[Ambassadors] Beefy Miracle Release Party in Malang Report

[ekoikhyar]

2012/6/15 Teguh DC <dheche at songolimo.net>

> 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 :)
>
> 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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Hopefully, the other release parties in Indonesia will follow :)

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