Hello everybody,
From 7th to 12th of July, gaia and me participated to "Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre" in Strasbourg (France).
It is one of most important yearly events about Free Software in France. We represented Fedora over Borsalinux-fr (French association to promote Fedora) stand.
Around 60 persons (obviously a lot of French people but also from Germany or United-Kingdom) came to ask some information or just discuss about Fedora. Some of them are long term users, for many years and very happy about Fedora. My conference about contributions of Fedora Workstation to Free Software (in French) was followed by 16 persons and was very appreciated by them. This conference was recorded, so it would be available somewhere in Internet soon.
All Fedora users are happy to use Fedora, but some critics raised about "dnfdragora" which is not reliable enough and too slow apparently. Or some specific issues like a unavailable software "ancestris" from official repositories or the difficulties to support smart cards for common transport tickets of Strasbourg (they provided PPA repositories apparently without guide for Fedora). As usual, the lack of long term support is an issue for a lot of visitors. But for all of them, having almost all software in the latest version is the main advantage.
Especially, a visually impaired woman explained to us that Fedora was very used by blind / visually impaired people because Fedora provides all required free software in the latest version. But she is using a Debian based distribution built by Hypra company which uses proprietary software for recognition / synthesis speech.
Of course some goodies are sold / given: T-shirt, Fedora loves Python flyers, beginning guides, pins, stickers, etc.
We filled wiki page about this event:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RMLL_2018
If you have any question about it, do not hesitate.
Regards,
Charles-Antoine Couret
On 07/12/2018 06:38 PM, Charles-Antoine Couret wrote:
Especially, a visually impaired woman explained to us that Fedora was very used by blind / visually impaired people because Fedora provides all required free software in the latest version. But she is using a Debian based distribution built by Hypra company which uses proprietary software for recognition / synthesis speech.
Hi Charles-Antoine, I was curious if the woman mentioned any of the software she found useful in Fedora. I'd be curious to know what software or tools in Fedora are helpful for visually-impaired people.
Thanks for sharing!
Le 14/07/2018 à 01:27, Justin W. Flory a écrit :
On 07/12/2018 06:38 PM, Charles-Antoine Couret wrote:
Especially, a visually impaired woman explained to us that Fedora was very used by blind / visually impaired people because Fedora provides all required free software in the latest version. But she is using a Debian based distribution built by Hypra company which uses proprietary software for recognition / synthesis speech.
Hi Charles-Antoine, I was curious if the woman mentioned any of the software she found useful in Fedora. I'd be curious to know what software or tools in Fedora are helpful for visually-impaired people.
Thanks for sharing!
Hi, We discussed only about GNOME stack + Orca. Maybe she (and they) used other tools no related to GNOME but it was not mentioned.
Regards, Charles-Antoine
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