+1 Nelson, your plans are awesome and I personaly like to see it happen. You will get my highest support to make it happen. Maybe I find also a possibility to attend if it really happen in May or June and during a weekend .. Let's talk in private for more details. Other question; have you also asked in the Ambassadors List to get support? regards Gerold Am Samstag, den 27.02.2010, 16:44 +0000 schrieb Nelson Marques: > Hi, > > Not sure if people know, but in February 2001 I've organized an event > in Aveiro to promote Linux (I was back then the responsible for PLUG > online Documentation, PLUG as in Portuguese Linux Users Group). This > event was supported by SuSE GmbH (donated 2 crates of merchandise, cd's, > retail boxes, t-shirts, pins), Sun MicroSystems (500 CD's of Star Office > 5.1), Red Hat (some stickers) and some other local companies (hardware > manufacturers, service enablers etc). > This event had over 400 visitors in the 2 days we were "opened" for > public. We used Aveiro's Congress Center for this. > > Congress Center: > > http://www.cm-aveiro.pt/www//Templates/GenericDetails.aspx?id_object=27480&divName=1381s1509&id_class=1509 > http://www.av.it.pt/aveirocidade/pt/congressos/index.htm > http://i.olhares.com/data/big/178/1780535.jpg > > > > After this background, I was thinking in organizing another event, this > time to promote Fedora. From the previous experience, I know that if we > don't advertise, they can spare us some space in the Congress Center for > free, if we advertise, we need to pay. Back then we payed around 450$US > for the two days. > > My idea was to do something different. First, no Congress Center, > instead ask for space on my University and host the event At IPAM Aveiro > (Portuguese Institute for Marketing Management). > > http://www.e-u.pt/ResourcesUser/InstituicoesImagens/IPAM.gif > http://www.ipam.pt > > IPAM is starting it's internationalization project, being present in > Portugal (Aveiro, Porto and Lisbon), Spain (Madrid, cooperation with > Universidad Rey Juan Carlos), in Brazil and Netherlands. > Aveiro school was appointed to be the center of it's international > community. > > Through IPAM we can most likely get an anfi-theater for any > presentation/conference, rooms to be used and free space, with bar, > parking, etc. > > I would also like to focus that the City of Aveiro has the former > Center for Telecommunication Studies (former CET), now known as Portugal > Telecom Inovação S.A., the Research and Development unit for Portugal > Telecom, where I worked in the past packaging and maintaining our Red > Hat 6 plataform on IBM RS4500 (replacing the Sun equipment and > Slowlaris). > > Either way Aveiro also has one of the biggest Universities in Europe, > and in 2050 the biggest. Aveiro is the technological telecommunications > platform in Portugal (Portugal Telecom has operations worldwide in the 5 > continents), and was responsible for great accolades, like the first > pre-paid GSM Card in the World, the second country in Europe to > establish a phone network without operator (automatic switching), > amongst other things. > > There could be no better background for this. > > > My thing: > > # Organize an event to promote GNU/Linux and Fedora. > # Gather support for space and resources in IPAM (to go zero costs). > # Promote a couple of background events related to Linux > - Possibility of someone from Fedora to present it? > - I can ask one of GNOME Brasero's maintainers also to speech (Luis > Medinas is from Aveiro). > - Corporate view of open-source by Portugal Telecom Inovação? > - Maybe someone from Red Hat ? > > GOALS: > # Give to know and Promote Fedora. > # Promote Fedora with IPAM (see this as a first approach to try and > get IPAM involved with the Fedora community). > # Gather the local native population for this promotion event. > # Attract and attack the small business to favor open-source (might be > of interest to Red Hat). > > > Anyone, pull out comments, goals, objectives, pros, cons, anything > relevant. Keep in mind that the main event (despite of any other > involvements such as guest speakers and such) is the promotion of Fedora > as a reliable free alternative either for normal people, students or > eventually to new IT professionals. I can gather some manpower on local > LUGS and gather corporate support if required (hardware manufacturers, > open source enablers, etc). > > I have also some bonds with ANSOL (http://www.ansol.org), the FSF > Portuguese branch, and also can get their cooperation almost for sure. > > Also regarding to Aveiro, there is currently one company that is > supplying the students laptops through the governament. I know this > company for over 15 years and have developed work for them in the past > (installing and configuring Linux Servers (Red Hat) and Workstations > (SuSE). They currently use the Portuguese Caixa Mágica distro for their > pre-installed computers. We can try an approach to them as well so that > we use Fedora. We have something that Caixa Mágica can't offer, decent > support to new users. I've been lurking on the #Fedora channel, and such > resources are valuable and can make a difference in our favor here > (anyone has status of Portuguese PT_PT implementation on Fedora?). > > I know this might be of interest to Fedora as a Community, and if it > is successful we might open new doors to our sponsor, Red Hat. > > > > If we move on such thing, I would consider the following: > > - March (too close and important city events) > - April/May (full of students events) > - June (exams) > - July (no great events on schedule) > > > I would point for May or July if such is to be done. I am making > myself available to develop contacts, rally support, find a space (I'll > try to go to zero costs) and do necessary local arrangements. > > Is this of interest to Fedora? The event itself I was thinking on a > old fashion Linux Install Fest. > > Waiting for feedback from the list. > > Nelson. > > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
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