Hi Jeff, Huge kudos to you, Joe Connelly and Brian Pepple!!! Awesome pics, BTW ;)) Great work, -- db > The Ohio Linux Fest held this past Saturday, September 30th was a great > success! The booth came together very nicely - we had Fedora T-Shirts, > Stickers, Core 5 DVDs and informational handouts available at the booth. > There were three of us primarily working the booth - Joe Connelly and > Brian Pepple. Tom "Spot" Callaway was also there, originally to hang > out with us at the Fedora booth, but ended up working the Red Hat booth > right next to us - though he was still a great help to us. > > The announced crowd was just over 1200 people, between presentations the > aisles were quite packed. Our booth saw lots of foot traffic with > people ranging from new to Linux to having used it since Red Hat 6.x or > earlier and wondering what Fedora was up to. > > Nearly all comments were favorable to Fedora, many people were running > Fedora in some fashion - either on their own PCs or on servers for > businesses they worked for. There were a few recurring questions > through the day, some of which where: > > * Yum is slow was one of the complaints we kept hearing. It was a > pleasure to let people know that there was an updated yum in Core 6 that > was aimed at taking on any speed issues. > > * I had several questions regarding the Fedora Directory Server - mainly > in regards to features it offered. There certainly seems to be interest > in this. > > * We heard what I thought to be a number of comments alluding to an > animosity between the Fedora Project and Red Hat. I am not quite sure > why that thought is out there. > > * There were several questions about who we worked for, etc. It was > nice to reply with we were just members of the Fedora Project community > helping out. I think it really helped reinforce that there is a lot of > room for community involvement in the project. > > * And of course there were lots of when is Core 6 coming out and what > new features will be in it. > > Later in the afternoon we also had a "Birds of a Feather" session. Tom > Callaway was there and was an excellent and knowledgeable speaker and it > was great to have him there. Some of the items brought up were Fedora > and multimedia (mp3's, DVD playback, etc), Xen and virtualization and > new features and improvements in Core 6. > > All in all it was a great show. Lots of fun for everyone involved I > think. I was very happy with how the booth turned out and I think > Fedora was very well represented there. I want to thank all the people > that helped get me the materials and information I needed for this event > - including Max and David Barzilay. > > And last but not least, here are some of the pictures from the show (I > may be adding more as I receive them from the others): > > http://www.elfshadow.net/ohiolinuxfest2006/ > > --Jeffrey > > -- > Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list > Fedora-ambassadors-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list > > -- David Barzilay Embaixador Global do Fedora Embaixador Remoto para o Brasil -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
