Dubbo Team, New South Wales, Australia

2006 Report

Our day was spent at one of our local shoppings malls with a display that I had been organising during the week. It basically consisted of 4 computers setup with Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Damn Small Linux, a projector hooked up to the Ubuntu machine running the Blender Siggraph Demoreels and the occasional other video we had. There was also a noticeboard that had various information leaflets for people to read.

We had a little bit of press help promoting the event earlier in the week. One of our local free newspapers, the Dubbo Photo News, published a small article on Thursday. Our local prominent AM radio station, 2DU, did and interview with myself earlier in the week which had some good results as a number of people mentioned hearing it. The Dubbo Photo News photographer visited us on Saturday to take a heap of photos and get some information and they will be running it as a major article in next weeks paper.

The day started with about 200 Ubuntu CDs, and I also had a heap of blank CDs which I was using to burn copies of the Open Source Free CD for people. I think we gave away around half the Ubuntu CDs and about 20 odd OSFCDs.

There was lots of passing interest in our display and there were a large number of computer professionals that were very interested, a few system admins, an IT teacher/admin from a local high school, and others. Over the entire day there was not one negative comment regarding open source or Linux, everyone was most positive and there were certainly lots of average people quite interested as well.

Our club (Dubbo and District Computer Club) got a good lot of promotion and we are expecting to get a few new faces at our next meeting which we have lined up as a workshop to do a bit of a Linux installfest and to teach the basics of the Linux CLI.

For images, see Software Freedom Day in Dubbo

About The Team

Team Name: Dubbo

Team Contact: Andrew Swinn (andrew@swinndesign.com) - 0402 426 490

The Dubbo event is being organised by members of the Dubbo and District Computer Club.
For more information about the club please visit http://www.ddcclub.org.

Location

We will have a display located at the

Orana Mall Marketplace, Wheelers Lane, Dubbo.
(http://www.oranamall.com.au)

Planned Activities

The display will consist of:

• Open Source software CDs to give away.

  • Almost 200 Ubuntu 6.06 CDs (http://www.ubuntu.com).

  • Copies of TheOpenCD (http://wwww.theopencd.org).

  • Copies of the Open Source Free CD (http://www.opensourcefreecd.org).

• Various informational material.
  • Information about the Dubbo and District Computer Club (where we meet, what we do).
  • Information about Open Source Software, Linux and related topics.
• A display of multiple computers running Open Source Software.

  • Ubuntu 6.06 running a Celestia display on a projector (http://www.shatters.net/celestia/).

  • Edubuntu 6.06 (http://www.edubuntu.com).

  • Kubuntu 6.06 (http://www.kubuntu.com).

  • Damn Small Linux (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/).