Past Events 2006

Fedora Past Events: 2006

Date	Name of Event	Location and Short Description	Ambassador	How'd it go?
Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2006	Solutions Linux 2006	Paris, France - Solutions Linux (in French) is an event for professionals and associations around Linux. Major players will be there, see the map (PDF). Google Translation (in English)	AurelienBompard	Need to rent a booth or to share one with another association
Feb 4-5, 2006	GNUify	Pune, India . http://gnunify.sicsr.ac.in/index.php GNUnify, the technological extravaganza of "SYMBIOSIS INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER STUDIES & RESEARCH (SICSR)" is being organized on the February, 4-5, 2006. It is "A forum to unite open minds", thus a paradigm of the philosophy, which unifies and strengthens the Free Software and Open Source Software movements.	RahulSundaram	(Tentative) Presentation about Fedora and on contributing to it.
Feb 8-10, 2006	LinuxAsia/FUDCon Delhi 2006	New Delhi India. The theme for LinuxAsia 2006 alias FUDConDelhi2006 is “The Customer Speaks”. The conference will host customer centered sessions on Open Source Software (OSS) adoption and deployment in various market segments and will focus on the rapid growth of OSS in enterprises, governments and universities across India and Asia	RahulSundaram SankarshanMukhopadhyay	See FUDConDelhi2006
Feb 11-12, 2006	SCALE 4X	Los Angeles, California, USA - The fourth annual Southern California Linux Expo will be held on Saturday and Sunday, February 11-12, 2006, at the Radisson Los Angeles Airport.	ThomasChung	See SCALE4X
Feb 25, 2006	Fedora Day	Hengelo (Gld), Netherlands - The first day in The Netherlands to promote Fedora and to support new users.	ThijsHulshof	See FedoraDay
Feb 25-26, 2006	FOSDEM	Brussels, Belgium - The sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting in Brussel -Belgium- [1]	FredericHornain ThomasCanniot	See FOSDEM 2006
Mar 12, 2006	Local organisation, AREL	France, Revin Explanation of "what is a free software?" + Demo of FC5 with Kadischi + Flyers. This event is announced here on the agenda du libre website	ThomasCanniot	See FedoraEvents/AREL
May 3-6, 2006	LinuxTag/FUDCon Wiesbaden 2006	Wiesbaden, Germany - LinuxTag Germany	GeroldKassube FlorianBrand	See FUDCon/FUDConWiesbaden2006
Mar 13-16, 2006	Jornada de Divulgacion	Bogota, Colombia - A whole day organized for an Recognized University in Colombia for conferences on subjects related to Open Source Software as well as telecommunications, medical artificial intelligence and computer science. It will have universities of the country and the world. http://www.sistemasunbosque.edu.co and http://www.equisl.org	JoseTarazona	See JornadaDivulgacion
Mar 18-19, 2006	Fedora Core Open Days	The first event of this kind in Poland. It will be a conference connected with users and sympathizers meeting, setting Fedora promotion as a main goal. Rybnik, Poland.	MateuszHalaba PawelSadowski	See FCOD
Mar 18-19, 2006	glugc FLOSS Meet 2006	GNU/Linux Users Group Calicut (glugc) ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/glugc ) has been working inside the campus to promote FOSS. glugc successfully conducted FLOSS Meet 2005, a seminar on Free/Libre and Open Source Software. NIT Calicut is participating in FOSS Month 2006 (glugc FLOSS Meet 2006 will be a part of the FOSS Month celebrations).	KushalDas	Kushal will conduct the BoF
Mar 18, 2006	Introducing Fedora Core 5	St. Cloud Area Linux Users Group (scalug) ( http://scalug.us/ ) Introducing Fedora Core 5	BobJensen	BobJensen will be presenting File:FedoraEvents PastEvents 2006 BobJensen/lug-fc5-intro.odp Introducing Fedora Core 5]
Mar 25, 2006	FLISOL 2006	DF, Brazil - FLISOL stands as Latin-America's Free Software Installation Festival ([2] ), and aims to install as many systems with Linux and free software. Also, there is minu-courses and speakings. It happens in many cities and countries and happens in the same day.	HugoCisneiros	See FLISOL 2006
Mar 25, 2006	CLUG Installfest	Cincinnati, Ohio - Install as many FC5 as possible at the CLUG Meeting. Discuss installation, another presentation on XEN To be held at the "Brew House" in Cincinnati. 20-25 people attend.	PatrickMcKelvey	I'm making copies of FC5. Will offer those under Brazil Rules. ie When loaded and copied, pass it along or return them to me.
