Past Events 2009

Fedora Past Events: 2009

January

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance
January 9-11, 2008	FUDCon F11	Boston, MA	Paul W. Frields	Development kickoff for Fedora 11; hackfests, technical sessions, FUDPub, fun and learning aplenty	120-150?
January 24, 2008	BarCamp Charlotte	Charlotte, NC	David Nalley	BarCamp Charlotte - preseting Fedora and ideally sponsoring, would like shirts and media.	??

February

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance
February 02-08, 2009	Mukti 09	Durgapur, India	Susmit Shannigrahi, Subhodip Biswas, Arindam Ghosh	Workshops, Talks, FAD - Reports	~500
February 6-8	FOSDEM	Brussels, Belgium	FredericHornain	See FOSDEM2009 for status	4,000
February 13-14, 2009	GNUnify	Pune, India	Rahul Sundaram, Rakesh Pandit, Ramakrishna Reddy	Workshops, Talks, FAD, unconference	~800
February 18, 2009	Clemson LUG	Clemson, SC	David Nalley		50
February 20-22, 2009	SCaLE 7x	Los Angeles	Clint Savage	Full Fedora Booth with EventBox needed	1500+
February 18, 2009	Fedora Infinity Day 2009	Dhaka, Bangladesh	[1]	Fedora 10 Feature Tour, Fedora Demonstration, Fedora 10 Live CD / DVD distribution	>100
February 18, 2009	ITE Roadshow	TIP Manila	Magie Antonio	Exhibits and Seminars	>100
February 19-22, 2009	Magnum Opus	Benaras, India	Susmit, Dushyanth R	Talks	To be seen
February 20-21, 2009	Freed.in	New Delhi, India	Rakesh Pandit, Ramakrishna Reddy	Talks, FAD	~400
February 21, 2009	Install Fest @ KGEC	Kalyani Govt. Engineering College, West Bengal India	Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury	Install Fest, FAD	~100
February 27-March 1, 2009	FOSSMeet @ NITC	Calicut, India	Paul W. Frields (remote), Sankarshan (remote)	Speeches via video teleconference	~600
February 27-March 1, 2009	FOSSConf	Madurai, India	Rahul Sundaram	Stalls,install-fest,demo	~600
February 28, 2009	Fedora Round Table	Karlsruhe, Germany	GeroldKassube	FRT No. 1	~20

March

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance
February 18, 2009	SHACS Meeting	Huntsville, TX, USA	Adam Miller	Introduction to Fedora Presentation for Undergraduate Computer Science Students	~50-100
March 5-7, 2009	Computer Using Educators	Palm Springs, CA, USA	Karsten Wade	We were approved for a panel discussion
2009-03-03/08	Cebit	Hannover, Germany	Robert M. Albrecht	Cebit 2009	450,000
March 9, 2009	Florida Linux Show	Jacksonville, FL, USA	David Nalley	Working on getting a booth, presentation already submitted and a speaker slot acquired.	~300 last year
March 10-12, 2009	FOSE 09	Washington, DC, USA	Paul W. Frields	Tentative - Work with NoVaLUG/Tux.org at booth. No speaker slots available for .org projects.	10,000+
March 12-14, 2009	OSIDays 2009	Chennai Trade Center Chennai,India	Balaji Gurudass	Introduction to Fedora,Prominent Features of Fedora and How to contribute to Fedora	>200
2009-03-13/-15	Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2009	Chemnitz, Germany	JoergSimon	The Chemnitzer Linux-days are an event for everyone about Linux and open source. See Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2009	3,000
March 21	Free Software Embedded/Hardware workshop	Government Engineering College, Barton Hill, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India	ShakthiKannan	Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems, Electronic Design Automation tools with Free Software, Fedora Electronic Lab	>100
25th March	Document Freedom Day	Opera, Italy	GianlucaVarisco, LucaFoppiano	Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general.	-
March 25, 2009	Document Freedom Day	IlugCalInfo, Kolkata (will update)	A.Mani	Documentation Tools, Semi Install Fest	>75
March 26, 2009	Infotech Niagara Beta Awards	Buffalo, NY, USA	Brian Powell	Fedora / OLPC Booth (possible presentation on OLPC project)	500+
March 27-29, 2009	PyCon	Chicago, IL, USA	Tom "spot" Callaway	Fedora / OLPC Booth	1000
March 23 - March 29	LUGM OpenWeek	MIT, Manipal, India	AnkurSinha	Introduction to Open source, Install fest F10 etc. See : LUG-Manipal Open Week Event report:: OpenWeek report Photos	>100
March 28-29, 2009	UMS Labuan LAMP Training (featuring Fedora)	Malaysia University of Sabah, Labuan International Campus, Malaysia	Wariola	A basic training on Fedora Linux and deploying the LAMP stack. Participant also been taught how to setup Joomla and phpMyAdmin	20
31st March, 1st, 2nd April	Linux Solutions	Paris, France	-	Solution Linux 2009	10,000

April

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance
2009-04-01/-02	OpenExpo 2009	Berne, Switzerland	FabianAffolter	OpenExpo, the Swiss conference and trade show for Free and Open Source Software, takes place for for two days at Berne. See OpenExpo 2009	1,200
April 2009	WBUT FEST	WBUT,Kolkata, India	rabikumar	Technical Fest on open source. See : [[ | WBUT-Fest]]	>100 echnical Fest on open source. See : [[ | WBUT-Fest]] || >100
April 9, 2009	Fedora Interactive Know How Session	NIT Durgapur, India	RangeenBasuRoyChowdhury	Follow up session to an install fest	50
April 11, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 10 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
April 17-19, 2009	Summer Geek Camp 2	Loreland Farm Resort in Antipolo City	Magie Antonio	see website for details	>100
April 18, 2009	Fedora Workshop	Kalyani Government Engineering College, India	Rohit Gupta	Workshop on administrating fedora, install Applications and use them	100-150
April 25, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 10 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
April 24-26, 2009	Enigma:Annual TECH of KITE-SOM	Kautilya Institute of Technology & Engineering, Jaipur	Udit Sharma	Workshop on FOSS & Fedora Install Fest FOSS-nigma WebPage for more details	>100