Events

The purpose of this page is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event.

This page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning.

Events can be added to this page that have an Ambassador owner and if they do not have an owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event.

Additional information:

• Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
• Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
• Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility.
• Reporting -- event report guidelines and suggestions.
• LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.

North America (NA)

NOTE: Please do not remove events from the list until the end of the quarter. This helps planning for following quarters.

FY10 Q3 (September 2009 - November 2009)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Event Box	Vertical Banners
2009-09-01/04	Red Hat Summit	Chicago, IL, USA	John Rose, Paul W. Frields	Fedora contributors' attendees list at Red_Hat_Summit_2009	-
September 13, 2009	College Park Fedora 11 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	David Ramsey	see College Park	?
September 19, 2009	Atlanta Linux Fest	Atlanta, GA, USA	David Nalley	-	200-250
September 19, 2009	Software Freedom Day	Albuquerque, NM, USA	David Thomas	3rd year, This year will be at Cottonwood Mall Lots of foot traffic	1000+
September 19, 2009	Software Freedom Day	Portales, NM, USA	David Thomas	In the Sandia Room of the Eastern New Mexico University Campus Union Building.	100+
September 19, 2009	Software Freedom Day	Felton, CA, USA	Larry Cafiero	At the offices of Redwood Digital Research, 6116 Highway 9, Felton.	50-100
September 21-23, 2009	LinuxCon	Portland, OR, USA	Matt McKenzie	New event run by The Linux Foundation, at Portland Marriott Waterfront Hotel, coincides with Linux Plumbers Con	500-1000(?)	YES
September 25-26, 2009	Ohio LinuxFest	Columbus, Ohio	Brian Powell Ben Williams	The seventh annual Ohio LinuxFest will be on September 25-26, 2009 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, in downtown Columbus, Ohio.	2000+	YES
September 27, 2009	College Park Fedora 11 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	David Ramsey	see College Park	?
October 8-10 2009	Utah Open Source Conference	Salt Lake City, UT, USA	Clint Savage	3rd year of the Regional Conference	600+	Yes
October 11, 2009	College Park Fedora 11 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	David Ramsey	see College Park	?
October 17 2009	Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference	Harrisburg, PA, USA	Brian Powell	Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference	100+	YES
October 20 2009	JIT 2009	Quebec, Canada	Jean-Francois Saucier	JIT is a conference to promote the use of free softwares and to demonstrate the capabilities of them. It focus on the technical side of using the softwares and how to integrate them into a production environment	150+	Yes
October 24 2009	Ontario Linux Fest 2009	Ontario, Canada	Jean-Francois Saucier soon confirmed	Ontario Linux Fest is the conference, workshop and community meeting place that is organized and run by the community for the community. This event opens Toronto Open Source Week	300+	Yes
October 24 2009	ABLEconf	Phoenix, Arizona	Ryan Rix	ABLEconf is a FOSS conference targeting local SMB, government and education entities.	200+	No
October 25, 2009	College Park Fedora 11 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	David Ramsey	see College Park	?
October 29 2009	Teaching Open Source Summit (TOSS09)	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	owner needed	The Teaching Open Source Summit is a face to face gathering of the TeachingOpenSource.org community. TOSS09 is an adjunct event to FSOSS2009 and part of Toronto Open Source Week.	50-100
October 29-30 2009	Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS)	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	owner needed	FSOSS is a conference with workshops organized by Seneca College, now in its 8th year. This event closes Toronto Open Source Week.	300-400
November 8, 2009	College Park Fedora 11 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	David Ramsey	see College Park	?
November 22, 2009	College Park Fedora 12 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	David Ramsey	see College Park	?
November 22-24, 2009	NYSCATE Annual Conference	Rochester, NY, USA	owner needed	44th NYSCATE Annual Conference Rochester Riverside Convention Center	???

