[lugm.org] Suggestions/Improvements - Linuxfest 2013 schedule

[Ish Sookun]

Hello Yasir,

Thanks for the feedback. Yup, I know the issue about the exams. Actually,
UoM said the earliest date they could give us was February 2014, when I
contacted them some 2 months ago. The problem was since beginning of the
year I've been pinging Computer Club to get me a date, but their calendar
was already heavy. It's only when I met Ibraahim (current president of CC)
& his team that they lobbied for a date. We got 25th & weren't expecting
exams to be on that day. Still ... when we saw timetables it was kinda sad
but we thought let's go ahead & get it done instead of postponing for next
year.

I really appreciate the help provided by UoM CC folks.

For the presentations, yes, I agree with you. We didn't get the auditorium
before to check, test & prepare ourselves. We couldn't meet earlier to
synchronize and evaluate our presentations. As for being interactive, hmm,
I believe presentation should rather contain more of the talk than
technicalities. Otherwise, it becomes a demo. True, it's good to involve
the audience in the talks, which I tried doing to some extent. We expected
our audience to have both technical & non-technical people.

Demos indeed capture the attention of *those seeking more*. That's exactly
what happened in the lobby. On my end I showed a bunch of students how make
a live pendrive using the *dd* command & we installed Linux Mint on one
laptop (which a student brought). On a second laptop I asked them to
install it themselves and I'll watch. They did it fine, dual booting with
Windows ( : Most of those in the group who had pendrives took a copy of
Linux Mint's iso. Yes, the demos are fruitful & targeted at smaller
audience. Things we should consider for future events, how much time to
allocate for presentations & how much time for demos ... or maybe we do
each of them on separate days to make those less hectic.

I again grab this opportunity to thank everyone for the support.

Cheers!

Ish Sookun

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On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Yasir MX <yasirmx at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I think this event was a success despite the fact that I was not present
> from the very beginning. I was present from 13h-13h30
>
> The good things I noticed:
> - Ajay explaining open source to a group of students in lobby
> - Enough Lugm staff were present
> - Nirvan was there guiding people to go to the presentation hall
> - Selven backed nitin up when OS crashed
>
> However some things to improve on:
>
> - Do not schedule event while there are exams
> In the morning there were around 100 students and around 13h there were
> like 20-30. I was talking to some friends about this event and all of them
> said they had exams on this day.
>
> - Schedule interesting talks/demos in the first place.
> Nitin was there talking about kali linux/ethical hacking and there were
> only around 30 guys
>
> - Be more demo-oriented rather than speech oriented
> E.g. Nitin was talking more about kali rather than doing more and more
> demo. His speech was slow
>
> - Be More interactive.
> Ask the students if they use linux. If so, bring them forward to try out
> some stuff during demo...
>
> I appologise if you guys did things I mentioned above because I was not
> there since morning....
>
> Cheers,
> Yasir
>
>
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