Report: 1st OpenFest Open Christmas at Florina, December 24th 2010

Merry Christmas to everyone:



Yesterday a small team of the Greek openSUSE community decided to go on a Christmas roadtrip. We traveled about 2 and a half hours to go to the beautiful border town of Florina. We were invited by teachers of The Educational Computer Association of Florina to help them promote FOSS. In the central square of the city they hard wooden houses with different themes (you can see the pictures).
openSUSE Greek team with KLUG and a very active elementary teacher, Mr Ioannis Kaskamanidis, were informing people who was interested in what we do. Mr Kaskamanidis, brought his students with their XO laptops. Kids were showing their laptops with pride and giving away info packs (PromoDVDs, stickers, brochures). We also met with a local doctor, Dr Evangelos Tsoukas. He translated and supports the Electronic Medical Records program called openEMR.
openSUSE team was pretty happy about promoting our distro to citizens of Florina. We didn't mind that we drove 200km to reach the city or the soft rain that made us to put all our equipment inside the wooden house. What is left from this event was:

We did our job and we had fun!!!

1ο OpenFest Open Christmas at Florina

Something really interesting it is about to happen tomorrow in the border City of Florina. The teachers of The Educational Computer Association of Florina are organizing an event mixing Christmas with FOSS. So in the central square of the city they will have those wooden houses and in one of them there will be people that will promote FOSS to  the public, informing and demonstrating it. Of course the Greek openSUSE team will be there promoting our favorite project. We believe that movements like that should be supported by everyone in the Greek FOSS Community.

 Kostas 'Warlordfff' Koudaras

1ο OpenFest Open Christmas στην Φλώρινα

Κάτι πολύ ενδιαφέρον όσων αφορά το ΕΛ/ΛΑΚ έχει οργανωθεί για ανήμερα των Χριστουγέννων από τον Σύλλογο Εκπαιδευτικών Πληροφορικης Π.Ε. Φλώρινας. Έτσι λοιπόν Στην κεντρική πλατεία της Φλώρινας Στις 24 του μήνα, σε ένα από τα ξύλινα σπιτάκια που έχουν στηθεί εκεί με αφορμή τις γιορτές, θα μαζευτούμε φίλοι του ΕΛ/ΛΑΚ και θα προσπαθήσουμε να δείξουμε στον κόσμο τα προτερήματα του ΕΛ/ΛΑΚ.

 Όσοι λοιπόν ενδιαφέρεστε να μάθετε παραπάνω για το ΕΛ/ΛΑΚ και να γνωρίσετε την κοινότητα περάστε μια βόλτα. Πιστεύω ότι προσπάθειες σαν και αυτή σε ακριτικές πόλεις όπως η Φλώρινα έχουν τεράστια σημασία και σπουδαιότητα και πρέπει να στηρίζονται από όλους.

 Ξέρω για σίγουρα οτι στην Εκδήλωση θα συμμετέχει ο KLUG και φυσικά η Ελληνική κοινότητα του openSUSE όπου όπως όλα δείχνουν θα ανεβάσουμε μια μικρή ομάδα, οποιοσδήποτε άλλος από κάποια κοινότητα ενδιαφέρετε να συμμετάσχει η να στείλει υλικό για την εκδήλωση μπορεί να επικοινωνήσει με τους διοργανωτές μέσω του μέηλ kiolalis@gmail.com.
Κώστας 'Warlordfff' Κουδάρας

GreekLUG Christmas Party December 17, 2010, Thessaloniki-Greece

* Event Date: December 17, 2010
* openSUSE Ambassadors: Efstathios (diamond_gr) Iosifidis, Kostas (Warlordfff) Koudaras, George (Etern4L) Bratsos
* Helpers: Christos Soultidis, Athanasios Rousinopoulos, George Pitoulias
* Event Details
o Tell us about the event, What did you do? The Association of Greek Users and Friends of FS/OSS organized a Christmas Party for all Linux enthousiasts and all distros. openSUSE, Ubuntu and Fedora were present with a small booth. We were gathered together before everyone leaves for Christmas vacations. Some of us were informing people about FS/OSS and distros. Thank you GreekLUG for the Xmas party.
o How many DVDs taken and distributed? About 10 DVDs. We also used the file Greek help flyer
o Did you have a booth? Yes
o Who staffed the booth? Kostas Koudaras
o Would you go again? Yes
o What more can you do to make it better? Ask the organizers for bigger place (bar-cafe) for a party.


Pictures from the event: