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


Kalyani Govt. Engineering College (KGEC) has quite a large base of students interested in Linux, and <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/KGEC_Install_Fest an event</ref> 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:
Kalyani Govt. 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 <ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/KGEC_Install_Fest</ref> took place on Feb. 21.


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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:
* Arindam Ghosh -- http://arindamghosh.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/kgec-fad/
* Subhodip Biswas -- http://subhodipbiswas.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/install-fest-kgec/ 
* Ratnadeep Debnath -- http://ratnadeepdebnath.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/what-an-install-fest-in-kalyani-govt-engg-college-o/
* Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury -- http://sherry151.blogspot.com/2009/02/not-just-another-install-fest.html


=== Got Ambassador News? ===
=== 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.
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.

Revision as of 21:21, 1 March 2009

Ambassadors

In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors

Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero

FAD, Fedora booth at SCaLE a success

Fedora Ambassadors hosted a Fedora Activity Day [1] at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE)[2] 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.

More to follow about Fedora kids, herlo presentation, other presentations.

Here are reports from the FAD and from the Southern California Linux Expo:

Larry Cafiero

Karsten Wade

Clint Savage

Jon Stanley

Joseph Smidt

References

Fedora installed by users at KGEC

Kalyani Govt. 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:

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.