Last Thursday, Lolut, a club which promote the free and open-source culture and of which I’m the (forced ) manager, organized an install party at school where we put the latest release of Ubuntu on the students machine.

I must say that, as it’s my first action as a member of Lolut, I’m very happy with the outcome. Indeed, 3 days before the event we had only 4-5 people registered on the website and, suddenly, the last day before the party, this number jumped to 15. That number of persons for a little event like that was already a good achievement but in the end it was something like 20-25 people who came and returned at home at the end of the afternoon with a new shiny Ubuntu box . Moreover everybody was cool and Lolut’s members really rocked knowing how bad the organization was . The only little bad point is that we didn’t have time to really teach everybody some Linux tips&trick apart from a bare how-to-install-package-with-synaptics.

Surprisingly there were almost no problems at all during each installations and, in a short amount of time, everybody was playing with his wobbly windows. As a matter of fact the tweaking of the apt mirror and the proxy was what took most of the time/problems (thanks nextgens for the hard work on that !).