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Fedora Past Events: 2008
| Date | Event | Location | Owner | Description | Estimated 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 | - | - |
| 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 | Brussels, 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. |
- |
| May 31, 2008 | Center Italy F9 Release Party | Florence, Italy | LorenzoVillani | OfficialPage Event has been fully funded. |
- |
| 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. |
- |
| 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+ |
| October 3, 2008 | SWU | Central, SC | DavidNalley | Small comp sci (OO programming) presentation hopefully pushing students to get involved. | 25-50 |
| October 4, 2008 | RocGeeks | Rochester, NY | KarlieRobinson | Showing the Laptop.org XO to a SIG consisting of Computer geeks, techies, gadget enthusiasts. Will be talking about running Fedora on the XO | 9-14 Report |
| October 6-7, 2008 | Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2008 | Norman, OK | SantoshKumar | 7th Annual Supercomputing Symposium, which brings in Scientists, Researchers & Enthusiasts from across the US | 150+ |
| October 11, 2008 | Ohio Linux Fest | Columbus, OH | JeffreyTadlock | planning page | 1000+ Report |
| October 9-13 2008 | UofSMarywood University | Scranton, PA | LeoJackson | Introducing Fedora, Install Party, Media Distribution, Open Source Show & Tell, QA | 380+ Report |
| October 19, 2008 | Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference | Harrisburg, PA | YaakovNemoy | GregDeKoenigsberg, KarlieRobinson, and BrianPowell are slotted to attend | - Report |
| October 19, 2008 | Virginia Tech Linux Unix Users Group Installfest | Blacksburg Virginia | jbwillia | Fall Semister InstallFest | 50? Report |
| October 23-24, 2008 | Free Software & Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) | Toronto, Canada | ChrisTyler | Canadian open source conference - Paul W. Frields, Greg DeKoenigsberg, and other Fedorans slated to attend - An Open Source in Education track is being planned | 350 |
| October 25, 2008 | Ontario Linux Fest | Toronto, Canada | AndrewOverholt | Paul W. Frields attending. Behdad Esfahbod and Deepak Bhole hosting booth. Greg DeKoenigsberg speaking. | Hundreds? |
| October 25, 2008 | Lindependence Day 2008 | Portland, OR | Larry Cafiero | Installfest, evangelism expo, Larry Cafiero and Matt McKenzie representing Fedora so far | 100+ |
| October ?? 2008 | College of Charleston | Charleston, SC | David Nalley | Installfest - Linux presentations - perhaps recruiting a campus rep, date not firmly set | - 100 |
| October 3-4 2008 | Encontro DF 2008 | Brasília, Brazil | RodrigoPadula | See Encontro DF 2008 for status | 1500 |
| October 2-4 2008 | Festival GNU 2008 | Chihuahua, México | AlejandroAcosta | Conferences about GNU/Linux participating representatives from FSF, Ubuntu, Fedora, among others, more details to be added as arrived | 800 |
| October 8-11 2008 | Latinux Expo & Conferencias 2008 | Caracas, Venezuela | MariaLeandro | See Latinux Expo & Conferencias 2008 for status | 3000 |
| October ??, 2008 | Encuentro Linux | Concepción, Chile | ArturoHoffstadt | See Encuentro Linux 2008 for status | 1000 |
| October 11, 2008 | III Linux Day | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | RodrigoPadula | Conference about GNU/Linux participating representatives from Fedora | 200 |
| October 21-23, 2008 | IV Semana de Informática | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | RodrigoPadula | Conference about GNU/Linux participating representatives from Fedora | 100 |
| November ??, 2008 | Latinoware 2008 | Fóz do Iguaçu, Brazil | RodrigoPadula | See Latinoware 2008 for status | 3000 |
| October 13-19 2008 | Athens Digital Week | Athens, Greece | DimitrisGlezos | Huge informatics event in Athens | 50K? |
| October 18 | Linuxinfotag Landau 2008 | Landau, germany | Henrik Heigl | small Linux presentation and smalltalk event | 100 |
