Software Freedom Day 2008 (Philippines)
by Heherson Pagcaliwagan
Seems like *(a)fedoraproject.org was out so i'm resending my report... typos
and all :D
I was waiting for Ma'am Magie to post the pics of our recently concluded SFD
celebration but since she's still probably recuperating from the event, let
me, in her stead, report what happened last Saturday at the National
Computer Center here in Quezon City.
Official registration was supposed to start 8:30 AM but when I passed by the
venue around 7:30AM on my way to my office, students were already milling
around the complex and a provincial bus was already parked beside the venue.
Talk about being early! When I returned around 8:45AM, the place was already
packed and Ma'am Magie was already going on circles :)
I was designated as the booth man by virtue of seniority :D *(Truth be told,
Ma'am Magie was busy organizing the whole event while Sir Engels was giving
speeches)*. The Fedora booth consisted of a tarpaulin, flyers, two LiveUSB
Station posters and my office laptop featuring Fedora 9. I originally
planned to bring my Asus eee loaded with eeedora to the event but I was
locked out of our office with no keys -- stupid me. A friend later took pity
on me and sent for his two laptops *(both of which are Windows)* and
together we burned away those USB sticks.
Apart from burning LiveUSBs, I gave away flyers, cajoled SFD-goers to try
Fedora 9 using my laptop, gave impromptu talks about the merit of Fedora and
its difference with other Linux distributions (most of the time - Ubuntu),
met students, teachers and other professionals and had a blast the whole
time. Talking particularly with the kids made me feel like a rock star :)
The major drawer of our booth was certainly the LiveUSB creation. It would
have been FreeMedia but early on, we have decided to do away with the
distribution of DVDs and LiveCDs because that would entail spending money we
don't really have much of. What meager funds we have scrapped together were
funneled into the whole event. I think our FreeMedia program could expect a
lot more requests coming from the Philippines - I just gave away its URL.
Either way, we had registered around 50 individuals who wanted to hear more
about the Fedora Project and possibly contribute themselves. These included
teachers who want their students contribute as ambassadors and/or
developers, students who wanted to make a case study in the use of Fedora
and professionals who are interested in holding seminars/trainings in
deploying Fedora in their line of work.
I'm now helping these guys get onboard the project. This is just first event
so future events would certainly be better.
~ Herson
15 years, 7 months
EventBox becomes reality
by Clint Savage
So I've been working pretty much to get this EventBox[1] idea off the
ground. It looks like things are going now. I've loaded some stuff
into it and just need to make sure I've not missed anything and I'll
be sending it off to Jeffrey this coming week or so.
I've uploaded some pictures of the new Pelican 1610 series box (not
too shabby) which should hold all of the items on the list quite
nicely. Enjoy the pictures.
Cheers,
Clint
1 - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/EventBox
15 years, 7 months
Event Report:: Benedict College
by David Nalley
Another person that I met at the Palmetto Open Source Conference this
year was <a href="http://with-robot.blogspot.com/">Dr. Hong Jiang</a>
a professor at <a href="http://benedict.edu">Benedict College</a>. She
invited me to come speak to computer science and other students. I was
told around 40-100 would show up, but when everything was said and
done I think the number was closer to 120-150. The lecture room was
standing room only. Apparently there are about 40 people in the class
that I was talking to, but the event had been well publicized ahead of
time, and lots of students attended, including the Vice President of
the college, the Assistant Dean of the School of Science Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics as well as 3-4 professors. I talked a bit
about Fedora and more directly about the benefits of using Open Source
as an educational tool. I talked about some of the opportunities that
existed to get involved with Fedora and OLPC - and of course the XO
that I brought along received lots of attention. In addition I passed
out over 100 Fedora 9 LiveCDs.There were a number of questions - to
the point that we had to limit them due to schedule constraints on the
room.
After the presentation I received a short tour of the campus, was
introduced to the campus <a
href="http://www.benedict.edu/divisions/stdnta/campus_safety/staff/bc-campus_sa...">Police
Chief</a>, as well as several other faculty and staff members, and
enjoyed a wonderful lunch.
The group was very receptive - and I have a number of follow ups to
make already.
15 years, 7 months
introduction
by Oscar Rombo
Hi,
I am new to fedora ambassadors and consequently fedora ambassadors list.I am
currently working as a telecommunications engineer and an active fedora user
both at hoem and at work.My personal info is as follows
First name: Oscar
Lastname: Rombo
D.O.B: 7.11.1982
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
MSN: oska_rombo AT hotmail DOT com
Yahoo:ootiende AT yahoo DOT com
Mobile: +254723270017
<http://fedoracoreprojekat.blogspot.com/> *e-mail: jajuok AT fedoraproject
DOT org
I am currently a member of
Fedora desktop
Fedora Marketing.
