SFD: First Day ... Let the FUN begins

Today was the first day in Software Freedom Day @ Alexandria University and couldn't miss the chance without telling you how it went. For me, it starts with everything going wrong. I wished I never got out of the bed. I was supposed to be at college at 9:00 am, and I wake up early to be there on time but since the moment I wake up, everything went wrong which resulted in leaving home at 9:00 am instead of 8:00 am. At this early hour, it normally takes 45 minutes to reach college but since it wasn't a normal day, it only took 80 minutes. By the time I arrived, I found SFD team working on counting the giveaways we have, arranging everything and finalizing some stuff that we needed to print. When we finished everything, each one took his T-shirt and his name tag then we started the day.... We had almost 500 online registrations before the event, but as the known rule says that "It is only one of each four online registrations will show up". So, we were expecting about 100 to 150 persons to show up. For our surprise, it wasn't 11:00 am yet (the time of the first presentation) and there were about 150 persons there. By the time the second presentation started, I believe there were more than 200 persons with different ages, from secondary school students to department managers in known places who wanted to change their system to open source. It went crazy during the break, with all this number confirming his registration, taking his prize, joining a study group, watching a demo or asking about everything. Most of the giveaways were distributed. First 50 persons who registered online had special giveaways. Giveaways were bags, pens and a huge number of cds, Ubuntu 9.04, Open Solaris and different open source programs. We had a huge amount of pictures, but I appeared in a little number of them :(. All pictures will be available on Flickr. I will edit this post when I got the link or I will send it in the next post isA. The most important things that everyone attended today went home satisfied with what he got. Speakers were happy with the attendees and satisfied with the presentation environment. These are the only things that really count. By the end of the day, I was tired, exhausted and can barely move but it was a successful, fun and satisfying day. I hope the next two weeks will have the same fun and success. SFD....Let the fun begins :D