Release Party F15 Managua

= Fedora 15 Release Party - Managua, Nicaragua =

When and Where

 * Date: Jun 14th, 2011
 * Time: 1:30pm to 5:00pm (-6 UTC)
 * Place: Auditorium Roberto Terán - Universidad Centroamericana (UCA)

Organizers / Team
Event Owner: Neville A. Cross

Requirements (Budget/DVD etc.)

 * Cheat Cubes
 * T-Shirts
 * Leaflets
 * Live CD / Installation DVD
 * Stickers

Detailed Cost Breakup
Famsco Ticket # 190 Notes:
 * Stickers are no needed as there are leftovers form past orders
 * T-shirts cost for order above 50 units is US $ 4.90
 * Leaflets were no printed.

Report
We had registered 61 people attending, but we estimated that we have about 10 to 15 people unregistered. Plus the team organizing the event. We delivered 35 DVD and 35 Live CD. We had to keep some media as there are upcoming activities. Most important is a Asterix workshop that will be run using Fedora and the will do a fresh install. This is part of the activities planned for Fedora 15 release.

We were short on lightning talks, but we started a bit late after all. When people waited for start we showed Big Buck Bunny, Sintel and a slide show prepared for the occasion. The slide show has what's new in Fedora 15, what is Fedora and some resources for getting help using Fedora. This used to be a boring talk, and now we have this slide show to present while people wait. The rest of the presentation went as planned.

The same slide show was running on one PC at the tables for demos. We had four computers so people can try out Fedora 15, but decided to have one for the slide show.

We have one request for installation as soon the video about Gnome Shell ended, and we did it! The audio is en Spanish, but here is the video

Every one got at least one sticker. We have displayed our Fedora tablecloth at the registering table. We used balloons for decoration, setting white fedora balloons with blue and cyan balloons.

There was one person requesting some talk at his university, hopefully we can arrange that in the near future. I made contact with one architect hoe is using Linux as primary OS for design. He will be a good ally as there are usually some people asking for tips about that.

Photos

 * Neville's photos showing swag for the event.
 * Francys' photos: They have fun after the event!
 * Alexei's photos: He made everybody stare at his beautiful Alienware Laptop, now with Fedora15.
 * Gaby's photos