Event Box Revisited
by Jeffrey Tadlock
One of the topics that has come up in the weekly Fedora Marketing
meetings is the topic of the Event Box [1]. The event box is an idea,
heavily borrowed from the GNOME Project, that could make organizing a
booth at an event much easier for an Ambassador. It would be a decent
sized shipping container that contained the basic materials necessary
to organize and run a Fedora booth at a small to mid-sized event. For
larger events it would be starting point, but would probably need
supplemented by additional materials. The items currently suggested
for an event box are listed on the wiki page [1].
Shipping a box of this size is not cheap, so if successful there would
likely be an event box assigned to a major region - based on the
success of the first event box. Even though the cost of shipping is
high, I think it will allow an ambassador to free up time to get other
event preparation done without the need to track down basic materials
for every event. It also helps make sure that a Fedora Booth at any
event at least has the basics covered. It seems we repeat a lot of
work for every event we do (at least it seems that way for events in
North America).
>From the marketing meeting we wanted to bring this discussion up again
with the Ambassadors. Please visit the Event Box wiki page [1] and
read up on it if you have not seen the proposal before. It covers
more of the details than I have here. Once you have done that, please
comment on whether you would find an event box useful in your event
preparation. And also feel free to suggest changes to the contents of
the box as well.
Thanks!
Jeffrey
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EventBox
15 years, 12 months
Hi, i believe that most of all people here already read my presentation mail but i sent it only 4 the announce and marketing list, then its ambassadors list time.
by RazGriz
I know that it can be unnecessary but let me do this. Sorry if it cause some
loss of time. =/
Hello everyone, please let me tell you my history with Fedora and The Free
software world.
I'm Guilherme Gonçalves from Rio de Janeiro *(Brazil) but the community
prefer call me "Razgriz"*(i really don't know why but perhaps...my ex-wife
can explain this thing one day if...).
My first contact with tux was in 1996 and i am a "pure"*(100% free software
user) user since 1997. But my contributions inside the world of free
software started only in the earlies of 2005 writing documentation about
computer graphics with free software at "vol"*(www.vivaolinux.com.br), some
months after my first doc, Davidson Paulo(the creator of the old project
"Guia Bozolinux" and now a Ambassador) invited me to write a book about the
"Gnu Image Manipulation Program*(Gimp), it was a huge and very ambitious
project but in the end with hard work yeah we did it! =] then since that
great moment my life was turned into a goal : the community must respect the
computer graphics made with free software but first the community must know
more about it ! Then i will continue doing documentation to teach all thing
that i know and what i will learn about it in the future.
Well, my history with Fedora starts in 2007, when i met Rodrigo Padula and
Cristiano Furtado*(jasoonfedora) and he convinced me to get fedora and try
it during the event, after some time inside the same event he invited me to
join the ambassadors team, but thanks to problems with time we lost contact.
A couple of months later he invited me to joying the artwork team of the
project "Revista Fedora Brazil" <http://www.projetofedora.org/Revista> and
now i feel that i can help more making my work in the magazine padronizing
the layout, creating new visual stuff for the project and helping with other
tasks and taking fedora to my classes in the Linux events that my default
mini-course "The Gimp for creative minds" and other actions where invited.
Well, here i am to help everyone and contribute with everything that i can,
i will do my best to the project as you all make every time.
just one last ask, if someone wanna know more about computergraphics, please
just send me an email and i will help you, and if you know portuguese and
think that stuff is usefull please translate this to other language =].
please use or read :
http://www.projetofedora.org/Revista (since second edition)
http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/perfil/verPerfil.php?login=razgriz (my
documents inside that web portal)
http://unilivre.sourceforge.net/Ba%C3%BA_proibido_do_Razgriz
http://www.ogimp.com.br/ <http://www.ogimp.com.br/%28vide> (vide gimp zine)
<http://unilivre.sourceforge.net/O_GIMP_para_Mentes_Criativas>
http://unilivre.sourceforge.net/O_GIMP_para_Mentes_Criativas (my first book
about computer graphics)
<http://razgrizbox.wordpress.com/>
http://razgrizbox.wordpress.com/ (personal documentation blog)
http://www.gnu-lia.org/(another project that i contribute)
Thanks to everyone again and i so sorry by some language errors (long time
wihout write in english but i will fix it very very soon)
Regards
RazGriz.
