Past Events 2008

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Fedora Past Events: 2008

Date	Name of Event	Location and Short Description	Ambassador	How'd it go?	Attendance
January 28, 2008	linux.conf.au	Melbourne, Australia Part of linux.conf.au 2008	EugeneTeo	See LCA/Melbourne2008 for status
January 29-31, 2008	Linux Solutions	Paris, France	ThomasCanniot	Status soon
February 8-10, 2008	SCALE 6X	Los Angeles, CA, USA - 6th Annual Southern California Linux Expo	ThomasChung	See SCALE 6X
February 9, 2008	BarCamp Indianapolis	Indianapolis, IN USA	PascalCalarco	See Bar Camp Indy for status
February 11, 2008	Florida Linux Show	Jacksonville, Florida	JackAboutboul	Booth
February 19, 2008	Fedora by Night	Lodi, Italy How does a Linux community based distribution live and grow.	FrancescoCrippa	Fedora by Night
February 23-24 2008	FOSDEM	Brussel, Belgium	FredericHornain	See FOSDEM2008 for status
March 1-2, 2008	Chemnitzer LinuxTage 2008	Chemnitz, Germany	JensKuehnel JoergSimon RobertScheck	Report and pictures
March 12-13, 2008	OpenExpo 2008	Berne, Switzerland A 2-day Expo about Open Source Software in business area as application, service or further development.	FabianAffolter	See OpenExpo2008_Berne for status
March 14-16, 2008	PyCon	Chicago, IL	TomCallaway MikeMcGrath ToshioKuratomi	Booth, attending talks
March 21-22, 2008	FOSSComm Greece	Athens, Greece	DimitrisGlezos	Presenting, giving away media
April 1-3, 2008	FOSE	Washington, DC	PaulFrields	booth, networking
April 4-6, 2008	NOTACON 5	Cleveland, OH	JasonFenner	event report
April 17-19, 2008	FISL	Porto Alegre, Brazil	RodrigoPadula	See FISL 9.0 for status
April 19, 2008	Fedora day	Cairo, Egypt	DiaaRadwan	Event Report
April 19, 2008	liberaMENTE	Opera, Italy	FrancescoCrippa, LucaFoppiano	-
April 26-27, 2008	LinuxFest Northwest 2008	Bellingham, WA	JesseKeating	booth, talks	-
April 26, 2008	FLISOL 2008	Latin America	RodrigoPadula	See FLISOL 2008 for status	-
April 29, 2008	Fedora 9 Release Event at Concordia and McGill University	Concordia and !McGill University, Montreal, Canada	RashadulIslam	Presentation of Fedora and F9 Release, Talks, Social, Free Foods, Drinks	-
May 02-04, 2008	II ENSOL	João Pessoa, Brazil	RodrigoPadula	See II ENSOL for status	-
May 3, 2008	Utah Fedora/Ubuntu Release Party	Code Greene, SLC, Utah	ClintSavage	presentations, food, games, installfest	-
May 5, 2008	CommunityOne	San Francisco, CA	KarstenWade	FOSS community panel	-
May 10, 2008	Fedora 9 Presentation	Tunis, Tunisia	ChihebChabchoub NihedMbarek ZiedFakhfakh	Poster Photo	-
May 13, 2008	North Italy F9 Release Party	Lodi, Italy	LucaFoppiano	OfficialPage	-
May 13, 2008	Toronto Release Party	Toronto ON	AndrewOverholt	Confirmed - see event link	-
May 15, 2008	Central Ohio Release Party	Columbus, OH	JeffreyTadlock BrianPepple	Details Here	-
May 17, 2008	Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts Installfest	Emory School of Law, Atlanta, GA	DavidNalley	talks, installfest	-
May 17, 2008	Patras F9 Release Party	Patras, Greece	DimitrisGlezos	Poster	-
May 16, 2008	Bangladesh Release Party	Dhaka, Bangladesh	MahayAlamKhan	Details Coming Soon	-
May 23, 2008	Los Angeles Release Party	Los Angeles, CA	GradyLaksmono	Free DVD, Free Live CD, USB Creation Station, Presentation, Discussion, Talks, Social, Funs, Free Foods, Drinks Event has been fully funded.	-
May 24, 2008	Rome F9 Release Party	Rome, Italy	MarcoPalazzotti	OfficialPage Event has been fully funded.	-
May 31, 2008	Center Italy F9 Release Party	Florence, Italy	LorenzoVillani	OfficialPage Event has been fully funded.	-
