| rmll, day 1 |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|12:58 pm] |
0700: Woke up.
0730: En route to the event, via tram & bus.
0805: Arrived at the event and set up the booth.
0815: Was unable to get on VPN, so I blogged & did some personal mails.
0830 - 1045: Somewhat busy at the booth, especially considering the early hour. A number of folks stopped by, and I had conversations about RPM, Fedora 11, PackageKit, CentOS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I gave away some swag (32 & 64 bit DVDs, stickers, tattoos), reviewed my notes for my talk, and met Quentin, who is both a Fedora Ambassador and member of the RMLL staff. Mathieu arrived, bringing with him more shirts, stickers, and Live CDs to add to our swag inventory.
1050 - 1130: Gave my talk, to an audience of about 20. Eschewed slides in favor of writing on the white board. Covered the four foundations, the importance of growing contributions, the inverse-pyramid of contributor growth, and the Fedora build system and remix culture. A question about FUDCon led to a brief discussion about the manner in which Fedora events are organized worldwide. Questions about virtualization led to a discussion of Fedora 11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and the progress of different virtualization technologies over the last few releases. Had a question about a Fedora Netbook Spin (what is our story there?), and used that as a segue to discuss XFCE and LXDE. Patrice attended my talk, and he discussed the Fedora Electronic Lab as an example of another Fedora spin. Patrice is a professor at the University of Bordeaux, and his students are using Fedora in their embedded systems class. Sometimes small crowds are terrible, but in this case, the smaller crowd led to personal engagement and a nice energy. I enjoyed this talk quite a bit, and could easily have gone for another 45 minutes.
1130 - 1230: Lunch in the university cafeteria. More college flashbacks.
1230 - 1300: Back at the booth, with Mathieu and Thomas, who (along with Armel) has recently started a new job at Mandriva. Wrote this blog post. |
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From: (Anonymous)
2009-07-10 12:44 pm (UTC)
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Hey Max, For the netbook spin I'm trying to get a Moblin Spin for F12 if I can get all the package reviews done in the short cycle, drop me a mail if you have any other queries.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraMoblin
From: (Anonymous)
2009-07-10 10:30 pm (UTC)
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Hi Max,
It was a pleasure for me to meet you at the LSM.
I hope to see you again at the LSM in Bordeaux next year.
Patrice
French Fedora Ambassador. | |
