Presentation for Newbies

Basicaly we need presentations relying on the distros we'll distribute. to assure this group of users that we're serious and that we're giving them good stuff.

Follows are suggestions

Installing Mandrake:

This should work very well for those who want to install Gnu/Linux but did not bring their own PCs, a quick install with a successful boot would be great. We need a very fast PC for this, we don't want them waiting too long in the package installation phase. Very minimal desktop packages should be used to speed things up.

General Desktop Usage on LiveCD:

This should be a quick tour around a browser, an office suite, an email program, a music player, a movie player, a cute game an IM program etc. we can list here the apps we'll try to cover.

Maybe this should be done in Arabbix to demonstrate how most (all) this stuff has arabic support.

Detailed Desktop Usage on LiveCD:

This one should be a bit slower than the general one, maybe focus on productivity and compatibility, demonstrate OpenOffice and its neat features (PDF export, flash export whatever). and import/export and M$ word document etc. this should be done on Mandrake Move I suppose.

By having the two desktop presentations we can cover both Gnome and KDE without putting too much effort into it, just on a low key normal usage basis.

These three presentations are IMO essential we have to do them, other ideas:

Mandrake Control Center:

Users who know they'll want to install Gnu/Linux would want assurance that they can manage it, demonstrating all apsects of the Control Center including a quick look at advanced features like server wizards and remote desktops would be great. Focus should be on tools that have similar alternatives on other distros, while we'll probably focus on Mandrake its purely due to lack of time and resources to cover more than one Major distro.

Eye Candy Galore:

Qucikly skim through the huge number of desktops and windowmanager themeing everything that passes your way. The idea here is not to give useful info but to impress users with the neat eye candy we're capable of.

We might want to play with stuff like root-tail, gdesklets etc as long as its kept very simple. fortunatly MDK has menu entries for all these things.