May 28-29, 2008	COMUNICAÇÃO DIGITAL	João Pessoa, Brazil	GutembergMedeiros, AllissonAzevedo	Presentation of Fedora 9, Installfest, Free DVD, Free Live CD, USB Creation Station, Talks, Social. No additional funding planned.	+400
May 28-31, 2008	LinuxTag	Berlin, Germany	GeroldKassube FabianAffolter	See LinuxTag 2008 for status. Event is funded by CommunityArchitecture.	11,000
May 30-31, 2008	ESLAM	Manaus, Brazil	RodrigoPadula , AyrtonAraujo	See ESLAM 2008 for status . Funding in process of being sent to RodrigoPadula.	2000
June 1, 2008	Fedora Day	Garlasco, Italy	AndreaModestoRossi	See TiLUG for Status	50 - 100
June 1, 2008	FOD	Cracow, Poland	PawelSadowski	Finalizing tasks	100-140
June 1, 2008	Fedora Day	Garlasco, Italy	AndreaModestoRossi	See TiLUG for Status	50 - 100
June 1, 2008	FOD	Cracow, Poland	PawelSadowski	Finalizing tasks	100-140
June 7, 2008	Fedora 9 Release Install Party	Arlon, Belgium	JonathanBasse	Status soon	-
June 9, 2008	Fedora Release Party	Kathmandu, Nepal	ShankarPokharel	Presentation of Fedora 9, Free DVD, Talks, Social, Free Foods, Drinks	50
June 15, 2008	Tech Day, OpenSuorce & Fedora	Pavia, Italy	AndreaModestoRossi	Talks, Install Party, ...	50 - 75
June 19-21, 2008	FUDCon Boston 2008	Boston, MA	MaxSpevack, PaulFrields, GregDeKoenigsberg	See FUDConF10 for status.	200
June 21, 2008	Fedora 9 Release Install Party	Paris, France	ThomasCanniot	Event has been fully funded out of Q1 budget.	75 - 100
June 23-29, 2008	Campus Party Colombia	Bogota - Colombia	Juan Camilo Prada	-	-
July 04, 2008	Events/Lindependence 2008	Felton, CA USA	Karsten Wade, Larry Cafiero	Conversion of businesses to Linux en masse	-
July 1-5, 2008	Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre (RMLL)	Mont-de-Marsant, France	ThomasCanniot	Status soon	-
July 5-11, 2008	Eth0: 7 Days of high-tech geekfest	Den Oever, Netherlands	YaakovNemoy	talks, hacking, gaming, VJ' and DJ'ing, OSS, Embedded. See eth-0 2008	80-150
July 7-12, 2008	GUADEC	Istanbul, Turkey	JonathanBlandford	talks, swag, etc.	-
July 19-20, 2008	LUG Radio Live	UK	MaxSpevack	Small RH and Fedora presence	-
July 21-25, 2008	OSCON2008	Portland, OR USA	JackAboutboul	Talks, Booth and BoF. Swag sent to JohnPoelstra May 10.	-
July 23-26, 2008	Linux Symposium	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	TomCallaway	MattDomsch presenting MirrorManager, JesseKeating presenting spin creation, TomCallaway leading Fedora BOF	700
July 25-27, 2008	LTSP Hackfest	Portland, Oregon	WarrenTogami	Event is currently in planning, might visit free parts of OSCon as well	-
July 28-31, 2008	XVI ENECOMP	Campina Grande - PB, Brazil	GutembergMedeiros	See ENECOMP for status	900
August 1-3 2008	Mukt.in	Hyderabad	SiddharthUpmanyu	"mukt is derived from the word mukti, meaning the experience of being free from bondage."	Large
August 4-7, 2008	LinuxWorld Expo	San Francisco, CA	JackAboutboul	Booth and BoF	-
August 23-24, 2008	FrOSCon 2008	Sankt Augustin, NRW, Germany	Max Spevack & Robert M. Albrecht	FrOSCon is a two-day conference on free software and open source. See FrOSCon2008.	1100+
August 26-30, 2008	CESOL	Fortaleza, Brazil	RodrigoPadula	See CESOL for status	-
August 27 2008	NIE School Teachers Workshop	Colombo	DanishkaNavin	See planning page	Medium
August 28-29 2008	TechTrix '08	Kolkata	SusmitShannigrahi	Tech Fest of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata. Will update details soon.	Medium
August 28-30, 2008	UTOSC2008	Salt Lake City, Utah	ClintSavage	See UTOSC2008 for updates	350+
September 5-7, 2008	FUDCon Brno	Brno, Czech Republic	MaxSpevack	status and registration	200
September 6, 2008	CONSUDEC Ch	Chascomus, Argentina	Pablobarrera	Confirmed	100
September 10 2008	FOSS for teachers	NIE, Sri Lanka	DanishkaNavin	See here for status	Medium
