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Fedora Past Events EMEA: 2009
FY10 Q1 (March 2009 - May 2009)
| Date | Event | Location | Owner | Description | Estimated Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-03-03/08 | Cebit | Hannover, Germany | Robert M. Albrecht | Cebit 2009 | 450,000 |
| 2009-03-13/-15 | Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2009 | Chemnitz, Germany | JoergSimon | The Chemnitzer Linux-days are an event for everyone about Linux and open source. See Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2009 |
3,000 |
| 25th March | Document Freedom Day | Opera, Italy | GianlucaVarisco, LucaFoppiano | Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general. | - |
| 31st March, 1st, 2nd April | Linux Solutions | Paris, France |
- | Solution Linux 2009 | 10,000 |
| 2009-04-01/-02 | OpenExpo 2009 | Berne, Switzerland | FabianAffolter | OpenExpo, the Swiss conference and trade show for Free and Open Source Software, takes place for for two days at Berne. See OpenExpo 2009 |
1,200 |
| 2009-04-19/22 | Red Hat EMEA Partner Summit | Malta | - | No Fedora booth! Fedora contributors' attendees list at Red_Hat_EMEA_Partner_Summit_2009 | - |
| 2009-04-27 | FOSS Lightning Talks | Stockholm, Sweden | Nordickiwi | Computer Society of Sweden, Open Source network meeting -Fedora 11 Preview presentation | 30 |
| 26 - 30 April 2009 | UNIX Base System Exhibition | Khartoum, Sudan | Hisham Abdel-Magid | Technical Fest on open source at University of Khartoum. | Open |
| 16 May 2009 | Fedora Install Fest | Nairobi, Kenya | Arthur Buliva | Technical and Install Fest on Fedora. | Open |
| 8 - 9 May 2009 | Journees du Libre | Brussels, Belgium | FredericHornain | FOSS Event targeted on Business, local Government | 100 |
| 9 - 10 May 2009 | FossComm 2 | Larissa, Greece | PierrosPapadeas | FossComm, the annual gathering of Greek FOSS Communities | 1,000 |
| 22 - 23 May 2009 | eLiberatica | Bucharest, Romania | JeroenVanMeeuwen, NicuBuculei, JoergSimon | FOSS Event targeted on Business and Government | - |
FY10 Q2 (June 2009 - August 2009)
| Date | Event | Location | Owner | Description | Estimated Attendance | Report links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-06-03/-05 | LinuxDays 2009 | Geneva, Switzerland | - | - | unkown | |
| 2009-06-12 | Fedora 11 Release Party | Wageningen, Netherlands | Yaakov M. Nemoy or Alex C | Fedora 11 Release Party Wageningen | 15 | |
| June 23-27 | LinuxTag | Berlin, Germany | GeroldKassube FabianAffolter |
See LinuxTag2009 for status. | 11,000 | |
| June 26-28 | FUDConBerlin2009 | Berlin, Germany | MaxSpevack | The annual EMEA FUDCon | 200 | |
| June 27-28 | Fedora 11 Release Party | Paris, France | Nicolas Chauvet | See Release_Party_F11_Paris for status | (?) | |
| July 4-5 | CAT H4ck3rZ Duo | Mansoura, Egypt | Ahmed Soliman Mohamed Al-Maraghy | A two days event in Mansoura University, arranged by CAT-H4ck3rZ Team [[1]] | 200 | see Event Photos |
| July 7-11 | RMLL 2009 | Nantes, France | Quentin Dumont Armel Kermorvant |
See Rencontres_Mondiales_du_Logiciel_Libre_2009. | (?) | |
| July 21-23 | [Forum.net] | Yaounde, Cameroon | user:ahandajf | Annual ICT Exibit | 200 | |
| July 25-August 1 | [SIM2009] | Cotonou, Benin | Mathias HOUNGBO | Multimedia Exibit, Salon International du Multimedia | 350 | |
| August 13-16 | Hacking At Random | Vierhouten, Netherlands | Yaakov Nemoy | See HAR2009 for status. | 2,000 (?) | |
| August 22-23 | FrOSCon | Sankt Augustin, Germany | Felix Kaechele | See FrOSCon2009 | ? (third biggest linux event in Germany) |
FY10 Q3 (September 2009 - November 2009)
| Date | Event | Location | Owner | Description | Estimated Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-09-05/06 | Braderie Lille 2009 | Lille, France | ThomasCanniot | Non Computer science event : annual Lille street market | 1 million every year |
| 2009-09-10/11 | Developer Conference 2009 | Brno, Czech Republic | RadekVokal | Open conference for all Developers, Admins and Linux users organized by Red Hat Czech Republic | unknown |
