[Fedora-ambassadors-list] FOSDEM 2006 Report

[puneet batura]

Thomas,

Great going buddy. The report is a pleasure to read and the pics are also
nice. keep up the good work... :)

Cheers


On 2/27/06, Thomas Canniot <thomas.canniot at laposte.net> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody, FOSDEM is over, here is my report ! :)
>
> FOSDEM was held the 25 and 26th of February in Brussels (in Belgium).
> Even if it is a developper event, many users were there as well asking
> many questions about free software in general.
>
> We were four speaking for Fedora on the booth: Frederic Hornain (from
> Belgium), Andreas Kupfer (from Germany), Matthias Saou (from France,
> Canada and Spain), and myself Thomas Canniot (from France). We had no
> presentation in any auditorium.
> Many people came to talk about Fedora Core and asked some questions
> about it. We can retain that few questions were still about our
> relationship with Red Hat. Others asked whether Fedora Core was a new
> distro, because they haven't heard of it before. Maybe Frederic will add
> some comments on this discussion.
>
> I could also give the flyers we made this week but I didn't that FOSDEM
> visitors mostly speak English however, the flyers were in French (as
> Belgium is a French speaking Country). So I really need to translate
> them into English.
>
> For my part, I *only* came on Sunday, with my computer with FC5T3 on
> it. Most of users were very interested with the next release and I was
> proud to show them that FC5 is going to be a great one. We had only good
> feedbacks for Pirut and Pup. Some users were also very interested in the
> system-config-control package. Some of them asked questions about the
> new logo, and some of them disliked it. But, be relieved, a majority of
> people told that the new artwork was good stuff!
> I also took advantage of the booth to stick handouts everywhere
> written "Kadischi show every hour!" on them, as I was suggested to do so
> in the last thursday meeting. This worked fantasticaly! As kadischi is
> not very known yet, many users came and asked "What is Kadischi show?".
> As they had a good question, we had a good answer :) Many people wanted
> to *see* Kadischi running, i.e building the livecd, and I built about 6
> livcds on the whole day (I arrived at 9.30am and left at 5pm - with
> lunchtime of an hour or so). They were also very interested in the
> customization it allows. Some features were asked as well about it and I
> will contact Chitlesh Goorah for it. Showing Kadischi there was more
> than successful.
>
> Photos of the booth and the event in general are available from:
> http://mrtomlinux.multiply.com/photos/album/5
> Fedora Booth is shwon in the 9 first photos.
>
> More photos about FOSDEM 2006 (no Fedora booth in them):
> http://flickr.com/groups/fosdem
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas Canniot
>
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Thanks and Regards,


Puneet Batura
Open Source Developer
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