Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2010

The Poster for the Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2010 is settled! Thanks to the CLT Team for printing a new Poster every year!

FOSDEM 2010

from the traveling side this trip was horrible - broken car, hotel charged the wrong credit card, navigation system gave us wrong routes on the way back.

FOSDEM itself was better than ever for me, because i could meet so many motivated Fedora Contributors. We started on the Beer-Event, where i had a Cherry-Beer which made me drunk with only one glas.
The Beer-Event is crowded and geeky - you love it or you hate it ;)



First Day, we build up the booth and around 11:00 am visitors started to showing up and we could see right from the beginning that they love our T-Shirts which we gave away for a donation. After a short while it was possible to completely reimburse the trip and accomodation for our hungarian contributor from this donations - so cool! I attended Max's talk about Fedora-Governance, which gave me an impulse to think over how we can reduce governance as much as possible inside the Fedora Project without loosing the scope.



Second Day, much visitors, much booth duties - i could not even write my blog.
I hope we could convince some of them to join the fedoraproject.



I presented my foss.in talk and the Fedora Security Spin to several Fedora People on the booth they gave me very good feedback and i am happy and proud what we achieved together!



I brought 880 F12 DVD/CD with me to FOSDEM - i took not a single one back home with me!!! This means we gave out around 600 DVD/CD's!!! in 1,5 days to the visitors and distributed the rest between the Fedora People.

I brought also around 100 Splatter T-Shirts with me and they are all gone for a donation to Fedora EMEA for Future Events and for handling shipping and producing new stuff.

If you have the chance to attend FOSDEM one day you should do it, there are many strange places to discover ;)

How to miss the FOSDEM-FAD 2010!

i had cars from a lot countries in the last 20 years - i never had problems with them. Right now i have a german Volkswagen and this was the first time that i had move to a Repairshop with a broken Car during a travel. I traveled together with Robert Scheck from Stuttgart to Brussels to FOSDEM and was eager to start with the FOSDEM-FAD while my car started to switch the Motor On and Off during we drive. In Germany if you have trouble with a Volkswagen do not try to reach a Volkswagen-Repairshop yourself - they have the right to send you away, as long as you can move - and they have done it with me - that was strange. Knowing that i have all the SWAG and all the Material for the booth in my car, for one of the main Events in EMEA with over 40 Fedora People doesn't helped me either ;)

But - finally we found a place where they could help us to fix the problem - a small broken cable for the cruise-control of the car -

but we had to wait 4 hours and missed the opportunity to join the others with the FAD.


Robert - hacking and waiting :(

But we made it to the Beer Event where we could meet all the fedora people - and they gave us a warm welcome with cherry beer, finally all is good now!

FOSDEM 2010 Preparation

To save material for the requests that we have in the SWAG-Tracking-EMEA i have set asside 880 F12 Media and a lot of T-Shirts, before i pack all the stuff for FOSDEM - Event Owners EMEA please review your Ticket to find further details.

As you can read in the updated EMEA SWAG Inventory, we have more to distribute on FOSDEM and to hand out material to the EMEA Ambassadors who will join us on FOSDEM, but we run short in XL-Size T-Shirts ;)

The last-minute order for Fedora Poloshirts arrived today, all is good ;)

FAmSCo Report for January 2010

One of the goals we have in FAmSCo this year is to have more transparency.
FAmSCo is happy to provide you the first monthly FAmSCo Report!