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

[Avinash Meetoo]

Dear all,

I would like to congratulate the organisers, with a special mention for
Ish, for their hard work :-)

Keep up the spirit. And, remember, Linux and Open Source Software rule!!!

Avinash


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Ish Sookun <ish at hacklog.in> wrote:

> 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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