[Fedora-ambassadors-list] FOSS.NITC Report

Kushal Das kushaldas at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 05:56:50 UTC 2006


Hi, here is my report on FOSS.NITC event.

FOSS.NITC was held on 18-19 March in Calicut, Kerala (India). This is mainly a 
student based event, where they meet with industry people. Students from NIT 
Calicut & other local engineering colleges were there.

It was nice to see that NIT Calicut's computer Lab is almost completely  based 
on Fedora (FC4). The same thing is there in other colleges too. So most of 
the students are very much familiar with Fedora :)

My BoF session was mainly attended by students of 1st & 2nd year. They had 
lots questions about Fedora. They never previously used yum. I talked about 
FC5 features. 
One commonly asked question was how to upgrade from FC4 to FC5 (through DVD) 
as I was distributing FC4 DVDs. 
In the event some people were talking about KDE in Fedora (they don't like the 
way it is being packaged), they liked to hear "moving KDE packages into the 
Fedora Extras repository". Fedora livecd also rocks.
Some girls were complaining about "No G size tshirts".
The event went good.

Regards,
Kushal
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