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All articles in this category are related to the Ambassadors in the Fedora Project. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors

Fedora 24 Release Party: SFVLUG Event Report

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.

Southeast Linux Fest (SELF) 2016

July 8, 2016 / Andrew Ward / Comments Off

The Southeast Linux Fest (SELF) is an annual Linux conference in the southeast region of the United States. This year, the conference ran from June 10 – 12, 2016. SELF was located in the Sheraton by the airport in Charlotte, NC. As expected, the booth site was the same as the earlier years while at this venue. Booth placement plays a vital role in visibility and accessibility. When presentations finish, attendees come out and the first booth visible is Fedora.

OSCON 2016 Expo Hall Booth Report

June 6, 2016 / Adam Miller / 1 Comment

On Tuesday I attended OSCON‘s Open Container Day with members of the OpenShift team and the CentOS team. This turned out to be an interesting outing and I got pulled into an interview on TheNewStack with CentOS member Jim Perrin to discuss the Fedora and CentOS respective docker layered image build systems and tooling. This was a great opportunity to explain what we’re doing, why we’re doing it, and what we hope to provide to the community. This day was roughly half and half tech overview of different container tech and sales pitches from various companies. Which is somewhat understandable, since it’s a sponsored day event. I helped man the OpenShift table before getting pulled into TheNewStack interview.

Fedora 24: Let’s have a party!

May 24, 2016 / Sirko Kemter / 1 Comment

Fedora 24 just recently entered Beta status a couple of weeks ago. With another Fedora release not so far away, it’s time for the Ambassadors to plan their activities around the release. The most common activity for Ambassadors to do around a release is namely the Release Parties. A release party is also a great way for other contributors in the community to get involved with advocacy in their local regions.

Fedora’s Love For Python Continues

May 5, 2016 / Brian Proffitt / 1 Comment

In this digital age, there is still some use for having messaging that is easy to distribute and consume. While it may seem quaint and old-fashioned, hard-copy content is a useful way to deliver information at events like conferences and meetups.

With that in mind, the Fedora Marketing team, in conjunction with members of the Fedora Python SIG, has put together a new Fedora Loves Python brochure, just in time for PyCon 2016.

What’s new in Python brochure

This is not the first time the Marketing team has put together something like this; the team designed and released a more retro-looking edition for Pycon 2013. The new edition of the brochure is consistent with the Fedora Project’s branding and design, and has been updated with some cool new facts, including:

DNF, the software installation and dependency tool within Fedora, is built with Python and supports Python 2 and 3.
Inkscape, GIMP, and Blender include Python support, so you can script all sorts of graphics plugins in Python.
Fedmsg, Bodhi, Koji, and the Fedora Account System are some of many Python-built apps within Fedora’s infrastructure.

Fedora’s relationship with Python is very close, and has been since 2003. The ease in which developers can work with Python tools like PyPy, PyDev, Winpdb, and GitPython (to name a few) makes Fedora a very useful platform for coders–and we are very happy to be able to show some of that off.

Be sure to look for Fedora at PyCon in Portland, Oregon next month, or visit the Python resources in this article, to learn more about using Fedora as your Python platform of choice!

Group of hackers who submitted their project to "Best in FOSS" at BrickHack 2016

A group of hackers that submitted their project to the "Best in FOSS" category.

BrickHack 2016 and Fedora: Event Report

April 12, 2016 / Justin W. Flory / 8 Comments

Over the weekend of March 5th – 6th, 2016, the Fedora Project sponsored BrickHack 2016. BrickHack 2016 is a hackathon event hosted at the Rochester Institute of Technology. What exactly is BrickHack? The organizers describe it as the following:

March 5-6 ignites a weekend devoted to 400 designers and coders sinking 24 hours into learning, building, and creating unique projects. Mentors and industry representatives will also join the fray to lend expertise and share wisdom. The event will take place in RIT’s Gordon Field House for a centralized, communal hacking experience. Expect food, swag, and timeless brick-laden memories.

As an event sponsor, the Fedora Ambassadors of North America had a table for the event. The Ambassadors offered mentorship and assistance to BrickHack 2016 programmers, gave away some free Fedora swag, and offered an introduction to Linux, open source, and the community. This report is a recollection of some highlights from the event and also focuses on the impact we made as an event sponsor.