15 years, 12 months
Self Introduction: Yaakov Nemoy
by Yaakov Nemoy
Hi List,
Some of you, especially in the European Ambassador team know me
already, so I'll keep this brief.
My name is Yaakov Nemoy, and I'm a student of Germanic Languages at
the University of Pittsburgh. I'm currently working an internship for
Red Hat to do assorted Fedora related things while in Europe. While
I'm not officially taking on the moniker of "ambassador" I have worked
with the Fedora Ambassadors in the past this year at Fosdem and
LinuxTag. I also have some plans to work with the Ambassadors in the
future, as it has been a pleasure each time so far.
-Yaakov
15 years, 12 months
FAmSCo IRC Meeting Log - 2008-06-04
by Fabian Affolter
HTML version of the log is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Meetings/200...
Raw log is here:
<fabian_a> FabianAffolter
<iWolf> JeffreyTadlock
<spevack> [[MaxSpevack]], taking a page from quaid
<fugolini> FrancescoUgolini
<kushal> which meeting is this ?
<iWolf> kushal: famsco
<spevack> fedora ambassadors steering committee
<kushal> oops
* AndreasR (n=medic(a)80-218-138-117.dclient.hispeed.ch) has joined
#fedora-meeting
<fugolini> AndreasR: roll call time
<AndreasR> AndreasR
<fabian_a> AndreasR aka AndreasRau ;-)
<AndreasR> AndreasRau
<fugolini> ok
<fugolini> Agenda:
<fugolini> 1. Release Party Contest
<fugolini> 2. Budget
<fugolini> 3. Membership
<fugolini> 4. Local Situation
<fugolini> 5. Rules
<fugolini> 1. Release Party Contest
<iWolf> !
<fugolini> iWolf:
<iWolf> I posted the email to the list summing up all the links to
release party reports.
<spevack> i saw it. good stuff.. francesco and i talked a bit on list.
<iWolf> we've had some comments it that thread. We are going to vote on
the mailing list, so use this time now to discuss whoe the winner should be.
<iWolf> and we can do a mailing list vote later this week as we come to
a consensus.
* iWolf will add to that thread as soon as he gets a chance
<iWolf> eof
* spevack has changed the topic to: FAMSCo meeting
<spevack> well, i gave my comments on list, so i'll save folks time and
let them just read it there.
<spevack> rather than repeat myself here
<spevack> but i do want to say thank you again to iWolf for organizing
<fugolini> me too
<iWolf> spevack: yeah, I was sort ofsaving my comments for the list as well.
<iWolf> spevack, fugolini thanks! it's been fun!
<spevack> so, what should we discuss here?
<spevack> and do we want to give ourselves a deadline for final decision
on list?
<fugolini> i'm waiting for comments from the other members
<iWolf> a deadline would be good.
<fugolini> spevack: i think friday 20.00UTC
<fugolini> would be a reasonable deadline
<fugolini> eof
<fabian_a> +1
<spevack> fine with me
<AndreasR> +1 should work
<iWolf> +1
<fugolini> ok
<fugolini> Next topic: 2. Budget
<fugolini>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Budget
<fugolini> max has done a great review of the following event
<fugolini> spevack: have you something to say?=
<spevack> ah
<spevack> budget
<spevack> well, the page really should speak for itself
<spevack> here's what i am thinking in general
<spevack> i am glad that we have some buffer built into Q2
<spevack> stuff always comes up, and we have money to support it
<spevack> also, i am always looking for ways to save money.
<spevack> there may be a *tiny* but of money left
<spevack> after fudcon
<spevack> which can be added to our general events pool
<spevack> so by the beginning of july, the picture for the rest o fjuly
and august should be pretty clear
<spevack> I think we need to spend about $1000 on swag for the US
<fugolini> in the other continents?
<spevack> one moment...
<fugolini> *countries
<fugolini> oh, sorry
<spevack> the money for US swag will come out of individual budgets.
