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Fedora Past Events - India, Asia, and Australia (India/APJ) : 2009

FY10 Q1 (March 2009 - May 2009)

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance
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 21 Free Software Embedded/Hardware workshop Government Engineering College, Barton Hill, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India ShakthiKannan Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems, Electronic Design Automation tools with Free Software, Fedora Electronic Lab >100
March 25, 2009 Document Freedom Day IlugCalInfo, Kolkata (will update) A.Mani Documentation Tools, Semi Install Fest >75
March 23 - March 29 LUGM OpenWeek MIT, Manipal, India AnkurSinha Introduction to Open source, Install fest F10 etc. See : LUG-Manipal Open Week Event report:: OpenWeek report Photos >100
March 28-29, 2009 UMS Labuan LAMP Training (featuring Fedora) Malaysia University of Sabah, Labuan International Campus, Malaysia Wariola A basic training on Fedora Linux and deploying the LAMP stack. Participant also been taught how to setup Joomla and phpMyAdmin 20
April 2009 WBUT FEST WBUT, Kolkata, India rabikumar Technical Fest on open source. >100
April 9, 2009 Fedora Interactive Know How Session NIT Durgapur, India RangeenBasuRoyChowdhury Follow up session to an install fest 50
April 11, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 10 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
April 18, 2009 Fedora Workshop Kalyani Government Engineering College, India Rohit Gupta Workshop on administrating fedora, install Applications and use them 100-150
April 25, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 10 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
April 24-26, 2009 Enigma:Annual TECH of KITE-SOM Kautilya Institute of Technology & Engineering, Jaipur Udit Sharma Workshop on FOSS & Fedora Install Fest FOSS-nigma WebPage for more details >100

FY10 Q2 (June 2009 - August 2009)

Date Event Location Owner Description Estimated Attendance
August 22, 2009 Fedora/Free Software Workshop ACE Engineering College, Ankushapur, Ghatkesar Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, Andhra Pradesh, India ShakthiKannan shakthimaan.com/downloads.html, i-want-to-do-project.tell-me-wat-2-do-Fedora, Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems, Packaging Red hot, Paneer (butter) Masala >150
July 18-19, 2009 GNUtsav Agartala, Tripura, India ShakthiKannan shakthimaan.com/downloads.html, i-want-to-do-project.tell-me-wat-2-do-Fedora, Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems, Packaging Red hot, Paneer (butter) Masala >150
May 31-June 3, 2009 MSC Open Source Convention 2009 and Fedora Activity Day Berjaya Times Square Hotel & Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Anuar Shahriman Izhar Firdaus A .MY government conference for developers, communities, and public sector. Aims in increasing involvement in Open Source by going deep in the technology and initiating local communities. >600
June 6, 2009 Fedora 11 Release Party Manila, Philippines Magie Engels Herson >100
June 6, 2009 Fedora 11 Release Event Kolkata, India A.Mani >15
June 7, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 10 Distribution Tokyo, Japan David Ramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
June 3, 2009 Manipur Fedora 11 Release Event Manipur Central University, Imphal, Manipur Rishikesh Sharma Fedora 11 Release event and Installation Fest 2009 >200
June 11/12, 2009 Introducing FOSS & Fedora 11 install fest Wilgamuwa, Sri Lanka Danishka Navin Introducing FOSS to school schildren and Fedora 11 install fest >100
June 12, 2009 Fedora 11 Release Event Hanoi, Vietnam Truong Anh Tuan See details on iWay website >40
June 21, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan David Ramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
June 29/30, 2009 Fedora 11 release + teachers training Galle, Sri Lanka Danishka Navin Fedora 11 launch and Fedora Edu Spin and hand on training 100
July 5, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan David Ramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
July 18-19, 2009 NIT Agartala GNU/Linux Fest & Fedora 11 Release Party NIT Agartala, Agartala, India Aveek Sen Linux & FOSS fest- installation fest, talks & workshops over 2 days see NIT Agartala GLUG] >1000 over the 2 days
July 19, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan David Ramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
August 2, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan David Ramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
August 10, 2009 Introduction to FOSS, Linux and Fedora Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India Debjit,Aditya Blog Entry >100
August 11, 2009 Fedora Install Fest Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India Debjit ,Aditya Blog Entry >100
August 16, 2009 Understanding Fedora : General usage and advance topics Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India Debjit,Aditya Blog Entry >70
August 16, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan David Ramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
August 23, 2009 Introduction to fedora,Fedora electric lab and fedora 11 release party Thanjavur,Tamilnadu ,India Pankaj, Anurag Jain, Sanjeev Gopinath V SASTRA University,Thanjavur,Tamilnadu ,India >150
August 27, 2009 Introducing fedora as Powerful OS for students Government Engineering College, Modasa, India Zaid Chauhan "Modas City" "Government Engineering College, Modasa" >200
August 30, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution Tokyo, Japan David Ramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100