Francesco Crippa

I’m writing this post on “Dev-Room”, in Berlin, during LinuxTag

The event is great (as every year), and Fedora is a bright light! As you can see in attached photos, Fedora Ambassadors are really recognizable everywhere (not only at the conferences center, but also on underground, at the restaurant, …and also on the shower!!!!) by the blue polo and the tons of gadgets

….and, of course, we’re (maybe) the biggest community present at LinuxTag… so it’s quite impossible to visit LinxTag and don’t remember Fedora group!

I’ve spent a lot of time to fix the Matteo script (called “Kobold“) to avoid some troubles due to some strange USB keys (yep, we’ve got an “USB Filling Station” in out booth. A lot of people come with their 1Gb usb pen and ask us to fill it with a fresh fedora 9 live image)

Great occasion to meet new and old friends and to spend a very good (and a bit hard) time

Soon new photos and more details…

Fedora Ambassadors

Max and Jens

Fedora in Berlin

Yesterday night I spent about 6 hours (between 9.00 pm to 3.00 am!!!) on Fedora 9 Release Party in Lodi, the first official party in Italy (next will be in Florence and Rome by the end of the month).

It was great!

There were about 30/40 people, interested in new features but also interested in “how to join” Fedora Project, and -of course- interested in beer! I, Luca and Gianluca (North Italy Fedora Ambassadors have being present) helped these guys to make their usb live key bootable, solve their questions about Fedora 9 and open their bottles!

Thanks to FAMSCO budget we could buy a lot of yummy food! And also thanks to moms and grandmothers that cooked cakes and pies with “volunteer” contributions

You can see some shots taken during the party on flickr

Last but not least, thanks to Luca Foppiano. He organized all aspects of event: “spamming” by email, do the shopping, make the slides and so on, and all of these stuffs went really really well!

Keep up the good work Luca!

Beer is not enough!

Yummy food!

Fedora 9 USB Filling Station

Thank you Paul for your really interesting post on your blog.

I’m proud to read my name on your list, and I hope to contribute over and over again in the future.

But I think you’ve forgotten (at least) a couple of names: Samuele Storari (the “art director” of Fedora 9 Release Party Poster and USB Filling Station, Fedora Art Team member), and Matteo Castellini (the author of Kobold, the software that makes possible to auto-fill usb keys automatically when you put your pen into usb port…).

I’ll try to persuade Matteo to join Fedora Ambassadors tonight, during our party… We need so talented people in our (Italian) team

…and another thing! During last PyCon it, 4 (yes, you’ve got it: four!) Italian Ambassadors meet each other in Florance to define organization abut Release Parties (and also to have a good appetizer …). Right now Italian Fedora Ambassadors Community is very tight-knit! Last six months were very useful to build a strong Italian Community around Fedora

A good guarantee for the future!