September 10, 2008	Fedora Docs Presentation	Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC	David Nalley	Invite from school to present Fedora, and specifically the docs project and possibly to involve the tech support classes in writing documentation for fp.o. Would like tshirts, stickers, LiveCDs, and perhaps an XO to show off.	~20
September 12-13-14, 2008	Fête de l'humanité 2008	Paris, France	Quentindumont	See Fête de l'humanité 2008 for status	-
September 12,13 2008	FOSS for teachers	Marawila, Sri Lanka	DanishkaNavin	See here for status	Medium
September 14, 2008	Charleston Linux Demo Days	Charleston, SC	David Nalley	Linux demonstration and conference being held in Charleston	50
September 19, 2008	Benedict College	Columbia SC	DavidNalley	Small presentation to comp sci students hoping to recruit still VERY tentative	25-75
September 20, 2008	Atlanta Linux Fest	Atlanta, GA	David Nalley	Installfest/one day conference	~100?
September 20 2008	SFD '2008	Kolkata	A. Mani	SFD, Kolkata Team: ILUG-CALINFO. See [1] We have a Fedora session too	Medium
20 September 2008	Software Freedom Day	Quezon City, Philippines	EngelsAntonio, MagieAntonio, HehersonPagcaliwagan	See SFD2008 for status	400
September 20, 2008	SFD2008	Managua, Nicaragua	Neville Cross	See Team Nicaragua for status	500
September 20, 2008	SFD	Salvador, Brazil	Rafaelgomes	See [SFD] for status	200
September 24-25, 2008	OpenExpo 2008	Zurich, Switzerland	FabianAffolter	A 2-day Expo about Open Source Software in business area as application, service or further development. See OpenExpo2008_Zurich for status	1,200
September 24-26 2008	[FSLCN 2008]	Roraima, Brazil	RodrigoPadula	See FSLCN 2008 for status	1200
September 24-25, 2008	Paris Capitale du Libre 2008	Paris, France	ThomasCanniot	See PCL2008_Paris for status	3,000 (last year figures)
26-28 September 2008	AXIS'08	Nagpur, India	SusmitShannigrahi	Install fest, followed by workshops. For more see here	~100
September 27-28, 2008	Fedora Campaign	Kasseh, GHANA	User:Tymensk	Introducing and demonstrating fedora to the people. Talks on free and open source software	200+
October 3, 2008	SWU	Central, SC	DavidNalley	Small comp sci (OO programming) presentation hopefully pushing students to get involved.	25-50
October 4, 2008	RocGeeks	Rochester, NY	KarlieRobinson	Showing the Laptop.org XO to a SIG consisting of Computer geeks, techies, gadget enthusiasts. Will be talking about running Fedora on the XO	9-14		[Report]
October 6-7, 2008	Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2008	Norman, OK	SantoshKumar	7th Annual Supercomputing Symposium, which brings in Scientists, Researchers & Enthusiasts from across the US	150+
October 11, 2008	Ohio Linux Fest	Columbus, OH	JeffreyTadlock	planning page	1000+		[Report]
October 9-13 2008	UofSMarywood University	Scranton, PA	LeoJackson	Introducing Fedora, Install Party, Media Distribution, Open Source Show & Tell, QA	380+		[Report]
October 19, 2008	Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference	Harrisburg, PA	YaakovNemoy	GregDeKoenigsberg, KarlieRobinson, and BrianPowell are slotted to attend	-		[Report]
October 19, 2008	Virginia Tech Linux Unix Users Group Installfest	Blacksburg Virginia	jbwillia	Fall Semister InstallFest	50?		[Report]
October 23-24, 2008	Free Software & Open Source Symposium (FSOSS)	Toronto, Canada	ChrisTyler	Canadian open source conference - Paul W. Frields, Greg DeKoenigsberg, and other Fedorans slated to attend - An Open Source in Education track is being planned	350
October 25, 2008	Ontario Linux Fest	Toronto, Canada	AndrewOverholt	Paul W. Frields attending. Behdad Esfahbod and Deepak Bhole hosting booth. Greg DeKoenigsberg speaking.	Hundreds?