<spevack> for example
<spevack> ottawa linux symposium wants swag
<spevack> and we have some money for OLS
<spevack> $500
<spevack> so when we order swag, we'll use tha tmoney for it
<spevack> since there are no travel costs for OLS
<spevack> does that make sense to everyone?
<spevack> we're taking money already budgeted for several shows in the
same region
<spevack> and pooling it together to make swag at a better price
<spevack> then distributing it
<fugolini> +1
<iWolf> spevack: makes sense to me. cheaper to get the swag in bulk
than smaller orders.
<spevack> I want to do this in Europe too, probably using the company
that Gerold and Joerg have been using for stuff. we'll see.
<spevack> so what questions about budget do you guys hve for me?
<spevack> I'm happy
<spevack> because i feel like
<spevack> the budget on that wiki page
<spevack> was more or less what famsco suggested
<iWolf> spevack: did quaid mention
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events/Lindependence_2008 to you?
<spevack> and i am just making sure it happens.
<spevack> so the power is in famsco's hands
<spevack> iWolf: i saw it on th eevents page
<spevack> do we want to vote to give it some budget?
<iWolf> a vote would be good. I know it was added late, but hopefully
there is some $$ left for it somewhere.
<fugolini> hhave you a suggested request?
<iWolf> fugolini: I have not heard an actual dollar figure being requested.
<AndreasR> !
<fugolini> AndreasR:
<spevack> quaid: ping
<AndreasR> first we should ask them if it is needed and how much is needed
<AndreasR> eof
<spevack> well, we'll see if quaid pops his head in and then we'll ask
<spevack> until then, what else on budget?
<spevack> are you all happy with the way we are managing our budget?
<AndreasR> !
<spevack> you saw my summar to ambassadors about the events we did in Q1?
<spevack> AndreasR: go ahead
<AndreasR> are the requestors satisfied with it... :)
<AndreasR> I am fine.. cause we have some left
<AndreasR> eof
<spevack> AndreasR: i haven't heard any complaints
<RodrigoPadula> hello guys.. sorry, my laptop is crazy!!
<RodrigoPadula> now.. i'm here again
<spevack> and Red Hat was very happy with the way we managed things.
<spevack> fugolini: what do you think, as famsco chair? are you happy
with the way we do budget?
<fugolini> I absolutely agree with this one
<AndreasR> I am happy, too :)
<iWolf> I am also happy with how the budget has been done. seems to be
working well.
<fugolini> it's the easiest way
<fugolini> and most productive way
<spevack> great, well if quaid shows up, we'll ask him what he needs for
lindependence. and if not, i'll mail him.
<AndreasR> +1
<spevack> EOF for me on budget -- if you guys ever have any comments or
suggestions, please continue to give them
<RodrigoPadula> !
<fugolini> RodrigoPadula:
<RodrigoPadula> hi guys
<RodrigoPadula> i'm very happy with the budget support
<RodrigoPadula> i think we are making good things arround the world
<RodrigoPadula> now, i'm improving the local community in LATAM
<RodrigoPadula> probably we will have some news fedora events here in
the nex 6 months
<f13> I have to say, the images and such from LinuxTAG were incredibly
impressive. I'm blown away by what you guys put together.
<RodrigoPadula> and on the next year
<RodrigoPadula> so, probably we will need more support to LATAM
<spevack> f13: thanks, dude. the core linux tag team is really amazing
<RodrigoPadula> eof
<AndreasR> +1
<spevack> f13: since you're here
<AndreasR> thx
<spevack> f13: mind if i rope you in for a moment?
<fugolini> RodrigoPadula: invite everyone to add their event in the
event list
<RodrigoPadula> yes
<fugolini> *everyone in LATAM
<RodrigoPadula> today we have a meeting
<RodrigoPadula> i will sugest it to all ambassadors
<RodrigoPadula> it's the way!
<spevack> f13: as someone who is a consumer of events budget and
ambassador stuff, but not necessarily involved in it day to day (as you
spend your time making sure we actually have something to talk about!),
how do you think we're doing?
<spevack> ok, let's move on. quaid and/or f13 can jump in at any point.
<spevack> but we have more agenda topics
<spevack> and we're already 30 mins in
<fugolini> ok, any questions?
