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Fedora Past Events: 2008
| Date | Name of Event | Location and Short Description | Ambassador | How'd it go? | Attendance |
| January 28, 2008 | linux.conf.au | Melbourne, Australia Part of linux.conf.au 2008 |
EugeneTeo | See LCA/Melbourne2008 for status | |
| January 29-31, 2008 | Linux Solutions | Paris, France |
ThomasCanniot | Status soon | |
| February 8-10, 2008 | SCALE 6X | Los Angeles, CA, USA - 6th Annual Southern California Linux Expo | ThomasChung | See SCALE 6X | |
| February 9, 2008 | BarCamp Indianapolis | Indianapolis, IN USA | PascalCalarco | See Bar Camp Indy for status | |
| February 11, 2008 | Florida Linux Show | Jacksonville, Florida | JackAboutboul | Booth | |
| February 19, 2008 | Fedora by Night | Lodi, Italy How does a Linux community based distribution live and grow. |
FrancescoCrippa | Fedora by Night | |
| February 23-24 2008 | FOSDEM | Brussel, Belgium | FredericHornain | See FOSDEM2008 for status | |
| March 1-2, 2008 | Chemnitzer LinuxTage 2008 | Chemnitz, Germany | JensKuehnel JoergSimon RobertScheck |
Report and pictures | |
| March 12-13, 2008 | OpenExpo 2008 | Berne, Switzerland A 2-day Expo about Open Source Software in business area as application, service or further development. |
FabianAffolter | See OpenExpo2008_Berne for status | |
| March 14-16, 2008 | PyCon | Chicago, IL | TomCallaway MikeMcGrath ToshioKuratomi |
Booth, attending talks | |
| March 21-22, 2008 | FOSSComm Greece | Athens, Greece | DimitrisGlezos | Presenting, giving away media | |
| April 1-3, 2008 | FOSE | Washington, DC | PaulFrields | booth, networking | |
| April 4-6, 2008 | NOTACON 5 | Cleveland, OH | JasonFenner | event report | |
| April 17-19, 2008 | FISL | Porto Alegre, Brazil | RodrigoPadula | See FISL 9.0 for status | |
| April 19, 2008 | Fedora day | Cairo, Egypt | DiaaRadwan | Event Report | |
| April 19, 2008 | liberaMENTE | Opera, Italy | FrancescoCrippa, LucaFoppiano | - | |
| April 26-27, 2008 | LinuxFest Northwest 2008 | Bellingham, WA | JesseKeating | booth, talks | - |
| April 26, 2008 | FLISOL 2008 | Latin America | RodrigoPadula | See FLISOL 2008 for status | - |
| April 29, 2008 | Fedora 9 Release Event at Concordia and McGill University | Concordia and !McGill University, Montreal, Canada | RashadulIslam | Presentation of Fedora and F9 Release, Talks, Social, Free Foods, Drinks | - |
| May 02-04, 2008 | II ENSOL | João Pessoa, Brazil | RodrigoPadula | See II ENSOL for status | - |
| May 3, 2008 | Utah Fedora/Ubuntu Release Party | Code Greene, SLC, Utah | ClintSavage | presentations, food, games, installfest | - |
| May 5, 2008 | CommunityOne | San Francisco, CA | KarstenWade | FOSS community panel | - |
| May 10, 2008 | Fedora 9 Presentation | Tunis, Tunisia | ChihebChabchoub NihedMbarek ZiedFakhfakh | Poster Photo | - |
| May 13, 2008 | North Italy F9 Release Party | Lodi, Italy | LucaFoppiano | OfficialPage | - |
| May 13, 2008 | Toronto Release Party | Toronto ON | AndrewOverholt | Confirmed - see event link | - |
| May 15, 2008 | Central Ohio Release Party | Columbus, OH | JeffreyTadlock BrianPepple | Details Here | - |
| May 17, 2008 | Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts Installfest | Emory School of Law, Atlanta, GA | DavidNalley | talks, installfest | - |
| May 17, 2008 | Patras F9 Release Party | Patras, Greece | DimitrisGlezos | Poster | - |
| May 16, 2008 | Bangladesh Release Party | Dhaka, Bangladesh | MahayAlamKhan | Details Coming Soon | - |
