Well, I know FUDCon Brno is going on right now, I hope everyone is having fun over there. But I thought I'd better get this going before I head out on the road again for a bunch of weeks.
I've been a bit busy cleaning up after UTOSC 2008, but now that I'm back in the swing of things, there were several blog posts. A couple were by me and a few by others to help give an overview of the conference and its goings on. Here's a quick list:
A couple from me: http://fedoratutorials.com/2008/08/29/utosc-2008-day-1/ http://fedoratutorials.com/2008/08/30/utosc-2008-day-2/
A couple from Paul: http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1147 http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1143
From others, possibly related to Fedora:
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/Fozzolog/2008/08/utosc-day-1.html http://testopia.blogspot.com/2008/09/utosc-2008.html http://pyrous.net/blog/?p=14 http://blog.endpoint.com/2008/08/camps-presentation-at-utosc-2008.html
We also have tons of pictures up on our flickr page:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Clint Savage herlo1@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I know FUDCon Brno is going on right now, I hope everyone is having fun over there. But I thought I'd better get this going before I head out on the road again for a bunch of weeks.
I've been a bit busy cleaning up after UTOSC 2008, but now that I'm back in the swing of things, there were several blog posts. A couple were by me and a few by others to help give an overview of the conference and its goings on. Here's a quick list:
A couple from me: http://fedoratutorials.com/2008/08/29/utosc-2008-day-1/ http://fedoratutorials.com/2008/08/30/utosc-2008-day-2/
A couple from Paul: http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1147 http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1143
From others, possibly related to Fedora:
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/Fozzolog/2008/08/utosc-day-1.html http://testopia.blogspot.com/2008/09/utosc-2008.html http://pyrous.net/blog/?p=14 http://blog.endpoint.com/2008/08/camps-presentation-at-utosc-2008.html
We also have tons of pictures up on our flickr page:
http://flickr.com/groups/utosc/pool/
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Wow- sounds like a great event. A few questions for you:
How many people were at the conference? How much media was handed out? How many contributors did you garner (I know of at least one)? Any questions I should have asked but didn't?
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 16:44 -0400, David Nalley wrote:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Clint Savage herlo1@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I know FUDCon Brno is going on right now, I hope everyone is having fun over there. But I thought I'd better get this going before I head out on the road again for a bunch of weeks.
I've been a bit busy cleaning up after UTOSC 2008, but now that I'm back in the swing of things, there were several blog posts. A couple were by me and a few by others to help give an overview of the conference and its goings on. Here's a quick list:
A couple from me: http://fedoratutorials.com/2008/08/29/utosc-2008-day-1/ http://fedoratutorials.com/2008/08/30/utosc-2008-day-2/
A couple from Paul: http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1147 http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1143
From others, possibly related to Fedora:
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/Fozzolog/2008/08/utosc-day-1.html http://testopia.blogspot.com/2008/09/utosc-2008.html http://pyrous.net/blog/?p=14 http://blog.endpoint.com/2008/08/camps-presentation-at-utosc-2008.html
We also have tons of pictures up on our flickr page:
http://flickr.com/groups/utosc/pool/
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Wow- sounds like a great event. A few questions for you:
How many people were at the conference? How much media was handed out? How many contributors did you garner (I know of at least one)? Any questions I should have asked but didn't?
AIUI, there were around 550+ registrants. We handed out almost all the media that we had, I would say around 100-150 discs total. I know of at least three people that I signed up who are skilled folks that have the ability to make some immediate contributions. I'm regularly in touch with one of them now. More would have been nice, but given the demographics of the attendee I feel we did pretty well, especially deep in Novell land! ;-)
David Nalley wrote:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Clint Savage herlo1@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I know FUDCon Brno is going on right now, I hope everyone is having fun over there. But I thought I'd better get this going before I head out on the road again for a bunch of weeks.