<fabian_a> not from my side
* spevack sent quaid a mail about lindependence
<fugolini> perfect!
<fugolini> 3. Membership
<fugolini> We had a discussion in the list
<fabian_a> !
<fugolini> ok, fabian_a
<f13> spevack: sure. I'm here.
<spevack> fabian_a, fugolini: can we give f13 one or two mins?
<spevack> then get back to membership?
<fabian_a> sure
* spevack yields to f13
<fugolini> np
<AndreasR> yes
<f13> From what I can tell, you guys are doing a fabulous job making
sure that the attended events have the good stuff to use.
<fugolini> f13: feel free
<f13> the planning is great, the material is great, and it seems to be
getting put to good use.
<f13> also I think it's being done in a very responsible way, in that
you're not just dumping a ton of swag on somebody who's not prepared to
make good use of it
<spevack> f13: that is definitely one of our operating principles... any
suggestions for improvement?
<f13> spevack: honestly I don't think I really have any at this time.
<spevack> f13: well, cool. if you do, you know whree to find me
<f13> indeed
<spevack> f13: bathrobes for the US? :)
<f13> disturbing
<AndreasR> :)
<spevack> f13: you know you want to see spot in a bathrobe.
<spevack> anyway..... well thanks for your time, jesse. back to the
meeting then?
<spot> what?
<AndreasR> :))
<fugolini> ok
<fugolini> fabian_a: you can continue
<fabian_a> kital is helping with the ambassadors group
<spevack> spot: we're just having some fun :)
* spevack listens to fabian_a
<spevack> !
<fabian_a> We started with some tracking with the help of a gobby session
<fabian_a> Joerg sent the data to all who are interested
<fabian_a> But at the moment it's a pain because there was a break in
the approval process after Thomas decided to quit
<fabian_a> During LinuxTag I approved many many new ambassadors.
<fabian_a> Today I got a message that there are 43 pending requests for
the ambassadors mailing list.
<fugolini> i personally approved three ambassadors, just after i
received their personal email
<RodrigoPadula> !
<fugolini> spevack:
<fabian_a> next time we should move things like membership services
smoother because if there is a break it's much harder to continue
<fabian_a> eof
<fugolini> RodrigoPadula:
<RodrigoPadula> i would like to be responsible by LATAM ambassadors or
be responsible by interview them
<spevack> i just want to make sure that we have enough people on the
membership area of Ambassadors to get everything done, *and* more
importantly, that the people doing it have enough time. if we need to
recruit a volunteer to help us, we shouldn't be afraid to do that
<RodrigoPadula> how can i see where are they from ?
<spevack> it is a good chance for someone to take a new leadership role.
<spevack> but if we have enough manpower, then i'm happy
<AndreasR> +1
<fugolini> !
<RodrigoPadula> i would like to guide all LATAM ambassadors
<RodrigoPadula> eof
<fugolini> i think everyone could accept everyone
<RodrigoPadula> -1
<fugolini> I don't know if you read my proposal about
<fugolini> but the requirement
<RodrigoPadula> the ambasadors needs guidance!
<AndreasR> !
<fugolini> would be only: 1. Presentation letter 2. Bad action agains member
<fugolini> but we need to discuss it in the gobby section
<fugolini> with everyone, RodrigoPadula you are welcome in this way
<fugolini> write an email to Joerg
<fugolini> AndreasR:
<fabian_a> all requests goes to ambassadors-sponsors(a)fedoraproject.org.
all of you should see who is requesting membership in the ambassadors group
<AndreasR> I agree with Max opinion.. it is important for them to grow
up.. and it would be bad if the guardiance is up to one role
<fugolini> in fact, as i've said we have to use the same
<AndreasR> we should give other ambassadors a way to do this
<AndreasR> eof
<fugolini> rules than package group
<RodrigoPadula> why not by region ?
