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 Q1 (March 2009 - May 2009)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance
11 June 2009	Fedora 11 Release party	Québec, Canada	jfsaucier	Pub Edward, start at 17:30	~30

FY10 Q2 (June 2009 - August 2009)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Event Box?	Report Links
TBA	FAD Fedora Devel 2009	Raleigh, NC	User:Jkeating	Engineering-heavy workshops for development cycle brainstorming	10+	No
13 June	Southeast Linuxfest	Clemson University, Clemson, SC	David Nalley, Ben Williams (attending)	New Linuxfest filling the gap left by the Atlanta Linux Showcase when it went to the west coast and became Linuxworld.	350-450	Yes	http://jbwillia.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/self-2009/
14 June	Docs FAD at SELF	Clemson University, Clemson, SC	David Nalley	Docs FAD following SELF	10 or so	No
17 - 19 June	Open Source Bridge 2009	Oregon Convention Center, Portland OR	Matt McKenzie, Larry Cafiero, John Poelstra (on conference marketing team--able to help locally as needed)	New Open Source conference, filling gap left by OSCON for Portland area	500	???	Decided not to have a Fedora presence at the conference because of cost and last minute arrangements required
28 June - 01 July	National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) (NECC_2009)	Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC	??? (Regional help needed + budget, or may not do show)	Biggest edtech show, has dedicated open source pavilion with large number (100?+) K12Linux thin clients and dedicated open source track	Yes	???
13 - 17 July	Montreal Linux Symposium	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	jfsaucier	Montreal Linux Symposium 2009	~700	Maybe	To follow
20 - 25 July	OSCON 2009	San Jose, CA	User:Lcafiero,User:Kwade	O'Reilly's open source everything convention	3,600

FY10 Q3 (September 2009 - November 2009)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Event Box
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	Dramsey	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 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	Dramsey	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+
October 11, 2009	College Park Fedora 11 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	Dramsey	see College Park	?
October 17 2009	Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference	Harrisburg, PA, USA	Brian Powell	Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference	100+	YES
October 24 2009	Ontario Linux Fest 2009	Ontario, Canada	owner needed	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+
October 25, 2009	College Park Fedora 11 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	Dramsey	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	Dramsey	see College Park	?
November 22, 2009	College Park Fedora 11 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	Dramsey	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?	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 11 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	Dramsey	see College Park	?
December 19, 2009	New Mexico GNU/LinuxFest	Albuquerque, NM, USA	David Thomas	New event, New Mexico University, Convention and Expo Fedora specific information at the Fest	400 to 500
December 20, 2009	College Park Fedora 11 Distribution	College Park, Maryland	Dramsey	see College Park	?

Central & South America (LATAM)

FY10 Q1 (March 2009 - May 2009)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Report Links
May 4-8, 2009	VI Foro Mundial de Conocimiento Libre	Mérida, Venezuela	MariaLeandro	See FedoraEvents/FMCL/VI-FMCL for status	3000	Canceled
May 15, 2009	Fedora-Venezuela Aniversary	Caracas, Venezuela	MariaLeandro	See Fedora Venezuela Website for date and location	20	Mail Report Photos
May 15-16, 2009	VCNSL	San Juan de los Morros, Venezuela	User:tatica	See VCNSL	500	photos
May 29-30, 2009	III ENSL e IV FSLBA	Salvador-BA,Brazil	User:Rafaelgomes User:Jasonn User:Nadilson	See III ENSL e IV FSLBA	2000+

FY10 Q2 (June 2009 - August 2009)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Report Links
Jun 03-04, 09	Jornada Makuruma	Bogota, Colombia	amoncada	See Jornada Makuruma	250-300
09 Jun 09	Pizza-Bash Fedora 11	Managua, Nicaragua	Neville A. Cross	Release Party	40
Jun 12-13, 2009	VCNSL	Maracay/Aragua, Venezuela	User:tatica	See VCNSL	300	Photos Report-Spanish
15 Jun 09	Fedora 11	Managua, Nicaragua	Neville A. Cross	Release Party	100	Report Photos
24-27 Jun 09	FUDCon LATAM - FISL 10	Porto Alegre, Brasil	RodrigoPadula	See FUDCon LATAM	10,000
Jul 4, 2009	Fedora-Classroom	Maracay,Venezuela	María "tatica" Leandro	HackLab	15 -20	Photos
Jul 17-18, 2009	VCNSL	Caracas, Venezuela	User:tatica	See VCNSL	2000
25 Jul 09	Conferencia "Free software and the Operative System"	Ciudad del Saber Panama	User:aeperezt	Richard M Stallman Conference	100+	Report Photos
Aug 1, 2009	Fedora-Classroom	Maracay,Venezuela	María "tatica" Leandro	HackLab	20 - 40
Aug 12-14, 2009	BugCON	Mexico,DF	Josue Guillermo Araujo Mayorga	Security Conferences. See [| BugCON]	350 - 500

