Hey Rob,
Thanks for asking, and for your contribution to SFD7.
A great weekend, lots of fun. Reporting over the next few days will
continue going into here:
http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/oceania/nz/Christchurch
Robert Fisher wrote:
Unfortunately my only contribution to Software Freedom Day was a small
financial one.
Can somebody report on its success or otherwise?
Presuming to represent all witness opinion, i would say that the sheer
fact a *nix publicity/help day takes place is automatically a success.
It ran well, but with demand down on 2006 - making it easier work. Also,
we ditched the photowall/webcam objective from last year, allowing crew
to be more responsive to the question demand. At a guess tho, it may be
that the novelty has worn off a bit for potential punters (f/- Vista?).
Or our advertising was lesser, later done, and with faded enthusiasm
(it's hard to keep that up year after year, without more volunteers
weeks ahead of the day / some distractions for me in 2007). But SFD was
still, as always, satisfying enough - in terms of people helped and
company enjoyed - to get us back for 2008. The lack of swathes of new
CDs, or KDE marketing input, didn't seem to restrain us.
How many attendees?
c80? Sue did her best to keep a log, so I'll get a surer figure soon.
Newbies?
Lots. Half & half clug or new-met old-hands, and 1st-lookers, approx.
Installations?
A friend of mine was midst defrag on his laptop when last i noted his
progress. Will follow up to see if anyone helped further. (Team leader
role is all over the place, all at once, so I can't get bogged down in
anything in particular for the SFD period). But otherwise, no demand for
Installations at all.
Thus can now completely confirm that the notion of 'LUG Installfest' is
officially dead.
- Good riddance / Good software.
The 'festival' concept, with dvd / multimedia / games / device showroom
added to a (more popular) working Gnu/Linux lab, bridged by info table
with cuppa & chat at hand, seems the winner on the day.
A smattering of pix were produced as an afterthought - a volunteer
photographer would boost the quality of our reportage no end.
Rob
Thanks very much to all the SFD helpers and contributors we had,
especially Warwick, Sue, Sonya, Graeme and Eliot. Good one folks.
Cheers, Rik
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pp www.SoftwareFreedomDay.org Team Christchurch
