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Trever Fischer is a junior at The University of Akron with a strong enthusiasm towards coding, writing, photography, and above all: oranges. This is his site. Specifically, this is his "About" box. In addition to recently having finished his first year of college, he is also a full-time hacker who tinkers with Amarok, Plasma, various KDE bits, and PHP.

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November
09

ACM at UA and Fedora 11

I’ve been really busy the first half of the semester here at the University of Akron. So much that I couldn’t really get a chance to hack on KDE or blog about the fun things the ACM chapter I’m president of is doing.

But with the second half, thats one 3-hour class less I have to take twice a week. Woo hoo free time!

Anyways, we have one big project that’s been going on since two weeks ago. A fedora pre-release event! The UA campus is a very windows-powered campus, with people looking at us crazy if we say we don’t want windows 7 even though it is on sale at the student center for only $25. The concept of free software and not liking windows is foreign to them it seems.

So two weeks ago the ACM has set up a little table in the student center where we sit down and show off the latest and greatest OS on the planet: Fedora 11 with KDE!

It has been pretty successful with a ton of people stopping by to wonder what the heck isn’t windows and why there’s a crowd around the table. But we consider two weeks ago to be more of a ‘trial run’ of what we’re really going to do this week. On tuesday, we just had a small banner and two laptops with small screens. By friday we had swag, big 23″ widescreen monitors and lots of shiny shiny to draw a good crowd. So this morning, I’m creating some small flyers in Inkscape to add to the swag of things to give away with stuff.

The real fun starts next tuesday (11-10-9, geddit?) when we start performing installs, dual-boots, migrations, and a full Q&A session of anyone who wants to try Fedora 11. And folks show up at the table this week, we have a LiveUSB creator station all set up for people who want to try. Last time about 5 folks grabbed a copy, and we’re hoping for twice as many this week.

I’ll have some pictures up later today and more this week for everyone to see the fruits of our labor :)

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