Simon + Fedora: March 2011

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2011 -

i want to share my pictures from Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2011 - the organizers, the Fedora booth crew - all deserve a big thank you!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

To be on time at the Hotel for pick the booth crew up, i had to wake up at 06:00 am - horror for me - because it is still a distance from where i stay, to Chemnitz. At 08:15, still early ;) we started from the Hotel to the Venue.

Organisation of the Event is awesome - they really take care that all what you expect from a good event works - and it is still "Chemnitzer Catering Days" ;)
As usual at Chemnitzer Linuxtage, it is a challenge to get potential new Contributors excited about Fedora, because most people are already focused on their area of expertise with the distribution of their choice.

Fedora Users showed up and tried the new Gnome3 on the Fedora 15 Alpha which was stable most of the time, Robert and Sven did some troubleshooting here and there, and we all were friendly teasing with our other fellow both neighbours ;) I provided a showcase of the Fedora Security Lab together with a Flyer who points out, why we learn from the OSSTMM and why it makes FSL better in the long term.

BTW. If you are a Security Worker and if you have the opportunity to attend the Troopers 11 this year, do not miss Security-Mastermind Pete Herzogs Sessions at that Event.

I had also some really interesting talks with people who want to introduce Fedora in new Areas and i will write about that as soon as i know how this has developed. Ah, and the Distro Battle - mhm i show some Pictures of it and let Christoph blog about that session ;) - hint, we know what we are talking about!

We had also some discussion about the libevent dependency trouble i have with honeyd in FSL and that LXDE is maybe the wrong choice -> every nightly build drives me crazy - Fabian started a try with XFCE - first run failed - Fabian i told you it is not soo easy ;)

CLT Booth

this was a long day - the morning was very busy with work for my company, because i had to finish earlier, to start the travel to the Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2011.

We - Robert Scheck, Fabian Affolter and me - started at 12:30 from Stuttgart with the FLG for the 400 km trip to Chemnitz.

Even if we have troubles with Fedora ressources here in EMEA, i think we could build up a pretty good booth.

Damn we had a beamer in the past years - which was sponsored by Gerold - to present Fedora - but unfortunately it is broken after so many years of use - hope we can repair it, because it was always better to show things to a larger group of people and it was always a magnet because people are curious about what is going on at this large screen.

Maybe again next year. Robert and Fabian also hung up some flags in the whole area -

i always think that the organizers here might be a bit unhappy about it but they never complained.

Christoph joined us after his preparation meeting for the "distro battle" which will be held tomorrow - i was assured that there will be no looser ;) and the title is just to attract visitors and that every Distro can show their strength. Jaroslav Reznik and Radek Novacek told me that they unfortunately can not join us, like it was planned - pity.

It is still the best organized event i know, from what i saw today and i am happy to be here and excited to start the event tomorrow.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

FUDCon Budapest 2011 bid

Fabian and Gerold made an interesting bid for Dublin. I can not imagine better Event Organizers and will support them if the Dublin bid get selected. But so far this is the only bid for a FUDCon EMEA in 2011! Bids end 15. March 2011! Hey EMEA whats up?

Zoltan and me decided to go for a bid for FUDCon Budapest 2011.

Maybe some of you know my efforts to gain more ground in the former eastern bloc and i am sure that this is a great opportunity for Fedora to gain ground in a beautyfull Country with a lot smart and very friendly people!