Mar 30, 2006	30 minutes presentation	Strasbourg, France	ChitleshGoorah	["ChitleshGoorah/LicenseESA"]
Apr 01, 2006	Install Party	Strasbourg, France	ChitleshGoorah	- will be held at 1600 to 2100 - will have assistance of one of my friend (fedora user), MichaelClauss - Ill provide free FC5 DVD to each one who wants to install FC5
Apr 3-6, 2006	LinuxWorld Boston 2006	Boston, MA, USA - LinuxWorld US	MatthewMiller JackAboutboul	See LinuxWorld Bosten 2006
Apr 4, 2006	A day with Fedora	Durgapur, West Bengal, India	KushalDas	See Durgapur
Apr 7, 2006	FUDCon Boston 2006	Boston, MA, USA - Sequel to the first [[FUDCon] .	MatthewMiller JackAboutboul	See FUD Bosten 2006
Apr 9-13, 2006	Teachers Professional Developement Training	Sonargoan, Bangladesh	RussellJohn	The training is based on FC5. Details
Apr 11, 2006	Local LUG - Campux	France, Lille.	ThomasCanniot	Have to translate presentation, and don't think i need any schwag. 20-25 people will be attending.
Apr 19-22, 2006	FISL 7.0	Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil - 7th International Free Software Forum This is the biggest conference for IT Infrastructure and Developers in Brazil. See FISL 7.0 for more description.	RodrigoPadula	see FISL 7.0
Apr 22-23, 2006	lanwelche	Strasbourg, France	ChitleshGoorah	Video Games on LAN
Apr 24, 2006	Fedora Talk (rescheduled)	Uttar Pradesh, India	PuneetBatura	Talking to my school students on FOSS. I think i will be talking on FC 5 since we have a auditorium(of about 250 people capacity) with a projector so place is not an issue.
Apr 24-26, 2006	LinuxWorld Toronto	Metro Toronto Convention Centre Toronto, Canada	BehdadEsfahbod	LinuxWorld Toronto 2006 for more info
Apr 27, 2006	IRC Presentation: #fedora-fr-meeting	Fedora and How the French Community can participate	ChitleshGoorah ThomasCanniot DamienDurand AurelienBompard	[wiki:ChitleshGoorah/fr-meeting meeting minutes] -- Official wiki page -- [wiki:fr_FR/FedoraEvents/vFUDCon/01France Version Française]
Apr 29, 2006	LUGS	Singapore Management University, Singapore	EugeneTeo	EugeneTeo's report
Apr 29, 2006	Linuxfest Northwest 2006	Bellingham, WA, USA	GregDeKoenigsberg JesseKeating	Greg's SpeakerSchedule JesseKeating's report
May 3-6, 2006	LinuxTag Germany	Wiesbaden, This event is the biggest Open Source Event in Europe	FlorianBrand GeroldKassube ChitleshGoorah	see Linuxtag Homepage for LinuxTag details; See LinuxTag2006 for more info.
May 12-14, 2006	ENSOL Brazil	João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil - This event is the biggest Open Source Event in Brazil's Northeast	HugoCisneiros RodrigoPadula	See ["FedoraEvents/ENSOL"]
May 20, 2006	Multimedia Day France	Cambrai France, This event is organized by a local LUG : Linux-Cambrésis	ThomasCanniot	See Linux-Cambrésis . Will do a presentation of the Fedora Project in general, the same as in Campux in April 11th. Will request some schwag soon, as it seems to be a small event but lasts 2 days.
June 9-10, 2006	CarolinaCon	Raleigh NC - See Carolina Con	LeeJoseph	See Carolina Con
June 15, 2006	Migrating to Linux: Introduction to Open Source Tools	Workshop at North South Univeristy , Dhaka, Bangladesh	RussellJohn	See NSU Workshop for more information
June 17-20, 2006	NELS	Bethel, Maine	WarrenTogami	Focus on Fedora Education, k12ltsp
June 20, 2006	HP Linux Roadshow	Brussel, Belgium	FredericHornain	HP Linux Roadshow EMEA in Belgium. Do not have any booth however I am going to contact the Belgium Red Hat Regional Manager in order to be present with him at this event. I already know her.
June 23-30, 2006	Fedora, Friends and Fun	Virginia Beach, VA USA - Working to be a family friendly vacation for Fedora users and contributors with Fedora related Events	BobJensen	More Info coming very soon
July 22-23, 2006	LUGRadio Live! 2006	Wolverhampton, UK - Up-and-coming UK Open Source event, by geeks, for geeks.	JonFautley	See ["FedoraEvents/LUGRadio"]
July 24-28, 2006	OSCON 2006	Portland, OR, USA. The O'Reilly Open Source Convention is where coders, sysadmins, entrepreneurs, and business people working in free and open source software gather to share ideas, discover code, and find solutions.	JackAboutboul	See OSCON for status
Aug, 5, 2006	My First Mauritian LUG Meeting	Port-Louis, Mauritius: Presentation and Fedora Promotion	ChitleshGoorah	To present the Fedora Project and Kadischi
Aug, 14-17, 2006	LinuxWorld San Francisco 2006	San Francisco, CA, USA - LinuxWorld USA	JackAboutboul	See LinuxWorld San Francisco 2006 for more info
Aug 24-26, 2006	III Festival Software Livre da Bahia	Lauro de Freitas, BA, Brazil	HugoCisneiros OthonBatista	See FSL Bahia for more information
Sept, 2006	Linux Day	Ilza, Poland - It will be a presentation generally about Fedora, Open Source etc. It will take place at my high school.	PawelSadowski	More info will be available in September, after the school year starts.
