Idea and Possible Event in Aveiro, Portugal

Tue Mar 2 17:11:14 UTC 2010

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 01:52 -0300, Rodrigo Padula wrote:
> Hi Nelson,
> 
> I'm from Brasil.
> 
> I would like to help you and the Portuguese community to grow!

 Thanks.

> Please, keep me in touch and the Brazilian guys can help you on all that
> you need in BR portuguese language :-)

 As you are aware, we use PT_PT. Thanks for the offer.

> 
> We tried last year to help some people from Portugal, but the community
> did not received good efforts in your contry last years.

 I know. The first generation of people are well in life, scattered
through strategical positions in our major ISPs and Telecommunications
companies. I'm counting with their support on this. I've contacted some
of the old school people, and they are receptive. I'm expecting to
receive a couple of headstrong people who will mobilize the young people
for sure.

 This will be aimed for over 1000 local IT Professionals. And through my
Institute I can hit the entire local Industry, as we have protocols with
all the major corporation in the district.

 In addition I plan to do an honor to one of the community members that
died last year. He was the founder of Startux, the largest community
project ever in Portugal, amongst other projects. He was also one of the
highest contributors of POLI, the first Portuguese Documentation
Project.

> 
> I would like to schedule a meeting with you and Portuguese ambassadors
> to discuss about some strategies for you country. 

I'm planning to take this to EMEA and accept Gerold's offer to help on
this. You are welcome as always, but I'm not changing the original
Guidelines of this. This event is also a Marketing driven event in where
I want to show a couple of things to my Institute.

> 
> See you my brother!!
> 
> 
> Em Sáb, 2010-02-27 às 16:44 +0000, Nelson Marques escreveu:
> > 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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