I've been a bit busy cleaning up after UTOSC 2008, but now that I'm back in the swing of things, there were several blog posts. A couple were by me and a few by others to help give an overview of the conference and its goings on. Here's a quick list:
A couple from me: http://fedoratutorials.com/2008/08/29/utosc-2008-day-1/ http://fedoratutorials.com/2008/08/30/utosc-2008-day-2/
A couple from Paul: http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1147 http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1143
From others, possibly related to Fedora:
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/Fozzolog/2008/08/utosc-day-1.html http://testopia.blogspot.com/2008/09/utosc-2008.html http://pyrous.net/blog/?p=14 http://blog.endpoint.com/2008/08/camps-presentation-at-utosc-2008.html
We also have tons of pictures up on our flickr page:
http://flickr.com/groups/utosc/pool/
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Wow- sounds like a great event. A few questions for you:
How many people were at the conference? How much media was handed out? How many contributors did you garner (I know of at least one)? Any questions I should have asked but didn't?
There was a lot of good, hard work (especially on Clint's part) that went into UTOS and overall I would have to say it was a success. But there was a huge blown opportunity - there were no Fedora (or even any Linux) boxes set up to work with the LCD projectors. Instead every presenter had to scramble to get their laptops working to present. In many cases it meant delayed presentations, a poor impression of linux, or the use of Mac or Windows. In the room my talk was in, I watched a prior presenter struggle to get his linux presentation working and finally settling for 640x480. To get a decent resolution, I had to borrow a Macbook Pro, running OSX (and even then I couldn't show or use the bottom status bar during demos). And on keynote night, there was a bunch of sighs and comments around where I was sitting during the time Paul struggled and was delayed getting his keynote presentation running with Fedora. In short - not a very good linux or Fedora impression for first timers to linux. Partly this is a reflection on goofy Utah where family activities like kid's face painting need to take precedence over technical AV prowness just to attract attendees. Contrast this to OSCON where I was told that every presentation setup had Ubuntu running so the audience kept seeing Ubuntu running on the big screen in from of them.
So to anyone else running a FOSS/Fedora conference, try to have linux boxes (in this case Fedora) set up for all presenters. Or have some linux friendly LCD projectors that speakers, who need to use their own laptops, can use and set up ahead of time in the speaker room. It's great free PR to show Fedora/Linux running on all the presentations and it reinforces to the audience that Linux is ready for the desktop and can be counted on. It's one thing to hand out media, it's even more effective to show it being used.
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 16:52 -0600, John Taber wrote:
David Nalley wrote:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Clint Savage herlo1@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I know FUDCon Brno is going on right now, I hope everyone is having fun over there. But I thought I'd better get this going before I head out on the road again for a bunch of weeks.
I've been a bit busy cleaning up after UTOSC 2008, but now that I'm back in the swing of things, there were several blog posts. A couple were by me and a few by others to help give an overview of the conference and its goings on. Here's a quick list:
A couple from me: http://fedoratutorials.com/2008/08/29/utosc-2008-day-1/ http://fedoratutorials.com/2008/08/30/utosc-2008-day-2/
A couple from Paul: http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1147 http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1143
From others, possibly related to Fedora:
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/Fozzolog/2008/08/utosc-day-1.html http://testopia.blogspot.com/2008/09/utosc-2008.html http://pyrous.net/blog/?p=14 http://blog.endpoint.com/2008/08/camps-presentation-at-utosc-2008.html
We also have tons of pictures up on our flickr page:
http://flickr.com/groups/utosc/pool/
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Wow- sounds like a great event. A few questions for you:
How many people were at the conference? How much media was handed out? How many contributors did you garner (I know of at least one)? Any questions I should have asked but didn't?
