JDLL 2024 in Lyon (FRANCE)

[Nicolas BERREHOUC]

Hi!

From Saturday 25 to Sunday 26 of May, the French Fedora community was represented by the Borsalinux-fr association ( https://www.borsalinux-fr.org/ ) at the 25th edition of "les Journées du Logiciel Libre" (Free Software Days in French) in Lyon, France. More informations at https://jdll.org/ (only in french).

The event main theme was "Popular education: free at last!".

There were fewer Linux distributions and associations than in the past (before CoViD): Illyse, ALDIL, Montpel'libre et API, Wikimédia France, Altercarto, Skeptikon, OpenStreetMap, Ancestris, UAR Persée, XWiki / CryptPad, Tracim & Galae, YunoHost, CLIC, YesWiki, Globenet, ritimo, FDN et FFDN, Libre en Communs, Congressus, Librezo, DINUM, Les Scop du Numérique, Probesys, PLOSS-RA, Linux et la musique, CoLibre - ICOM, Campus du Libre, LALIS, MAGEIA, Borsalinux-Fr, Fedora, Debian France, Alionet openSUSE, SILICOOP, 0 A.D., OtterWays, Box64 & Box86, Claviers ergonomiques, Ergodis, Chantier Libre, LOL hackerspace, Les fous du code, Witness Angel, April, Framasoft, Hadoly, La Contre-Voie, Numéricloud - Numéricoop, Grésille & Rézine, S2S.

In a few numbers:
- just over 1 000 visitors;
- 82 conferences;
- 22 workshops;
- 54 stands;
- 15 activities for children.

Behind the Fedora / Borsalinux-fr booth:
* Nicolas BERREHOUC aka Nicosss.

On Saturday and Sunday I talked with many people.
A variety of questions and comments, but always on the same themes as in previous years:
- discovering GNU/Linux distributions and the possibility of using a Live to try them out;
- differences with other distributions;
- discovering the **Fedora Project**;
- discovering **Fedora-Fr** and its French-speaking community;
- discovering the **Borsalinux-fr** association behind **Fedora-fr**;
- Atomic version support on the Fedora-fr Forum;
- how to participate in the Fedora project -> https://whatcanidoforfedora.org/fr/ ;
- the possibility or not of leaving Windows with your current PC, whether it's aging or doesn't meet Windows 11 criteria;
- finding a distribution for parents with no computer skills;
- numerous feedbacks from system administrators who install **Fedora Linux** to benefit from the latest tools;
- confirmation of feedback from previous years that games can be played on **Fedora Linux** without any problems, and that it is therefore not necessary to reboot under Windows;
- positive feedback from **Fedora Atomic** users, but we were unable to discuss its use further;
- thanks for the work done to achieve stable, high-quality distribution;
- thanks for the existence of **Fedora-Fr** with its forum and documentation for the French-speaking community;
- why we still didn't have any goodies with the new logo.

GNOME community was not present this year again but I don't know why.

Some media of this year’s event and past editions are available at the link https://jdll.org/presse-et-media and soon the videos of the 2024 conferences on peertube https://www.videos-libr.es/a/orga_jdll/videos .

All exchanges are available on https://forums.fedora-fr.org/d/74643-jdll-journ%C3%A9es-du-logiciel-libre-20... (only in french).

Thanks everyone and see you next year in the same place!