[Ambassadors] Software Freedom Day 2008 (Philippines)

[Francesco Ugolini]

2008/9/22 Heherson Pagcaliwagan <azneita at fedoraproject.org>:
> I was waiting for Ma'am Magie to post the pics of our recently concluded SFD
> celebration but since she's still probably recuperating from the event, let
> me, in her stead, report what happened last Saturday at the National
> Computer Center here in Quezon City.
>
> Official registration was supposed to start 8:30 AM but when I passed by the
> venue around 7:30AM on my way to my office, students were already milling
> around the complex and a provincial bus was already parked beside the venue.
> Talk about being early! When I returned around 8:45AM, the place was already
> packed and Ma'am Magie was already going on circles :)
>
> I was designated as the booth man by virtue of seniority :D (Truth be told,
> Ma'am Magie was busy organizing the whole event while Sir Engels was giving
> speeches). The Fedora booth consisted of a tarpaulin, flyers, two LiveUSB
> Station posters and my office laptop featuring Fedora 9. I originally
> planned to bring my Asus eee loaded with eeedora to the event but I was
> locked out of our office with no keys -- stupid me. A friend later took pity
> on me and sent for his two laptops (both of which are Windows) and together
> we burned away those USB sticks.
>
> Apart from burning LiveUSBs, I gave away flyers, cajoled SFD-goers to try
> Fedora 9 using my laptop, gave impromptu talks about the merit of Fedora and
> its difference with other Linux distributions (most of the time - Ubuntu),
> met students, teachers and other professionals and had a blast the whole
> time. Talking particularly with the kids made me feel like a rock star :)
>
> The major drawer of our booth was ceratinly the LiveUSB creation. It would
> have been FreeMedia but early on, we have decided to do away with the
> distribution of DVDs and LiveCDs because that would entail spending money we
> don't really have much of. What meager funds we have scrapped together were
> funneled into the whole event. Either way, we had registered around 50
> individuals who still wanted to hear more about the Fedora Project and
> possibly contribute themselves. These included teachers who want their
> students contribute as ambassadors and/or developers, students who wanted to
> make a case study in the use of Fedora and professionals who are interested
> in holding seminars/trainings in deploying Fedora in their line of work.
>
> ~ Herson
>

Great report and great job!

I'll take note of all the feedbacks you posted. Really thanks!

Regards

Francesco Ugolini