| May 23, 2008 | Los Angeles Release Party | Los Angeles, CA | GradyLaksmono | Free DVD, Free Live CD, USB Creation Station, Presentation, Discussion, Talks, Social, Funs, Free Foods, Drinks Event has been fully funded. |
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| May 24, 2008 | Rome F9 Release Party | Rome, Italy | MarcoPalazzotti | OfficialPage Event has been fully funded. |
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| May 31, 2008 | Center Italy F9 Release Party | Florence, Italy | LorenzoVillani | OfficialPage Event has been fully funded. |
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| May 28-29, 2008 | COMUNICAÇÃO DIGITAL | João Pessoa, Brazil | GutembergMedeiros, AllissonAzevedo | Presentation of Fedora 9, Installfest, Free DVD, Free Live CD, USB Creation Station, Talks, Social. No additional funding planned. | +400 |
| May 28-31, 2008 | LinuxTag | Berlin, Germany | GeroldKassube FabianAffolter |
See LinuxTag 2008 for status. Event is funded by CommunityArchitecture. | 11,000 |
| May 30-31, 2008 | ESLAM | Manaus, Brazil | RodrigoPadula , AyrtonAraujo | See ESLAM 2008 for status . Funding in process of being sent to RodrigoPadula. |
2000 |
| June 1, 2008 | Fedora Day | Garlasco, Italy |
AndreaModestoRossi | See TiLUG for Status | 50 - 100 |
| June 1, 2008 | FOD | Cracow, Poland | PawelSadowski | Finalizing tasks | 100-140 |
| June 1, 2008 | Fedora Day | Garlasco, Italy |
AndreaModestoRossi | See TiLUG for Status | 50 - 100 |
| June 1, 2008 | FOD | Cracow, Poland | PawelSadowski | Finalizing tasks | 100-140 |
| June 7, 2008 | Fedora 9 Release Install Party | Arlon, Belgium | JonathanBasse | Status soon | - |
| June 9, 2008 | Fedora Release Party | Kathmandu, Nepal | ShankarPokharel | Presentation of Fedora 9, Free DVD, Talks, Social, Free Foods, Drinks | 50 |
| June 15, 2008 | Tech Day, OpenSuorce & Fedora | Pavia, Italy |
AndreaModestoRossi | Talks, Install Party, ... | 50 - 75 |
| June 19-21, 2008 | FUDCon Boston 2008 | Boston, MA | MaxSpevack, PaulFrields, GregDeKoenigsberg | See FUDConF10 for status. | 200 |
| June 21, 2008 | Fedora 9 Release Install Party | Paris, France |
ThomasCanniot | Event has been fully funded out of Q1 budget. | 75 - 100 |
| June 23-29, 2008 | Campus Party Colombia | Bogota - Colombia | Juan Camilo Prada | - | - |
| July 04, 2008 | Events/Lindependence 2008 | Felton, CA USA | Karsten Wade, Larry Cafiero | Conversion of businesses to Linux en masse | - |
| July 1-5, 2008 | Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre (RMLL) | Mont-de-Marsant, France |
ThomasCanniot | Status soon | - |
| July 5-11, 2008 | Eth0: 7 Days of high-tech geekfest | Den Oever, Netherlands | YaakovNemoy | talks, hacking, gaming, VJ' and DJ'ing, OSS, Embedded. See eth-0 2008 | 80-150 |
| July 7-12, 2008 | GUADEC | Istanbul, Turkey | JonathanBlandford | talks, swag, etc. | - |
| July 19-20, 2008 | LUG Radio Live | UK | MaxSpevack | Small RH and Fedora presence | - |
| July 21-25, 2008 | OSCON2008 | Portland, OR USA | JackAboutboul | Talks, Booth and BoF. Swag sent to JohnPoelstra May 10. |
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| July 23-26, 2008 | Linux Symposium | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | TomCallaway | MattDomsch presenting MirrorManager, JesseKeating presenting spin creation, TomCallaway leading Fedora BOF | 700 |
| July 25-27, 2008 | LTSP Hackfest | Portland, Oregon | WarrenTogami | Event is currently in planning, might visit free parts of OSCon as well | - |
| July 28-31, 2008 | XVI ENECOMP | Campina Grande - PB, Brazil | GutembergMedeiros | See ENECOMP for status | 900 |
