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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
Marzo 19, 2009 Conferencias Córdoba, Argentina Matias Maceira See Ciclo de Charlas Fedora Argentina for status 200
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
- Solutions 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. >100
April 4, 2009 LUG@GT: Georgia Tech Linux Users Group Atlanta, GA USA Scott McBrien Manning a table at an installfest ~30
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 15, 2009 NYLUG: New York Linux Users Group New York, NY USA Jon Stanley Giving a talk on building a Remix ~50
April 15-17, 2009 ATUALTEC Boa Vista, Brasil RodrigoPadula Atualtec 2009 ??
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 18, 2009 Bar Camp Rochester 4 Rochester, NY USA Karlie Robinson One Laptop Per Child XO Laptop History and mission. I'll also cover how to get an XO by getting involved locally and Internationally through the Fedora Project. Brian Powell also attending Link 50+
April 18, 2009 Palmetto Open Source Software Conferenece Columbia, SC, USA David Nalley Second year conference. Currently GDK has a speaking slot, and ke4qqq is slotted to participate in one of the roundtable discussions. 150
2009-04-19/22 Red Hat EMEA Partner Summit Malta - No Fedora booth! Fedora contributors' attendees list at Red_Hat_EMEA_Partner_Summit_2009 -
April 24, 2009 FLISOL Cd. Delicias, Chihuahua, México AlejandroAcosta See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status 300
April 25, 2009 Akihabara Fedora 10 Distribution Tokyo, Japan Dramsey see Akihabara "Electric City" >100
April 25, 2009 FLISOL Temuco, Chile racl See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status 350
April 25, 2009 FLISOL Chihuahua, México AlejandroAcosta See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status 600
April 25, 2009 FLISOL Nuevo León, México Juan Rodriguez See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status 600
April 25, 2009 FLISOL Asunción, Caaguazu, CDE - Paraguay http://proyectofedora.org/paraguay/ See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status 200
April 25, 2009 FLISOL [| Tequixquiac, Edo. de México] Miguel Angel Fuentes See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status 400 last year
April 25, 2009 FLISOL D.F. (UNAM, Fac. Ingenieria.) Mario Alberto Rivera See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status 200 last year
April 25, 2009 FLISOL D.F. (ESCOM) Josue Guillermo Araujo Mayorga See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status 500 last year
April 25, 2009 FLISOL D.F. (ESIME, Culhuacan) Jose Rodrigo Ayala Caballero See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status 400 last year
April 25, 2009 FLISOL Neza, Edo.Mex. (TESOEM) Alberto Luebbert See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status 300 last year
April 25, 2009 FLISOL D.F. (Vocacional 8) charlymanja See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status 100 last year
April 25, 2009 FLISOL México (UNAM, IPN, UACM, CUGS, Tequixquiac, Nezahualcoyotl, Zumpango, Ixtlahuaca, TESI.) charlymanja See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status 5000
April 25, 2009 FLISOL Caracas, Venezuela MariaLeandro See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status 1500
April 25, 2009 FLISOL Managua, Nicaragua Neville A. Cross See Flisol Nicaragua for status 500
April 25, 2009 FLISOL Roldanillo (Valle del Cauca), Colombia Diego Escobar See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status 300+
April 25, 2009 FLISOL Bogotá D.C, Colombia Diego Escobar See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status 1300+
April 25, 2009 FLISOL Bahia,Brazil User:Rafaelgomes User:Jasonn User:Nadilson See Flisol Bahia 200
April 25, 2009 FLISOL Campinas-SP,Brazil User:Richizo See Flisol Campinas/SP 100
April 25, 2009 Trenton Computer Festival Ewing, NJ, USA Kam Salisbury Staffing an exhibitor booth with PLUG. 500+ last year
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
April 25-26, 2009 LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW) 2009 Bellingham, WA, USA Larry Cafiero Fedora Activity Day and a booth for the fest. ~500-600 in 2008
2009-04-27 FOSS Lightning Talks Stockholm, Sweden Nordickiwi Computer Society of Sweden, Open Source network meeting -Fedora 11 Preview presentation 30
April ??, 2009 FLISOL Valparaíso, Chile ArturoHoffstadt See Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre for status ??