Idea and Possible Event in Aveiro, Portugal

Sat Feb 27 21:47:17 UTC 2010

On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 21:32 +0000, Nelson Marques wrote:
> Hi Gerold,

> 
>  It's mainly an idea for now, and I haven't contacted no one yet.
>  May could be fun, because it's the students festivities (and 25% of
> Aveiro resident population is students). So, we also have a nice
> playground to have some fun after the event :)
> 
>  As I said previously, I haven't contacted the ambassadors, because it's
> just a sketch of an idea, needs to get more substract (hopefully from
> this thread).
>  I would recon that we could eventually develop a bit more this idea on
> the list and then present it to the Ambassadors once it gets more
> "stable".
> 
>  Here's a list of people that could get involved:
> 
>  - Aveiro City Hall (through the cultural and educational department)
>  - PT Inovação S.A. (as a open source enabler in the market, they used a
> lot of Red Hat when I was there (1999/2001), not sure what they use now,
> but I can select the people that are pro Red Hat (my former boss would
> be great, he was the one who teached me a lot about Red Hat back then,
> and he also gives conferences sometimes, so he has a lot background and
> experience).
>  - Inforlandia Lda > They were one of the first, if not the first
> hardware manufacturer/OEM brander to ship with pre-installed GNU/Linux.
> They are a good company, and they count with local engineering people
> from nvidia and Clevo.
>  - IPAM > My University (bellongs to the Ensigest Group, present in
> Europe and Americas).
>  - University of Aveiro > One of the highest technological poles in the
> country. They form a lot of good people and some of their teachers are
> deeply involved in Free Software promotion (like Dr. Ruben Mendes from
> ANSOL, which was also a contributer/maintainer for Debian in the past,
> if I'm not wrong).
>  - Fedora Community > of course.
>  - Red Hat ?
>  - I would like to contact probably one or two ISP's and mobile
> operators (reason: e-student program from the governament provides
> mobile networking aswell for students. Supported? Alert to open
> source?).
> 
>  Keep feeding the thread and comenting everything, so we can have a
> clear inview of what we can do and what we cant do before we start
> rallying for manpower and things we need.
> 
>  Feel free to contact me in private: 07721 at ipam.pt,
> nmarques at fedoraproject.org. 
> 
>  My German is basic ;) (almost 15 years without practicing on it)
> English would be preferred.
> 
> 
>  Thanks for the support,
> 
>  Nelson
> 
> On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 22:11 +0100, Gerold Kassube wrote:
> > +1
> > 
> > Nelson, your plans are awesome and I personaly like to see it happen.
> > You will get my highest support to make it happen. Maybe I find also a
> > possibility to attend if it really happen in May or June and during a
> > weekend ..
> > 
> > Let's talk in private for more details. Other question; have you also
> > asked in the Ambassadors List to get support?
> > 
> > regards
> > 
> > Gerold
> > 
> > Am Samstag, den 27.02.2010, 16:44 +0000 schrieb Nelson Marques: 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >  Not sure if people know, but in February 2001 I've organized an event
> > > in Aveiro to promote Linux (I was back then the responsible for PLUG
> > > online Documentation, PLUG as in Portuguese Linux Users Group). This
> > > event was supported by SuSE GmbH (donated 2 crates of merchandise, cd's,
> > > retail boxes, t-shirts, pins), Sun MicroSystems (500 CD's of Star Office
> > > 5.1), Red Hat (some stickers) and some other local companies (hardware
> > > manufacturers, service enablers etc).
> > >  This event had over 400 visitors in the 2 days we were "opened" for
> > > public. We used Aveiro's Congress Center for this.
> > > 
> > >  Congress Center:
> > > 
> > > http://www.cm-aveiro.pt/www//Templates/GenericDetails.aspx?id_object=27480&divName=1381s1509&id_class=1509
> > > http://www.av.it.pt/aveirocidade/pt/congressos/index.htm
> > > http://i.olhares.com/data/big/178/1780535.jpg
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  After this background, I was thinking in organizing another event, this
> > > time to promote Fedora. From the previous experience, I know that if we
> > > don't advertise, they can spare us some space in the Congress Center for
> > > free, if we advertise, we need to pay. Back then we payed around 450$US
> > > for the two days.
> > > 
> > >  My idea was to do something different. First, no Congress Center,
> > > instead ask for space on my University and host the event At IPAM Aveiro
> > > (Portuguese Institute for Marketing Management).
> > > 
> > >  http://www.e-u.pt/ResourcesUser/InstituicoesImagens/IPAM.gif
> > >  http://www.ipam.pt
> > > 
> > >   IPAM is starting it's internationalization project, being present in