| August 1-3 2008 | Mukt.in | Hyderabad | SiddharthUpmanyu | "mukt is derived from the word mukti, meaning the experience of being free from bondage." | Large |
| August 4-7, 2008 | LinuxWorld Expo | San Francisco, CA | JackAboutboul | Booth and BoF | - |
| August 23-24, 2008 | FrOSCon 2008 | Sankt Augustin, NRW, Germany | Max Spevack & Robert M. Albrecht | FrOSCon is a two-day conference on free software and open source. See FrOSCon2008. | 1100+ |
| August 26-30, 2008 | CESOL | Fortaleza, Brazil | RodrigoPadula | See CESOL for status | - |
| August 27 2008 | NIE School Teachers Workshop | Colombo | DanishkaNavin | See planning page | Medium |
| August 28-29 2008 | TechTrix '08 | Kolkata | SusmitShannigrahi | Tech Fest of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata. Will update details soon. | Medium |
| August 28-30, 2008 | UTOSC2008 | Salt Lake City, Utah | ClintSavage | See UTOSC2008 for updates | 350+ |
| September 5-7, 2008 | FUDCon Brno | Brno, Czech Republic | MaxSpevack | status and registration | 200 |
| September 6, 2008 | CONSUDEC Ch | Chascomus, Argentina | Pablobarrera | Confirmed | 100 |
| September 10 2008 | FOSS for teachers | NIE, Sri Lanka | DanishkaNavin | See here for status | Medium |
| September 10, 2008 | Fedora Docs Presentation | Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC | David Nalley | Invite from school to present Fedora, and specifically the docs project and possibly to involve the tech support classes in writing documentation for fp.o. Would like tshirts, stickers, LiveCDs, and perhaps an XO to show off. | ~20 |
| September 12-13-14, 2008 | Fête de l'humanité 2008 | Paris, France | Quentindumont | See Fête de l'humanité 2008 for status | - |
| September 12,13 2008 | FOSS for teachers | Marawila, Sri Lanka | DanishkaNavin | See here for status | Medium |
| September 14, 2008 | Charleston Linux Demo Days | Charleston, SC | David Nalley | Linux demonstration and conference being held in Charleston | 50 |
| September 19, 2008 | Benedict College | Columbia SC | DavidNalley | Small presentation to comp sci students hoping to recruit still VERY tentative | 25-75 |
| September 20, 2008 | Atlanta Linux Fest | Atlanta, GA | David Nalley | Installfest/one day conference | ~100? |
| September 20 2008 | SFD '2008 | Kolkata | A. Mani | SFD, Kolkata Team: ILUG-CALINFO. See [1] We have a Fedora session too | Medium |
| 20 September 2008 | Software Freedom Day | Quezon City, Philippines | EngelsAntonio, MagieAntonio, HehersonPagcaliwagan | See SFD2008 for status | 400 |
| September 20, 2008 | SFD2008 | Managua, Nicaragua | Neville Cross | See Team Nicaragua for status | 500 |
| September 20, 2008 | SFD | Salvador, Brazil | Rafaelgomes | See [SFD] for status | 200 |
| September 24-25, 2008 | OpenExpo 2008 | Zurich, Switzerland | FabianAffolter | A 2-day Expo about Open Source Software in business area as application, service or further development. See OpenExpo2008_Zurich for status |
1,200 |
| September 24-26 2008 | [FSLCN 2008] | Roraima, Brazil | RodrigoPadula | See FSLCN 2008 for status | 1200 |
| September 24-25, 2008 | Paris Capitale du Libre 2008 | Paris, France | ThomasCanniot | See PCL2008_Paris for status | 3,000 (last year figures) |
| 26-28 September 2008 | AXIS'08 | Nagpur, India | SusmitShannigrahi | Install fest, followed by workshops. For more see here | ~100 |
| September 27-28, 2008 | Fedora Campaign | Kasseh, GHANA | User:Tymensk | Introducing and demonstrating fedora to the people. Talks on free and open source software | 200+ |