There was a lot of good, hard work (especially on Clint's part) that went into UTOS and overall I would have to say it was a success. But there was a huge blown opportunity - there were no Fedora (or even any Linux) boxes set up to work with the LCD projectors. Instead every presenter had to scramble to get their laptops working to present. In many cases it meant delayed presentations, a poor impression of linux, or the use of Mac or Windows. In the room my talk was in, I watched a prior presenter struggle to get his linux presentation working and finally settling for 640x480. To get a decent resolution, I had to borrow a Macbook Pro, running OSX (and even then I couldn't show or use the bottom status bar during demos). And on keynote night, there was a bunch of sighs and comments around where I was sitting during the time Paul struggled and was delayed getting his keynote presentation running with Fedora.
Yeah, I wasn't happy about that either, but it was unforeseen. My laptop has worked with every other projector I've tried in the six months I've had it -- maybe a dozen or so total. Part of the problem was no one was familiar with how to get the projector to auto-adjust. In the end, I would hope that people realize other O/S's (and indeed other Linuxes) have exactly the same problems and this doesn't make Fedora special or worse, but I have no control over what people choose to take away in that regard.
In short - not a very good linux or Fedora impression for first timers to linux. Partly this is a reflection on goofy Utah where family activities like kid's face painting need to take precedence over technical AV prowness just to attract attendees. Contrast this to OSCON where I was told that every presentation setup had Ubuntu running so the audience kept seeing Ubuntu running on the big screen in from of them.
I don't get the "goofy" comment -- I thought this was rather endearing and, speaking as a family man myself, it made the event kind of special for me.
I do agree that simply having laptops running and having the presenters bring a USB stick up to the podium (for example) would have been better, but hindsight's 20/20 and I'm sure next year will see improvements, just as this year's UTOSC was undoubtedly even better than last year's.
So to anyone else running a FOSS/Fedora conference, try to have linux boxes (in this case Fedora) set up for all presenters. Or have some linux friendly LCD projectors that speakers, who need to use their own laptops, can use and set up ahead of time in the speaker room. It's great free PR to show Fedora/Linux running on all the presentations and it reinforces to the audience that Linux is ready for the desktop and can be counted on. It's one thing to hand out media, it's even more effective to show it being used.
Well, to be fair, we *did* show it being used at our booth, and in the hands of various presenters (not just me). And by the way, my laptop worked just fine with the projectors in both my other sessions, it's just the keynote projector that had a problem. ;-) We also showed Fedora running on OLPC XO's which is something no one else claimed.
We should keep in mind that UTOSC was a "non-denominational" show, not Fedora-specific. We had plenty of Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, and Fedora users around -- and we all got along famously AFAIK. So it's very likely that you would see different Linuxes around at different rooms, not one distro to rule them all. However, I would encourage you to think about setting up a Fedora BoF at next year's UTOSC, or some other similar conference, to increase Fedora's visibility!
2008/9/5 Clint Savage herlo1@gmail.com:
Well, I know FUDCon Brno is going on right now, I hope everyone is having fun over there. But I thought I'd better get this going before I head out on the road again for a bunch of weeks.
I've been a bit busy cleaning up after UTOSC 2008, but now that I'm back in the swing of things, there were several blog posts. A couple were by me and a few by others to help give an overview of the conference and its goings on. Here's a quick list:
A couple from me: http://fedoratutorials.com/2008/08/29/utosc-2008-day-1/ http://fedoratutorials.com/2008/08/30/utosc-2008-day-2/
A couple from Paul: http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1147 http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1143
From others, possibly related to Fedora:
http://www.fozzilinymoo.org/Fozzolog/2008/08/utosc-day-1.html http://testopia.blogspot.com/2008/09/utosc-2008.html http://pyrous.net/blog/?p=14 http://blog.endpoint.com/2008/08/camps-presentation-at-utosc-2008.html
We also have tons of pictures up on our flickr page:
Great report and great event too!
I enjoy reading your blog post and seeing your photos.
Moreover, reading the previous thread I saw the number of registered attendees was great, so keep this way.
Regards
Francesco Ugolini
ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org