François Cauwe wrote: > Full report with pict's: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/VLOD_2007/Report > > Ubuntu-be.org spreads Ubuntu love at VLOD education conference > > During the 4 day long Flemish education conference, the Ubuntu-be.org > volunteers spread their edubuntu enthusiasm around the directors and > ict-responsibles of all Belgium schools. The VLOD-conference is the > biggest education conference in Flanders which about 8000 people, mainly > decisionmakers attend. We started on Monday at 10 o'clock with a > workshop about edubuntu in schools, and after that we manned the booth. > > The results were astonishing; people were interested to discover this > system everybody was talking about. We showed them the possibilities and > advantages of 'free software', and gave them a demo of thin clients. And > quickly we had more people listening at our booth than our colleagues > from Vista. > > On the first day after the closing of the conference, all the people > from the Vista booth came over to ours to discover what was happening, > so we spread the ubuntu-love among them as well... > > The week went on and gave us a really good feeling about it, schools > were really interested! People mailed us with questions, came back to > thank us, telling that it was fantastic that everything simply worked. > Some companies came to tell they used ubuntu in their showroom as well, > and they wanted to help us, even with sponsoring... It was just > fantastic! > > On Wednesday we also had South-African visit from Canonical, Richard > Weideman was in Brussels, so he also visited the conference. > > A bit later we also got a visit from the "Education Business Manager" at > Microsoft Belgium, Christian Ramioul. > > In total we distributed more than 700 CD’s and collected more than 300 > names and email addresses from interested people. > > We would also thank all the volunteers that helped us make this > possible! Especially: > > * Annelies Bollen > * François Cauwe > * Xavier Cauwe > * Ismaël Demiddel > * Guy Duportail & linux-service.be: our sponsor > * Jan Fabry > * Jens Timmerman > * Dieter Verfaillie > * Richard Weideman > * Mark van den Borre > * The inevitable invisible and forgotten volunteers
Well done all! And thank you for posting here, I have really liked hearing such news! -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