Sept 9, 2006	Linux Day Tirol	Hall in Tirol, Austria - Presentation of the local Linux-Community in public inclusive Installationparty	ClausReheis	see [3]
Sept 16, 2006	Software Freedom Day	Kathmandu, Nepal - There will be a Install Fest including Fedora Installation and troubleshooting + a bunch of other activities	AbhishekSingh	More Information available at here
Sept 16, 2006	GUC installfest	Cairo,Egypt - The Germen University in Cairo will host EGLUG (Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group) to organize InstallFest including Fedora Installations and Demonstration	DiaaRadwan	More Information available at [4]
Sept 30, 2006	Ohio LinuxFest 2006	Columbus, OH, USA	JeffreyTadlock	See Ohio Linux Fest
Oct, 11-12, 2006	LinuxWorld Netherlands 2006	Utrecht, The Netherlands - LinuxWorld Netherlands	FredericHornain	No free booth available for organization. So I send a mail to redhat benelux in order to let them know I ll be there. Waiting after their reply. BTW, I will only be present one day.
Oct 12-13 2006 (tentative)	1er Campamento Playero Fedora Linux Venezuela : Chichiriviche 2006	Chichiriviche, Edo.Falcón, Venezuela - This event is intended for the promotion of open source software and specially dedicated to Fedora. It will also be the first time for gathering all fedora-ve people. It's a beach camp in a very small town with activities related with local schools and authorities.	GuillermoGomez	Agenda: Guided Fedora Tour for High School students (friday). Various tech seminars and talks on Saturday.
Oct, 16-20, 2006	IV Forum of Free Software	Rio de Janero, Brasil - www.forumsoftwarelivre.org.br	RodrigoPadula	Lectures, Users Group, Install Fest, Free Media
Oct, 21, 2006	Campux Install Party (French LUG)	Lille, France - www.campux.org	ThomasCanniot CharlesVinchon DamienDurand	Report
Oct, 21, 2006	PERU Open Source Day 2k6 (USMP-LUG)	Lima, PERU - [5]	HernanPachas	Incentivar el uso y desarrollo de Linux y Open Source Software, invitados - Jon "Maddog" y Ken Coar
Oct, 25-26, 2006	LinuxWorld UK 2006	London, UK - LinuxWorld UK	JoeEarly JonFautley	LinuxWorld UK is free if you register early, and £15 UK at the door
Oct, 28 2006	RENTRÉE DU LIBRE	Strasbourg , France. This event is intended for the promotion of open source softwares and linux. There will also be conferences about various open source topics	ChitleshGoorah	See Strasbourg Need people at the booth with me :)
Oct, 28-29, 2006	Parinux (French LUG)	Paris, France - www.parinux.org	Many French Ambassadors	Report 1 , Report 2
Nov 13, 2006	Vijayawada GLUG Meet/Install Fest	Vijayawada, AP, India	PrudhviKrishna	Location K.L.College of Engineering , Vijawada
Nov 15, 2006	LUG of Strasbourg Meeting	Strasbourg, FRANCE. The meeting will talk about the release of Fedora Core 6 and Fedora Project	ChitleshGoorah	Report
Nov 17, 2006	FACTFest	Farmingdale, NY, USA - FArmingdale Computer Technology Festival	SamFolkWilliams	See FACTFest for status
Nov 20, 2006	VanLUG Meeting	Vancouver , Canada. The meeting will talk about the release of Fedora Core 6 and Fedora Project	LuyaTshimbalanga	Report
Nov 22, 2006	Install Parties	Strasbourg, FRANCE. Install Party of Fedora Core 6	ChitleshGoorah	Report
Nov ??, 2006	Día Fedora Don Bosco	Caracas , Venezuela. Fedora Core 6 and Fedora Project Presentations and Experience	GuillermoGomez	Don Bosco. fedora-ve.org organized event.
Dec,1st-3rd 2006	FAD - Fedora Ambassadors Day EMEA	Near Basel (Switzerland)	GeroldKassube ChitleshGoorah	See FAD 2006 EMEA
Dec,1st-4th 2006	PC Fair 2006	KLCC Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)	HanafiahMuhamad
Dec 11, 2006	20 minutes presentation	Berne University of Applied Sciences Room E56 New Desktop Features in FC 6 (Fedora Core 6 vs Windows Vista ;-) )	FabianAffolter	approved after 1600 (Time not fix until now)
Dec 18-22 2006	ExpoTecnologica	Maracaibo - Venezuela	GuillermoGomez	Sending materials (freemedia plus banner)