Qubes Community Event in Cologne, Germany on July 15th

[Robert Mittendorf]

Hello fellow Qubes users,

the "Kölner Kreis", a group of regulars that are interested in
IT-Security and IT-Forensics, will organize a "Qubes Community Event" in
Cologne on July 15th 10.00 - 16.00.

Major objective of this event is to "spread the word", say we want to
introduce Qubes OS to new people and after this introduction there will
be an install party. As this is not intend as a international community
meet-up and for the sake of simplicity this event will be in German. The
invitation with further details (in German) is attached to this email.
If a community member that does not speak German but English happens to
be in Cologne on that day (s)he is warmly welcome to join us and share
user experiences, of course.


for the Kölner Kreis,
Robert Mittendorf

[Chris Laprise]

Wish I could be there!

Some advice from a long-time Linux enthusiast: Set your prospective
users' expectations carefully as you are working with the compatibility
quirks of Linux multiplied-by Xen (both projects which focus on server
hardware).

Urging attendees to bring machines from more compatible product lines
can help keep the experience a positive one.

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[Jean-Philippe Ouellet]

Awesome! Wish I could attend :)

One suggestion from my experience with Qubes at installfests: it saves
lots of time to have a flash drive with Qubes itself installed on it
(not the installer, but an installed system) to be able to check
hardware support before they touch their disk. Make that install
without sys-usb (and no rd.qubes.hide_all_usb boot arg). Also, you
should be aware of this outstanding bug [1], to avoid potential data
loss.

Another suggestion: when I presented about Qubes at a local conference
I set up a laptop with no personal data whatsoever which served to
showcase the abilities of Qubes and which I was happy to pass around
to whoever wanted to try it out themselves, without worrying at all
about what they might do to/with it. This first-hand experience alone
was enough to convince several hesitant people to make the jump, and
they are now running Qubes themselves. That laptop also had a windows
7 VM with the Qubes windows tools installed, and that had some "wow
factor" for several people.

Cheers,
Jean-Philippe

[1]: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2835