October 25, 2008	Lindependence Day 2008	Portland, OR	Larry Cafiero	Installfest, evangelism expo, Larry Cafiero and Matt McKenzie representing Fedora so far	100+
October ?? 2008	College of Charleston	Charleston, SC	David Nalley	Installfest - Linux presentations - perhaps recruiting a campus rep, date not firmly set	- 100
October 3-4 2008	Encontro DF 2008	Brasília, Brazil	RodrigoPadula	See Encontro DF 2008 for status	1500
October 2-4 2008	Festival GNU 2008	Chihuahua, México	AlejandroAcosta	Conferences about GNU/Linux participating representatives from FSF, Ubuntu, Fedora, among others, more details to be added as arrived	800
October 8-11 2008	Latinux Expo & Conferencias 2008	Caracas, Venezuela	MariaLeandro	See Latinux Expo & Conferencias 2008 for status	3000
October ??, 2008	Encuentro Linux	Concepción, Chile	ArturoHoffstadt	See Encuentro Linux 2008 for status	1000
October 11, 2008	III Linux Day	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	RodrigoPadula	Conference about GNU/Linux participating representatives from Fedora	200
October 21-23, 2008	IV Semana de Informática	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	RodrigoPadula	Conference about GNU/Linux participating representatives from Fedora	100
November ??, 2008	Latinoware 2008	Fóz do Iguaçu, Brazil	RodrigoPadula	See Latinoware 2008 for status	3000
October 13-19 2008	Athens Digital Week	Athens, Greece	DimitrisGlezos	Huge informatics event in Athens	50K?
October 18	Linuxinfotag Landau 2008	Landau, germany	Henrik Heigl	small Linux presentation and smalltalk event	100
October 19-23, 2008	GITEX	Dubai, UAE	JohnBabich	status and registration	130K
October 25-26, 2008	T-DOSE	Eindhoven, The Netherlands	None Yet	None Yet	-
October 25, 2008	Linuxday 2008	Italy	LucaFoppiano, GianlucaVarisco, FrancescoCrippa, LorenzoVillani, AndreaModestoRossi, FrancescoUgolini, MarcoPalazzotti	Italian Linux day is a distribuited event: during all the day there will be about 100 events orgranized all around the county	100 up to 3000 people per event
29 October 2008	SFD 2008	Tunis, Tunisia	ChihebChabchoub, NihedMbarek, WaelAmmar, ZiedFakhfakh	planning page	1,500
Oct 2008 or Nov 2008	FOSS Introduction Day	Singapore	Jason Benedict Low	"Where Piracy meets Fedora and FOSS!" "More software licensing ? It's time for choices !"	est.20
27-30 October 2008	HITBSecConf 08	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	ShahrimanSamsudin	One of the largest security conference being held in Asia Pasific Region. It's good chance to promote Fedora security/infrastructure features etcx3. Some Free Live CD or DVD required (200-300)	2000