[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Fwd: Open Source Lab Details for NECC 2006
by Thomas Chung
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steve Hargadon <steve(a)hargadon.com>
Date: Apr 19, 2006 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: Open Source Lab Details for NECC 2006
To: Fedora Education Initiative <fedora-education-list(a)redhat.com>
On 4/19/06, Thomas Chung <tchung(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> This is my first time hearing "National Educational Computing Conference 2006".
> Two questions.
> 1. Have you contacted anyone in Fedora Marketing or Fedora Ambassadors
> for any help?
No. I have been talking with Sarah Jones from Red Hat who does
events, and I thought we were going to get some support but I haven't
heard from her in some time.
I'd be very interested in making contact on either front. Can you help?
> 2. Do you have a webiste where we can learn more about this event?
The NECC website is at http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2006/. This
is the second year I've been asked to lead the Open Source effort
there, and the first year that our presenters are actually listed in
the program as full speakers. It's significant progress, and came out
of providing a similar lineup at the cue.org show in Palm Springs some
weeks ago.
--
Steve Hargadon
Thank you Steve,
As a start, I'm forwarding your email to Fedora Ambassadors and Fedora
Marketing mailing lists to get an attention. Once we have enough
interests and resources, we should be able to find someone to help
your event and promote Fedora Project at the same time.
--
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung
18 years
[Fedora-ambassadors-list] any Fedora Ambassadors in Toronto?
by Max Spevack
Hi folks.
If there are any Fedora ambassadors in Toronto who would be interested in
leading up a Fedora presence at LinuxWorld Toronto next week, please
contact famsco-list(a)redhat.com
Red Hat is going to have a presence there, and is willing to offer help
with budget and coordination, but we need to find some bodies who can
actually represent Fedora in our space.
There will be an opportunity to give a talk about Fedora as well, if
someone wants to do that. :-)
This is a fast-moving target and opportunity, so if you're a Fedora person
in the area with the desire and ability to help, make yourself known ASAP.
:-)
--Max
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18 years
[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Report on "A day with Fedora"
by Kushal Das
Hi,
I am back. The event, "A day with Fedora" ended properly except a few moments.
Here is the report:
I reached Durgapur on 3rd April. That was a holiday in BCREC college, but my
dgplug colleagues were there to do the final work. We checked the banners,
seminar room etc. We also burned a few copies of FC5 DVD in night.
The next day started properly. There were four speakers, Me , Indranil
Dasgupta, Sayamindu Dasgupta & Soumyadip Modak. There were around 120
students.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126889972/in/set-72057594104413...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890182/in/set-72057594104413...
First we played "Truth Happens", it took lot of attention.
The first speech was from Indranil named "All about Fdora".
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890302/in/set-72057594104413...
The slides was made Sankarshan & IDG.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890420/in/set-72057594104413...
It lasts around 2 hours. He first talked about FOSS, then stared how Fedora
project fits in. A few M$ lover asked why Linux?? and got perfect punch back
to them & the first half ended that way.
We distributed FC4 DVDs & tee as the reward of asking questions.
The second session started with my talk.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126892052/in/set-72057594104413...
I was talking about different apps in FC5 & I opened them one by one as the
slides goes on. But suddenly current was gone, hopefully it came back with 10
minutes. During that time we had lots of question about the applications in
Fedora.
Third talk was from Sayam, he showed a bengali KDE in FC5. His talk was mainly
about how to translate. Then Soumyadip showed some live translation example,
he mainly came to talk about translation for Ubuntu.
The last talk was again from Sayam, "Programming in Linux". That started with
basic C programming to GTK programming.
The day ended with Soumya's vote of thanx.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126893037/in/set-72057594104413...
In the next day we had a Install fest in the college lab. In the first half a
complete loadshading was there, so we started from the second half.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126893566/in/set-72057594104413...
First I showed the installation process in a box.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126894278/in/set-72057594104413...
Then the students started installing in the boxes one after another.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126893763/in/set-72057594104413...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126894932/in/set-72057594104413...
Forget to tell you, that was my first text based installation, the boxes have
only 128MB ram.
At the end I had a very bad error.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126797188/in/set-72057594104413...
It came only for one box. The same CD/DVD works fine in other boxes.
The points came up during the event was:
1. Why can't we do a full install in FC5?
2. How to use the DVD/CD to install apps using pirut ?
3. Fedora T-shirts, should have g-size(for girls) :) check
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890542/in/set-72057594104413...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890823/in/set-72057594104413...
You can check the photos in
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/sets/72057594104413249/
Regards,
Kushal
18 years
[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Report on "A day with Fedora"
by Kushal Das
Hi,
I am back. The event, "A day with Fedora" ended properly except a few moments.
Here is the report:
I reached Durgapur on 3rd April. That was a holiday in BCREC college, but my
dgplug colleagues were there to do the final work. We checked the banners,
seminar room etc. We also burned a few copies of FC5 DVD in night.
The next day started properly. There were four speakers, Me , Indranil
Dasgupta, Sayamindu Dasgupta & Soumyadip Modak. There were around 120
students.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126889972/in/set-72057594104413...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890182/in/set-72057594104413...
First we played "Truth Happens", it took lot of attention.
The first speech was from Indranil named "All about Fdora".
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890302/in/set-72057594104413...
The slides was made Sankarshan & IDG.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890420/in/set-72057594104413...
