7 Jul, 2008
RedHat Summit was great, but not as much as FUDCon! It was an occasion for me to know a lot of people that I only knew by “Internet” tools… and an handshake sometime is better then a hundred emails 
Format was “barcamp“, a social and interactive way to schedule presentations and talks (very appropriate in a “Fedora context”).
Now I’m involved into some opensource projects (especially about “configuration management”), and I’ve been happy to met other developers and sysadmins really into this topic (Func, CSI, Puppe and so on….). I see good things at the horizon…
Here you are the link to see some shots taken during the event:
http://flickr.com/photos/fcrippa/sets/72157606007698396/
I’m looking forward to attendee next FUDCon in Europe!
Boston University is a “bit” better then my old University in Italy…. isn’t it?
FUDCon @ Pub - Outdoor
Paul
Mairin
Michael: you need a portable tripod
7 Jul, 2008
After a couple of weeks, here I am to write a quickly post about RedHat Summit.
It was the first time for me in Boston (Great and beautiful city) and I really enjoyed the Summit, especially social events like party at Fenway Stadium or dinner at the 50th floor of Prudential Centre (see photos below). RedHat parties are great as usual!
On the square, food quality wasn’t every time so good… Definitely +1 for the Lobster Ravioli (have you ever tasted this kind of ravioli in Italy?), but surely -1 for the “welcome cocktail” or sandwiches served during meal… Sorry, but I’m Italian guy…
BTW, Summit surely represents the most important opportunity to keep in touch with lot of “remote friends”, colleagues and come out with new ideas and new business strategies.
Fedora is everywhere
Me and Jim
Fenway Stadium with the Boston skyline in background. Awesome!
Neon
Audience
11 Jun, 2008
Every year, Byte-Code organizes a event for its employees and consultants to build new strategies and watching new technologies all together.
This year focus was agile approach on java development, with technologies like groovy and grails. There were also some very interesting (and useful!) presentations about regression tests for web applications, project management strategies an, last but not least, some new and innovative products developed in Byte-Code and released under GPL license: Symbolic and “SuperVisor”.
Antonio (RedHat channel manager) presented the “strong” relationship between Byte-Code, RedHat and JBoss. The only problem was the time! There wasn’t enough time to make some discussion about technologies after presentations… surely next year we’ll try to organize something better and with much more time!
All presentation were very professional and have opened new opportunities for lot of byte-code crew!
But this is nothing compared to the rafting activity planned for Saturday! It was simply great! I’ve never done rafting before, but it is very exciting and awesome!
It was really “go wet”, not only for rafting… it rained during for all the time of the event! …as usual (the same last year for golf activities…)
Samuele trust me that all material made for the event (slides, videos and so on…) will be available online as soon as possible.
I really would like to thank you all Byte-Code people for all theirs help and contributions. MeetUp is being a really cool event!
Byte-Code People
Go Wet! Rafting rules
Simone’s presentation
Nice girls
Gourmet activities…
Feedback withe board was filled by lot of notes
I’m here! ….with some red hat presents made by Antonio
8 Jun, 2008
I’ve finished to upload LinuxTag photos and my presentation, and here you are the links:
…and a little reviews about event:
- it was great
- Fedora booth was great
- Fedora ambassadors were better then great
- Social event was great
- Social event wearing the official “Fedora bathrobe” was hot! …maybe too hot…
- USB Filling station was great… but also fixable…
see you next year!
Me
Paul, me and Max
OLPC in action!
Jens, Dag, Tim and me
29 May, 2008
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
14 May, 2008
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
20 Apr, 2008
What about LiberaMente? Yet another Linux conference
Fedora booth was staged with lot of cool stuff: a OLPC, an Asus EeePC, some live cd-roms, t-shirts, hats, posters, thin clients (thanks to Luca) and (awesome) the “Fedora USB pen self-service kiosk”!
The tool to build usb live pen on demand was a great success! Lot of people wanted to put their usb pens into the kiosk and see what happens!
But this time there were also some important news! First of all: Fedora Italian Community meeting.
For the first time, five Fedora Ambassadors meet each other into the real world. We discussed about next Italian events (release parties, for instance), budgets management and Fedora EMEA interactions. Italian Fedora Ambassadors are now more cohesive and integrated. Wonderful start to make good work for the future!
