this was written with deepl sorry for the errors
I wanted to tell you about this first “Install Party”.
The city of Posadas is the capital of the province of Misiones, which is about 1100 kilometers away from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. I lived in Buenos Aires from 2012 to 2022 and there I was developing the Cybercirujas community, and now I try to replicate it in Misiones (we have cybercirujas community in other provinces of Argentina).
The workshop was attended by 5 people, 3 of which had no knowledge of customs roms or alternative software and lasted about two and a half hours. I brought 3 netbooks with Linux and 3 phones to install /e/OS: a Moto G 4G (peregrine), Moto G2 codename Titan and Redmi Note 7 codename lavender. The G2 has no /e/Os rom so we installed lineage.
But before all this, we explained how an Android works, the bootloader, recovery and how to know the specifications of a phone and search for ROMs in XDA/Lineage/e-os. I didn’t stop on how to unlock the bootloader and install recoveries because there was little time and it was rather introductory, but I did show how to install ROMs on an android and we stopped to install /e/OS on the Redmi note 7 and Moto G peregrine.
There was a couple who are cell phone technicians, but at the hardware level. One of them was fascinated with how smoothly /e/OS ran on the Moto G peregrine. They had recently bought a new phone because theirs was running very slow, and this Moto G, which is from 2014, ran smoother than their previous phone. I also showed them how to use alternative open source stores to test other applications, since they had no phones available to modify.
All in all, it was an excellent start. They were very happy and surprised by all the information, which they were completely unaware of. The couple of technicians agreed to check what old phones they have stored, for a next meeting, to do a complete installation, unlocking bootloader, installing recovery and then switching to /e/OS or Lineage depending on the model.
I didn’t take many pictures but I upload the few I have.
