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Fedora Ambassador Mike DePaulo at the Fedora table, with one of the Fedorators assembled at Flock 2017

Fedora returns to HackMIT 2017

December 5, 2017 / Justin W. Flory / Comments Off

Every year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) hosts an annual hackathon, HackMIT, for students around the world. Students gathered again for HackMIT 2017 on the weekend of September 16-17, 2017. During the weekend, students form teams with other students and work on projects to compete in various categories. Participants often release their projects under open source licenses at the end of the hackathon.

The Fedora Project participated as a sponsor for the second year in a row. Justin W. Flory and Mike DePaulo attended as Fedora Ambassadors to represent the project and the community.

Fedora Activity Day, Bangalore 2017

March 28, 2017 / a2batic / 1 Comment

The Fedora Activity Day (FAD) is a regional event (either one-day or multi-day) that allows Fedora contributors to gather together in order to work on specific tasks related to the Fedora Project.

FAD in Bangalore

On February 25th 2017, a FAD was conducted in one of the admirable university of Bangalore: University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE). It was not a typical “hackathon” or “DocSprint” but a series of productive and interactive sessions on different tools.

University Connect – D. Y. Patil College, Pune

March 21, 2017 / Amita Sharma / 1 Comment

This was not an everyday routine when I get up so early in the morning with my alarm clock bell at 6AM. Definitely it was not an usual morning. Thanks to Red Hat Pune site team to come up with such a fabulous initiative of University Connect. University Connect is an outreach effort in a nutshell. The Pune site team has figured out and short listed some good colleges in and around Pune, where interested speakers can go and reach out to the young, passionate crowd of students and share knowledge about Open Source, Fedora and many new technologies like OpenStack, Cloud, ManageIQ etc.

University Connect – PCCOE, Pune

March 18, 2017 / Amita Sharma / 1 Comment

Another bright morning and another college visit was planned under the wings of University Connect. Thanks to the Pune site team again for the arrangements. On 15th February 2017, we visited the PCCOE college in Pune. Again the early morning alarm clock bell managed to break my sleep. Though, I was not feeling very well (thanks to my on going illness due to allergies), but Open Source, college students and Fedora makes me feel enough energy to beat a dull me.

FOSS Wave: CMR Institute of Technology in Bengaluru, India

FOSS Wave: CMR Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India

November 2, 2016 / Vipul Siddharth / 1 Comment

On 18 October 2016, we organized a workshop at the CMR Institute of Technology in Bengaluru, India. In the workshop, we covered topics of free and open source software (FOSS), Fedora, and git. Before talking about the event, I would like to thank a few people whose presence made this event a huge success. I would like to thank

Anirban Ghosh and Arun Teja for organizing the event at CMR IT.
All the attendees who came in a huge number and made this event a grand success.
Sumantro Mukherjee for being an amazing mentor and guiding us through the event.

FOSS Wave: Indore, India

October 31, 2016 / a2batic / Comments Off

FOSS Wave arrives at another destination! On 24th September 2016, we conducted an event at the Indian Institute of Technology in Indore, India. The event was a joint effort of Mozilla Indore community and FOSS Wave.

The main agenda of our event was:

Introduction to open source
Web development
Internet of Things (IoT)
Web-powered Virtual Reality (Web VR)