> > > Portugal (Aveiro, Porto and Lisbon), Spain (Madrid, cooperation with
> > > Universidad Rey Juan Carlos), in Brazil and Netherlands.
> > >   Aveiro school was appointed to be the center of it's international
> > > community.
> > > 
> > >   Through IPAM we can most likely get an anfi-theater for any
> > > presentation/conference, rooms to be used and free space, with bar,
> > > parking, etc.
> > > 
> > >   I would also like to focus that the City of Aveiro has the former
> > > Center for Telecommunication Studies (former CET), now known as Portugal
> > > Telecom Inovação S.A., the Research and Development unit for Portugal
> > > Telecom, where I worked in the past packaging and maintaining our Red
> > > Hat 6 plataform on IBM RS4500 (replacing the Sun equipment and
> > > Slowlaris).
> > > 
> > >   Either way Aveiro also has one of the biggest Universities in Europe,
> > > and in 2050 the biggest. Aveiro is the technological telecommunications
> > > platform in Portugal (Portugal Telecom has operations worldwide in the 5
> > > continents), and was responsible for great accolades, like the first
> > > pre-paid GSM Card in the World, the second country in Europe to
> > > establish a phone network without operator (automatic switching),
> > > amongst other things.
> > > 
> > >   There could be no better background for this.
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   My thing:
> > > 
> > >   # Organize an event to promote GNU/Linux and Fedora.
> > >   # Gather support for space and resources in IPAM (to go zero costs).
> > >   # Promote a couple of background events related to Linux
> > >      - Possibility of someone from Fedora to present it?
> > >      - I can ask one of GNOME Brasero's maintainers also to speech (Luis
> > > Medinas is from Aveiro).
> > >      - Corporate view of open-source by Portugal Telecom Inovação?
> > >      - Maybe someone from Red Hat ?
> > > 
> > >   GOALS:
> > >   # Give to know and Promote Fedora.
> > >   # Promote Fedora with IPAM (see this as a first approach to try and
> > > get IPAM involved with the Fedora community).
> > >   # Gather the local native population for this promotion event.
> > >   # Attract and attack the small business to favor open-source (might be
> > > of interest to Red Hat).
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   Anyone, pull out comments, goals, objectives, pros, cons, anything
> > > relevant. Keep in mind that the main event (despite of any other
> > > involvements such as guest speakers and such) is the promotion of Fedora
> > > as a reliable free alternative either for normal people, students or
> > > eventually to new IT professionals. I can gather some manpower on local
> > > LUGS and gather corporate support if required (hardware manufacturers,
> > > open source enablers, etc).
> > > 
> > >   I have also some bonds with ANSOL (http://www.ansol.org), the FSF
> > > Portuguese branch, and also can get their cooperation almost for sure.
> > > 
> > >   Also regarding to Aveiro, there is currently one company that is
> > > supplying the students laptops through the governament. I know this
> > > company for over 15 years and have developed work for them in the past
> > > (installing and configuring Linux Servers (Red Hat) and Workstations
> > > (SuSE). They currently use the Portuguese Caixa Mágica distro for their
> > > pre-installed computers. We can try an approach to them as well so that
> > > we use Fedora. We have something that Caixa Mágica can't offer, decent
> > > support to new users. I've been lurking on the #Fedora channel, and such
> > > resources are valuable and can make a difference in our favor here
> > > (anyone has status of Portuguese PT_PT implementation on Fedora?).
> > > 
> > >    I know this might be of interest to Fedora as a Community, and if it
> > > is successful we might open new doors to our sponsor, Red Hat.
> > > 
> > >    
> > > 
> > >    If we move on such thing, I would consider the following:
> > > 
> > >    - March (too close and important city events)
> > >    - April/May (full of students events)
> > >    - June (exams)
> > >    - July (no great events on schedule)
> > > 
> > > 
> > >    I would point for May or July if such is to be done. I am making
> > > myself available to develop contacts, rally support, find a space (I'll
> > > try to go to zero costs) and do necessary local arrangements.
> > > 
> > >    Is this of interest to Fedora? The event itself I was thinking on a
> > > old fashion Linux Install Fest.
> > > 
> > >    Waiting for feedback from the list.
> > > 
> > >     Nelson.  
> > > 
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Nelson,

Actually the Ambassador List would be the place to flush this out. We
actually have a budget for doing things like this and there may be some
Ambassadors near you that could help out.

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