<p style="text-align: justify;">Dear All, <span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">(sorry for cross posting)</span><br></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">It's been almost a year, since I've attended my
last Fedora event on 25th February, 2010. it was <a href="http://maktrix.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/asian-university-dhaka-fedora-12-release-party/" target="_blank">Asian
University (Dhaka) Fedora 12 Release party</a>. Couldn't manage to put together
my efforts and stream of thoughts to arrange one – and I was unhappy. But, the
"Fedora 14 talk and Media Distribution" event overwhelmed me with
joy. I did literally jump and screamed after the event. I never thought there
will be a Fedora event this big in a short notice in my neighborhood. Well the
scale of being big might differ in EMEA or NA; but for me in Bangladesh it's huge.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It’s only a part of the crowd. The university
authority did not let enter more 1000 students for safety restriction of the
hall. If I knew that the crowd shall turn out this big, I would have asked them
to arrange open air in their football field.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I was able to produce 1000 Fedora 14 DVD (thanks
FAmSCo) and distributed 800 of them in this event. Also give away T-shirts -
only 300 of them. I didn’t distribute them in the event. Volunteer took some
and rest was handed over to the faculty members for later distribution only to
avoid seeing unhappy faces of those who might not get one. They are going to
have a pop quiz next week to select and distribute T-shirts. Pop quiz will be
based on my talk :). Wow - I never even imagined.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Vice Chancellor of the university was present
and inspired the crowd to use Free and Open source software and praised a lot
for their initiative to use Fedora. He announced they might start migrating to
Fedora, once they are sure with the support is available.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">After my talk I started the distribution, by
giving a DVD to the Vice Chancellor; student-volunteer form the university
distributed within the hall and to the students where were waiting outside of
the hall for two hours.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I tried to give away few T-shirts within the QA
session, to those who asked questions. The student volunteer helped me a lot.
Without them it wouldn't have been possible to organize a successful event.
Also, my fellow ambassador <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rejaul">Rejaul
Islam</a> was there from morning till dawn with me. I had to drop the idea to
treat the crowd with snacks and drinks; instead few of the volunteers were
treated.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Blog post: <a href="http://bit.ly/ieCVAw">bit.ly/ieCVAw</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">More photos: <a href="http://bit.ly/fIv7h8">bit.ly/fIv7h8</a></p>