[Fedora-ambassadors-list] FOSS.NITC Report

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Mar 24 22:21:13 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 14:25 +0530, Kushal Das wrote:
> 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. 

Any slides that we can take a peek at?

> 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".

Thats a proposal. I would be wary of promising it to anyone. 

>  Fedora livecd also rocks.
> Some girls were complaining about "No G size tshirts".
> The event went good.

Thanks for the report. Since you mention the girls, do you happen to
have some pics of the event ;-)

Rahul




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