I plan to spread fedora to the Student/tech/home user community in Nairobi
Kenya and the whole east african region.I am active in tech mailing lists
e.g skunkworks who organise yearly barcamps in Nairobi Kenya.
I also plan to attend gatherings to recruit fedora users and increase the
current number in the east african region by using social
networks,blogs,dailies and other opportunity available.I look forward to
working with the whole ambassadors team.
--
Regards,
Otiende Oscar Rombo
www.oscarrombo.com
http://blog.oscarrombo.com
15 years, 7 months
introduction
by Ferenc Pravda
Hello,
I am novice in Fedora Ambassadors, and glad to become a member of
Fedora Ambassadors Group.
Just recently subscribed to the Ambassadors mailing list.
Personal info:
First name: Ferenc
Lastname: Pravda
Born: 29.04.1982.
Location: Serbia, Vrsac
IRC (Freenode) Nick: pravda013
MSN: pravda013 AT hotmail DOT com
Yahoo:ferenc_pr AT yahoo DOT com
Mobile: +381 64 2677942
*Blog: http://fedoracoreprojekat.blogspot.com/
*e-mail: pravda013 AT fedoraproject DOT org
*gpg key: 9A3FB4B6
*key fingerprint:
8A76 A556 EC86 7222 0EF0 B9E8 76AF BB74 9A3F B4B6
*Public SSH Key: ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1y....
Registered Linux user: 477917
Started in:
Fedora Ambassador in Serbia.
Member of Serbian Translation Team.
Coordinator of FreeMedia in Serbia - FreeMedia Serbia
Member of Fedora Marketing Group.
My plans:
I wish to become active in Ambassadors, because of that i join to the
Ambassadors Group with large plans for Fedora Project in Serbia
(Fedora Freemedia, Events, user support...etc) in appetite. In Serbia
is a little number of Fedora users under 200 users, my plan is to
enlarge Fedora community in Serbia soon trought FreeMedia, Local
Marketing, Serbian Forums, Blogs...etc
Therefore i wish to recruit additional users and trainee to enlarge community.
I have plan to join an Fedora Event (OpenExpo 2008 Zurich, but it is
impossible to me.
For the time being, i will be present at Fedora Events in Serbia.
Maybe i will organize some Event in my city, and some othere city with
your support. (introduction in Fedora 10, or else)?!
Glad to become a par of Fedora project and communiti.
Best regards,
Ferenc Pravda
pravda013(a)fedoraproject.org
Key Fingerprint:
8A76 A556 EC86 7222 0EF0 B9E8 76AF BB74 9A3F B4B6
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Pravda013_ENGLISH
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/pravda013 (Serbian)
15 years, 7 months
Fedora Project in Hungary - University of Szeged
by Joerg Simon
Dear members of The Open Source Laboratory [1],
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Joerg Simon. I am an active
community contributor at the Fedora Project.
The Fedora Project is a Free Open Source Linux Development Platform, where the
community strives for the best and latest software technologies to the Open
Source community. As a Fedora Ambassador, my major task involves in working
with volunteers all over the world, who contribute with respect to their
expertise to Fedora. [2]
Personally i love your country since my early youth, i value the People from
Hungary very much and i know that many smart Hungarians have the potential to
contribute to the Fedora Project in many ways. [3]
We have some Hungarians who help us with localization (like many other
contributors around the world).
We have valuable contributors in your neighbour countries but as you may have
noticed, we have no representatives in your Country [4] who can help us find
the best Event in order to present the Fedora Project and get in touch with
the local educational institutions to show them the benefits of contributing
to the Fedora Project.
In November 2008, the "Fedora Ambassador Day EMEA" will take place. [5]
One goal will be to extend our work in Hungary and it would be great, if you
can help us to enhance our presence at a local Event (booth,speech,...) in
Hungary in 2009. [6]
With our recent legal status Fedora EMEA, we have the means to help you
promote Fedora. Let us know if you are interested about those means.
We also had community contributors excelled in various key leading positions,
such as Fedora Electronic Lab architect, Fedora Spins maintainer, Fedora
Marketing Manager,....
We would appreciate if you can forward this email to those who might be
interested in contributing for the Fedora Project as a community member.
Thank you for your cooperation in the Open Source ECO system.
Regards Joerg Simon
[1] http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/opensource/members.php
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/hu/
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/hu/join-fedora
[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/CountryList
[5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD/FADEMEA2008
[6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
--
Joerg (kital) Simon
jsimon(a)fedoraproject.org
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoergSimon
http://kitall.blogspot.com
Key Fingerprint:
3691 0989 2DCA 58A2 8D1F 2CAC C823 558E 5B5B 5688
15 years, 7 months
