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Fedora 28 Release Party, RIT India

What

This will be a social event to meet Fedora users from college plus nearby areas and discuss about cool new features of the Fedora 28 release. It will also be an opportunity to install latest Fedora on personal machine for newbies and to upgrade existing Fedora installations. It will also be an opportunity to hear experience from Fedora users and ask questions to people already involved in the community.

When

Date: 11/05/2018

Time: 14:00 to 17:00 IST.

Where

Rajarambapu Institute of Technology, India

Address: K.E.Society's Rajarambapu Institute of Technology, Rajaramnagar, Islampur, Dist: Sangli, Maharashtra, India.

Open Source Lab

Important note - application

Important!
Please confirm your attendance by sending an e-mail to akshay196@fedoraproject.org with your name. Thank you.

Activities

  • Talks/Presentations. Introduce to new features in Fedora 28. Sharing experiences on Fedora.
  • Live USB Creation. Live fedora Image creation for those that would like to get Fedora.
  • Install Fest. Install and/or update to Fedora 28 on attendees laptops or desktops.
  • Question and Answer session.

Organizers

Schedule

  • 14:00 - Introductions
  • 14:15 - Talks
  • 15:00 - Install Fest.
  • 16:30 - Q & A Session.

Event report

On May 11, the Linux users in RIT India celebrated Release Party for Fedora 28 Release. This activity took place in open source lab in college. In the beginning of the event, everybody introduced them. Many juniors from college wanted to know about Fedora OS and Fedora community. People who already using Fedora and involved in community shared their experience with everyone. Many folks upgrade systems to Fedora 28 and all newbies got chance to install Fedora on their laptops. Later on Bhavin introduce us the new features in Fedora 28. We also had cake cutting ceremony in this event.

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