[Ambassadors] Ambassadors Report - SCALE5X

[Frederic Hornain]

Hi Thomas,

Great job !
I would have like to be there with you but unfortunatly for me it is quite
far from where I live. :)
Thanks for the pictures and the report!

BR
Fred

On 2/13/07, Thomas Chung <tchung at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> Here is my report on SCALE5X[1] - Fifth Annual Southern California Linux
> Expo.
> According to recent announcement[2], there were over 1000 attendees in
> this year's event.
> Close to 70 exhibitors[3] including Non-Profit Organizations,
> Commercial Vendors and User Groups. This is my second year
> participation for Fedora Project[4] and I feel this year is much
> improved and crowded event than previous year. Also I was told this is
> the first time Red Hat[5]'s participation to this event.
>
> Our booth was manned by myself alone this year since I could not find
> any help or volunteers. Although a nice folk from CACert Booth (right
> behind our booth) was very helpful and even offered me to cover our
> booth while I need to take a short break. Also I would like to give
> special thanks to Jeff Carlson from SCALE staff who checked on me
> everyday if I need anything.
>
> This year, we've decided to accept contributions for Fedora Core 6
> DVDs (x86, x86_64 and ppc) which was Max Spevack's idea.  We accepted
> $1 for each DVD and $5 for custom built Fedora Updates DVD and Live
> CD. There were several people who just made donation without taking
> any media.  We also offered a Drawing of Free Fedora T-Shirts for
> those contributed for media but most of them just wanted to order on
> the spot to support Fedora Project and Fedora Free Media Program[6]
> which all proceeds will go to this program.
>
> Overall, I had a great time even though I suffered a minor backache
> and lost my voice. Here are some photos[7] I took.  The last photo is
> me in our booth sitting alone thinking how can we get booth babes, I
> mean more volunteers just like Google booth which was right next to
> our booth. :)
>
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/SCALE5X
> [2]
> http://mail.socallinuxexpo.com/pipermail/scale-announce/2007-February/000041.html
> [3] http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/exhibitions.php
> [4] http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/exhibitions/fedora.php
> [5] http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/exhibitions/redhat.php
> [6] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia
> [7] http://fedoranews.org/tchung/scale5x/
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> Thomas Chung
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung
>
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