As you already know, Ubuntu Romanian Team was at eLiberatica 2009, and they did it loudly and crowdly.

Coming from Cluj-Napoca, we joined Firebird SQL team from Mureș and ROSEdu Team from Bucharest to make the event successful. Finally in 2 days we were going to make the giveaways for about 200 Ubuntu CDs, a couple of caps, dozens of pens, several lainyards, a lot of papers and posters.

Our stand was one of the most visited stand build by the community (maybe the better was only Mozilla’s, but they were helped by other sources :D). After 2 days, there was not a single CD from those which we left for conference exhibition. We’re estimating that every second conference visitor got a CD from us (and the organizers were announcing about 400 visitors). Only several flyers left from the whole package of goodies.

We got in touch with several people that announced themselves ready to contribute with presentations and possibly sponsor invitations across the country. Those guys asked promotional goodies if possible and CDs for the event (this is what community will have to do in the next several weeks).

Guys from ROSEdu reported that their CDL courses held on Ubuntu systems were of great success. We’ll try to use their experince to achieve the same effect in Cluj-Napoca by organizing an event like that.

Ubuntu Romanian Remix and KiwiLinux were also a subject of interests at eLiberatica. Most of the people who asked about both distros are actually the people we targeted when building those distros.

Several guys came to ask about Ubuntu server edition and what new it brings in 9.04, and what are the plans for the next milestone. There were the same questions about Ubuntu Desktop editions.

In future Ubuntu Romania Team is going to be even more present at such events by all means, because we see it is the only way actually things roll in Romania. People that are able and may be helpful are looking to meet ourselves in person. Only after knowing the persons they seem to trust the idea and get into the project (which makes sense in a society where it is really hard to deliver the truth by digital means).

In the end I must say that I was very disappointed to see that for projecting the presentations organizers used a Windows machine. Thanks to Greg who solved somehow this issue when Danese was doing Lightning Talks.

Anyway it was cool to get ourselves together. Looking forward to see you on our IRC channel for more discussions and question regarding Ubuntu’s eLiberatica participation.