| October 19-23, 2008 | GITEX | Dubai, UAE | JohnBabich | status and registration | 130K |
| October 25-26, 2008 | T-DOSE | Eindhoven, The Netherlands | None Yet | None Yet | - |
| October 25, 2008 | Linuxday 2008 | Italy | LucaFoppiano, GianlucaVarisco, FrancescoCrippa, LorenzoVillani, AndreaModestoRossi, FrancescoUgolini, MarcoPalazzotti | Italian Linux day is a distribuited event: during all the day there will be about 100 events orgranized all around the county | 100 up to 3000 people per event |
| 29 October 2008 | SFD 2008 | Tunis, Tunisia | ChihebChabchoub, NihedMbarek, WaelAmmar, ZiedFakhfakh | planning page | 1,500 |
| Oct 2008 or Nov 2008 | FOSS Introduction Day | Singapore | Jason Benedict Low | "Where Piracy meets Fedora and FOSS!" "More software licensing ? It's time for choices !" | est. 20 |
| 27-30 October 2008 | HITBSecConf 08 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | ShahrimanSamsudin | One of the largest security conference being held in Asia Pasific Region. It's good chance to promote Fedora security/infrastructure features etcx3. Some Free Live CD or DVD required (200-300) | 2000 |
| November 10, 2008 | LISA | San Diego, CA | David Nalley]] | BoF session | Attendance at LISA will be 1k+ - at the BoF I'd be happy with 25 |
| November 15, 2008 | Fedora 10 Release Party | Greenville, SC USA | DavidNalley | - | - |
| November 15, 2008 | Fedora 10 Release Party! | Indianapolis, IN | ScottWilliams | Fedora 10 release party and installfest | 100? |
| November 26, 2008 | Fedora 10 Release Party | Toronto ON Canada | AndrewOverholt | Release party, install fest, demos, etc. | Probably about 50 I have it here so I'll use it :) FedoraEvents/ReleaseParty/F10/Toronto |
| November 15-17, 2008 | [FSLCN 2008] | Roraima, Brazil | RodrigoPadula | See FSLCN 2008 for status | 1200 |
| November 14-16, 2008 | Fedora Ambassador Day EMEA 2008 | Basel, Switzerland | MaxSpevack & SandroMathys | Planning session for Fedora EMEA activities in 2009 | 21 |
| November 29, 2008 | Linuxday 2008 | Dornbirn, Austria | FabianAffolter | A 1-day Expo about Open Source Software Planning page |
1,000 |
| November 29, 2008 | Thessaloniki Fedora 10 Release Party | Thessaloniki, Greece | ChristosBacharakis | Fedora 10 Release party at Thessaloniki | 40 |
| 8-9th November 2008 | FOSS.my | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | MohdIzharFirdaus | FOSS.my 2008 is Malaysia’s premier Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) event. Whilst this is our first go at it, we aim for this to be an annual event bringing together professionals and enthusiasts from Malaysia, Singapore, Asia and the rest of the world for a two day grassroots driven FOSS conference. | ~200 |
| November 2008 (TBD) | Jakarta F10 Release Party and Install Fest at Indonesia | Jakarta, Indonesia | Indraya | F10 Cd and DVD distribution, F10 Live USB Stick Creation Station, T-Shirts, Flyer and Sticker, Drinks, Music | ~200 |
| November 2008 (TBD) | Surabaya F10 Release Party and Install Fest at Indonesia | Surabaya, Indonesia | Johanhsn | F10 Cd and DVD distribution, F10 Live USB Stick Creation Station, T-Shirts, Flyer and Sticker, Drinks, Music | ~7500 |
| November, 2008 | Fedora 10 Release Party and Distribution Bonanza at Vellore Institute of technology (VIT) Vellore, India | Vellore, India | KarthikParvathaneni | Fedora 10 Release Party,Banners, Posters and Placards, Exhibition, On-Spot Installation and DVD Distribution | approx: 200 |
| November, 25-29 | FOSS.in | India | - | details | - |
| November 29, 2008 | Fedora 10 Release Party | Bishkek,Kyrgyzstan | Mirlan Ipasov | Kyrgyzstan Fedora 10 Release Party | approx: 200 |
| November 29, 2008 | Fedora 10 Release Party | Kathmandu, Nepal | Shankar Pokharel | Fedora 10 Release Party Nepal | approx: 200 |
| November 30, 2008 | Fedora 10 Release Party| Shenzhen Linux/Unix User Group | Shenzhen, China | Crquan | Fedora 10 Release Party Shenzhen, China | approx: 20 |
