How was your [Linux] seminar [at De La Salle Canlubang Nov 07, 2007]

It was great!

Gem, Allan, Rudolf came along.
We [the flinstones van] parked at a sloped place at paseo so, battery dead, needed to pushstart, hehe.
Then we met Cedric near the tricycles, he knew us as i was bringing a laptop [without bag].
Waited for the 11am shuttle going to De La Salle Canlubang.
While waiting talked with cedric.
dlsc has cs, im, ece, coe, no nursing, tuition about 40k+ per term (trimester).
im 1 student in their batch. cs ~20 students in their batch. dlsc is aobut 5 years old only. there's an airconditioning fee.
Davo came riding a tricycle from aup just as we were about to board the shuttle.
Shuttle was L300 van, driver drove fast. Driver wearing barong.
The school was nice and big. large organized parking area, and many cars [i saw more cars than people, hehe].
Saw a Yamaha center (maybe a shop, a display center, or something else).
elevator to 4th/3th floor.
The auditorium seats about 200, on the topmost floor, aircon, yamaha speakers.
waited.
The first two speakers Dennis Billano and Dwight Herrera, senior cs students related their experiences from OJT in a small company in alabang and in a big company in mandaluyong [accenture].
Looks like there's no uniform in this school, this is cool.
My turn, setupped laptop with LCD. while booting ubuntu, said "Good morning, what we'll do know is i'm going to pretend you don't know anything about linux. smile."
"sino mga cs dito?". almost everyone raised their hand. they're not shy, good. hehe
"sino IM?". only one girl raised her hand, smile as everyone did too.
"ok i'm a kind of person who has a lot of experiments and experience with linux and that's what i'm trying to share today with you..."
then we went on with the presentation i prepared 2 years ago, hehe, with updates, and some outdated information [some students pointed out later].
"sino nakatry ng linux?" about three raised hands, aha, i'm not alone, hehe.
observations while speaking: 1)their teacher, a lady, kept on knodding and smiling in reaction to many things i was saying, found out later she taught in UPLB!!! kaya pala. UPLB is AFAIK the hardest CS school in the philippines. she knows sir ton [daniel] pamintuan, but he was not her student daw -- which means she was teaching -- which means she has a MSCS from UPLB or another school UPLB people respect.
2)some students were leaning forward, a sign of deep interest maybe
3)some students were reacting positively like they were agreeing on what i was saying
i forgot my notes. i made notes the day before, about keyboard shortcuts in compizfusion. so ended up just demoing the tricks i remembered, rotating cube, ringrotate, and another switcher [which the audience reacted to as "iphone", hehehe].
compiz-fusion got a whooaaa reaction.
i had a picture of my friend [the last lady i was trying to court, but didn't work out] in the "universe" of compizfusion, and while rotating the triangle cube the audience saw the pix and ahhhhhhhh uyyyyyy'ed, hehe. i quickly brushed it off to keep them curious. hehe
About the content of the presentation:
1) i was saying about half of the content of the other slides while showing a different slide, hehe. unsynchronized presentation. the slides weren't up to how the environment should be, that's why.
2) about 40% of what was said wasn't in any of the slides
3) forgot to tell them about gnokii, and many other things. anyway, it was about just an introduction
after the presentation, the adviser and the organizer thanks us with some gift in a green box [green is de la salle's color, probably]. then invites us to lunch, i tell them i have a problem because i'm a vegetarian. we check out the caf menu, there's nothing there for me. sorry. saw many koreans in the caf. also many upper class students, probably. so the organizers decide to take us out to Rose&Grace for lunch. We ride in the mercedez of one of the senior students. chit-chat in rose&grace, i was seating with the two other speakers.
"nag lilinux din kau sa school? or kanya-kanya lang?" "kanya-kanya lang sir."
"may nalimutan akong sabihin kanina, gnokii, gnu nokia interface" "anung spelling sir, ok to may bagong paglalaruan, hehe".
the presenation will be posted later in:
http://www.aup.edu.ph/aolis/wingp/linuxseminar/linuxseminarpart1.sxi [oppenoffice format]
http://www.aup.edu.ph/aolis/wingp/linuxseminar/linuxseminarpart1.ppt [powerpoint format]
my reaction:
1)learned a lot, how school runs
2)inspired by them having a MSCS teacher
3)inspired that students can drive mercedez to school
4)inspired by so many nice things that i saw there, the school is new so equipment and infrastructure are all impressive.