Fedora Presentation and F10 Release Party / InstallFest Event Reports
Last Updated on Monday, 15 December 2008 10:49 Written by Brian Monday, 15 December 2008 10:49
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)
Fedora IRC Classroom.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 5 November 2008 09:12 Written by Brian Thursday, 6 November 2008 09:47
This coming weekend marks the start of the Fedora IRC Classroom. What the heck is that you say!? Think of it as an online training class utilizing IRC.
This weekend has topics such as :
- SELinux Basics
- Firewall Basics
- Intro to Bugzilla
- Creating a Fedora Remix
- Beginners guide to getting involved
- Packaging
- Configuration Management using Puppet.
If any of the above is of interest, I encourage you check out the details, class dates and times located here
If you are interested in a topic not listed above, please take a moment and add it to the growing “Suggest a Class” list at the bottom of the page https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRC/Classroom
If you spot a topic in the “Suggest a Class” list or have another not listed, that you know like the back of your hand, and wish to contribute and share that knowledge with to others, please sign yourself up for a future classroom time slot. There is still one time slot left for this coming weekend.
I want to thank all of the volunteers who already signed up to teach a class this coming weekend without you this initiative would not have gotten off the ground.
Q4 Ambassadors Budget
Last Updated on Wednesday, 5 November 2008 09:13 Written by Brian Wednesday, 5 November 2008 03:42
Attention all Ambassadors! It is that time again to get your Q4 (December, January, February) events added (if you have not already done so).
Max’s original message to the mailing list:
Please make sure you get your event added asap.
Fedora Event List : here
