FC5: beats& Press Release (draft impress doc)

Stephen Krenzel sgk284 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 20 13:21:54 UTC 2006


It helps us better understand how other distributions are going about
promoting themselves and how effective it is for them. By learning from
other's mistakes, our own successes should become more frequent.
Regards,
    Steve

On 3/20/06, J. Hartline <jasperhartline at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
>
> >>Don't worry the objective of going there, is mostly to
> >> * learn new things and
> >> * see how they organise the install party.
> >> * meet other people in the linux world.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >Ok, I was at that Mandriva Day as they call it.
> >
> >in brief:
> >I went with my girlfriend and we were late :)
> >we came just in time for the multimedia conference and the audience
> >consisted of 11 persons. Most of them are newbies to linux. (75%)
> >
> >The conferences were for beginner level.
> >
> >The guys responsible for the event are no more than 23 years old.
> >They were lecturers of a Computer Science Institute which is
> >affiliated to Mandriva.
> >see  http://www.supinfo.com/en/Default.aspx
> >
> >Ive chatted with them about Fedora and Kadischi (of course) during the
> break.
> >One of the lecturers was mostly interested with Kadischi since he is
> >actually giving practical classes on how to build Mandriva Live cds.
> >He explained me about the scripts they were working on and I showed
> >him Kadischi's code.
> >But when I asked him whether I can have a look at THEIR code, he
> >bubbled "No No nooo" and ran away.
> >
> >I told myself "What a lamer"!
> >
> >The install party:
> >
> >6 guys (Im not among) were ready to get the machines experience their
> >first ever linux distro
> >
> >The install party was really a disaster. Mandriva 2006 was not stable at
> all.
> > - 5/6 machines had xorg issues
> > - urpmi is not installed on a fresh install, hence a complete newbie
> >can't update
> > - no assistance by the 'lecturers' for drivers installation and
> questions
> >
> >It was really a big disaster and shame for Mandriva when one of the
> >lecturers answered the question " In windows we have openoffice 2.*,
> >can I have it in Linux? "
> >
> >Answer: For the moment there is only openoffice 2.* for Windows
> >platform, but Mandriva will be the first to have it.
> >
> >Can you imagine this ?!!
> >( I was shocked by this reply )
> >For this, my girlfriend has intervened and showed that in
> >openoffice.org it is possible to download OOo 2.*
> >
> >I spent most of my time troubleshooting those machines, and installing
> >cool applications (yakuake, ksmoothdock, katapult, 3ddesktop,....)
> >just to promote linux's image.
> >
> >Cheers, (waiting for FC5)
> >Chitlesh Goorah
> >--
> >http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
> >
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> >
> How does this pertain to the Fedora Project?
> How does this pertain to Fedora Project Marketing?
>
> J. Hartline
>
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