FY10 Q4 (December 2009 - February 2010)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Event Box?	Vertical Banners	Report Links
December 5-7, 2009	FUDCon:Toronto 2009	Toronto, Canada	Paul W. Frields, Mel Chua	North American FUDCon; Technical sessions, hackfests, Fedora 13 planning, user outreach, and general merriment	150-200
December 6, 2009	College Park Fedora 12 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	David Ramsey	see College Park	?
December 20, 2009	College Park Fedora 12 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	David Ramsey	see College Park	?
February 19-21, 2010	Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 8x)	Los Angeles, CA, USA	Larry Cafiero	Annual first-of-the-year Linux event Fedora's SCaLE 8x wiki	1,000+	yes	yes

FY11 Q1 (March 2010 - May 2010)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Event Box	Vertical Banners	Report Link
April 10, 2010	Texas Linuxfest	Austin, TX	David Duncan	North American Event: Central Texas Linux Festival	150-200

Central & South America (LATAM)

FY10 Q3 (September 2009 - November 2009)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Report Links
Sep 19, 2009	Software Freedom Day	Chihuahua, México	Alejandro Acosta	See [1]	40+
Sep 19, 2009	Software Freedom Day	Managua, Nicaragua	Neville A. Cross	See Fedora Details	1000+
Sep 19, 2009	Software Freedom Day	Panama, Panama	Alejandro Perez Juan Carlos Watts	See Fedora Details	100+	Photos more Photos
September 19, 2009	Software Freedom Day	El Salvador, San Salvador, UTEC	Andres Pascasio	Publicize is Free Software, its philosophy, benefits, and that is the fedora project its principles, and to contribute to free software.On the premises of Technology University of El Salvador.	50-100
Sep 21, 2009	Programer Day	Panama, Panama	Alejandro Perez Juan Carlos Watts	Programers day is a college event that show new language and technique to college students, we were invited to talk about Ruby on rail and Fedora. On Technology Institute of Panama	50-100	Photos
Sep 22-25, 2009	2° Congreso Internacional de Investigación	Delicias, México	Alejandro Acosta	See Call for Papers	700+
Sep 24-25, 2009	Encuentro de Tecnologias de la Informacion y Comunicacion Libre Securinf V3.0	Popayán, Colombia	Diego Escobar	See for details	200+	Photos (Report)
Sep 24-26, 2009	Comsolid	Maracanaú, Brazil	Lucazz	See for details	500+
Sep 24-26, 2009	I ENINC	Cariri, Brazil	Lucazz	See for details	300+
Oct 28, 2009	Linux Day Instituto Comericial Panama	Panama, Panama	Alejandro Perez Juan Carlos Watts	Show Fedora And free software to High School Students of Instituto Comercial Panama	300+
Oct 22-24, 2009	Encuentro Linux 2009	Valparaiso, Chile	User:rcovarru	See EL2009 Call for Papers	1000+
October 22-24, 2009	Latinoware	Fóz do Iguacu, PR, BR	Rodrigo Padula	VI Latin American Free Software Event	3000-3500	No
Oct 03, 2009	Fedora Day Linux 2009	Santiago, Chile	User:jonisk877	See For addicional information	400+
November 14, 2009	Fedora 12 Release Party	Porto Alegre, Brazil	Leonardo Vaz	See [2]	200
November 19,20 2009	Universidad Interamerican de Panama, Teach Fair	Panama, Panama	Alejandro Pérez Juan Carlos Watts	Talk about Fedora project and Fedora 12 Release	100+	Photos Report
November 21, 2009	Fedora 12 Release Party	Quito, Ecuador	Ricardo Arguello	See for details	150
November 20, 2009	Fedora 12 Release Party	Manaus, Brazil	Daniel Bruno	See [3]	50
November 23, 2009	Fedora 12 Release Party	Sena Madureira, Brazil	João Lenno	See [4]	50
November 26-25, 2009	SoliSC 2009	Florianópolis, Brazil	Wolnei Cândido Tomazelli Junior	IV Catarinense Congress of Free Software	2000

FY10 Q4 (December 2009 - February 2010)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Report Links
Dec 3, 2009	Fedora 12 Realese party	Managua, Nicaragua	Neville A. Cross	See Events Details	50

Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)

