DoctorMo's Blog

Once again this year the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community team was invited to take part in Pi-Con (not Py-Con), it’s a local science/fiction/geek/nerd conference with a ton of different stuff going on. At well as the boat loads of authors, book sellers, comic artists and geeks. There was also shadow cast opera, LRPGs, board and card games, a console games room as well as the meat of the con which was all the very informative and well executed panels.

Our team comes to inform and give out cds to people who are geeks and nerds, but might not be aware or confident in using/install Ubuntu. Since last year was so successful we decided to do it again. My thanks goes out to Jonathan Prigot who organised and held the fort at our table all of the time.

People came to our table, but the dealers room was fairly out of the way this time. So I went out a few times to give out CDs and go around with my t-shirt on (ubuntu t-shirts for the win at geek cons). Lots of people I talked to were already using it or had already tried it, those left over were genuinely interested and took CDs and stickers.

The weekend was 3 days long and I do admit to being less than planned, I ended up bringing my printer in order to get some posters, biz cards and some other stuff (printer always useful) and that worked out ok but I would have rather had our banner (where ever it’s gone) and some larger posters and such. The laptops worked out great, we didn’t have any desktops with us, but the one netbook and two laptops were very useful in showing and demoing features.