openSUSE installed on Scouts Computers

Greek openSUSE community in association with GreekLUG, helped 13th Scout Team of Thessaloniki, to upgrade the hardware and install openSUSE on 3 computers. Unfortunately one computer was broken broke due to hardware malfunction, but Efstathios Iosifidis found another one and replace it.

Those 3 computers are very old. One of them comes with Gnome (Pentium 4 with 1GB RAM) and the other 2 with LXDE (Pentium 3 with 256MB RAM or less) but both are very slow. Unfortunately they didn't have Internet installed yet, since this would be a good task for them.

Kids already started to check the graphical interface and of course check some games (see the pictures).

openSUSE team supported scouts team to participate to JOTI-JOTA

openSUSE Greek team with Efstathios Iosifidis in association with GreekLUG, helped a scout team to participate to the JOTI (Jamboree on the Internet) of the JOTI-JOTA.

JOTI is an event that scouts from all over the world login to IRC and chat. It lasts 2 days. This year is on 16th and 17th of October. A team of scouts came to the university where we setup the computers to login to the Scoutlink server. First we had a short talk about the opensource and openSUSE since they had to use it with JOTI. After we informed the rules of IRC chat, they started to find new friends from Greece and all over the world.

Scouts got their PromoDVD copy and they were happy they joined this event.

You can see some pictures:

openSUSE at the celebrations for the 100 years Scouting in Greece (report)

In October 1-3, we participated to the celebrations for 100 years Scouting in Greece. The last day was dedicated to animals since it was their world day celebration.

We were guests of GreekLUG. The main idea was to run a future park. Since the audience was mainly kids, we setup computers running network games and games in general.

As community, we made some Geeko origami some Geekos out of empty bottles and plaster. We also informed people about FOSS and openSUSE. Main concern of the adults was if it's easy and if it runs with windows dual boot.

We gave about 50 PromoDVDs and some leafs where they can find help in Greek.

Here are some pictures:

openSUSE presence at the celebrations for the 100 years Scouting in Greece

Among 1-3 of October openSUSE will be a part of the celebration for the 100 years of Scouting in Greece as a guest of Greeklug.
We will again organize some games for the kids like origami and making Geekos out of empty bottles and plaster. We will also inform people about FOSS and openSUSE.

Our community will be represented by Greek Ambassadors Kostas Koudaras (warlordfff) and Efstathios Iosifidis (diamond_gr) for the first 2 days and in the last day only by Efstathios Iosifidis (diamond_gr) 

openSUSE team at the 75th International Trade Fair

openSUSE ambassadors team in association with GreekLUG and Scouts Organization in Thessaloniki, participated from 11th until 19th of September 2010, to 75th International Trade Fair in Thessaloniki. We were at the thematic section called Kids & Fun at the building no16.

The main idea there was to organize some games for the kids. Unfortunately we didn't have the equipment to install couple of games (like Super Tux). So we had a small corner and we were informing the kids and parents about FOSS and what are the positives of using it. We used our laptops to show a small demo.

Our community was represented by Greek Ambassador Kostas Koudaras (warlordfff) and Efstathios Iosifidis (diamond_gr).