Hi Gerold, It's mainly an idea for now, and I haven't contacted no one yet. May could be fun, because it's the students festivities (and 25% of Aveiro resident population is students). So, we also have a nice playground to have some fun after the event :) As I said previously, I haven't contacted the ambassadors, because it's just a sketch of an idea, needs to get more substract (hopefully from this thread). I would recon that we could eventually develop a bit more this idea on the list and then present it to the Ambassadors once it gets more "stable". Here's a list of people that could get involved: - Aveiro City Hall (through the cultural and educational department) - PT Inovação S.A. (as a open source enabler in the market, they used a lot of Red Hat when I was there (1999/2001), not sure what they use now, but I can select the people that are pro Red Hat (my former boss would be great, he was the one who teached me a lot about Red Hat back then, and he also gives conferences sometimes, so he has a lot background and experience). - Inforlandia Lda > They were one of the first, if not the first hardware manufacturer/OEM brander to ship with pre-installed GNU/Linux. They are a good company, and they count with local engineering people from nvidia and Clevo. - IPAM > My University (bellongs to the Ensigest Group, present in Europe and Americas). - University of Aveiro > One of the highest technological poles in the country. They form a lot of good people and some of their teachers are deeply involved in Free Software promotion (like Dr. Ruben Mendes from ANSOL, which was also a contributer/maintainer for Debian in the past, if I'm not wrong). - Fedora Community > of course. - Red Hat ? - I would like to contact probably one or two ISP's and mobile operators (reason: e-student program from the governament provides mobile networking aswell for students. Supported? Alert to open source?). Keep feeding the thread and comenting everything, so we can have a clear inview of what we can do and what we cant do before we start rallying for manpower and things we need. Feel free to contact me in private: 07721@xxxxxxx, nmarques@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx My German is basic ;) (almost 15 years without practicing on it) English would be preferred. Thanks for the support, Nelson On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 22:11 +0100, Gerold Kassube wrote: > +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 > > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
