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I-CON Science Fiction Convention - 3/29/03

We had a great time at ICON this year. We had an amazing turnout of nearly 50 people. Almost all of the seats in Harriman 104 were filled with people interested in Linux. While the event was planned as an install-fest, we only actually did one live install. However, many many copies of Mandrake 9.1 and Knoppix 3.2 were handed out. A general introduction to Linux on the desktop was also given with short demonstrations of Mozilla, OpenOffice, GIMP, and KDE. We had such a good turnout at ICON that next year we will likely have more than just 1 event. Click on the pictures below to see them at 800x600.

This picture best shows how many people were at the event. However, a bunch of people had left by the time this picture was taken.

A crowd remained afterwards to ask questions and wait for their CDs to burn.

John posing next to the Q&A session.

Mark hands out a copy of Knoppix, while the monitor displays the beautiful KDE 3.1 desktop.

Sidd and Brandon pose with Tux.

Brandon can't get enough of the inflatable Tux.

Sidd toys with Mandrake 9.1 while it is burning CDs to be given away.

A little blurry, but you can see John and company installing Mandrake on the computer behind the desk.