Death before decaf.

I’m going to call the Wisconsin LoCo Release Party a big success!  We ended up filling the tables with 16 participants from two states ranging in location from Minocqua, WI to the Twin Cities, MN, amateur users to professionals, and developers to enthusiasts.

A few people started off ordering some appetizers and beverages to drink.  I had a tri-fold brochure (upload link to come) with some information about what a LoCo is, what is new in Ubuntu 9.10, and what Ubuntu really means waiting at each seat.  Along with the brochure, I had a small pad of paper, a pen, a Powered by Ubuntu sticker from system76, and a sticker for the super (usually looks like the Windows logo) key.

Tony Yarusso drove over from the Twin Cities and brought interest surveys, name tags, and some shiny/metalic Powered by Ubuntu stickers.  Brian from Computer Renaissance brought over a few door prizes:  Microsoft Wireless Desktop keyboard and mouse, two USB keyboard lights, and a fitted hat.  Along with the door prizes, he brought some mousepads.

After people conversed for a while, we did introductions around the table, followed by door prizes.  ripps was quite elated to win the wireless desktop.

A few more pictures of the event:

Or you can see them all here.

Thanks again to all those who attended, I hope we can have more activity in the future.