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Fedora Past Events - North America (NA) : 2009
FY10 Q1 (March 2009 - May 2009)
| Date | Event | Location | Owner | Description | Estimated Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 5-7, 2009 | Computer Using Educators | Palm Springs, CA, USA | Karsten Wade | We were approved for a panel discussion | |
| March 9, 2009 | Florida Linux Show | Jacksonville, FL, USA | David Nalley | Working on getting a booth, presentation already submitted and a speaker slot acquired. | ~300 last year |
| March 10-12, 2009 | FOSE 09 | Washington, DC, USA | Paul W. Frields | Tentative - Work with NoVaLUG/Tux.org at booth. No speaker slots available for .org projects. | 10,000+ |
| 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 26, 2009 | Infotech Niagara Beta Awards | Buffalo, NY, USA | Brian Powell | Fedora / OLPC Booth (possible presentation on OLPC project) | 500+ |
| March 27-29, 2009 | PyCon | Chicago, IL, USA | Tom "spot" Callaway | Fedora / OLPC Booth | 1000 |
| April 4, 2009 | LUG@GT: Georgia Tech Linux Users Group | Atlanta, GA USA | Scott McBrien | Manning a table at an installfest | ~30 |
| April 15, 2009 | NYLUG: New York Linux Users Group | New York, NY USA | Jon Stanley | Giving a talk on building a Remix | ~50 |
| April 18, 2009 | Bar Camp Rochester 4 | Rochester, NY USA | Karlie Robinson | One Laptop Per Child XO Laptop History and mission. I'll also cover how to get an XO by getting involved locally and Internationally through the Fedora Project. Brian Powell also attending Link | 50+ |
| April 18, 2009 | Palmetto Open Source Software Conferenece | Columbia, SC, USA | David Nalley | Second year conference. Currently GDK has a speaking slot, and ke4qqq is slotted to participate in one of the roundtable discussions. | 150 |
| April 25, 2009 | Trenton Computer Festival | Ewing, NJ, USA | Kam Salisbury | Staffing an exhibitor booth with PLUG. | 500+ last year |
| April 25-26, 2009 | LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW) 2009 | Bellingham, WA, USA | Larry Cafiero | Fedora Activity Day and a booth for the fest. | ~500-600 in 2008 |
FY10 Q2 (June 2009 - August 2009)
| Date | Event | Location | Owner | Description | Estimated Attendance | Event Box? | Report Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TBA | FAD Fedora Devel 2009 | Raleigh, NC | User:Jkeating | Engineering-heavy workshops for development cycle brainstorming | 10+ | No | |
| 13 June | Southeast Linuxfest | Clemson University, Clemson, SC | David Nalley, Ben Williams (attending) | New Linuxfest filling the gap left by the Atlanta Linux Showcase when it went to the west coast and became Linuxworld. | 350-450 | Yes | http://jbwillia.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/self-2009/ |
| 14 June | Docs FAD at SELF | Clemson University, Clemson, SC | David Nalley | Docs FAD following SELF | 10 or so | No | |
| 17 - 19 June | Open Source Bridge 2009 | Oregon Convention Center, Portland OR | Matt McKenzie, Larry Cafiero, John Poelstra (on conference marketing team--able to help locally as needed) | New Open Source conference, filling gap left by OSCON for Portland area | 500 | ??? | Decided not to have a Fedora presence at the conference because of cost and
last minute arrangements required |
| 28 June - 01 July | National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) (NECC_2009) | Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC | ??? (Regional help needed + budget, or may not do show) | Biggest edtech show, has dedicated open source pavilion with large number (100?+) K12Linux thin clients and dedicated open source track | Yes | ??? | |
| 13 - 17 July | Montreal Linux Symposium | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | jfsaucier | Montreal Linux Symposium 2009 | ~700 | Maybe | To follow |
| 20 - 25 July | OSCON 2009 | San Jose, CA | User:Lcafiero,User:Kwade | O'Reilly's open source everything convention | 3,600 |
FY10 Q3 (September 2009 - November 2009)
| Date | Event | Location | Owner | Description | Estimated Attendance | Event Box | Vertical Banners |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-09-01/04 | Red Hat Summit | Chicago, IL, USA | John Rose, Paul W. Frields | Fedora contributors' attendees list at Red_Hat_Summit_2009 | - | ||
| September 13, 2009 | College Park Fedora 11 Distribution | College Park, Maryland | David Ramsey | see College Park | ? | ||
| September 19, 2009 | Atlanta Linux Fest | Atlanta, GA, USA | David Nalley | - | 200-250 | ||
| September 19, 2009 | Software Freedom Day | Albuquerque, NM, USA | David Thomas | 3rd year, This year will be at Cottonwood Mall Lots of foot traffic | 1000+ | ||
| September 19, 2009 | Software Freedom Day | Portales, NM, USA | David Thomas | In the Sandia Room of the Eastern New Mexico University Campus Union Building. | 100+ | ||
| September 19, 2009 | Software Freedom Day | Felton, CA, USA | Larry Cafiero | At the offices of Redwood Digital Research, 6116 Highway 9, Felton. | 50-100 | ||
