There were also Yair Podemsky and Elad Elfassa. Thanks to them too.
Elad was a bit sick but wanted to stay and couldn't come on the second day because of the sickness. Yair helped on both days and is the best one on explaining the concept of open source and why we are there. So, thanks again to Elad and Yair. On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Amir Eldor <[email protected]> wrote: > I was in the second day too :( just late > > > On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> happy second Passover holiday, and it's also Easter today and April >> Fools' Day >> tomorrow. >> >> I'd like to write a short report about the booth we had for >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software at the Olamot >> (= >> "world") Science Fiction/Fantasy/etc. conference that took place this year >> (March 2013) during Passover in Tel Aviv. See >> http://www.olamot-con.org.il/2013/ for the site - mostly in Hebrew. >> >> First of all, the obligatory photographs: >> >> * http://www.flickr.com/photos/shlomif/sets/72157633111982891/ - from >> day two - >> I didn't bring a camera at the first day, and people challenged my claims >> on >> IRC, so I made sure to bring one along the next day. >> >> Other links: >> >> * >> >> http://www.facebook.com/pages/%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%A1-%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA/167055123352441?ref=ts&fref=ts >> - the site of the conference on Facebook >> >> * http://www.facebook.com/zingabo - Amir Eldor - helped with the booth >> during >> the first day (thanks!). >> >> * http://www.facebook.com/moshe.nahmias.9?fref=ts - Moshe Nahmias - >> helped >> during both days (thanks!). >> >> * http://www.facebook.com/groups/98034147518/ - Israeli society for >> Sci-Fi and >> Fantasy. >> >> * http://www.hamakor.org.il/ - Hamakor's site. >> >> * http://www.mozilla.org.il/ - Mozilla.org.il. >> >> ================================= >> >> OK, here is the report: >> >> #. The booth was mostly well-organised: we had demonstrations of the >> programs >> involved, of the Raspberry Pi (which could run the Blender demo films >> adequately, but web-browsing/etc. was very slow), and of other stuff. >> There was >> a lot of swag and merchandise to give away for people who were interested. >> >> #. Many people stopped by and asked questions. If they told me they >> didn't know >> what open source was all about I gave them the Wikipedia as an analogy for >> online collaboration and the fact that «Everyone gives a brick, and in >> exchange, everyone gets their own house.» and said that that was the case >> for >> open source software too, where one can use a browser from organisation >> #1, a >> video player from organisation #2, an image browser from organisation #3, >> an >> vector graphics editor from organisation #4 , etc. >> >> #. We also ended up telling them that they don't have to contribute if >> they >> don't want to (just happily use the gratis "FOSS"), and that there are >> ways >> to contribute that do not involve coding (such as reporting bugs, trying >> to >> reproduce bugs, helping in the forums etc.) and that they can find help >> using >> web searches or various online forums. >> >> #. As you can see in the photos, the conference was very colourful with >> many >> people coming in costumes, or with various props, or otherwise well >> dressed, >> and lots of cool attractions. Geekery at its best. I recalled there were >> much >> fewer females in the Icon conference I attended back in Sukkoth at one >> year, >> and now they were all over the place. >> >> I noticed that some of the cultural references of the costumes have >> escaped >> me, due to the fact that my popular sci-fi/fantasy culture is stuck >> somewhere in >> 2001, but people were happy to tell me what they were dressed as. Very >> cool. >> >> #. The booth nearby was dedicated to registering people for the >> Israeli organisation of Manga/anime, and while they had a computer >> dedicated >> for the registration application (a desktop one written in .NET - :-( - >> long >> story), they didn't have a screen displaying the actual films. I told them >> they should in the future, and they agreed. >> >> #. We kinda lacked good business cards or sheets of papers that we give >> away, >> that we could note some URLs at the back. At least some people were able >> to >> E-mail stuff. >> >> #. Self promotion: I got an idea for a new screenplay during the >> conference: >> http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Summerschool-at-the-NSA/ - «The >> Hollywood >> actresses Sarah Michelle Gellar and Summer Glau conspire to take the NSA >> (= the >> United States government’s National Security Agency) out of the equation. >> See >> how they succeed in doing that. », which I started to write. I decided >> that my >> previous major creative writing project, >> http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Selina-Mandrake/ («Selina Mandrake - The >> Slayer (a Buffy Parody)») is now in a mostly usable state, and will be >> placed >> on the back burner, as I move to newer stuff. >> >> I also have collected four factoids about Buffy the Vampire Slayer so far: >> http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Buffy/ and hopefully newer >> ones are >> upcoming. Girl power! >> >> ====================== >> >> OK, this is my perspective, which may be skewed beyond all imagination. >> Thanks >> to everybody who helped with the booth. I'd like to share some more >> anecdotes in >> a later post, but this will have to wait, because I am anxious to go >> outside now >> before it darkens. >> >> Chag sameach! >> >> Shlomi Fish >> >> -- >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ >> Beginners Site for the Vim text editor - http://vim.begin-site.org/ >> >> Flock aims to be the browser for the social web, but I found it to be the >> completely anti-social browser. >> >> Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply. >> _______________________________________________ >> Discussions mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discussions mailing list > [email protected] > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions >
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