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Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero
Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero


=== Fedora stars at Flisol Caracas ===
=== Fedora stars in Trenton ===


As reported by event organizer Maria Leandro, Flisol Caracas was held recently, with an estimated attendance of 1,700 people, including 100 installers, 15 protocol and 15 sponsors. The Fedora team had a hard day with eight conferences and 12 workshops; as well as the first National tournament
Kam Salisbury reports that the Trenton Computer Festival (TCF) held in New Jersey USA was a moderate sucess from the Fedora Ambassador activity perspective.
of UrbanTerror (a freeware game) and a gpg key sign fest. At the closing, players had the StarWars Club (Darth Vader and one StormTrooper) hovering around with the guys.


Fedora Venezuela installed a lot of machines and gave out 300 LiveDVDs, 50 bubble stickers and 50 vinyl stickers; and the users were really happy with this. Pablo Hernandez (paceh) gave a workshop about Fedora-USB installations and Maria gave a Conference about the Fedora Community in Venezuela, and found a lot of new users.
Held every April, TCF brings together electronics enthusiasts of all types. On April 25-26, TCF allowed Fedora to be represented with the Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- PLUG http://phillylinux.org -- and the New Jersey Linux Users Group -- NJLUG http://www.njlug.org. Well over 100 people stopped by the exposition tabels to inquire about Fedora or Linux in general.


Maria also want to say that we had two major interviews, one on national radio and another on national TV (Globovision) and in both of them, Fedora was the center of attention.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tatadbb/sets/72157615817707690/
 
=== Fedora at FOSS-nigma workshop ===
 
Anirudh Singh Shekhawat reports on the first ever Linux Users Group Jaipur workshop called as FOSS-nigma, which was held at Kautilya Institute of Technology in India on April 26. Among the activities at FOSS-nigma were a FOSS talk session and a Fedora installfest, specifically:
 
* Introduction to FOSS by Varad Gupta,  the first RHCSS in India, an active contributor to the community who also runs a linux training academy in Delhi called Fostering Linux.  


Next year Maria will be the National Organizer and she hopes to set up the first Fedora Venezuela General Meeting with all the Fedora users in the country. Meanwhile, the Fedoristas have some workshops at several universities, some stands at national conferences (3 stands) and a
* Fedora Project by Anirudh Singh Shekhawat, Fedora ambassador and 3rd year student. Anirudh talked about installation and ease of use on desktops. Anirudh also touched on people getting involved in the community and help them give ways to contribute back to the community.
special "B-day" for our community.


These are some of the photos... but I'm still waiting for more, and the video of the TV appearance:
On the Fedora Install fest, 100 Fedora CDs and DVDs were made available and a demonstration using a projector was performed, showing the ease of installation of Fedora 10. Thanks go out to Mr. Rahul Sundaram and to Mr. Susmit who graciously sent us the media.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/tatadbb/sets/72157615817707690/
=== Fedora 11 release events ===
 
With the upcoming release of Fedora 11, 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).


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Ambassadors

In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project.

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Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero

Fedora stars in Trenton

Kam Salisbury reports that the Trenton Computer Festival (TCF) held in New Jersey USA was a moderate sucess from the Fedora Ambassador activity perspective.

Held every April, TCF brings together electronics enthusiasts of all types. On April 25-26, TCF allowed Fedora to be represented with the Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- PLUG http://phillylinux.org -- and the New Jersey Linux Users Group -- NJLUG http://www.njlug.org. Well over 100 people stopped by the exposition tabels to inquire about Fedora or Linux in general.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tatadbb/sets/72157615817707690/

Fedora at FOSS-nigma workshop

Anirudh Singh Shekhawat reports on the first ever Linux Users Group Jaipur workshop called as FOSS-nigma, which was held at Kautilya Institute of Technology in India on April 26. Among the activities at FOSS-nigma were a FOSS talk session and a Fedora installfest, specifically:

  • Introduction to FOSS by Varad Gupta, the first RHCSS in India, an active contributor to the community who also runs a linux training academy in Delhi called Fostering Linux.
  • Fedora Project by Anirudh Singh Shekhawat, Fedora ambassador and 3rd year student. Anirudh talked about installation and ease of use on desktops. Anirudh also touched on people getting involved in the community and help them give ways to contribute back to the community.

On the Fedora Install fest, 100 Fedora CDs and DVDs were made available and a demonstration using a projector was performed, showing the ease of installation of Fedora 10. Thanks go out to Mr. Rahul Sundaram and to Mr. Susmit who graciously sent us the media.

Fedora 11 release events

With the upcoming release of Fedora 11, 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).


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.