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=== Release event in Vancouver, Washington ===
=== Event in Tripura, India ===


Kevin Higgins reports that the Fedora 11 release event in Vancouver, Washington, was the first Fedora event of any kind there, and the first Linux event in Clark County since June 4th, 2005. Matt McKenzie also reports from the event as well
Shakthi Kannan conducted a Fedora workshop ("GNUtsav") at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala, Tripura, India on July 18-19, 2009.


For more on the event, visit http://crossbytes.wordpress.com/ and http://linuxknight.net/
Shakthi says, "I would like to thank the Fedora project for sponsoring the event.
Special thanks to the student volunteers who worked hard in organizing the event. Mention must be made for the support of the faculty, Prof. Swapan Debbarma, Prof. Anupam Jamatia ("ajnr" on freenode), and Prof. Dwijen Rudrapal."


=== Release event in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia ===
Shakthi's presentation sessions included:
* i-want-2-do-project. tell-me-wat-2-do-fedora.
* Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems
* di-git-ally managing love letters
* Fedora Electronic Lab (demo)
* Packaging RPM -- Red hot, Paneer (butter) Masala


Izhar Firdaus reports that on 4th July 2009, the Fedora Malaysia Team, in collaboration with Saito College held a Fedora 11 Release Event on campus in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Izhar says that they had more than 90 people attend.  
The presentations are available from:
http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads.html


For more on the event, visit http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2009/07/eventreport-fedora-11-release-party-at.html
As customary, here are few photos that Shakthi took during the trip:
 
http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album57
=== Release event in Pune, India ===
 
Nilesh Govande reports that July 5 was a celebration day at Red Hat’s Pune Marigold office — courtesy of the Fedora 11 release. The event was totally informal where the developers and college students had a chance to interact with each other. Attendees asked questions and the answers came from actual contributors of distribution.
 
For more on the event, visit http://www.linuxforu.com/news/its-party-time-at-the-launch-of-fedora-11/


=== Get on the map ===
=== Get on the map ===

Revision as of 13:55, 20 July 2009

Ambassadors

In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].

Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero

Event in Tripura, India

Shakthi Kannan conducted a Fedora workshop ("GNUtsav") at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala, Tripura, India on July 18-19, 2009.

Shakthi says, "I would like to thank the Fedora project for sponsoring the event. Special thanks to the student volunteers who worked hard in organizing the event. Mention must be made for the support of the faculty, Prof. Swapan Debbarma, Prof. Anupam Jamatia ("ajnr" on freenode), and Prof. Dwijen Rudrapal."

Shakthi's presentation sessions included:

  • i-want-2-do-project. tell-me-wat-2-do-fedora.
  • Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems
  • di-git-ally managing love letters
  • Fedora Electronic Lab (demo)
  • Packaging RPM -- Red hot, Paneer (butter) Masala

The presentations are available from: http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads.html

As customary, here are few photos that Shakthi took during the trip: http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album57

Get on the map

Want to find the nearest ambassador? How about one in Romania? Now you can.

Susmit Shannigrahi reports that finding out the nearest ambassadors, which was once a tedious task, is now as simple as viewing a map. The map is at https://fedoraproject.org/membership-map and instructions on how to place yourself on the map can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_ambassadors_map

Get the word out about your F11 event

Fedora 11 was released on Tuesday, June 9, and with it a variety of activities around the release will be forthcoming. As such, with the upcoming release of Fedora 11, this is a reminder that posting your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well.