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Every year, on the last Saturday of October, in Italy there is a national event called “Linux Day” (www.linuxday.it). This year it was the 18th edition. | Every year, on the last Saturday of October, in Italy there is a national event called “Linux Day” (www.linuxday.it). This year it was the 18th edition and it was held on 27 October. | ||
The event is promoted by the Italian Linux Society (www.ils.org), and it is independently organized in many cities all around the country by groups of volunteers, LUGs and various associations. It is probably the biggest Italian event related to Linux an FLOSS, that is directly organized by people involved in the communities and by ordinary users. | The event is promoted by the Italian Linux Society (www.ils.org), and it is independently organized in many cities all around the country by groups of volunteers, LUGs and various associations. It is probably the biggest Italian event related to Linux an FLOSS, that is directly organized by people involved in the communities and by ordinary users. | ||
The aim of such event is to to promote Linux and FLOSS in general: in each city there are many talks, presentations and installation parties. The target audience is not limited to computer enthusiasts, hackers or IT professionals, but | The aim of such event is to to promote Linux and FLOSS in general: in each city there are many talks, presentations and installation parties. The target audience is not limited to computer enthusiasts, hackers or IT professionals, but newbies, students and curious citizens are welcome as well. | ||
As far as we know, this year Fedora was represented by ambassadors and advocates in five events: in Massa Carrara with a talk about Silverblue oriented to ordinary Linux users, in Ivrea (Turin) with a talk titled "Fedora: an up to date distro for everyone" and in Mezzago (Monza) with a talk titled "The three souls of the web in the service of the communities: information, collaboration, innovation". In Rieti and in Cagliari (Sardinia) there were Fedora booths. | As far as we know, this year Fedora was represented by ambassadors and advocates in five events: in Massa Carrara with a talk about Silverblue oriented to ordinary Linux users, in Ivrea (Turin) with a talk titled "Fedora: an up to date distro for everyone" and in Mezzago (Monza) with a talk titled "The three souls of the web in the service of the communities: information, collaboration, innovation". In Rieti and in Cagliari (Sardinia) there were Fedora booths. | ||
Some details from Massa Carrara. | Some details from Massa Carrara. The attendees were mainly long time Linux users using various distributions, and some students. The topic of the talk, Fedora Silverblue, raised some interest, mainly because on the Linux desktop there's been no too many novelties in the last times. On the other side the new kind of Linux distribution was seen as too destabilising in the classical day to day average user workflow. However, the container technology brought to the desktop was seen as an interesting opportunity, and it is true for students looking to learn modern technologies for a future job in the IT field. | ||
The attendees were mainly long time Linux users using various distributions, and some students. The topic of the talk, Fedora Silverblue, raised some interest, mainly because on the Linux desktop there's been no too many novelties in the last times. On the other side the new kind of Linux distribution was seen as too destabilising the classical day to day average user workflow. However, the container technology brought to the desktop was seen as an interesting opportunity, and it is true for students looking to learn modern technologies for a future job in the IT field. | |||
Some details from Ivrea. | Some details from Ivrea. | ||
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What we have learned. | What we have learned. | ||
We know that the Italian Fedora Community as a whole is a little bit | |||
We know that the Italian Fedora Community as a whole is a little bit inactive, compared to some years ago. We know many italian Fedora users, but there is a lack of people with a compelling interest in animating a community. However there are various Italian contributors, but each of us does their work under the hood and not as a local community, in some cases collaborating directly with the international community. | |||
Users sometimes don't care about the possibility to contribute to the project. It seems that students and young people look at a Linux distribution as a product, like a smartphone or a commercial item: if it works it is nice, but if they encounter a problem it is more simple to complain or to switch to another distro. At a first glance, it seems difficult to on-board them as contributors. Many people is not aware that there are many ways to contribute inside a community. | |||
What we can do. | What we can do. | ||
For sure in the near future we can work in order to convince current contributors to head up and participate to events with | |||
For sure in the near future we can work in order to convince current contributors to head up and participate to events with talks ad workshops. | |||
Looking to the next year Linux Day, during the coming 12 months, we could try to invite more people (be they regular users or contributors) to talk about Fedora Project and to organize Fedora booths in more cities. In addition we should fight laziness, and we should try to invite regular user to contribute and look with interest to the community behind the project, and not only to the technology. | |||
Revision as of 10:52, 6 November 2018
Every year, on the last Saturday of October, in Italy there is a national event called “Linux Day” (www.linuxday.it). This year it was the 18th edition and it was held on 27 October. The event is promoted by the Italian Linux Society (www.ils.org), and it is independently organized in many cities all around the country by groups of volunteers, LUGs and various associations. It is probably the biggest Italian event related to Linux an FLOSS, that is directly organized by people involved in the communities and by ordinary users. The aim of such event is to to promote Linux and FLOSS in general: in each city there are many talks, presentations and installation parties. The target audience is not limited to computer enthusiasts, hackers or IT professionals, but newbies, students and curious citizens are welcome as well.
As far as we know, this year Fedora was represented by ambassadors and advocates in five events: in Massa Carrara with a talk about Silverblue oriented to ordinary Linux users, in Ivrea (Turin) with a talk titled "Fedora: an up to date distro for everyone" and in Mezzago (Monza) with a talk titled "The three souls of the web in the service of the communities: information, collaboration, innovation". In Rieti and in Cagliari (Sardinia) there were Fedora booths.
Some details from Massa Carrara. The attendees were mainly long time Linux users using various distributions, and some students. The topic of the talk, Fedora Silverblue, raised some interest, mainly because on the Linux desktop there's been no too many novelties in the last times. On the other side the new kind of Linux distribution was seen as too destabilising in the classical day to day average user workflow. However, the container technology brought to the desktop was seen as an interesting opportunity, and it is true for students looking to learn modern technologies for a future job in the IT field.
Some details from Ivrea. …
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What we have learned.
We know that the Italian Fedora Community as a whole is a little bit inactive, compared to some years ago. We know many italian Fedora users, but there is a lack of people with a compelling interest in animating a community. However there are various Italian contributors, but each of us does their work under the hood and not as a local community, in some cases collaborating directly with the international community. Users sometimes don't care about the possibility to contribute to the project. It seems that students and young people look at a Linux distribution as a product, like a smartphone or a commercial item: if it works it is nice, but if they encounter a problem it is more simple to complain or to switch to another distro. At a first glance, it seems difficult to on-board them as contributors. Many people is not aware that there are many ways to contribute inside a community.
What we can do.
For sure in the near future we can work in order to convince current contributors to head up and participate to events with talks ad workshops. Looking to the next year Linux Day, during the coming 12 months, we could try to invite more people (be they regular users or contributors) to talk about Fedora Project and to organize Fedora booths in more cities. In addition we should fight laziness, and we should try to invite regular user to contribute and look with interest to the community behind the project, and not only to the technology.