Other important thing: we’ve got to keep our eye on Fedora Account System to discover if some people we’ve met are joined Fedora Project. I think at least one guy from Florance is very interested to be Fedora contributor!
So, see you at Fedora 9 release party!
Luca, Andrea, Francesco, Gianluca and me. Fedora Ambassadors
Live USB pens Creator
7 Apr, 2008
Two years after Canness RedHat event, a new summit reserved to RedHat Partners strikes back in Europe (Malaga). This time the format is a bit changed, and now it seems really similar to the offical RedHat Summit (USA).
I’ve spent three long days (for “long” I mean get up at 7.00 AM and never go to sleep untill 2.00 AM…) speching with other european partners about new solutions in Linux and JBoss markets and new opportunities for OpenSource software over the European countries. For me it was also my first occasion to meet Jim Whitehurst (new RedHat CEO) and to hear him saying things that are already MUST in Byte-Code, such as share custom customers software as OpenSource, to avoid writing and re-writing same things every time, not only to build “OpenSource products”, but also to build “OpenSource customers”.
It was also a great occasion to meet some old friends I didn’t see from a long long time, and to know new exciting friends.
It was also first big event for Carmen, RedHat employee since last month, now involved into RedHat Marketing team. I hope to see her also in Fedora marketing as soon as possibile
In my hopinion the only big missing stuff in the event was Fedora. Of course, it was a “business” event, but I can’t belive RedHat wants to manage event where community is too far, also because bussiness could (IMHO should) need to know the “voice of community”.
Due to the party on the beach I couldn’t attendee last Fedora Ambassadors meeting, last Wednesday, but I’d like to put this event in agenda for next year also for Fedora community.
Davide Presentation about JBoss migration is ready
Wonderful place
Benalmadena harbor
25 Feb, 2008
Last weekend I was in Brussels, during FOSDEM 2008. For me it was the first time at this event, but surely not the last!
It attire geeks from all countries over the world, and not only form the Europe: I’ve met a lot of people coming from USA and Canada (just to say that it really is a international event).
All the FOSDEM days were very busy. The event was very crowded. Location (Brussels University) was good, but the booth (actually it was a couple of simple desktops) were placed into a very small hall, and you know how many people Fedora attract!
Result is what you can see on this flickr photos set: a really crowded room …and without a free buffet!!!
Great occasion also to meet different developers from all kind of projects (especially thanks to Lillian and Thomas from RedHat IcedTea Java team: all information they presented is very useful for my job on JBoss and other Java related stuff. Really happy to join their session).
I’m so sorry to not having the time yet to fix “Fedora Ambassadors Stats Script” with Fabian. I hope to have enough time this week to publish a skeleton for new improvements and (maybe) start a project to make statistics abut Fedora Project easily.
But for me (and not only for me) this event represents something more important: with other European Fedora Ambassadors, we’ve founded “Fedora EMEA”, a NPO (non-profit organization) with the goal to improve support for fedora community in all EMEA countries.
After the event, Fedora Ambassadors had a dinner on Saturday evening (thanks to Kanarip to show me what is a “Steak Tartre” in the real world, and also thanks to the restaurant to have a lot of other things in the menu!), where we have signed the statutes of new Fedora EMEA NPO.
Really good trip where I’ve met new friends that I hope to meet again as soon as possible.
21 Feb, 2008
Yesterday night was a Fedora Night! “Fedora by Night” attracted a lot of Linux enthusiasts from Lodi and near zones.
Thanks to LOLUG for help, availability and visibility.
Night started with quick introduction by Davide Cerri about LOLUG, Linux and other useful stuff, continued with my presentation about Fedora Project and the Community behind Fedora, and closed by Simone Pucci with a rapid overview about how Fedora is built and managed.
Questions and answers time was pretty exciting. More then 40 minutes of questions from the crowd about Fedora and the future of Linux (Microsoft, Novell and Mono/.NET involvements were the main delicate issues we discussed).
Thanks to all people who helped me and Lolug to organize this event! I hope to see now and again something like that with more and more attendees!
Then, beer@pub!
All photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fcrippa/sets/72157603949413659/
