Francesco Crippa

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

Luca, a friend of mine and also the latest “apprentice” of Byte-Code has done his “Master Degree” in Information Technology last week. I’m really happy for his “Summa cum Laude” (for all Italian guys: “110 e lode“)

Congratulations for all your work!

Now it’s time to think about your future into the labor market! And I hope we can still colleagues for a long long time in Byte-Code.

Enjoy your new Job Luca, and good luck (you need it!)

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/

An entire night dedicated to Fedora next February, 19th!

The event is organized in collaboration with LOLUG (Lodi Linux User Group). After a short introduction about Fedora, we’re going to talk about:

• How does fedora live? The community behind fedora
• How does fedora work? Building Processes and Tools to deploy and deliver fedora

Here you are some links to obtain more information about where and where:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/FedoraByNight

http://www.lodi.linux.it/

Enjoy!

Lolug S.p.A. is near… I feel so…

PI-Photo

Davide and “his bird”…. (no comment, please)

Today LOLUG has presented OpenSource tecnology and Linux environment to Lodi during Linux Day.

All has gone well! The location, PC (from sponsors), presentations and workshops have been great! I think 2007 could be the year for LoLUG to expand their product…

Work… (or Tremoulous?)

Richard Stallman is here! Either Stallman or his secret son…

Great lan area…

Bald man!!!