I just met a couple of ambassadors down here who are manning a small
fedora booth. I think they were both named Rodruigez? I'm _terrible_
with names.
I guess they are going to be doing events in a number of cities around
the country to do talks/shows. The pointed out a few things that they
are doing:
o I walked away with an installation CD. One CD. It's based on Fedora,
so they are doing that work.
o They are actively working on a LiveCD project. They really want to
have one and said they would have an alpha some time in the next month
or so.
o They are setting up a huge mount of local infrastructure to do CD
distribution inside of the country. They have a form set up so you can
request a CD and the person that's closest to you puts it in the mail.
The local mail here is apparently slow at times.
http://www.projetofedora.org/
There's a lot of that here.
o They seem to know Greg and Alex well. Nice job, guys!
o They have no idea what's going on with the board or how Fedora relates
to Red Hat. For example, there's rumor going around that we're dropping
KDE completely. Which is of course not true. I explained some of that
"wanting to get KDE maintained by the KDE community" but I don't think I
was telling the right people. Not sure if they understood all of that;
the language barrier was large.
In any case, I didn't even know that they had a little stand set up
here. It's nice to see the Fedora symbol up and around. But they
clearly need more support if we can get them.
Oh, and the word "Fedora" in Brazil is very close to the word for
"skanky." Thought everyone might want to know that.
Anyone want to do a FUDCON at the 8th FISL? This conference is pretty
big and the locals would probably be interesting.
--Chris
