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Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero
Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero


=== FAD, Fedora booth at SCaLE a success ===
=== RIT pitches in on OLPC project ===


Fedora Ambassadors hosted a Fedora Activity Day <ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_at_SCaLE_7x</ref> at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE)<ref>http://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/</ref> as part of the many events at the expo. The FAD took place on Friday, February 20th at the Westin Airport Los Angeles, where a group of between 12 to 20 people worked on both font packaging and documentation. Not only did a significant amount of work get done, but it was great to have a face-to-face meeting with people who, on a daily basis, you are in contact with via IRC or by e-mail.
The Fedora OLPC project seems to have found a friend at Rochester Institute of Technology[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rochester,_NY]. Fedora Ambassador Karlie Robinson contacted RIT professor Stephen Jacobs and discussed the project, which spurred Jacobs' interest in doing a class around the XO.


One sensation at the expo was the Fedora kids who walked around the show floor, dressed in Fedora shirts chanting about Fedora; they were Malakai and Saskia Wade (daughters of Karsten Wade), Shaun Savage (son of Clint Savage), and Mirano Cafiero (daughter of Larry Cafiero). Also, the Fedora booth had XOs on hand for demonstration, and the fact the kids were also using them brought the attention of the general public and the press covering the event.
Robinson brought Jacobs up to speed on what Fedora is doing around the XO[https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2009-February/msg00033.html], where Fedora is providing XOs to those who will do development work. The deal revolved around getting XOs for Jacobs classroom in exchange for the RIT students working on Greg DeKoenigsberg's 4th Grade Math project[http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Gdk/4th_Grade_Maths].


Clint Savage made a presentation on Fedora Remix on Saturday, which was well attended. Several media outlets, including a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News, visited the booth and interviewed Karsten Wade.
So RIT students got XOs and the project got some more help.
 
A few hundred disks and other items of swag were handed out and many contacts were made for upcoming presentations about Fedora at LUGs throughout California in the next few months.
 
Thanks to all those who attended FAD and who helped in the booth at SCaLE.
 
Here are reports from the FAD and from the Southern California Linux Expo:
 
'''Larry Cafiero'''
* http://larrythefedoraguy.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/road-trip-of-the-penguins-part-1/
* http://larrythefedoraguy.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/road-trip-of-the-penguins-part-1a/
* http://larrythefedoraguy.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/road-trip-of-the-penguins-chapter-2/
* http://larrythefedoraguy.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/road-trip-of-the-penguins-part-2b/
* http://larrythefedoraguy.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/road-trip-of-the-penguins-chapter-3/
* http://larrythefedoraguy.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/road-trip-of-the-penguins-epilogue/
'''Karsten Wade'''
* http://iquaid.org/2009/02/21/its-more-than-a-passing-fad-the-good/
* http://iquaid.org/2009/02/23/its-more-than-a-passing-fad-the-bad/
* http://iquaid.org/2009/02/21/its-more-than-a-passing-fad-the-ugly/ (coming soon)
'''Clint Savage'''
* http://www.thebitsource.com/2009/02/28/scale-7x-clint-savage-of-fedora-project-on-spinning-your-own-linux-livecd/
* http://sexysexypenguins.com/2009/02/22/in-reply-to-larry-cafiero-about-swag/
* http://sexysexypenguins.com/2009/02/23/scale-7x-improving-the-fedora-remix-presentation/
'''Jon Stanley'''
* http://jons-thoughts.blogspot.com/2009/02/scale-fad.html
'''Joseph Smidt'''
* http://californiaquantum.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/good-week-first-package-scale-olpc/
'''References'''
<references/>


=== Fedora installed by users at KGEC ===
=== Fedora installed by users at KGEC ===

Revision as of 05:42, 9 March 2009

Ambassadors

In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors

Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero

RIT pitches in on OLPC project

The Fedora OLPC project seems to have found a friend at Rochester Institute of Technology[1]. Fedora Ambassador Karlie Robinson contacted RIT professor Stephen Jacobs and discussed the project, which spurred Jacobs' interest in doing a class around the XO.

Robinson brought Jacobs up to speed on what Fedora is doing around the XO[2], where Fedora is providing XOs to those who will do development work. The deal revolved around getting XOs for Jacobs classroom in exchange for the RIT students working on Greg DeKoenigsberg's 4th Grade Math project[3].

So RIT students got XOs and the project got some more help.

Fedora installed by users at KGEC

Kalyani Government Engineering College (KGEC) in on the Kalyani University Campus Kalyani in West Bengal, India, has quite a large base of students interested in Linux, and an event [1] took place on Feb. 21.

This install fest is a starting point for spreading the use Linux and Fedora was the distro used in the install fest. Around 150 students were shown how to install and administer Fedora system and were helped to get Fedora installed on their systems.

Reports can be found here:

Fedora at Sam Houston State University

Adam Miller gave his first tech talk as a Fedora Ambassador, presenting to the student organization at Sam Houston State University's "Sam Houston Association for Computer Scientist" (SHACS for short). Adam introduced his fellow classmates to the wonders of Free/Open Source Software, Linux, and most notably, Fedora.

For a full report:

Got Ambassador News?

Any Ambassador news tips from around the Fedora community can be submitted to me by e-mailing lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org and I'd be glad to put it in this weekly report.

  1. ↑ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/KGEC_Install_Fest
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