Document Freedom Day 2016: Singapore

April 11, 2016 / woohuiren / 1 Comment

Document Freedom Day is a day where we celebrate and raise awareness of Open Standards. It is held annually, on the last Wednesday of March. However, this year, the Ambassadors in Singapore decided to celebrate it on 24 March, 2016.

Document Freedom Celebration

We held our celebrations at a local Hackerspace (courtesy of Robert Sim, a member of Hackerspace SG). The event included a talk on importance of Open Standards and a small cake and pizza party after. The event was posted up on Meetup and everyone was invited to join in the fun and to learn more about Open Standards. The turn-out rate was pretty good with around 10 to 15 folks joining us for the evening. Most of them had a strong background in various Linux distributions.

Engineers Singapore also helped to record our talk at the Hackerspace. Do check out the video if you weren’t able to join us.

After the talk, one of our Ambassadors did the honors of cutting the delicious looking Document Freedom cake. While we had our party, we had many wonderful and intriguing conversations about Open Source and Open Standards. Some even discussed Fedora’s upcoming release.

One of the questions raised was whether huge proprietary companies will bother about Open Standards. Many of the folks had different views on this topic – some held an optimistic view whilst others had a less optimistic one. The optimistic ones felt that if we put more pressure on these companies, they would follow the standards. Others felt that they only care about profits and if these companies followed Open Standards, they might make a loss.

Closing note

A huge thanks to everyone: Ambassadors, Hackerspace SG, Engineers SG, for making Document Freedom Day in Singapore a huge success. And for those who join us for the celebration, thank you for taking your time to drop by. We hope that you’ve learned something from this event and most importantly, we also hope that you had tons of fun with us! Looking forward to seeing all of you at the next event!

Fedora and Mozilla Activity Days in Prishtina, Kosovo

April 8, 2016 / Elio Qoshi / Comments Off

As part of Open Labs Hackerspace, I was invited to Prishtina, Kosovo by fellow hacktivist Ardian Haxha. I was asked to facilitate various sessions about Fedora and Mozilla. Furthermore, I was happy to design the artwork for the event too. This greatly aligned with my work at Mozilla Community Design and the Fedora Design Team. Ardian is a hard-working community member of FLOSSK. He was heavily involved in the organization of the past SFK conferences in the same city of Prishtina. He recently rediscovered the pleasure of working with the Fedora and Mozilla communities again, so he decided to organize the Fedora and Mozilla Activity Days in Prishtina on the 26th to 27th of March.

Fedora was at PyCon SK 2016

March 29, 2016 / Miro Hrončok / 1 Comment

At the second weekend in March 2016, Fedora had a booth at PyCon SK, a community-organized conference for the Python programming language held in Bratislava, Slovakia. The event happened for the first time this year, and we made sure it happened with Fedora.

PyCon SK 2016: Fedora Ambassadors speaking about Python

Photo by Ondrej Dráb, CC BY

FOSSASIA 2016: Singapore

March 25, 2016 / woohuiren / Comments Off

FOSSASIA is an annual event that focuses on showcasing free and open-source technology in Asia. The intended audience are developers, start-ups, contributors, students, and enthusiasts. It has talks and workshops that cover a wide range of topics. These include anywhere from hardware hacks to design, graphics to software.

About FOSSASIA

The official logo of FOSSASIA.

FOSSASIA started in 2009 in Vietnam and has been a huge success since then. Companies can request to setup booths at Level 1 to exhibit their FOSS technologies. There are also a various kinds of tickets available for purchase, with a starting price of $7 SGD to the highest price of $1800 SGD. These tickets grant different tier of access and swags but all of them give access to all sessions of day, except the social event, which requires at least a Business Ticket.

FOSSASIA 2016 theme

For FOSSASIA 2016, the theme for the event was Internet of Things. It was held in the Singapore Science Center from March 18th to 20th, 9am to 6pm. Internet of Things has been a hot topic in the recent years and many companies, such as Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft, came up with software to support IoT devices, hoping that they can grab some of this lucrative market share.

Fedora at FOSSASIA

Fortunately, for this year, the Fedora Ambassadors from Singapore co-shared Red Hat’s booth and helped distribute Fedora 23 DVDs. One of the Ambassadors, Huiren, also spoke for the event, with the talk titled, “Opening Up Yourself”. It was a short presentation focused on the benefits of contributing to FOSS and Fedora.

For everyone who came to say hello to the Ambassadors, thanks for stopping by! We can’t wait to see you all next year.