[Ambassadors] Beefy Miracle Release Party in Malang Report

Fri Jun 15 07:31:08 UTC 2012

Cool..
another release party from Indonesia.. \o/
On Jun 15, 2012 12:49 PM, "Arif Tri Waluyo" <arifiauo at fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Teguh DC <dheche at songolimo.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello Ambassadors,
>>
>> This is probably the first time in Malang there are Fedora Release Party
>> Event, Fedora users in Malang are not as many as other distro users, so it
>> was natural that not many events held by us.
>>
>> Sunday (10/6) at the Information Technology Laboratory, 5th Floor Gedung
>> Kuliah Bersama (GKB) 3 at University of Muhammadiyah Malang (UMM), Fedora
>> 17 "Beefy Miracle" Release Party was finally held.
>>
>> The event itself started a bit late, delayed about 50 minutes away from
>> the original plan. Promptly at 9:50 AM the event started. That's not the
>> committee fault anyway, because at 9 AM the committee is already prepared,
>> only the participants who came rather late.
>> How lucky, friends in KaliUMM (Linux Users Group in UMM) can simply
>> improvise, to fill the silence they play several short films/video clips
>> about Linux and open source.
>>
>> When the participants had arrived, the chairman of KaliUMM, Yudhi
>> directly open the event. The first opportunity given to Zen Rooney,
>> chairman of KOLAM, who stepped forward and introduced KOLAM (Linux Users
>> Group in Malang).
>>
>> After that, it was my turn to bring material on Fedora, I regrouped into
>> three topics: Fedora Project, Fedora 17 Features and Common Installation
>> Tips.
>> On the first topic, Fedora Project, I invited the participants to know
>> more about the Fedora community, not just known fedora as a linux
>> distribution (distro). How this community that supported by Red Hat has
>> contributed greatly to the development of Linux in particular and the world
>> of Open Source in general. I also explained about fedora's core value:
>> freedom, friends, features, first.
>> I emphasize how important collaboration and how the fedora developers are
>> always trying to work as close as possible to the upstream project. That is
>> not important for fedora to have unique application, rather than became
>> exclusive application in a single distro, an application will be much more
>> useful if it is available in many distro (can be used by many people)
>> instead.
>>
>> I was slightly introduced on the terms "Remix" and "Spins" and what
>> purpose and give them some examples.
>> I did not forget to invite the participants to join the fedora project
>> and I was informed about the Fedora Indonesia Community[1].
>>
>> Because not many participants that are fedora users, when I talk on the
>> topic of "Fedora 17 Features" I did not linger to discuss what's new in
>> Fedora 17 but I would rather talk more about the other powerful features
>> that have long existed in the fedora. Presto, SystemD, SELinux, PackageKit,
>> Kickstart is a few of the many features that I think is interesting. And
>> here, I was mention again how unselfish fedora developers is, they want to
>> communicate and collaborate with developers of other distributions to
>> developing PackageKit. And how fedora to be a pioneer distro that adopt
>> SELinux, a kernel security feature developed by the NSA (National Security
>> Agency).
>>
>> While in the last topic of "Common Installation Tips", I explain what
>> steps should be done after we install fedora. I was again reminded why
>> fedora by default do not support the mp3 format and do not include
>> proprietary software like nvidia drivers, dropbox, skype, etc.. Indeed, we
>> as end users  feeling a bit "uncomfortable" because we should install many
>> application from 3rd party repository.
>> For simplicity, I suggest to install fedorautils, autoplus and gnome
>> tweak tools.
>>
>> You can download my presentation slide from SlideShare[2] or Scribd[3] if
>> you interested.
>>
>> Aris Setyono from KaliUMM start to demonstrating the internet radio using
>> Icecast 2. Yudhi in the introduction was informed that this is one of the
>> research activities that have been done by KaliUMM.
>> These steps are demonstrated very easy to follow. Hopefully there are
>> participants who are interested to participate in this internet radio
>> implemented in their respective places.
>>
>> Last turn, Rachmad Tsalaatsa guide the Webserver Load Balancing workshop.
>> The workshop begins with an explanation of what it is load balancing, the
>> types, how it works, the algorithms used, etc.. Continued by the
>> participants directly involved attempting to install and configure load
>> balancing on each desktop that has been provided by the committee.
>>
>> This event was closed by party, taking picture, eating hotdog and
>> drinking accompanied by the strains of house music.
>>
>> Thank you for KaliUMM, KOLAM and all the participants who have attended
>> the event. See you again at the next events :)
>>
>> That was awesome! :)
>
>> ps.
>> Photo documentation can be downloaded from:
>> - photos from Rachmad's camera [4]
>> - photos from My camera [5]
>> This event plan is already in fedora wiki [6]
>> You can read this report at my blog in Bahasa Indonesia [7]
>>
>> [1] http://fedora.or.id
>> [2] http://www.slideshare.net/dheche/f17-inside-13274207
>> [3] http://www.scribd.com/doc/96669563/f17-Inside
>> [4]
>> https://plus.google.com/photos/115416207082096539516/albums/5752612753728682481?banner=pwa&authkey=CInqk4CQhJOf8QE
>> [5]
>> https://picasaweb.google.com/112635444238367820420/KOLAMKaliUMMBeefyMiracleReleaseParty
>> [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party_F17_Malang
>> [7]
>> http://dheche.songolimo.net/wp/index.php/2012/06/14/beefy-miracle-release-party/
>>
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