OLF and FADNA Summary
After attending my very first OLF I must admit I was really impressed. I am not going to comment on any of the presentations as I spent almost all of my time at the Fedora booth but I will focus on what I experienced and my thoughts.
OLF was well manned by various Fedora Ambassadors (13 to be exact) which made handling a crowd of roughly 1000 people very easy. I met and spoke with people across the board, everyone from families (including their young children) to Linux Var’s.
The booth was in a perfect position and we had a lot of traffic. The OLPC XO’s were quite a hit with everyone. I know the young children attending with their parents loved them and while they were entertained we got a chance to talk to mom and dad!
Overall I think event itself was very good and we should hopefully get a few more contributors to add to Fedora and it was great to finally put faces to everyone that I talk to on irc.
I look forward to attending / helping out with next years event!
Minus a few glitches with the SIP Phone this went very well. We covered everything on our agenda and are laying the groundwork for the future.
The topic that really stood out to me was the Mentoring role that Ambassadors play, we spent quite awhile talking about this as it is an important part of our duties, we will be drawing up a draft of this on the wiki over the next few weeks.
I really liked the ability of discussing things face to face, don’t get me wrong I am a huge fan of irc but you can really see and feel the passion that each person has when it is done first hand.
At the end of the weekend not only was OLF and FADNA worth the 12+ hour round trip drive time but the experiences I shared with everyone while there makes it even better.
Some other post’s by more attending Ambassadors:
http://vwbusguy.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/ohio-linuxfest/
http://jtadlock.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/fadna-report/
http://jbwillia.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/fadna/
http://jbwillia.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/hello-world/
http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=112
http://jtadlock.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/ohio-linux-fest-2008-report/
http://sexysexypenguins.com/2008/10/12/fad-na-day-1/
http://sexysexypenguins.com/2008/10/12/olf-day-1-fadna-day-1/
http://sexysexypenguins.com/2008/10/11/ohio-linux-fest-day-0-fadna-day-2/
This was also my first time at OLF as well. It was an excellent conference. The Fedora booth looked great and did attract tons of traffic. It was great to finally meet you and many of the other Ambassadors from the area. I’m glad to hear that FADNA went well. I wasn’t able to attend that event unfortunately. There were so many Ambassadors at the booth that I tried to not stay around too much as to crowd the booth. But stopped by often to help out where I could.
Thanks for the great event report.
It was good meeting you at the event Brian. Thanks for traveling all of the way out to help us on Saturday and work with us at FAD NA. It is great putting names to faces when we are all so used to just working with people over IRC.
Hope the Harrisburg event goes well next weekend!
Bryan,
It was great to meet you, and OLF was loads of fun. Hopefully see you there next year!
~Scott