this is one of the most exiciting, comprehensive writeup i've seen by participants
good work anshul, palash, prosun thanks ..piI ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anshul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 12:42 AM Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Book Fair update > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:11:54 -0800 (PST), saugata ghosh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > some good news .. > ... > > Anshul - what happened ? could you not make it or did > > nobody > > recognise you ? > > Others also please come and join the show. > > Tomorrow I will be there for at least some time in the > > afternoon or late > > evening. > > Hope the tempo will go on. > > > > -Saugata > > Oh! I did make it... It was pretty non trivial navigating around to > Amar PC, but I made it and manned the Suse desktop for sometime... > When I got there Prosun and Palash were manning 2 comps and it seems > some water had fallen onto one of the comps so it was shutdown. The > FC3's Hindi/Bengali display was an enormous crowd-puller and once I > took up the Suse stall, Palash and Prosun had a field day handling the > crowds. As for me, I think I can reasonably expect quite a few > people I talked to join this mailing list! One of the highlights for > me was this couple who actually made there little kid play that > "potato guy" from the games for kids section and the kid was quite > happy with it! At least 3 people made doubly sure that they got our > website address correctly and conveyed to me that they would try some > Linux. Lets see... > > Another hit thing was the concept of live Cd's even though we > couldn't demonstrate it... There were many whose imagination just > clung to this concept! Does anyone know what kind of a ram are we > dealing with in here? I will bring along my SimplyMepis and Knoppix > anyways... > > Now for some suggestions, even though I am pretty out of touch with > all the discussion about this stall, so I dunno if this has been > discussed, but 3 printouts saying "Linux here! Brought to you by > ilug-cal (ilug-cal.org)" os something on those lines would be pretty > nice unless amar pc has some unreasonable objections to that!" > > Oh and someone please make that Suse pick up the graphics card or > reduce the resolution or colour depth on that Suse or just make it > more snappy! (I wish it was slack with dropline!:P) My tactic was > simple. I just gave the interested person a freehand to the system. > A lot of people seemed to find a hands on thingy impressive. A few of > them were happy while a few complained that it was slow and I > explained that the system had low ram! > > One gentleman clicked on OOorg a good 15 times and I could do > nothing but logout and the stupid kde saved those 15 OOorg windows as > the session state to throw them at me the next time I logged in... I > now realize that opening a failsafe terminal and deleting .kde would > have done the trick. > > Anyhow the only complain I had from a few of my audience was that a > few things were darn slow. I think thats mainly because perhaps Suse > is not picking up the graphics card and must be addressed asap! > > Palash, Prosun, et al did a great job with FC3... There PC was one > really crowded place! I hope I am not saddled with any extra classes > tomorrow. I will try and make it after 5. > > Anshul > > -- > I'm too lazy to compose a creative sig, so i stole someone else's. > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