| 2009-09-19 | Software Freedom Day | Stockholm, Sweden | Nordickiwi | Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. We will hand out free Linux CD's/DVD's to the public in Stockholm, and information on free software. Photos | unknown |
| 2009-09-19 | Software Freedom Day | Yaounde, Cameroon | Ahandajf | Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. We will hand out free Linux CD's/DVD's and make install to the public, and information on free software. | unknown |
| 2009-09-19 | Software Freedom Day | Thessaloniki, Greece | ChristosBacharakis | Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. We will hand out free Linux CD's/DVD's and make install to the public, and information on free software at the central square of Thessaloniki. | over 800 |
| 2009-09-19 | Software Freedom Day | Athens, Greece | PierrosPapadeas | Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. We will hand out free Linux CD's/DVD's and make install to the public, and information on free software at Sturnari Street and NTUA University. | over 1,000 |
| 2009-09-23/24 | OpenExpo 2009 | Winterthur, Switzerland | FabianAffolter | OpenExpo, the Swiss conference and trade show for Free and Open Source Software, takes place for for two days at Winterthur. See OpenExpo 2009 |
1,200 |
| 2009-09-25/27 | FAD EMEA 2009 | Rheinfelden, Germany | GeroldKassube FabianAffolter |
Fedora Activity Day (legacy FAD) to plan Events for 2010, Budgets, Announcements and the Roadmap for EMEA Ambassadors in the near future | unknown yet |
| 2009-10-14/18 | Athens Digital Week 2009 | Athens, Greece | PierrosPapadeas | Athens Digital Week 2009 is a combination of technology events taking place in Athens annualy. See Athens Digital Week 2009 | over 20,000 |
| 2009-10-16/17 | JDLL 2009 | Lyon, France | HaikelGuemar | JDLL 2009 is a yearly Free Software event in Lyon (France) happening in mid october. | over 1,000/day |
| 2009-10-31 | Szabad Szoftver Konferencia és Kiállítás 2009, Budapest | Budapest, Hungary | Zoltán Hoppár Robert Scheck |
Free Software Conference 2009 in the University Budapest, organized by the Free Software Foundation Hungary | over 350 |
| 2009-11-26/29 | Infosystem 2009 | Thessaloniki, Greece | ChristosBacharakis | Infosystem is an International IT exhibition at Thessaloniki International Exhibition Center | over 8000 |
| 2009-11-15/16 | OpenSource Expo 2009 | Karlsruhe, Germany | JensMaucher, JoergSimon, Robert Scheck | registered for a booth | unknown |
| 2009-11-07/08 | OpenRheinRuhr | Bottrop, Germany | DominicHopf | A trade show with congress which takes place at Bottrop, Germany in November 2009. See OpenRheinRuhr2009 | unknown |
| 2009-11-07 | BarCampCameroon | Douala, Cameroon | Ahandajf | BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event. | 150 |
| 2009-11-20 | Fedora 12 Release Party (ES) | Valencia, Spain | Juanjo Martínez | We're going to talk about Fedora (and the new release), Linux and Free Software. | unknown, ~20 |
| 2009-11-24 | Fedora 12 Release Party | Menofia, Egypt | Ahmed Daoud | Fedora 12 Release party is an event organized by Mufix community at Menofia University, Egypt. | ~140 |
| 2009-11-28 | LinuxDay 2009 | Dornbirn, Austria | Fabian Affolter | LinuxDay is a small event in Austria near the Swiss, German, and Lichtenstein border. See LinuxDay 2009 |
300 |
| 2009-11-28 | Fedora 12 Release Party (NL) | Utrecht, the Netherlands | Jeroen van Meeuwen | Fedora 12 Release party sponsored by Operator Groep Delft, at Utrecht branch office (address at http://www.ogd.nl | i sincerely hope 1000+ |
| 2009-11-28 | Fedora 12 Release Party (Be) | Antwerp, Belgium | Bert Desmet | Fedora 12 Release party | < 60 |
| 2009-11-27/28 | JM2L | Sophia AntiPolis, France | Laurent Charpentier | JM2L is an opensource event in France which brings opensource software developers together through multiple workshops. BR Laurent is representing Fedora Electronic Lab | 500 |
