Our remarkable Fedora ambassador, CentOS, and associate crews delivered live face-to-face support and outreach via our Fedora and CentOS @ SCALE 23x Linux Conference.
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Our remarkable Fedora ambassador, CentOS, and associate crews delivered live face-to-face support and outreach via our Fedora and CentOS @ SCALE 23x Linux Conference.
Continue readingOur ambassadors delivered support, outreach, and swag items via Fedora @ SCaLE 22x Linux Conference – a 2025 open-source community event.
The SCaLE (The Southern California Linux Expo) community Linux event delivered an iconic experience with four days of open source training, exhibits, and general presentations. This year’s conference took place in Pasadena (Los Angeles) area.
This expo drew worldwide guests to discuss AI, Linux, security, embedded, IoT, and more. The Technical Committee (Online Services) Chairperson, Mr. Phil Dibowitz, and Technical Committee (Networking) Chairperson, Robert Hernandez paved the way for a smooth registration.
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Justin Wheeler coordinated and shipped hand-selected swag and marketing items to Perry Rivera. Items included: pens, stickers, commuter mugs, badge lanyards, and more.
Furthermore, the ambassadors gathered up supplies for the conference.
Red Hatter and Fedora Ambassador Perry Rivera delivered community marketing items and swag.
In addition, Perry brought the following:
Some of our ambassadors arrived the previous day to avoid traffic, others in the morning, to catch earlier events and workshops.
We checked in at the Red Hat Booth, but things were quiet there. So, a small group of up lunch at Noodle St., which was perfect considering how cold and drizzly the day presented itself.
We reunited in the lobby area and later in the expo hall to discuss next steps. We discovered just how close the Fedora/CentOS booth was next to the Red Hat booth, which facilitated comm and referrals to and from our teams.
The booth received a vibrant free-standing banners this year. We received a great looking table cover, and swag. We also used a flip chart easel to display a QR code for guests to easily scan to pick up a Fedora badge and to display presentation/workshop info.
After dropping things off, Perry helped steam iron the Fedora table cloth to give it the “less travelled less wrinkly look” and put up the flipchart easel. After doing some initial setup, Perry returned some boxes for booth items back to my car to reclaim booth space. Next, some of us reconvened at the KWAAI Summit, new for 2025. Their chair Reza Rassool and crew organized a lively charcuterie mixer.
After the networking event, a small group of us re-convened at Cordova Cafe to reflect on our day.
We returned to the conference and the Expo Hall this morning to continue unpacking swag, marketing systems, and more. Perry also checked in from to the Red Hat booth from time-to-time to render assistance as needed.
Perry set up a flip chart and glued on a handy QR that users could scan to pick up an e-badge.
Then, Alejandro later wrote in our Fedora scheduled talks, which was handy for guests to take pictures of as they stopped by. Concurrently, Brian and Scott strategically set up swag items. Ivan and Alex, meanwhile routed power cables within the booth.
Meanwhile, Carl and Shaun set up camp for CentOS.
At 2pm, the Exhibit Hall opened. Initially, we had high traffic coming in at the Red Hat and Fedora booths.
We greeted approximately 450+ this day, discussing key foundations such as Freedom, Friends, Features, First, and topics such as AI on Fedora, bootable containers, gitops for packaging, accessibility, git forge, RISC-V, and more.
To accomodate the masses, we took turns around lunch to keep the booth up and running. Some of us departed to Yard House for lunch.
Upon returning, we resumed exhibiting and handing out swag.
Upon closure of the Exhibit Hall, we headed to UpScale to support Scott’s presentation.
After, we headed over to Cafe Santorini to a fine dinner with Red Hat, CentOS, and Fedora associates.
Next, some of us went to Karaoke night to listen to great music and hear each other sing.
We returned to exhibit hall to meet with more of our community and talk about Fedora and tech topics. Perry also time-shared with the Red Hat booth as well.
Later this evening, a few of us attended Game Night.
Perry packed up his hotel room early Sunday and then returned to the conference center and the exhibit hall to continue discussions with our Fedora and Red Hat community.
The final day brought in about 250 Fedora booth guests.
Around 2PM, all booths began closing down to pack things up for shipment. We returned the rolling luggage and a banner box over to Kate Mulder for FedEx return.
Afterward, Perry stopped by Leslie Lamport’s insightful closing Keynote, Coding isn’t Programming .
Throughout the conference, our booth had a sign-in sheet where visitors could stop by and leave feedback and suggestions about Fedora and related efforts.
From the data reviewed, we collected key findings:
In conclusion, we look forward to seeing you at next year’s SCaLE!
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Peak visitor days were Monday and Tuesday.
We collected highly detailed feedback for our various Fedora teams. Roll-up found below.
Overview slides found here: http://bit.ly/2wRSwHY
SCaLE16x headquarters – Pasadena Convention Center
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On July 2nd, 2016, the San Fernando Valley Linux User Group (SFVLUG) in Lake Balboa, California, celebrated the release of Fedora 24 at their regular meeting. Fedora Ambassador Perry Rivera (FAS: lajuggler) helped coordinate these efforts at their regular meetup at Denny’s. To help celebrate the launch of Fedora 24, Perry brought some install media and a Fedora cake. The release party helped introduce Fedora 24 to a new group of users by providing them with the software and help to get Fedora 24 for themselves. This report details the release party events with SFVLUG and the impact from the event.
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