What I mean with demos is something like a mini-show. Say I am demoing basic desktop usage, I have a machine, I have small audience, and I give them a quick (15 to 30 minute, I think) presentation on everything; office apps, graphics apps, gaim, etc.

The thing is, most of the visitors will be newbies who don't know anything other than the FUD they've heard about Linux, and the best way to introduce someone to linux is to demonstrate it to them.

What you are talking about is equally important and valuable; printed materisl. I hereby officially pronounce Amr the official printed material coordinator. arius33 (c'mon, can't be 32 forever mate) will do the document design for you when you decide what we need and provide him with it. Remember, you don't have to do it all yourself, you just have to coordinate. Someone else can write, everyone gets to choose, someone else can design, but you are making sure it all happens smoothly.

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Start the ideas now, and we can later sum'em up in a different context.

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but for obvious reasons coordination would be done on the eglug.org website

but if you are asking weather we should formaly approach other groups like Linux-Egypt and CULUG and not just wait for them to show up, thats a different question.

again IMO we should, we should collect as many volunteers as is possible, one can never have enough volunteers.

cheers, Alaa

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we need no groups like Linux Egypt or CULUG .. we can do everything on our own .. we have enough experienced people .. we're the true believers .. all what we need to do is to set some challanges to work on them .. thats all what we need to do , we have time , we can arrange everything Cheers

ya i agree with u , we just do it ourselves , but they can also participate too , but it's our event

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It's NOT our event.

This event is for the sake of GNU/Linux and all of the people.

We are not the only LUG in Egypt, So saying that this is our event is IMHO equivalent to saying that Israel is the Representative for all the jews!

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Take it easy guys that why i hate to participate in forums , most of people missed my words. i meant "el tanzim" is ours which means the leadership, and shouldn't be compared to "israel", its something different

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This looks like somepeople want to do this to promote their careers only. I think there are enough people like this arround taking profits from the work of others.

remeber you cannont withhold the source code, or bar people from it, linux is not OUR THING, it's just like air and water and shade, could you claim that a LINUX install fest is your alone? , it's not a group thing, it's for every one.. besides, it sounds kindda mean to not accept help from other volenteers, that's totally against the entire concept of the GPL or FOSS.

I have spoken!

got Slack? get counted

did i prevent anybody from linux source !

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weird thing from DJ KING do u vlunteer to hsow u are good and powerfull

or u doing that for GNU/linux if its the first thing i can understand why u said so if its the second thing i can`t understand why u said so

its not contest no one is the best

We want to promote linux (each have his own reason)

So we will prepare an event, where the center activity will be, installing linux on guests machines (boring!)

Others activities will include, distributing CDs, burning CDs, Boring presentation!

The place or whatever should be devide into section each section equiped with the resource it needs!

I really cannot imagine more to be done! Organize, equip, promote, wait for them to come !!!!

I guess the most important thing is that people should have fun, the more technically compotent the presenter is, the happier the audiance will be, I think

This is so ridiculously obvious hard work, where is the challenge!

"boring presentations" can be made less boring if prepared well, people who give presentations can look "more technically competent" if they know what they're supposed to say, planning how "The place or whatever should be devided into sections" and the process of "distributing CDs" can be done better than last year with some effort, and hence the serious early planning for the event, but that's not all what's there to it, early planning can help raising innovative ideas that can benefit from such a relatively large event which only takes place once every year so far. if anyone happenns to have a great idea it's better to let people know about it before the installfest by a reasonable amount of time.... you got a point after all.

jah

we are not doing something original, the previous fest was a huge sucess, the wiki was used to its full potential

can it be done again, can it be better

the key person in this, should go back to the old event documentation and add to it we keda

in theory as time passes more ppl learn about linux, more ppl can do stuff, but also at the same time, it might not be as exciting as the first, so maybe it will attrack less visitor, i dont i can get accurate date to make a more educated guess

a nice idea can be to distribute printed docs, photocopieying is cheap i think, we can find any 30 pages linux tut, print it make 500 copies? thanks what 180 piasters * 500 = 900 l.e right !!!

we need money for this thing !!! maybe printed docs aint so great, the money better goes to buy CDs, then we should hire a slave to burn them

so ezaki, start the wiki page, son of the wiki of the first fest, we can come up with a catchy name for this fest, "Linuxillica" or "linux'n'roses" and give it a heavy metal theme, all runnig linux machine will play metal music, i dunno, metal is makin a come back!