Software Freedom Day 2007
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That was tiring to do an event during puasa.
First many thanks to all the volunteers who helped out.- Maulvi - For the demo PCs and time!
- Sam - For the table and time
- ditesh, aizatto, angch, kenmin, jinny for their time
- there was one more person I forgot to introduce myself to, who was there for some time and also helped explain FOSS to others.
There was a range of people as it as a general place. The crowd was ok, not as much as PC Fair, but steady stream throughout the day, although a lot were mostly walking by. I think we needed a larger banner for the booth. We handed out all the Ubuntu CDs and a fair number of FOSS on Windows CDs. The people I talked to, were interested in OpenOffice. As I expected, most people wanted to see the applications and what they did, rather than concepts such as software freedom. Malaysians... :)
One particular interesting visitor, was a woman who said that their management forced all their users to use OpenOffice and they didn't like it. Free as in you have to use it. I think Maulvi did a good job on convincing her on the latest improvements and why it's better.
Here was our booth

The crowd at KL Sentral, spot our booth it's the red table.

Now waiting for kenmin's photos, hopefully he can upload it to flickr and add sfd200 and malaysia tags to it so we can find them.

Kudos