[Ambassadors] BIT Linux User Group's Fedora Workshop and Install Fest

[Heherson Pagcaliwagan]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Aditya Patawari <adimania at gmail.com> wrote:

> The series of Linux workshops highlighting Fedora11 ended on 16 evening.
> These workshops were organized by *BIT Linux User Group* with the help of
> the two Fedora Ambassadors (Me and Debjit Saha).
>
> *Workshop 1* : Date 10 Aug 2009.
> This workshop was organized for newbies and especially for the fresher
> batch of our college. We started off by showing some cool compiz effects on
> fedora11 gnome. Even after attending the classes from 8:00 to 5:00, more
> than 60 people turned up, some out of enthusiasm others out of curiosity. We
> had some slides prepared by our volunteers. We showed them the alternatives
> of windows applications available for linux, like for media player we have
> rhythmbox. We also had some "Tux v/s Windows" fight videos. We told them
> about benefits of installing fedora (A distro which comprises every latest
> stuff and yet it is highly stable). All this made up an environment for the
> install fest which was scheduled the next day. We also invited feedbacks in
> the nd. Most of them were positive though some were a bit disappointed that
> we didn't bashed windows to a greater extent.
> Photographs : http://picasaweb.google.com/lug.bitmesra/10August2009
>
> *Workshop 2 : *Date 11 August 2009
> It was a holiday and yet one of the busiest day for us. We had permission
> to use the college lab. As we reached there, we found a couple of enthusiast
> already waiting for installation eagerly. We had a total of 7 volunteers and
> slightly above 80 installations. Fedora11 DVDs were also distributed for
> free. Since we have a local repository in our campus we thought it to be
> wise if we write a script for the installation of some common softwares and
> to add the local repositories. For desktops Debjit had arranged for network
> boot. The fest was a huge success as till date we have people who are
> approaching us after seeing the laptops on which we installed fedora on
> install fest.
> Photographs : http://picasaweb.google.com/lug.bitmesra/11August2009
>
> *Workshop 3* : Date 16 August 2009
> This workshop was organized for more advanced users. We expected about
> 80-100 participants but we were astonished to see the rush. We had about 200
> participants! So we decided to take the same workshop twice. We started off
> by telling basics of shell scripting and then made our way towards
> "Virtualization on Fedora". We had a little Question-Answer session after
> that. We also invited users to share their experiences with fedora. At the
> end we had a small slide show about "How to Contribute to Fedora Project".
> We had the sides made with the help of "join Fedora" page on wiki.
> Photographs : http://picasaweb.google.com/lug.bitmesra/16August2009
>


Very cool report Aditya. I was hoping to replicate the same thing for the
University of the Philippines in the future.


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> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adimania
> Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
> India
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Heherson Pagcaliwagan
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