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Jour/Day 0 - Libre Graphics Meeting

I arrived in Montreal last Wednesday night. Looking for the right place for the LGM conference turned out to be complicated because of the lack of information from the website. After getting the right information, I brought the OLPC XO-2 machine to the Polytechnique computer retailer in order to fix the keyboard issues. It was an opportunity to take picture of the disassembled XO-2 machine which was surprisely easy to remount confirming its educational purpose. After finding the room where LGM will occur, I contacted Mairin, Red Hat employee, who recently arrived. For the information, LGM is using Fedora Core 6 for the presentation.


Je suis arrivé à Montreal mercredi soir. Chercher le bon endroit pour le LGM s'est averé compliqué en raison du manque d'information du site. Apres en avoir obtenu, j'ai amené le portable OLPC XO-2 pour fixed le problème du clavier. C'était aussi l'occasion de voir la machine demontée et d'en prendre les photos. La facilité d'assemblage confirme aussi le but éducationnel du project OLPC. Puis j'ai contacté Mairin, l'employé de Red Hat, arrivée recemment. Pour un detail, le LGM utilise Fedora Core 6 pour la présentation.

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