FAMSCO actually contributed $3000 to the Fedora efforts at FISL, so I'm
really glad to hear that it's going well.
Great summary Chris -- enjoy Brazil!
--Max
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
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
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