Francesco Crippa

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

I’ve finished to upload LinuxTag photos and my presentation, and here you are the links:

• My presentation (Cobbler, Func and Puppet: Tools for Large Scale Environments) (PDF) (ODF)
• Flickr Linux Tag Set
• Luca’s Flickr photos

…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

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!

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

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.

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/

Today (after a week-end with low GRPS mobile bandwidth), I ran python script for stats for all entries in Ambassadors Country List (on high performance connection). It takes more than an hour :-/

Now, you can download:

• CSV file (row data) generated by the script (from revision 1 to revision 663)
• A simple OpenOffice Calc sheet with an example chart
• python script

Script (a wiki reg-ex crawler) may contain bugs (for example I’m not sure about some sparse “dot” on the wiki page). But I hope this open the way to make more significant stats for Fedora Project.

For the moment I’ve publish the first draft of this script (very “quick and dirty”). During next days I’ll try to package this actions into a pythons module, to make more reusable and more readable this kind of object. I hope to see something like:

import FedoraStats
foo = FedoraStats.Ambassadors()
foo.save_to_csv("/tmp/bar.csv")

Here you are the current draft:
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Today I’ve spent some hours to write a very “quick and dirty” python script to create some automatic statistics to show how Fedora ambassadors grow up fast.

For the moment script produce a simple command separated value file, useful to be opened with OpenOffice and make some charts.

Here you are a simple chart that shows number of ambassadors during last 10 months.

The script (for the moment) produce a table with months as rows and world area as columns. It takes data from fedora wiki.

Here you are some examples:

And here you are a chart only for South Europe Area:

As soon as possible I’ll write some classes to produce chart directly, without need to pass through OpenOffice, and (of course) put all scripts online.