On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, boazg wrote:
I would like, on behalf of myself and Maya, to express my
disappointment in the Linux Day we had yesterday. Adir, while you did
take leadership of the project, I feel dissatisfied with the way
things worked out.
I was also dissatisfied from the amount of people who wanted to help, and
the amount of help that was suggested, and the fact that I took most of
the work (physically and financially) on my own bare hands.
The most basic necessities for an installfest were unavailable. Power
bricks were in short supply, and there was no network available. There
was not even a proper screen on which to project a demonstration.
Without these, I feel, there's no point of having the linux day at
all,
The monitors, keyboards and mice were the donation of the CS department.
the power bricks arrived from Asat. I took care of whatever I could.
A second, very important part, was the choice of distribution. The
majority's vote was for Ubuntu - a distribution that I myself, as well
as other Haifux participants, have been using and thoroughly testing
(for user-friendliness, stability, support, etc.) for a very long time
- two years, in my case.
I'm sorry to tell you that I did my own tests, and no distribution's
decision is finite. In your case, however, you go with Ubuntu since v1.
This is your own blind decision. I'm glad that you achieved a 2 years
experience(!) with Ubuntu. Happy for you. If you ever want to do an Ubuntu
Linux Party, you go and do it. You have no right to complain here. You
didn't like the decision from the beginning. Every time you could just
leave, and I wouldn't try to hold you.
However, the distribution which was chosen
was OpenSuSE (which was recommended only by Adir). Only one
installation was accomplished, despite our best efforts - and this
with a DVD which seems to have been burnt properly (because it
installed properly on Adir's laptop). From chats I had with some of
the arrivers, this is a known issue with SuSE. Furthermore, for people
without DVD drives (and such people did arrive, and we must recall
that most people are inclined to install Linux rather on their older
machines), SuSE has an inordinate 5-6 CDs, which weren't even made
available. Almost all installations which were performed yesterday
ended up being Ubuntu, from makeshift burnt CDs (all installs but one
were flawless, BTW, and that one had a severely damaged hard drive)
I'm sorry to tell you that I had no problem to install and burn OpenSuse
and that I did that on 5 different computers. It is not ashame to say that
you had no idea how to install it. It is my fault though, as I had no time
to sit with you and show you how to do it properly, as I do every year.
However, the most important part which was missing was advertising.
Everyone but the organizers shared this complaint: They found out
about it too late (if they had found out earlier, they would have
brought their machines). This is particularily peculiar, seeing as the
Yes sponsorship was intended to fix exactly this recurring, well-known
problem.
The advertising was a problem since Asat didn't make their promise. They
promised to hang 80 A3 pages around the campus, and they put only 10,
which most of them were in Ullman.
I hope to see better solutions for these problems for the next Linux Day.
Next time I will build everything using more professional hands. I'm not
worried about that one anymore.
--
To necessity... and beyond!
Ohad Lutzky
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