[fab] fedora in brazil

[Max Spevack]

FAMSCO actually contributed $3000 to the Fedora efforts at FISL, so I'm 
really glad to hear that it's going well.

Great summary Chris -- enjoy Brazil!

--Max

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Christopher Blizzard wrote:

> I just met a couple of ambassadors down here who are manning a small fedora 
> booth.  I think they were both named Rodruigez?  I'm _terrible_ with names.
>
> I guess they are going to be doing events in a number of cities around the 
> country to do talks/shows.  The pointed out a few things that they are doing:
>
> o I walked away with an installation CD.  One CD.  It's based on Fedora, so 
> they are doing that work.
>
> o They are actively working on a LiveCD project.  They really want to have 
> one and said they would have an alpha some time in the next month or so.
>
> o They are setting up a huge mount of local infrastructure to do CD 
> distribution inside of the country.  They have a form set up so you can 
> request a CD and the person that's closest to you puts it in the mail. The 
> local mail here is apparently slow at times.
>
> http://www.projetofedora.org/
>
> There's a lot of that here.
>
> o They seem to know Greg and Alex well.  Nice job, guys!
>
> o They have no idea what's going on with the board or how Fedora relates to 
> Red Hat.  For example, there's rumor going around that we're dropping KDE 
> completely.  Which is of course not true.  I explained some of that "wanting 
> to get KDE maintained by the KDE community" but I don't think I was telling 
> the right people.  Not sure if they understood all of that; the language 
> barrier was large.
>
> In any case, I didn't even know that they had a little stand set up here. 
> It's nice to see the Fedora symbol up and around.  But they clearly need more 
> support if we can get them.
>
> Oh, and the word "Fedora" in Brazil is very close to the word for "skanky." 
> Thought everyone might want to know that.
>
> Anyone want to do a FUDCON at the 8th FISL?  This conference is pretty big 
> and the locals would probably be interesting.
>
> --Chris
>
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