[fedora-my] [events] Saito College Visit

[Adli Azaddin]

good job!

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:18 AM, syamsul anuar <wariola at gmail.com> wrote:

> Guys,
>
> Today me, Selpiso and Kamarul managed to visit Saito college to see for
> ourselves the venue for our launch party. Saito college is kind enough to
> offer the Fedora Malaysia team the venue for our inaugural launch party
> which will be on the 4th of July 2009. The College is located at Petaling
> Jaya, really close to the MBPJ Tower and just besides the famous Strawberry
> Fields restaurant. The nearest Putra station will be Taman Jaya and the
> walking distance should be around 500 meter (didnt test yet though..).
>
> The college had just renovated itself from the old Saito College just
> opposite the new location. It is home to multiple courses among others are
> design, security management and IT. The owner is the currently also the
> owner of Securicor (the armored car company). The IT School is interested to
> Fedora due to the demand from the student, branding and also value add to
> their students. I met with the college consultant, Dean / Head of IT school
> and 2 lecturers to discuss the matters with them. Some of the pictures are
> below (not good quality / angle. /me not adliazaddin with great camera).
>
> http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=272060&id=518265483&l=211cd88112
>
> Our basic needs which are Internet, plugs and air conditioning is / will be
> taken care of by them. We can use their brand new hall downstairs for the
> party and the room should accommodate around 80+ pax. For the food, the
> college is trying to arrange them, but my idea upon visiting them is that we
> can just lepak downstairs at the Strawberry Fields and have our own lunch.
> Logistics part should be straight forward and suggest to put the google map
> on our wiki page later on.
>
> The second part is the content. It is suggested by the college to put out
> an introduction about FOSS ecosystem, why it is born, what is fedora, and
> how fedora works in the entire ecosystem etc so that the student will have
> and appreciate what is FOSS is all about. As the current uptake among the
> students are currently very low, also suggested to put some basic and fun
> content about Fedora (e.g. Fedora Music Server, Web, simple virtualization,
> cool software etc) to generate the excitement among the students. Also
> suggest that Yondie (if he is available) to talk about security as some of
> their courses over in Saito is about that subject matter. In the artwork
> matter, Apogee can show some of his kung-fu with regards to GIMP and
> Inkscape to the art student.
>
> Lastly about what we need. I would love to suggest that we came out with
> the posters (A4) printable around the college to generate the excitement.
> Also banners for the event to show out at the college and some picture
> taking later. On the part of the CDs I think sniffit is doing something
> about it and will report later, but suggest to have some big stack of it to
> giveaway to the students with the right packaging. For the goodies /
> momentos / lanyards, would like to have some support from Red Hat Malaysia
> to assist on that (by copy Kennie, can you do something about it?).
>
> I open for discussion.
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