<fugolini> i think there are experienced persons
<fugolini> that could afford this duty
<RodrigoPadula> i'm responsible by the ambassadors on LATAM
<RodrigoPadula> and others by NA, APAC, EUROPE
<fugolini> the problem is that we have to guarantee a open process
<RodrigoPadula> so, we can guide directly any new ambassador
<fugolini> and not to risk that anyone could say we are closing our group
<iWolf> RodrigoPadula: I don't think anyone thinks you aren't
responsible. We just wasn the barrier to being an ambassador to be low
and more of a global standard.
<RodrigoPadula> yes
<iWolf> RodrigoPadula: and there is nothing that keeps you from guiding
a new ambassador.
<spevack> RodrigoPadula: you are one of the most responsible and
accountable guys we have.
<spevack> RodrigoPadula: believe me, if we didn't believe in you, we
wouldn't just hand you cash ;)
<fugolini> +1
<iWolf> +1
<RodrigoPadula> in brazil we have a problem
<fabian_a> +1
<AndreasR> +1
<RodrigoPadula> if the system is totaly open
<RodrigoPadula> in two months we will have 1000 ambassadors
<RodrigoPadula> but the number of realy ambassadors will be the same
<RodrigoPadula> we dont need names on the site
<fugolini> I think we have to use the existing system
<RodrigoPadula> but ambassadors interested to be a REAL COLABORATOR
<fugolini> nobody remembers we have a pending period for newbie ambassadors
<fabian_a> RodrigoPadula: Add your input to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService#Membership_C...
<iWolf> collaboration happens in many, many ways though. We should be
open to volunteers who are offering time they do have.
<RodrigoPadula> ok
<fugolini> RodrigoPadula: try to invite people in the first month
<spevack> iWolf: +1
<fugolini> if you see someone isn't "live" you could use the power
<fugolini> established by our rules
<RodrigoPadula> IMHO to be a volunteer, they dont need be a Ambassador,
but, to be a Ambassador they need to be a real colaborator
<RodrigoPadula> to me... Ambassador is a important title
<fugolini> I think we could continue this discussion in the releated
thread (Membership)
<iWolf> fugolini: +1
<RodrigoPadula> and the person with this title, have to work
<fabian_a> check
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MembershipService#Membership_C...
<fabian_a> 7. Send an self-introduction to the Fedora Ambassadors
Mailing list. Tell the world who you are, what your are doing, what you
will do, and so on. We would also like to know what you want to archive
inside the Fedora Ambassadors Group. Please do this within the next four
(4) weeks.
<fugolini> Now, we are creating a sponsor group
<RodrigoPadula> eof
<fugolini> maybe we could organize a meeting
<fugolini> where we discuss about all those stuff and then we will write
a proposal
<fugolini> after FAmSCo will approve it
<iWolf> fugolini: i think the mailing lists work better for this type of
discussion.
<fugolini> iWolf: just because Joerg isn't a FAmSCo member
<fugolini> to have a open discussion with all the sponsors
<iWolf> fugolini: we can CC him if we want, I have no problems with him
being in on the conversation.
* iWolf is biased towards mailing lists for lengthy discussion
<fugolini> Only a technical question: it's possible to connect both the
M-L request and FAS ones, because the approval process is so confusing
<fugolini> but if someone has an answer
<fugolini> please write it in the membership thread in the list
<fugolini> eof
<fugolini> Any other question?
<spevack> fugolini: i think it would be worth having a technical
discussion with some of our infrastructure folks, probably at fudcon
* spevack will take that action item
<fugolini> great
<fugolini> Just because i tried to fill the requests but it's really
difficult to understand this
<fugolini> Next topic: 4. Local Situation
<fugolini> We just discussed bout some critical situations
<fugolini> Have you other ones
<fugolini> I read about LATAM meetings
<fugolini> RodrigoPadula:
<fugolini> requests?
<spevack> i think that if we can get NA and SA meetings straightened
out, we'll be in good shape
<fugolini> I think it's important to have a great leadership in LATAM,
and i think Rodrigo is doing this jobe great!