FY10 Q3 (September 2009 - November 2009)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance
2009-09-05/06	Braderie Lille 2009	Lille, France	ThomasCanniot	Non Computer science event : annual Lille street market	1 million every year
2009-09-10/11	Developer Conference 2009	Brno, Czech Republic	RadekVokal	Open conference for all Developers, Admins and Linux users organized by Red Hat Czech Republic	unknown
2009-09-19	Software Freedom Day	Stockholm, Sweden	Nordickiwi	Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. We will hand out free Linux CD's/DVD's to the public in Stockholm, and information on free software. Photos	unknown
2009-09-19	Software Freedom Day	Yaounde, Cameroon	Ahandajf	Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. We will hand out free Linux CD's/DVD's and make install to the public, and information on free software.	unknown
2009-09-19	Software Freedom Day	Thessaloniki, Greece	ChristosBacharakis	Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. We will hand out free Linux CD's/DVD's and make install to the public, and information on free software at the central square of Thessaloniki.	over 800
2009-09-19	Software Freedom Day	Athens, Greece	PierrosPapadeas	Software Freedom Day is a global celebration and education of why transparent and sustainable technologies are now more important than ever. We will hand out free Linux CD's/DVD's and make install to the public, and information on free software at Sturnari Street and NTUA University.	over 1,000
2009-09-23/24	OpenExpo 2009	Winterthur, Switzerland	FabianAffolter	OpenExpo, the Swiss conference and trade show for Free and Open Source Software, takes place for for two days at Winterthur. See OpenExpo 2009	1,200
2009-09-25/27	FAD EMEA 2009	Rheinfelden, Germany	GeroldKassube FabianAffolter	Fedora Activity Day (legacy FAD) to plan Events for 2010, Budgets, Announcements and the Roadmap for EMEA Ambassadors in the near future	unknown yet
2009-10-14/18	Athens Digital Week 2009	Athens, Greece	PierrosPapadeas	Athens Digital Week 2009 is a combination of technology events taking place in Athens annualy. See Athens Digital Week 2009	over 20,000
2009-10-16/17	JDLL 2009	Lyon, France	HaikelGuemar	JDLL 2009 is a yearly Free Software event in Lyon (France) happening in mid october.	over 1,000/day
2009-10-31	Szabad Szoftver Konferencia és Kiállítás 2009, Budapest	Budapest, Hungary	Zoltán Hoppár Robert Scheck	Free Software Conference 2009 in the University Budapest, organized by the Free Software Foundation Hungary	over 350
2009-11-26/29	Infosystem 2009	Thessaloniki, Greece	ChristosBacharakis	Infosystem is an International IT exhibition at Thessaloniki International Exhibition Center	over 8000
2009-11-15/16	OpenSource Expo 2009	Karlsruhe, Germany	JensMaucher, JoergSimon, Robert Scheck	registered for a booth	unknown
2009-11-07/08	OpenRheinRuhr	Bottrop, Germany	DominicHopf	A trade show with congress which takes place at Bottrop, Germany in November 2009. See OpenRheinRuhr2009	unknown
2009-11-07	BarCampCameroon	Douala, Cameroon	Ahandajf	BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event.	150
2009-11-20	Fedora 12 Release Party (ES)	Valencia, Spain	Juanjo Martínez	We're going to talk about Fedora (and the new release), Linux and Free Software.	unknown, ~20
2009-11-24	Fedora 12 Release Party	Menofia, Egypt	Ahmed Daoud	Fedora 12 Release party is an event organized by Mufix community at Menofia University, Egypt.	~140
2009-11-28	LinuxDay 2009	Dornbirn, Austria	Fabian Affolter (vacant)	LinuxDay is a small event in Austria near the Swiss, German, and Lichtenstein border. See LinuxDay 2009	300
2009-11-28	Fedora 12 Release Party (NL)	Utrecht, the Netherlands	Jeroen van Meeuwen	Fedora 12 Release party sponsored by Operator Groep Delft, at Utrecht branch office (address at http://www.ogd.nl	i sincerely hope 1000+
2009-11-28	Fedora 12 Release Party (Be)	Antwerp, Belgium	Bert Desmet	Fedora 12 Release party	< 60