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 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+
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 22-24, 2009	Encuentro Linux 2009	Valparaiso, Chile	User:rcovarru	See EL2009 Call for Papers	1000+

Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)

FY10 Q1 (March 2009 - May 2009)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance
26 - 30 April 2009	UNIX Base System Exhibition	Khartoum, Sudan	Hisham Abdel-Magid	Technical Fest on open source at University of Khartoum.	Open
16 May 2009	Fedora Install Fest	Nairobi, Kenya	Arthur Buliva	Technical and Install Fest on Fedora.	Open
8 - 9 May 2009	Journees du Libre	Brussels, Belgium	FredericHornain	FOSS Event targeted on Business, local Government	100
9 - 10 May 2009	FossComm 2	Larissa, Greece	PierrosPapadeas	FossComm, the annual gathering of Greek FOSS Communities	1,000
22 - 23 May 2009	eLiberatica	Bucharest, Romania	JeroenVanMeeuwen, NicuBuculei, JoergSimon	FOSS Event targeted on Business and Government	-

FY10 Q2 (June 2009 - August 2009)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance	Report links
2009-06-03/-05	LinuxDays 2009	Geneva, Switzerland	-	-	unkown
2009-06-12	Fedora 11 Release Party	Wageningen, Netherlands	Yaakov M. Nemoy or Alex C	Fedora 11 Release Party Wageningen	15
June 23-27	LinuxTag	Berlin, Germany	GeroldKassube FabianAffolter	See LinuxTag2009 for status.	11,000
June 26-28	FUDConBerlin2009	Berlin, Germany	MaxSpevack	The annual EMEA FUDCon	200
June 27-28	Fedora 11 Release Party	Paris, France	Nicolas Chauvet	See Release_Party_F11_Paris for status	(?)
July 4-5	CAT H4ck3rZ Duo	Mansoura, Egypt	Ahmed Soliman Mohamed Al-Maraghy	A two days event in Mansoura University, arranged by CAT-H4ck3rZ Team [[2]]	200	see Event Photos
July 7-11	RMLL 2009	Nantes, France	Quentin Dumont Armel Kermorvant	See Rencontres_Mondiales_du_Logiciel_Libre_2009.	(?)
July 21-23	[Forum.net]	Yaounde, Cameroon	user:ahandajf	Annual ICT Exibit	200
July 25-August 1	[SIM2009]	Cotonou, Benin	Mathias HOUNGBO	Multimedia Exibit, Salon International du Multimedia	350
August 13-16	Hacking At Random	Vierhouten, Netherlands	Yaakov Nemoy	See HAR2009 for status.	2,000 (?)
August 22-23	FrOSCon	Sankt Augustin, Germany	Felix Kaechele	See FrOSCon2009	? (third biggest linuxday in Germany)

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.	unknown
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
November	OpenSource Expo 2009	Karlsruhe, Germany	JensMaucher, JoergSimon	-	unkown
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
2009-11-28	LinuxDay 2009	Dornbirn, Austria	Fabian Affolter	LinuxDay is a small event in Austria near the Swiss, German, and Lichtenstein border. See LinuxDay 2009	300

India, Asia, and Australia (India/APJ)

FY10 Q1 (March 2009 - May 2009)

Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance
May 16-17, 2009	Fedora FOSS workshop	Jaipur Engineering College and Research Center, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India	ShakthiKannan	shakthimaan.com/downloads.html, i-want-to-do-project.tell-me-wat-2-do-Fedora, Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems, Packaging Red hot, Paneer (butter) Masala	>200
May 2, 2009	Introduction to FOSS, Fedora workshop	NBKR Institute of Science and Technology, Vidyanagar, Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh, India	ShakthiKannan	shakthimaan.com/downloads.html, i-want-to-do-project.tell-me-wat-2-do-Fedora, Fedora instalation and desktop, Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems	>100
May 10, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 10 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
May 14-15, 2009	DGPLUG FAD 2009	Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India	RatnadeepDebnath KishanGoyal	"DGPLUG FAD 2009"	~50
May 24, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 10 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100

FY10 Q2 (June 2009 - August 2009)

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Date	Event	Location	Owner	Description	Estimated Attendance
August 22, 2009	Fedora/Free Software Workshop	ACE Engineering College, Ankushapur, Ghatkesar Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, Andhra Pradesh, India	ShakthiKannan	shakthimaan.com/downloads.html, i-want-to-do-project.tell-me-wat-2-do-Fedora, Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems, Packaging Red hot, Paneer (butter) Masala	>150
July 18-19, 2009	GNUtsav	Agartala, Tripura, India	ShakthiKannan	shakthimaan.com/downloads.html, i-want-to-do-project.tell-me-wat-2-do-Fedora, Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems, Packaging Red hot, Paneer (butter) Masala	>150
May 31-June 3, 2009	MSC Open Source Convention 2009 and Fedora Activity Day	Berjaya Times Square Hotel & Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Anuar Shahriman Izhar Firdaus	A .MY government conference for developers, communities, and public sector. Aims in increasing involvement in Open Source by going deep in the technology and initiating local communities.	>600
June 6, 2009	Fedora 11 Release Party	Manila, Philippines	Magie Engels Herson		>100
June 6, 2009	Fedora 11 Release Event	Kolkata, India	A.Mani		>15
June 7, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 10 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
June 3, 2009	Manipur Fedora 11 Release Event	Manipur Central University, Imphal, Manipur	Rishikesh Sharma	Fedora 11 Release event and Installation Fest 2009	>200
June 11/12, 2009	Introducing FOSS & Fedora 11 install fest	Wilgamuwa, Sri Lanka	Danishka Navin	Introducing FOSS to school schildren and Fedora 11 install fest	>100
June 12, 2009	Fedora 11 Release Event	Hanoi, Vietnam	Truong Anh Tuan	See details on iWay website	>40
June 21, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
June 29/30, 2009	Fedora 11 release + teachers training	Galle, Sri Lanka	Danishka Navin	Fedora 11 launch and Fedora Edu Spin and hand on training	100
July 5, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
July 18-19, 2009	NIT Agartala GNU/Linux Fest & Fedora 11 Release Party	NIT Agartala, Agartala, India	Aveek Sen	Linux & FOSS fest- installation fest, talks & workshops over 2 days see NIT Agartala GLUG]	>1000 over the 2 days
July 19, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
August 2, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
August 10, 2009	Introduction to FOSS, Linux and Fedora	Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India	Debjit,Aditya	Blog Entry	>100
August 11, 2009	Fedora Install Fest	Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India	Debjit ,Aditya	Blog Entry	>100
August 16, 2009	Understanding Fedora : General usage and advance topics	Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India	Debjit,Aditya	Blog Entry	>70
August 16, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100
August 23, 2009	Introduction to fedora,Fedora electric lab and fedora 11 release party	Thanjavur,Tamilnadu ,India	Pankaj, Anurag Jain, Sanjeev Gopinath V	SASTRA University,Thanjavur,Tamilnadu ,India	>150
August 27, 2009	Introducing fedora as Powerful OS for students	Government Engineering College, Modasa, India	Zaid Chauhan	"Modas City"	"Government Engineering College, Modasa"	>200
August 30, 2009	Akihabara Fedora 11 Distribution	Tokyo, Japan	Dramsey	see Akihabara "Electric City"	>100

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 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 [3]	~500
September 19, 2009	Software Freedom Day 2009	National Computer Center, Quezon City, Philippines	Heherson Pagcaliwagan, Magie Antonio, Engels Antonio	See event page.	>300
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 30-31, 2009	Dextrix: Annual Technical Symposium Festival of APIIT SD INDIA	Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (Panipat) HARYANA	Sundeep Anand	Workshop on KVM based Virtualization "A new career option"	>100

Past Events

Please move past events to the current archive. The full archive is also available.