Fedora Presentation and F10 Release Party / InstallFest Event Reports
I have had a pretty busy past week so please forgive me if I am a little late in reporting these.
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On Monday December 8th, 2008 I gave a Fedora presentation at ITT Technical Institute in Harrisburg PA to 2 different groups of students throughout the day (the overall total was around 55 or 60). The entire group consisted of Multi-Media, Programming, Criminal Justice and Networking students. ITT Technical Institute already is utilizing Fedora in their Networking curriculum (currently Fedora 8). My presentation was geared mainly towards how students could build experience and a work portfolio while going to school by contributing to Fedora as well as some of the new features of F10 and I also did a small presentation on the XO and OLPC program.
The presentation was well received in fact I was invited by the IT Chair to do another presentation in the upcoming Spring semester.
I collected quite a number of email addresses of interested students that I am currently following up with on becoming possible contributors.
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This past weekend I held a Fedora F10 Release Party and InstallFest with the WNYLug (http://wnylug.org). I presented to the group (around 23) about the Fedora Project and how they could join to become contributors. During the event I created quite a few F10 Live-USB keys and assisted with new installations of F10 on laptops and desktop that were brought in by the attendees and any other questions that they had with existing installations.
Special thanks to the WNYLug (who has only been in existence since Oct 2008) for making this event a huge success and helping out with burning install media and live-cd’s.
Pics from this event will be posted shortly on the WNYlug site (http://wnylug.org)
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