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=== Fedora 11 Release Events Contest winners announced ===
=== Registration opens for Utah Open Source Conference ===


Francesco Ugolini recently announced the F11 Release Events Contest winners:
Registration is now open for the [http://2009.utosc.com/pages/home/ Utah Open Source Conference], to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from Oct. 8-10. This is the third year of this annual event, and Fedora is one of the sponsors.


* Kevin Higgins with the Vancouver, Washington (USA), release event;
Fedora will have a booth at the event and those in the area are urged to attend the event and are welcome to help out. For more information on staffing the booth, contact Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-at-fedoraproject-dot-org.
* Neville A. Cross with the Managua, Nicaragua, release event and;
* Truong Anh Tuan with the Hanoi, Vietnam, release event.


Francesco outlined that for the Fedora 11 release, the Fedora Ambassador Steering Committee (FAmSCo) wants to give some of the Ambassadors who organized great release events an opportunity to attend a FUDCon or a FAD in their region, and to meet more of the community face to face.
=== Fedora at free software workshop at KLN Madurai ===


The purpose of these events is to promote the new release of Fedora, to raise awareness among local communities, and to educate users and developers on the most important features of the release.
Arun Sag conducted one day Free software workshop on 29th August, at KLN Madurai for the pre-final year CSE and IT students. The session started with an introduction to free software and philosophy. Fedora 11 was installed in 30+ Lab machines for hands on. The response from the students was excellent. Hospitality was good.


FAmSCo wants to thank all the participants for their amazing job, and asks them to remember that the committee will continue to encourage such actions.
Fedora 11 DVDs were distributed to all the participants.


If you are still planning a Fedora 11 event, please list it on the Release Party wiki [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Party here].
Arun would like to thank HOD of CSE department, KLN and final year student Dhivakaran for organizing this event successfully.
 
Pictures of the event <ref>http://www.flickr.com/photos/saga123/sets/72157622066191653/</ref>


=== Get on the map ===
=== Get on the map ===

Revision as of 14:58, 31 August 2009

Ambassadors

In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].

Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero

Registration opens for Utah Open Source Conference

Registration is now open for the Utah Open Source Conference, to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from Oct. 8-10. This is the third year of this annual event, and Fedora is one of the sponsors.

Fedora will have a booth at the event and those in the area are urged to attend the event and are welcome to help out. For more information on staffing the booth, contact Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-at-fedoraproject-dot-org.

Fedora at free software workshop at KLN Madurai

Arun Sag conducted one day Free software workshop on 29th August, at KLN Madurai for the pre-final year CSE and IT students. The session started with an introduction to free software and philosophy. Fedora 11 was installed in 30+ Lab machines for hands on. The response from the students was excellent. Hospitality was good.

Fedora 11 DVDs were distributed to all the participants.

Arun would like to thank HOD of CSE department, KLN and final year student Dhivakaran for organizing this event successfully.

Pictures of the event [1]

Get on the map

Want to find the nearest ambassador? How about one in Belarus? Now you can.

Susmit Shannigrahi reports that finding out the nearest ambassadors, which was once a tedious task, is now as simple as viewing a map. The map is at here and instructions on how to place yourself on the map can be found at here.

Get the word out about your F11 event

Fedora 11 was released recently and with it a variety of activities around the release will be forthcoming. As such, with the upcoming release of Fedora 11, this is a reminder that posting your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well.