Hi everybody, I gave yesterday evening a presentation of the Fedora Project thanks to Aurelien Bompart's slides. This was my first experience in presenting the Project publicly, as if it was a kind of session.
It happened during the monthly LUG meeting called "Les Mardis du Libre" (Free Tuedays). About 15 people were attending, regular ones -with their very good knowloedge of the open-source movement- and new ones as well.
Some regular ones, essentially gentoo and debian users, were constantly attacking me gentily about some aspects of the distribution :
Fedora and Red Hat : Beeing with Red Hat is a bad thing from their point of view, because fedora is controlled by RH and is not independant. I kept on telling them it is a good thing because of the support, infrastructure, development, money, guidelines (...) RH is giving to Fedora. They were hard to convinced on this topic. They were arguing that Debian was surviving thanks to its ideas and ideals, but one of them told that there were a lot of money on Debian bank accounts as well. :)
They were as well very doubtless about the fact that Fedora is including bleeding edge technologies and still remains stable AND easy to use. I could only tell them to try Fedora :)
During an explanation about Core and Extras and about the duplication apps moving to Extras, Someone asked me if KDE would one day be slipped into Extras. I said "probably, or probably not, the question is still pending."
Well i knew most of the guys that were there, they were testing me harshly and teasing me a lot, even if their questions sometinmes were really good questions about the distro and the way we work.
Thomas Canniot
ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org
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Thomas Canniot