Don’t Say Geek! Say Syntux!

Saturday 29th of December was one of the days that I would never forgot, We worked really hard to prepare for the festival and we got it done in less than three weeks.

The event was a great success, we installed GNU/Linux on about 30 boxes, distributed about 300 DVD and 100 CD mainly Ubuntu 7.10 and Fedora 8 but OpenSuse 10.3 has its dose too (I can tell that people liked it even more than Fedora)

The goals of festival were met, we wanted to turn luggers on and to get new fresh blood and we succeeds in getting 120 new lug members and the old ones working on new year resolutions now which is great step forward for us.

People were amused by the topics of Free Software, Open Source, starting from the philosophy ending with the available technologies, They were asking Are you doing this for free? we thought you’re going to sell us something and the answer was Of course, we are selling you your freedom

Now we are planning to setup another installation festival within four months, hopefully we will find a sponsor so we can achieve a larger class of people.

Kudos to JoLug members who helped to make this event one memorable event, hopefully we will have more good news to share soon.

leave you with some photos of the installation festival.

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Under the High Patronage of Mighty Penguin, Jordan Linux Users Group is pleased to invited you to Amman Linux Installation Festival 29th December 2007.

Time: 9:00 a.m - 9:00 p.m. on Saturday December 29th 2007.
Place : Azzahra’ Hall - Jordan Engineers Association (Mojamma3 Elnaqabat) in Shemisani. Amman, Jordan.
What: Live installation of various Linux flavors. Bring your PC or laptop and get professional help in installing the latest and greatest GNU/Linux OS.
Who: Volunteers from Jolug members.
Duration: All day.

Free entry tickets
Free Linux DVDs & CDs
Free Linux Installation
Free presentation
Free soft drink.

Way to confirm

• Send email to festival [at] Jolug [dot] org
• Jolug.org event
• FaceBook event
• BE THERE

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read more about the fantastic trip

I’m proud to announce that the mailing list of Ubuntu Certified Professional has became an official mailing list under Ubuntu.com mailing list

1. ubuntu-training-community.
   open for community members to get involved with the ubuntu training projects
2. ubuntu-training-support
   Q&A assistance on training courses
3. #ubuntu-training IRC Channel on freenode network

Special thanks goes to Mark, Billy and Tiago.

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I decided to start studying for Ubuntu Certified Professional Certificate, This certificate requires passing LPI 101, LPI 102 and Ubuntu LPI 199.

I will start studying and sharing experience on my blog and I have setup-ed a mailing list for that certificate to to share experience.

If you are interested in studying starting from LPI 101 up to Ubuntu Cert then join me, Hope we can create a community of people whom interested in LPI and Ubuntu certificates.

More about Ubuntu Certification

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