[Ambassadors] International CES 2013 even - Las Vegas, NV

[Dan Mashal]

Honestly,

And please don't take this the wrong way.

As a fedora packager, member of QA, and ambassador I feel like someone that
lives in the housing projects.

If Fedora is only supposed to be used for solar cars and robots then I
should be running RHEL I guess.

Beth, I'll see you there if nothing comes of it. I'll be calling their
sales team on Tuesday. Would you like to exchange contact information and
come up with a proposal/deliverables/agenda for the powers that be?

Dan

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 1:32 PM, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Beth Lynn Eicher
> <bethlynn at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:17 AM, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:15 AM, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Dan Mashal <dan.mashal at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Does Fedora or Red Hat have any plans to have some kind of exhibit
> for CES
> >>>> 2013?
> >>>
> >>> No.
> >>
> >> I don't have any idea what Red Hat might have for plans but Fedora
> >> doesn't have any plans to attend at this point.
> >>
> >
> > I was at CES 2012 and I am registered for 2013.
> >
> > Red Hat and Fedora were not.
> >
> > Canonical was present. The booth was staffed with people who were
> > making no apologies for their proprietary products, in fact they were
> > pushing them. They were showing off Ubuntu on ARM, Ubuntu One, Ubuntu
> > corporate desktop support, and Ubuntu TV. It is worth mentioning, that
> > they were all out of media and stickers since the community
> > constituency was in attendance.
> >
> > Microsoft was present but it was heavily rumored that they would not
> > exhibit in 2013 because they were not guaranteed their CEO a keynote
> > spot. I was also at the Steve Balmer's final CES keynote in 2012 where
> > Windows 8 was hyped. Trust me, I face palmed when Microsoft took
> > credit for innovations that I have seen in Free Software.
>
> The picture you paint is the picture I have in my mind although I have
> never attended CES, one only interested in open source for the ways
> they might be able to use it to their economic advantage. Perhaps it
> isn't fair for me to hope for anything more but I feel like I do see
> more when I attend SELF, OLF, TXLF. Given that a reasonable presence
> at CES would cost more than we spend on SELF, OLF, and TXLF combined I
> am having a hard time supporting funding that given our limited
> budget.
>
> > I'm going to +1 Fedora @ CES2013. Many embedded products that run the
> > Linux kernel are there. Moreover, there is abundant evidence that
> > today's slot machines use GNU/Linux. The success of Sugar on OLPC
> > hardware proves that Fedora is a fine choice for deployments that must
> > work in the long haul.
>
> I would rather take that money and do something directly with people
> doing cool hacking on solar cars or robots than slot machines and
> routers. My two cents.
>
> John
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