[Ambassadors] Event Report: Fosscomm 2010 - Thessaloniki, Greece

[Pierros Papadeas]

2010/5/6 Christos Bacharakis <cmpahar at gmail.com>:
> Fosscomm 2010 is over!
>
> The previous weekend (24-25/4) in Thessaloniki, Greece took place the yearly
> FOSS Community conference which is right now the biggest FOSS conference in
> Greece. Greek Fedora team was there and had a great time and presence.
>
> In the last months Greek Fedora community is very active with a lot of adds
> especially in the translations and Ambassador team. That's why in every foss
> event in Greece we have the best and active presence.
> In last year's FossComm, Fedora's booth had three ambassadors/contributors,
> one translator and one friend of us who is now a member of the marketing
> team. This year our booth was way bigger with 7 ambassadors/contributors one
> contributor from the marketing team, one female translator and one beautiful
> girl who is helping continuously fedora without being registered anywhere.
> The conference was successful with about 500 people attending. What a
> wonderful chance to inform people about Fedora, our new Greek Fedora forum
> and find new contributors.
> Our booth had everything, the usual LiveCDs and install DVDs, many flyers,
> fedora stickers, fedora buttons, cheat cubes and 2 fedora coffee cups. I am
> very thrilled about the passion of our new contributors who gave their best
> to inform the people and present Fedora 13's new futures. By numbers we gave
> a lot of live CDs (250), flyers (130), swag and we earned 3 new translators
> and one marketing guy.
>
> In FossComm now, Fedora had one talk and one workshop. The talk had the
> title "Fedora fails and that a good thing" and made by me and Pierros
> Papadeas. In the talk Pierros had the role of the Fedora as an operating
> system and I had the role of the Fedora Community. We introduced the fedora
> architecture and we explained that even when & if we fail our infrastructure
> is such well organized and build that the fail turns into a good thing about
> the Fedora project. With other words we present our perfect governance. The
> audience gave us very positive feedback and that pleased us.
> In the workshop Pierros Papadeas impressed the audience presenting Fedora
> 13's new futures. I have to admit that his presentation was (as always)
> amazing, encouraging new people to give a try to Fedora 13.
>
> In the end i am pretty sure that Fedora had another successful presence in
> FossComm 2010. Well done guys, you did an excellent job. Way to go!
>
> I want to admit that I spent little time in the Fedora booth because I was
> FossComm's 2010 event organizer and I had many responsibilities. :)
>
> Original Blogpost:
> http://bacharakis.com/2010/05/06/fosscomm-2010-is-over-review-from-fedoras-point-of-view/
> FossComm's 2010 site (in Greek): http://thessaloniki.fosscomm.gr
> FossComm's 2010 wiki page:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/Fosscomm2010

Thanks Christos for this very explaining report!

I had a great time in Fosscomm and I can't wait to work with you and
the rest of Fedora Greek team again on the next event :)
Our talk and presence was indeed awsome :P

Thanks for all buddy!


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