[Fedora-ambassadors-list] review of Linuxtag 2006 in Wiesbaden, Germany

Fri May 19 21:42:41 UTC 2006

This is a great report Gerold!

Could you please put all of this on the wiki, like Kushal:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/Durgapur

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag seems like a logical place for it.

Thanks,
a

On 5/19/06, Gerold Kassube <gerold at lugd.org> wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> please excsue me/us that we'll send our report so late as it is :-(
> We're all very busy at the moment and the week we're missing in the job
> must also be catched up ...
>
> Please find the combined review of the people who wants to write some
> words and feel free to post these words!
>
> last but not least before you read the whole commits; I wanna say thank
> you all, you guys which helped Florian and me that the Linuxtag was such
> a good event for Fedora in in my role as a Fedora Ambassador.
> Special Thanks to Jens who was the whole time with me, Joerg who was
> every time at the booth and answered a lot of questions, Thorsten who
> has take care of his Sony Laptop .-) and not to forget Florian who has
> the most important role and work to do! And a very, very special thanks
> goes to the URZ of the University of Basel which was a big contributor
> for the booth :-)
>
> So enough from myself ...
>
>
>
> Review from Chitlesh Goorah (Kadischi / LiveCD)
> ===============================================
> Although the Fedora Project considered LinuxTag as a small event, this
> is a big event in Europe.
>
> A great event to meet great Fedora participants :)
>
> In accordance to the questions directed to me at the booth, I may say
> that there were quite some interest in the Fedora distro :)
>
>  * How Fedora can be useful to disabled persons(eyes)? (thanks KDE for
> being useful here)
>  * Why Fedora Core (FC4 and FC5) default kernels have issues ? How about
> the testing behind it ?
>  * Can I have a livecd of Fedora ?
>  * Why do my firefox have so much language packs as extensions which
> most of the time I don't need ?
>  * Fedora is known to be providing ONLY gpl'ed packages why do aiglx and
> Fedora directory server respectively require proprietary drivers and Sun
> Java ?
>  * In Fedora /sbin is not in the PATH for _su_ example ifconfig but as
> _su -_, /sbin is in the PATH? other distros like Mandriva and Suse it is
> not the case. Why?
>
> Besides these questions, most of my time I spent in explaining what is
> the Kadischi Project.
>
> Gerold and I had a discussion in a "real-life" Fedora Ambassador
> meeting , at least in Europe to produce high quality output. (Idea which
> I back :) )
>
> My girlfriend (from the Kubuntu Marketing Team) informed that the
> Kubuntu livecd team would like to work with us on producing high quality
> KDE based livecds. (Ill be in contact with them soon)
>
>
> PS: We got a new Fedora Ambassador from Germany: Jörg Simon, whom I
> welcome him to the team :)
>
> His photos : http://www.simline.de/person
> My photo : http://www.flickr.com/photos/clunixchit/tags/linuxtag2006/
> Gerold's : https://kermit.homelinux.net/Fotos/Linuxtag2006/
>
>
>
>
> Review from Joerg Simon (new Ambassador since Linuxtag)
> =======================================================
> Besides the Fedora Core, we also  presented XEN 3.0 on Fedora - after
> Jens spend more RAM - thanks for that.
> And we presented the Fedora Directory Server, mostly we must explain,
> this is  not only a OpenLDAP Interface, no that is not
> ActiveDirectory ;-), yes it is free, you can download it from
> directory.fedora.redhat.com ... but we had also experts, who want to
> know deeper Informations. We had a nice talk with
> Peter Gietz - a international LDAP Expert from the OpenLDAP-Team, we
> made a deep excursion in the Schemas and in the Replication and he shows
> us many deviations from RFC and Open Standards in the Directory Server.
> We will stay in interaction with him to review and report that  and
> specify whether and where we can help us mutual.
> Not Fedora Policy but Linuxtag Spirit was the dry to bring mythtv (our
> NeighbourBooth) on a Fedora-XBOX - looked good, but the Framebuffer Mode
> has scotched that - but as Jens said we "have a lot of fun" ;-)
> Thanks to Greg to permit and provide material to produce some unofficial
> T-Shirts with the new Logo,  unfortunately they was to small for the
> some of us ;-)
>
>
>
> and last (for today) my own
> ============================
> started 2006-05-03 till 2005-05-05
>
> On tuesday 2006-05-02 Florian Brand starts the journey to build up the
> booth together with Marc Schlensog. They got also help from Jens Kuehnel
> who arrived in the afternoon at Wiesbaden. The other "responsible"
> person, me has to work the whole tuesday and startet therefore the
> journey in the late afternoon at Switzerland.
> He arrived Frankfurt at midnight, where he meets Jens and Marc who came
> back from building up the booth. Because of the matter, that the posters
> are printed in Switzerland, they are already in my car and we have to
> finish the booth on wednesday morning :-(
> So we decided to start at 7:00 am in the next morning! So Jens  (thanks
> a lot for giving me his living room for the whole Linuxday for sleeping)
> set his alarm-clock on 5:30 am that we all can take a shower and be
> "warmed up" for the next day ...
>
> It happens!
>
> The bell rings, and we startet save at 7:00 am from Frankfurt to
> Wiesbaden because we need the time; Linuxtag will open at 10:00 am on
> this day, to set up the rest of the booth which means: internet,
> designing the booth with posters, stickers and banners, electricity,
> (very important:) coffee maschine and the installation of the 4 desktops
> which we got from the training center of Red Hat EMEA (also organized by
> Florian).
>
> What should I say?! We've got it! Mostly all has finished at 10:00 am
> and small, little things who were not optimal were optimezed during the
> time of the day and the next ....
>
> We all should see what happened: Every day starting on Wedenesday the
> crowd of people is getting more and more who's intersting at Fedora and
> I think the most visited day was on saturday where nobody has really
> time to take place for more or less 10 / 15 minutes.
> We've had already answers questions like:
>
> - What is Fedora?
> - Where is the Red Hat booth?
> - Why there is no FUDCon this year?
> - How can I get Fedora to disrtibute my code?
> - Do you have any LiveCD on Fedora?
>
> and: troubleshooting, troubleshooting, troubleshooting, troubleshooting
> and again troubleshooting!
>
> People mostly if not asked things above mentioned, asked for personal
> problems with e.g. WiFi, Sound, exotic Hardware, etc.
>
> The good thing here was, that we've had the following persons at the
> booth (in alphabetic order) which helps to answer the most of the
> questions; ...
>
> Biba, Radek,
> Brand, Florian
> Broz, Milan
> Drepper, Ulrich
> Engert, Kai
> Goorah, Chitlesh
> Heinrich, Dunja
> Holtmann, Marcel
> Kassube, Gerold
> Kergon, Alasdair
> Kuehnel, Jens
> Mauleshagen, Heinz
> Schlensog, Marc
> Schaefer, Thorsten
> Simon, Jörg
> Vokal, Radek
>
> and if one person don't know a answer of a visitor there are always a
> lot of other persons at the booth who helped.
>
> We've had also nice discussions with other persons from other booth
> which were interested in cooperation with Fedora.
>
> Over all, my personal review and statement is the follow:
>
> Without the help of Florian Brand and his connections and knowledge of
> people inside the community this Linuxtag was never such a success as it
> was this year! For further planings, we had to decide a couple of month
> earlier, what we'll do ...
> And: Everyone has missed the FUDCon at the Linuxtag.
>
>
>
> Just my five cents and the cents from the other "writers"!
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Gerold Kassube
> Fedora Ambassador
>
> Deutschland / Germany
> Email: GeroldKa at fedoraproject.org
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