FY10 Q4 (December 2009 - February 2010)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance
Dec 12 2009	Terminal Meeting	Budapest, Hotel Bara	Forum of "Linux Centrum"	This will be the first meeting for linux newbies, where FOSS talks, and the possibilities of linux and power of commandline also comes together. We try to begin a new tradition, what hopefully continues in each year too.	Still getting response: ~45
Dec 15 2009	Open Source and Fedora Linux today - Providing a platform for Linux users to meet and discussing issues affecting the development of Open source in the region and also providing support where needed in other to make full transit to Open Open source resources available today. Fedora's rapid growth and why it is our server O.S of choice.	Lagos	G-town Media + Bensoft Enterprise	Seminar/Workshop	Still getting response, targer 200 system Admins.
December 15-17	Rencontres Fedora 12 à la Cité des Sciences	Paris, France	Mathieu Bridon and Thomas Canniot	Fedora 12 Release Party
February 6-7	FOSDEM	Brussels, Belgium	FredericHornain	See FOSDEM 2010 for status	5,000

FY11 Q1 (March 2010 - May 2010)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance
March, 2-6	Cebit	Hannover, Germany	unknown	See Cebit 2010 for details	a lot, perhaps 50000
March, 13-14	Chemnitzer Linuxtage	Chemnitz, Germany	JoergSimon	See CLT 2010 for details	2600
April	OpenExpo	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 2010	1000

India, Asia, and Australia (India/APJ)

FY10 Q3 (September 2009 - November 2009)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance
September 3-4, 2009 September 10-11, 2009 September 17-18, 2009	Pre-Scheduled visits to the Different Universities & Campuses, to give them on hand support and help , for the Fedora and Open Source OS	Rawalpindi, Islamabad (Pakistan)	Skyscanner4u	A tour to introduce the Fedora in Pakistan	>500
September 6, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
September 10 - 12, 2009	Linux Poison : An event on GNU/Linux, Free And Open Source Technologies, at SRM University.	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India	Salvadesswaran, Ramadass, Shiv Deepak	10 Sep: Linux Lingo : A Workshop On GNU/Linux Fedora; 11 Sep: Linu(X)Box : LAN Gaming on GNU/Linux Platform; 12 Sep: Python: The Man Eater: A Workshop On Python Basics [5]	~500
September 15, 2009	Software Freedom Day	CSI Auditorium, Kolkata	A. Mani	[6].	>60
September 19, 2009	Software Freedom Day 2009	National Computer Center, Quezon City, Philippines	Heherson Pagcaliwagan, Magie Antonio, Engels Antonio	See event page.	>400
September 20, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
October 4, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
October 18, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
October 23-25, 2009	FOSS.my 2009	Asia Pacific Institute of Institute of Information Technology (APIIT), Malaysia	MohdIzharFirdaus, SyamsulAnuar	Community FOSS conference in Malaysia. Event planning page : Events/FOSS.my_2009	>300
October 28-31, 2009	FOSS GN'09	Enginering College Bikaner,Bikaner Rajasthan	Jaideep Khandelwal	[7].	>300
November 1, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
November 15, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
November 25, 2009	Fedora 12 Install Fest and Distribution	Jaipur,India	Acedip	Fedora 12 release party and installation for my college students only in the campus organized by CS Department skit	<80
November 28, 2009	Fedora 12 Install Fest and Distribution	Jaipur,India	Acedip	Fedora 12 install and presentations on contributing to fedoraproject and foss participation SBCET	>150
November 29, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 12 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100

FY10 Q4 (December 2009 - February 2010)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance
December 1-5, 2009	Foss.in	India	SusmitShannigrahi, RahulSundaram, KushalDas	foss_in_2009	large
December 7-11, 2009	UP Engineering Week	University of the Philippines - Diliman, College of Engineering	Heherson Pagcaliwagan	please see the event page	>200
December 13, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 12 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	David Ramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
December 25/26, 2009	Bangladesh Fedora Release Party	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Mahay Alam Khan	Fedora 12 DVD distribution, LiveUSB Creation, lightening talks from Fedora users, Foods.	>100
December 27, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 12 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	David Ramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100

FY11 Q1 (March 2010 - May 2010)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance

Past Events

The old events can be found in the archive.