| September 21-23, 2009 | LinuxCon | Portland, OR, USA | Matt McKenzie | New event run by The Linux Foundation, at Portland Marriott Waterfront Hotel, coincides with Linux Plumbers Con | 500-1000(?) | YES | |
| September 25-26, 2009 | Ohio LinuxFest | Columbus, Ohio | Brian Powell Ben Williams | The seventh annual Ohio LinuxFest will be on September 25-26, 2009 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, in downtown Columbus, Ohio. | 2000+ | YES | |
| September 27, 2009 | College Park Fedora 11 Distribution | College Park, Maryland | David Ramsey | see College Park | ? | ||
| October 8-10 2009 | Utah Open Source Conference | Salt Lake City, UT, USA | Clint Savage | 3rd year of the Regional Conference | 600+ | Yes | |
| October 11, 2009 | College Park Fedora 11 Distribution | College Park, Maryland | David Ramsey | see College Park | ? | ||
| October 17 2009 | Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference | Harrisburg, PA, USA | Brian Powell | Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference | 100+ | YES | |
| October 20 2009 | JIT 2009 | Quebec, Canada | Jean-Francois Saucier | JIT is a conference to promote the use of free softwares and to demonstrate the capabilities of them. It focus on the technical side of using the softwares and how to integrate them into a production environment | 150+ | Yes | |
| October 24 2009 | Ontario Linux Fest 2009 | Ontario, Canada | Jean-Francois Saucier soon confirmed | Ontario Linux Fest is the conference, workshop and community meeting place that is organized and run by the community for the community. This event opens Toronto Open Source Week | 300+ | Yes | |
| October 24 2009 | ABLEconf | Phoenix, Arizona | Ryan Rix | ABLEconf is a FOSS conference targeting local SMB, government and education entities. | 200+ | No | |
| October 25, 2009 | College Park Fedora 11 Distribution | College Park, Maryland | David Ramsey | see College Park | ? | ||
| October 29 2009 | Teaching Open Source Summit (TOSS09) | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | owner needed | The Teaching Open Source Summit is a face to face gathering of the TeachingOpenSource.org community. TOSS09 is an adjunct event to FSOSS2009 and part of Toronto Open Source Week. | 50-100 | ||
| October 29-30 2009 | Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | owner needed | FSOSS is a conference with workshops organized by Seneca College, now in its 8th year. This event closes Toronto Open Source Week. | 300-400 | ||
| November 8, 2009 | College Park Fedora 11 Distribution | College Park, Maryland | David Ramsey | see College Park | ? | ||
| November 22, 2009 | College Park Fedora 12 Distribution | College Park, Maryland | David Ramsey | see College Park | ? | ||
| November 22-24, 2009 | NYSCATE Annual Conference | Rochester, NY, USA | owner needed | 44th NYSCATE Annual Conference Rochester Riverside Convention Center | ??? |
FY10 Q4 (December 2009 - February 2010)
| Date | Event | Location | Owner | Description | Estimated Attendance | Event Box? | Vertical Banners | Report Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 5-7, 2009 | FUDCon:Toronto 2009 | Toronto, Canada | Paul W. Frields, Mel Chua | North American FUDCon; Technical sessions, hackfests, Fedora 13 planning, user outreach, and general merriment | 150-200 | |||
| December 6, 2009 | College Park Fedora 12 Distribution | College Park, Maryland | David Ramsey | see College Park | ? | |||
| December 20, 2009 | College Park Fedora 12 Distribution | College Park, Maryland | David Ramsey | see College Park | ? | |||
| January 15-22, 2009 | Camp KDE | San Diego, California | Ryan Rix | see Camp KDE homepage. Basically it's a developers conference for KDE. NA's largest KDE event. | ? | |||
| January 17, 2010 | College Park Fedora 12 Distribution | College Park, Maryland | David Ramsey | see College Park | ? | |||
| February 5, 2010 @ 4 PM | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Center for Open Source (RCOS) General Meeting | Troy, NY | Máirín Duffy | see talk description - I'll be giving a basic what-is-Fedora talk and also talk about how folks can get involved in Fedora. The event will be held in the Johnsson Engineering Center (JEC) room 3117 @ 4 PM | 40 | |||
| February 5-7, 2010 | Shmoocon | Washington, DC | Ivan Makfinsky | see Shmoocon - I will be hand shaking and handing out F12 swag. | 1,200+ | No event box, but swag and hand shaking. | ||
| February 8 | Fedora talks @ Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | User:mjg59 | Tech talk to a CS class, then a more general Fedora talk to a wider audience | 50 | no event box, but swag | no | |
| February 19-21, 2010 | Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 8x) | Los Angeles, CA, USA | Scott Williams | Annual first-of-the-year Linux event Fedora's SCaLE 8x wiki | 1,000+ | yes | yes | |
| February 28, 2010 | College Park Fedora 12 Distribution | College Park, Maryland | David Ramsey | see College Park | ? |