It lasts around 2 hours. He first talked about FOSS, then stared how Fedora
project fits in. A few M$ lover asked why Linux?? and got perfect punch back
to them & the first half ended that way.
We distributed FC4 DVDs & tee as the reward of asking questions.
The second session started with my talk.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126892052/in/set-72057594104413...
I was talking about different apps in FC5 & I opened them one by one as the
slides goes on. But suddenly current was gone, hopefully it came back with 10
minutes. During that time we had lots of question about the applications in
Fedora.
Third talk was from Sayam, he showed a bengali KDE in FC5. His talk was mainly
about how to translate. Then Soumyadip showed some live translation example,
he mainly came to talk about translation for Ubuntu.
The last talk was again from Sayam, "Programming in Linux". That started with
basic C programming to GTK programming.
The day ended with Soumya's vote of thanx.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126893037/in/set-72057594104413...
In the next day we had a Install fest in the college lab. In the first half a
complete loadshading was there, so we started from the second half.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126893566/in/set-72057594104413...
First I showed the installation process in a box.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126894278/in/set-72057594104413...
Then the students started installing in the boxes one after another.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126893763/in/set-72057594104413...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126894932/in/set-72057594104413...
Forget to tell you, that was my first text based installation, the boxes have
only 128MB ram.
At the end I had a very bad error.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126797188/in/set-72057594104413...
It came only for one box. The same CD/DVD works fine in other boxes.
The points came up during the event was:
1. Why can't we do a full install in FC5?
2. How to use the DVD/CD to install apps using pirut ?
3. Fedora T-shirts, should have g-size(for girls) :) check
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890542/in/set-72057594104413...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890823/in/set-72057594104413...
You can check the photos in
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/sets/72057594104413249/
Regards,
Kushal
18 years
[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Re: Report on "A day with Fedora"
by mak_l10n
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:22:40 +0530
From: Kushal Das
Subject: [Fedora-ambassadors-list] Report on "A day with Fedora"
To: fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
Message-ID: <200604122322.47082.kushaldas(a)gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi,
I am back. The event, "A day with Fedora" ended properly except a few moments.
Here is the report:
I reached Durgapur on 3rd April. That was a holiday in BCREC college, but my
dgplug colleagues were there to do the final work. We checked the banners,
seminar room etc. We also burned a few copies of FC5 DVD in night.
The next day started properly. There were four speakers, Me , Indranil
Dasgupta, Sayamindu Dasgupta & Soumyadip Modak. There were around 120
students.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126889972/in/set-72057594104413...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890182/in/set-72057594104413...
First we played "Truth Happens", it took lot of attention.
The first speech was from Indranil named "All about Fdora".
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890302/in/set-72057594104413...
The slides was made Sankarshan & IDG.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890420/in/set-72057594104413...
It lasts around 2 hours. He first talked about FOSS, then stared how Fedora
project fits in. A few M$ lover asked why Linux?? and got perfect punch back
to them & the first half ended that way.
We distributed FC4 DVDs & tee as the reward of asking questions.
The second session started with my talk.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126892052/in/set-72057594104413...
I was talking about different apps in FC5 & I opened them one by one as the
slides goes on. But suddenly current was gone, hopefully it came back with 10
minutes. During that time we had lots of question about the applications in
Fedora.
Third talk was from Sayam, he showed a bengali KDE in FC5. His talk was mainly
about how to translate. Then Soumyadip showed some live translation example,
he mainly came to talk about translation for Ubuntu.
The last talk was again from Sayam, "Programming in Linux". That started with
basic C programming to GTK programming.
The day ended with Soumya's vote of thanx.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126893037/in/set-72057594104413...
In the next day we had a Install fest in the college lab. In the first half a
complete loadshading was there, so we started from the second half.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126893566/in/set-72057594104413...
First I showed the installation process in a box.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126894278/in/set-72057594104413...
Then the students started installing in the boxes one after another.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126893763/in/set-72057594104413...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126894932/in/set-72057594104413...
Forget to tell you, that was my first text based installation, the boxes have
only 128MB ram.
At the end I had a very bad error.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126797188/in/set-72057594104413...
It came only for one box. The same CD/DVD works fine in other boxes.
The points came up during the event was:
1. Why can't we do a full install in FC5?
2. How to use the DVD/CD to install apps using pirut ?
3. Fedora T-shirts, should have g-size(for girls) :) check
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890542/in/set-72057594104413...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/126890823/in/set-72057594104413...
You can check the photos in
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88746839@N00/sets/72057594104413249/
Regards,
Kushal
Thank you Kushal for your report, it was an excellent event I can guess (except not having G-size tee ;))
Thank you agian, thanks for sharing.
শুভ নববর্ষ
mak.
Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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18 years
[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Re: Fedora Ambassador IRC Log 2006-04-13
by Alex
On 4/13/06, Thomas Chung <tchung(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> I don't know what happen but you just disappeared during the meeting. :)
> Any way, I took over and we were ok.
Thanks for taking over--I really appreciate your help!
I have had a small emergency at work (and I while am in the office, my
paid job unfortunately always goes before my Fedora duties) and had to
take care of that. I only got my head above water again now.
Thank you Thomas once again, and my apologies for the sudden
disappearance. I will try not to let it happen again.
Thank you,
Alex
18 years
