[Ambassadors] Report for Release Party F16 Silicon Valley

[Mark Terranova]

Hello Fedorans, I am pleased to give a report on our F16 release party for
Silicon Valley. It was a success. There were 15+ folks in attendance. We
consider ourselves lucky to have been able to have the event at the Hacker
Dojo, as well as our sponsor Alison Chaiken
http://events.hackerdojo.com/event/1155026-fedora-16-release-party-instal...
We
had a mix of folks that were already part of Fedora, to those that knew
very little about Linux.

We had a BBQ of hotdogs in honor of the Beefy Miracle. This IS California
though, so we DID have vegetarian dogs also. We had a talk on Fedora, it's
Foundations, why it is so important to FOSS, and a preview of F17. We also
had a very yummy cake (with penguins on it). In addition to the regular
swag of stickers, tattoos, and shirts- we had a few prizes. We had an
assortment of USB flash drives, and a grand prize of a Beefy Miracle shirt.
Our pics of the event can be seen here
https://picasaweb.google.com/105095769731159704550/FedoraReleasePartySili...

This was our first official event for the newly formed Bay Area Mentoring
Fedorans - BAMF https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BAMF expect to hear more
about this venture soon...

Facebook page for the event https://www.facebook.com/events/315465118479126/

A sincere thank you to the Fedora Project (and Daddy Shadowman) for
sponsoring this event,

Mark Terranova
 *Fedora Ambassador Mentor* for *North America*
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Markdude
*Community Manager for *http://partimus.org/
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ALL Hail Tux the Penguin!