Past Events 2009 NA

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Fedora Past Events - North America (NA) : 2009

FY10 Q1 (March 2009 - May 2009)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance
March 5-7, 2009	Computer Using Educators	Palm Springs, CA, USA	Karsten Wade	We were approved for a panel discussion
March 9, 2009	Florida Linux Show	Jacksonville, FL, USA	David Nalley	Working on getting a booth, presentation already submitted and a speaker slot acquired.	~300 last year
March 10-12, 2009	FOSE 09	Washington, DC, USA	Paul W. Frields	Tentative - Work with NoVaLUG/Tux.org at booth. No speaker slots available for .org projects.	10,000+
March 12-14, 2009	OSIDays 2009	Chennai Trade Center Chennai,India	Balaji Gurudass	Introduction to Fedora,Prominent Features of Fedora and How to contribute to Fedora	>200
March 26, 2009	Infotech Niagara Beta Awards	Buffalo, NY, USA	Brian Powell	Fedora / OLPC Booth (possible presentation on OLPC project)	500+
March 27-29, 2009	PyCon	Chicago, IL, USA	Tom "spot" Callaway	Fedora / OLPC Booth	1000
April 4, 2009	LUG@GT: Georgia Tech Linux Users Group	Atlanta, GA USA	Scott McBrien	Manning a table at an installfest	~30
April 15, 2009	NYLUG: New York Linux Users Group	New York, NY USA	Jon Stanley	Giving a talk on building a Remix	~50
April 18, 2009	Bar Camp Rochester 4	Rochester, NY USA	Karlie Robinson	One Laptop Per Child XO Laptop History and mission. I'll also cover how to get an XO by getting involved locally and Internationally through the Fedora Project. Brian Powell also attending Link	50+
April 18, 2009	Palmetto Open Source Software Conferenece	Columbia, SC, USA	David Nalley	Second year conference. Currently GDK has a speaking slot, and ke4qqq is slotted to participate in one of the roundtable discussions.	150
April 25, 2009	Trenton Computer Festival	Ewing, NJ, USA	Kam Salisbury	Staffing an exhibitor booth with PLUG.	500+ last year
April 25-26, 2009	LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW) 2009	Bellingham, WA, USA	Larry Cafiero	Fedora Activity Day and a booth for the fest.	~500-600 in 2008

FY10 Q2 (June 2009 - August 2009)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Event Box?	Report Links
TBA	FAD Fedora Devel 2009	Raleigh, NC	User:Jkeating	Engineering-heavy workshops for development cycle brainstorming	10+	No
13 June	Southeast Linuxfest	Clemson University, Clemson, SC	David Nalley, Ben Williams (attending)	New Linuxfest filling the gap left by the Atlanta Linux Showcase when it went to the west coast and became Linuxworld.	350-450	Yes	http://jbwillia.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/self-2009/
14 June	Docs FAD at SELF	Clemson University, Clemson, SC	David Nalley	Docs FAD following SELF	10 or so	No
17 - 19 June	Open Source Bridge 2009	Oregon Convention Center, Portland OR	Matt McKenzie, Larry Cafiero, John Poelstra (on conference marketing team--able to help locally as needed)	New Open Source conference, filling gap left by OSCON for Portland area	500	???	Decided not to have a Fedora presence at the conference because of cost and last minute arrangements required
28 June - 01 July	National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) (NECC_2009)	Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC	??? (Regional help needed + budget, or may not do show)	Biggest edtech show, has dedicated open source pavilion with large number (100?+) K12Linux thin clients and dedicated open source track	Yes	???
13 - 17 July	Montreal Linux Symposium	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	jfsaucier	Montreal Linux Symposium 2009	~700	Maybe	To follow
20 - 25 July	OSCON 2009	San Jose, CA	User:Lcafiero,User:Kwade	O'Reilly's open source everything convention	3,600