[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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