[Ambassadors] FAD Milan - October 27 2012 - Report

Wed Nov 7 07:53:18 UTC 2012

Hi All!

Here [1] you can find my photos of the event.

[1] http://denebinside.openphoto.me/photos/album-3/list

Have a nice day,
deneb

On 6 November 2012 03:05, Mailga(mailga) <mailga at fedoraonline.it> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> here's the analysis for the event held at the Milan University [1].
>
> The event was dedicated to Fedora and planned for 4 hours on Saturday and it
> was deliberately separated from Linux Day (held in the same University, but
> in different rooms) and was thematic toward our distribution.
>
> With this event we tried to involve the largest number of people in the
> Fedora Project by explanations and practical sessions.
>
> Bringing people in the fedora project was our goal.
>
> There were two available classrooms, one for the talks and one for the
> practical sessions.
>
> The attendance to the Linux Day, in general, seemed rather weak but, closed
> in a room, I could not verify the presence of people outside.
>
> The FAD was constantly followed by about thirty people, I didn't check the
> ones that went in and out.
>
> This event was dedicated to the Fedora Project, non-unitary with others
> distributions, and we did not expect the presence of a lot people, but we
> believe the audience that came to follow exclusively our event was
> appreciable.
>
> The talks of colleagues and volunteers were really interesting and they made
> excellent speeches promoting participation into the Project.
>
> People have appreciated the speeches, they applauded at the end of each
> talk, and our speakers shown their competence, even on subjects such as
> kernel or packaging.
>
> We didn't want to annoy the participants and we didn't annoy them.
>
> We distributed some gadgets and received requests for information.
>
> The parallel session, limited to packaging, saw the presence, at least, of a
> dozen people who followed Gianluca with great interest.
>
> What makes us sure that we followed the right way, in addition to
> presentations very well done and the presence of people who stayed in our
> classrooms, is due to the requests received after event.
>
> In particular we received two requests: the first is a contact request for
> future events into schools made by a spectator who also requested
> information about joining the Ambassador group (of course, we'll verify the
> competence and the interest, the contact is held by Deneb) and the second is
> the request, made by a couple of participants, to receive all the slides,
> which I'm preparing.
>
> I believe that our event could be considered a good result.
>
> Event Timeline:
>
> - Introduction by Marina Latini (Deneb [2])
>
> Introduction to the Fedora Project, groups and activities of the day.
>
> - Packaging by Gianluca Sforna (Giallu [3])
>
> The Packaging group and development rules.
>
> - Websites by Robert Mayr (Robyduck [4])
>
> The Websites group and the workflow.
>
> - Infrastructure by Andrea Veri (Averi [5])
>
> The Infrastructure team and the administration software.
>
> - Fedora Kernel by Federico Vaga (volunteer)
>
> The Kernel compilation and the Fedora way ok making.
>
> - Design by Samuel Iuri (Design Team)
>
> The Design team and the Logo and Fedora colours guidelines.
>
> - Localisation by Mario Santagiuliana (Marionline [6])
>
> The Italian Localization team and translation tools.
>
> - Fedora, a working and home distribution by Massimiliano Bugni (volunteer)
>
> The virtualization system and tools for building our own livecd.
>
> This event was advertised on:
>
> - Fedora wiki page [1]
>
> - FedoraOnLine forum (Italian community site) [7]
>
> - Tuxjournal.net (one of the major Italian GNU/Linux web magazine) [8]
>
> - La Repubblica (one of the major Italian newspaper) [9]
>
> - Linux Magazine (one of the major Italian printed magazine)
>
> - Italian users mailing list [10]
>
> - Gianluca Sforna's blog (Italian) [11]
>
> - Andrea Veri's blog (Italian) [12]
>
> - International Ambassador mailing list [13]
>
> Event report:
>
> - Gianluca Sforna's blog [14]
>
> - Gabriele Trombini article [15]
>
> - Andrea Veri's blog [16]
>
> Cheers
>
> Gabri (mailga)
>
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_LinuxDayMi_2012
>
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Deneb
>
> [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Giallu
>
> [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Robyduck
>
> [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:AndreaVeri?rd=User:Averi
>
> [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Marionline
>
> [7] http://forum.fedoraonline.it/viewtopic.php?id=18876
>
> [8]
> http://www.tuxjournal.net/fedora-activity-day-il-27-ottobre-al-linuxday-2012-di-milano/
>
> [9] http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2012/10/26/news/linux_day-45381676/
>
> [10]
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/it-users/2012-August/002704.html
>
> [11]
> http://morefedora.blogspot.it/2012/10/fedora-activity-day-milano.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+morefedora+%28More+Fedora%29
>
> [12] http://www.dragonsreach.it/category/fedoraonline/
>
> [13]
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ambassadors/2012-August/020182.html
>
> [14] http://morefedora.blogspot.it/2012/10/fad-milano-report.html
>
> [15] http://doc.fedoraonline.it/FAD_Milan,_October_27_2012_-_The_Event
>
> [16] http://www.dragonsreach.it/2012/11/
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Gabriele Trombini (mailga)
>
> Fedora Ambassador
>
> FedoraOnLine Staff Member
>
>
>
> Kernel in uso attualmente: 3.6.3-3.fc18.x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
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