[Ambassadors] OpenExpo Day 2
John Babich
jmbabich at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 06:25:35 UTC 2008
2008/3/14 JoergSimon <jsimon at fedoraproject.org>:
> Today was our last Day at Open Expo. We were a strong team Fabian, Timea ,
> Sandro, Frederic and finally Alan Cox and Jan Wildeboer. We all answered
> questions an encouraged people to work with us. A view minutes before i get a
> mail from a new contributor who want support Chitlesh with Fedora Electronic
> Lab.
A great Fedora team at the event.
> Jan and i had conversations with OLPC.ch and arranged some contacts to
> support/start a project in Jericho. Because Jan brought his OLPC B1 with a
> newer SW Version as the OLPC B2 that we had, i decided to upgrade firmware
> and software to try the colaboration stuff, Alan crossed his Fingers and
> after a view workarounds both OLPC could work together. Even the formating
> process looks great. Max&Seth, you see your old OLPC get a second life :-)
> All DVD´s, CD and many Flyers are given away - Fabian has the numbers. From
> the countless number of people with i had conversation at this day, there
> were around 10 People who will do something to support Fedora in some way.
> Yes, we need that "Join Fedora Station" and a coordinated mentoring to pick
> them up.
It sounds to me like you were very busy and had a very productive time.
> I had also interesting talks with business people and told them how they can
> participate to the Fedora Project and get benefit (not in Money counts) with
> it.
Fedora has a lot to offer to businesses, large and small, both in
functionality, and even contributing savings to the bottom line.
> It is impossible to describe the fun and all the good things - that is
> somewhat you must experience by yourself.
> Find some pictures http://www.simline.de/OpenExpo08/
I like the giant Fedora posters.
Best Regards,
John Babich
Fedora Ambassador
Member, FAmSCo
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