<spevack> i am very glad that Rodrigo is taking charge in SA
<spevack> /SA/LATAM
<spevack> and greg and i have been talking about NA
<spevack> if I may be honest
<RodrigoPadula> thanks
<fugolini> iWolf: i've read the past meeting log, great
<spevack> half of me wants to ask iwolf to do it, but another half of me
realizes that jeff is already doing a huge amount, and thinks that it is
CRITICAL that we continue to cultivate new leaders
<spevack> and let the current leaders help show the way
<RodrigoPadula> my mission in this year is spread fedora and create
local groups in all south american contries
<fugolini> spevack: +1
<spevack> so iwolf, that's a compliment :)
<spevack> just wanted to make sure i expressed myself properly
<spevack> speak of the devil
<fugolini> lol
<iWolf> spevack: I agree, I am reluctant to commit to running each
meeting, but I do have time to help get them organized and help a new
leader get going with it.
<iWolf> spevack: thanks again for the compliment.
<spevack> iWolf: ok, i'm glad we're on the same page there. ;)
<hpachas-PE> RodrigoPadula: si se va crear nuevos lideres en sur
america, seria bueno comenzar en hablar español (que es el idioma que
mas hablan en sur-america )
<RodrigoPadula> the language is a big problem to the LATAM
<fugolini> In europe we have a lot of ideoms
<RodrigoPadula> hpachas-PE: si Hernan, yo estoy organizando las
reuniones para resolver esto!
<fugolini> but we recognized enlgish as the default one
<fugolini> efo
<fugolini> Ok, can we move on?
* iWolf needs to go to a T-Ball game
<RodrigoPadula> fugolini: here all neighbors only talk spanish and
portugues ;-)
<RodrigoPadula> eof
<fugolini> Rules
<fugolini> Just to point you in the wiki page
<fugolini> fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/SteeringCommittee/Rules
<fugolini> or something similar
<fugolini> sorry if we are late
<fugolini> ops
<spevack> shall we make Rules topic #1 next week?
<spevack> so we don't run out of time.
<fugolini> ok
<spevack> don't want to make iWolf late
<fugolini> it's better for me, too
<fugolini> Thank you to attend the meeting
<iWolf> sounds good to me!
<spevack> fugolini: Thank you for leading this meeting. AndreasR,
fabian_a , RodrigoPadula , iwolf, thakn you all for coming!
<iWolf> fugolini: thanks!
<fugolini> == Meeting adjourned ==
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Fedora always leads and never follows.
16 years
LATAM -> Weekly Meeting Reminder
by Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
Latin American Ambassadors Meeting
Channel/canal: #fedora-meeting
ENGLISH -> Wednesday 22:00 / GMT-3 -> Thursday UTC 01:00
SPANISH -> Miercoles 22:00 / GMT-3 -> Jueves UTC 01:00
PORTUGUESE -> Quarta-feira 22:00 / GMT-3 -> Quinta-feira UTC 01:00
1- Introduction/New ambassadors
2- Infra-web
3- Local user groups
4- Free Media Program
5- Events / Budget
Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
http://www.projetofedora.org
FAMSCO
16 years
open expo
by Max Spevack
My talk, Community Architecture for Fun and Profit, has been accepted
for OpenExpo, so that's good news as we continue our planning for that
event.
Jan Wildeboer will also be speaking at the event, focusing on open
standards.
It should be a very good event.
--Max
16 years
Shirts for RH Summit presenters
by Matt Domsch
There will be several Fedora contributors presenting sessions on
Fedora projects and technologies at Red Hat Summit in Boston in a few
weeks.
Can we presenters purchase the nifty blue Ambassadors shirt to wear
during our presentations? If so how?
Thanks,
Matt
16 years
Moving your wiki pages to the new wiki format
by "G"
Hi
I am in the process of updating the Ambassador country list page by
moving the user names to the new wiki style, so ultimately which means
that the hyper link which would point to the appropriate user would
not work unless and until the user moves his page to the new wiki.
Hence i request the ambassadors in the following locations to move
their wiki pages to the new wiki style. The following are the
locations for which the updates are done
* Eastern Africa
* Northern Africa
* Southern Africa
* Western Africa
* Southern Asia
The following is the link
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/CountryList
All that is required is to login to the new wiki using your FAS ID and
click on the move icon on the top of your page and that moves your
personal wiki page and that would also automatically ensure that the
link in the new wiki is working. Also make sure that your names,
locations, FASID has been updated properly as i am dealing with quite
a big list :) . I would keep others updated once i finish off the work
on other locations too.
