people standing not in the line because other people standing in
there, etc.

> > - Volunteers should not only install, but also sell/give CDs,answer
> > questions from people, and run the tutorial/demo.
> >   (ofcourse these will all be different people... ;-))
> Volunteers, money, together? Are you sure it's a good idea? we gave Suse
> 6.1 and RH 6.0.

Yes,
but since many people will pass by,
if we gave it for free, too much people will take it without knowing
what it is,
and not install it (or will erase their hd when they won't understand
what a partition is).
This may lead to a condition where poeple will get it because it's free,
and when people who
come to buy a CD there won't be any left. :-(
Besides we can always use the money to finabnce the event or other linux
related events.

I remember pf1 sold CDs of Redhat 5.2 and 6 @ 40NIS and they sold like
hotcakes.
If they will be free everyone passing by will get one and foget about
it.
Though I want that people who will use linux will get it for free.

Maybe we should have some way to distinguish [potential] users and
freeloaders?
One criteria is that people that install linux will get the cd, but what
would they do with it if linux is already installed?
Another one is people that listen to the whole tutorial and we can see
they're real interested.
Or people that already use linux and want a new distro/version (how can
we verify that?)
Maybe people who buy another linux product (t-shirt, book, whatever).
Maybe people that bring an ad (printed from the ILUG website)

> > - We need nametags so people will know who is an installer and how to
> > call him. :-)
> We had those for the ones we knew will come, with several others having
> "Guru" written all over.

We can get tags with blank names and installers will fill in.
if we know how many will volunteer (ie 10 installers, 2 demonstrators,
etc) we can print enough.
either that or installers will all wear penguin t-shirts. :-)

> > - We need more chairs, the owners of the computers usualy prefer to sit.
> Had enough of that.

I havn't been to the haifa installfest,
but i remember that in the one pf1 had in may i coudn't get a chair, and
I was an installer... :-\


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is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaner software...
(I was pointed out that Microsoft hardware usualy works)

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