On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 10:28:50AM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 07:48:11AM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:53:08AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > > 1.1 What do we want to demonstrate? > > > > > > One Idea: Have one (or more) Systems their and show the Install of > > > Debian. Let the User install Debian and give help, so they can walk > > > through a complete Setup of Debian and if they have Problems they can > > > ask for help. So they can go home with a little knowledge about the > > > Installer. > > > > We can show a debian installation if we get a forum or beamer at the > > booth. Maybe we can show something at the debianday, but imho a show at > > the booth is better. > > I'd like to man the booth too and could perhaps offer a portable > beamer from my university (I got it for the 60th birthday of my mother > so LinuxTag should be no problem :) > > Maybe we should also show other great and characteristic things, like: > > 1. show how easy a regular update with apt is (we just have to create > a slightly old harddisk image so we can show it again). We could > also show the power of apt-cache search and aptitude IMHO we don't need a show about aptitude, apt etc. We should show this all the time at the booth, not only in one show! If I on a booth, I make normal this: - I get a computer with debian woody, with 'no' packages (no gimp, no kword, no ...). Only runing X and some window manager. In sources.list are potato and sid and a apt pining with 'get woody'. - I sit in front of the computer and wait. - If some visitor ask 'Oh you don't use KDE?! Have debian no KDE?' I reply 'Oh, yes but debian have it... I show you kword ok?' Get a shell, type 'kword' -> 'Command not found'. 'Oh, I have not installed it... Please wait a moment...', type 'apt-get install kword' and start it... Normal the visitor is amazedly. If not, I get auto-apt or some other feature. - After this we talk about free software, debian, *apt*, etc. - Other visitor will watch this show, ask the some questions, install other uninstalled packages... > 2. a demonstration of pppconfig to show that getting into the net > is very easy even with Debian :) > > 3. DSL is of course a hot topic, unfortunately a demonstration of > pppoeconf has to remain theoretical... put this in the install show. > 4. Of course installation. Letting a user do it is a nice idea but we > have to try this first. If there are too much problems/questions > it'll be quite boring for the visitors. Oh no. Get a debian user/developer (no visitor) and make a nice show. A non debian guy can't install it without reading some pages. (Debian is not Knoppix (now)). Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsupport.de PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "How hard can it be, it's just an operating system?" -- Linus Torvalds
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