Cheers,
Balaji
16 years
Fedora and Red Hat Open Day 2008 - report
by Pawel Sadowski
Hi,
Fedora and Red Hat Open Day is already finished. I will try to brief you
how the event was and if we have been successful.
First of all, the number of people who registered theirselves was really
exciting. Without any doubt, it was the biggest number of people ever
registered for our event. We had 173 persons who had sent us a completed
form and we were really happy there was such huge interest in our event
as for Polish conditions, and even if no everybody appeared, we had
quite a huge attendance anyway. Although we started advertising it just
about two weeks before the conference, I personally think we have been
very successful in this aspect. Maybe that was even better than if we
started it earlier, as that was still a hot topic and there was no time
for that to be forgotten. As this is what I took care of, I hope to do
the advertisement in the next year for much bigger scale and I hope we
will reach the number of 200 or even more attendees :)
The first presentation, about the Fedora Project in general, what it is,
what are its goals etc. started at 9:15 in the morning. I have done it
by myself, I am not sure how good it was but I think my second
presentation on OLPC was much better.
Next presentation was about One Laptop Per Child. And, as you know,
Joerg Simon could not attend, I have done it by myself. I think that was
the first speech on OLPC ever in Poland, and maybe my impression was
that people were really interested in it. Except telling them on the
project, I have also shown what they can do with it, and wanted people
to come to the booth after I finish the speech so they could have a
closer look, touch it and work for a while with OLPC. One lady did not
allow me to accomplish my plan, as she asked me to give it to the people
during my speech and I could not refuse... I let them have it for a
while and asked to bring it to the booth after they are finished. Here
we had a problem: I took the laptop with me (from Germany), but nobody
remembered about the plug converter and the battery was already below
50%. I went to a local supermarket to buy the converter, but I
completely forgot about voltage difference. I think the lady at shop was
the one who reminded me that. And as I had still in my memory adventures
of someone frying a device with the voltage difference, I have finally
decided to buy a transformer (which already conained the plug converter
as well). After getting back to the building the conference was held, I
found out the charger for some unknown reason does not work. I had no
idea why it refused cooperation. After several tries, we have finally
managed to get it to work (the reason why it did not before still
remains unknown - it could be a problem with the connections inside the
transformer or something like that. That solved the power problem and I
did not have to longer worry that people who come to the booth will have
to look at disabled OLPC.
Now something about other speeches. I couldn't see all presentations, as
I was walking among the conference hall, booth, and the supermarket, so
I will only let you know what they were about. Here you have the full
agenda:
1. Introduction to Fedora. New Fedora 9 capabilities - Pawel Sadowski
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 - Jerzy Baranowski
3. OLPC - Pawel Sadowski
4. KDE4 - Kamil Grzebien
5. Intregrated Archival Information System - OS in state administration
- Lukasz Glowacki, Jakub Lewandowski (only Lukasz Glowacki present)
6. Xen - paravirtualization, live migration - Patryk Malina
7. SELinux - Kamil Dudek
8. RPM - Karol Trzcionka
9. yum - Michal Bentkowski
10. Party at the main marketplace ;)
That's all, excepts a dinner break somewhere in the middle and
registration at the beginning ;)
We have sold some Fedora T-shirts and stickers, and given away all the
F9 live CDs I had taken with me, so while coming back home one of my
suitcases was a little bit lighter ;) Oh, and maybe we have sold some
Fedora posters I took from LinuxTag last year, but I was not doing
everything by myself and I have to confirm this yet.
After the conference had finished, we cleaned up the booth and gave away
pizza we ordered and could not manage to eat everything by ourselves :D
After that, we went with some conference attendees to the main
marketplace in Cracow to have some dring and talk a bit on Open Source
etc. To sum up, in my estimation, we can say the event was successfull
and in the next few months we can start preparations for next edition :)
You can see some photos here:
http://mcgiwer.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/fedora-and-red-hat-open-day-2008-.... I'll let you know once I have some more photos. We have also recorded all presentations excepts my first. If someone is interested, please let me know (they're all in Polish).
Regards,
Pawel
16 years
