[Ambassadors] Upcoming events in Finland

[Ryan Rix]

On Thu 10 June 2010 11:06:19 am Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:
> Hi Ambassadors,
> 
> Just wanted to let you know that there are a couple of events here in
> Finland during the summer which I plan to attend. The first one is
> Akademy in Tampere, which starts on July 3rd <http://akademy.kde.org/>.
> So far I'm only planning to attend the Akademy Conference during the
> weekend, since hotel accommodation isn't exactly cheap. However, if
> there's something interesting happening during the week, I could always
> take a train from Helsinki to Tampere for a day.

I'll be there, barring the *#$%ing US passport office... :) You should stay at 
the hostel with us, much cheaper :)

> The second event is the Assembly demo party from August 5th to 8th in
> Helsinki <http://www.assembly.org/summer10/>. We've usually had a
> Linux/FOSS desk there organized by the Finnish Linux User Group, here
> are some photos from 2008:
> <http://vpv.kapsi.fi/blog/2008/08/the-linuxfoss-desk-at-assembly-summer-200
> 8-with-fedora/>.
> 
> If any Fedora contributors are attending either event, we could probably
> meet up. Akademy might be a bit too soon to get any swag shipped here
> (and besides, most Akademy attendees probably already know about
> Fedora). If at all possible, I'd like to have some Fedora CDs and/or
> DVDs and maybe stickers or something to hand out at Assembly. During the
> previous years pretty much all discs we've had have been handed out.
> Since many attendees spend the whole three days at the Assembly venue,
> they usually have time to test the distributions we represent and come
> back to us asking for help, if needed.

I'll pester some folks to get some stuff to stick in my suitcase. Otherwise 
I'll burn some Fedora KDE CDs, and bring the swag that I currently have.

> On a related note, I took part in an episode of the only Finnish Linux
> related podcast, LinuCast, on Fedora 13 release day. We were talking
> about the new release, of course:
> <http://podcastit.tv/index.php?q=node/544>

See you there!
Ryan

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