Hi, I want leave this lines explaining a bit of what I am doing. First as people are aware I'm working on organizing an event to promote GNU/Linux and Fedora across students and IT Professionals (who might become contributors), in fact the main thing about this event to establish a bond between Fedora and Open Source enthusiasts. Currently I'm rallying organizations who might contribute to this, amongst them city halls, IT giants (who are employers of IT professionals and Linux enablers), higher education students (future IT engineers) and local students. The event I'm planning is to hold several conferences (between 8 to 10) during 2 days and have a small Linux Install Fest/Party for the general community. This event is going to provide feedback on the local community and their probable future involvement in projects such as Fedora, thus, it will also prepare ourselfs for a possible official PT_PT Fedora community. On a personal level I'm working on a project to present to the Aveiro City Hall, the share holder of EMA (Aveiro Municipal Stadium) which is a Class B Soccer stadium in Portugal (part of the Portuguese Euro 2006 stadium projects). This stadium has a modern infra-structure, not only for sports events, but also for corporate usage. 2 modern conference rooms, lots of free premier space and some of the finest technology available. My project is based on a way to bring more funding for the EMA organization, and will be based on a open source plataform for audio and video deployment infra-structure; to be used at corporate level and events. This way they can broadcast events and sell publicity without major investments (considering they are spending around 861 million €/year), the investment is peanuts and can generate massive revenue and also promote their corporate spaces through the availability of such structure to the corporations present. This is a link that I would like to establish and balance an involvement of Fedora here as a platform (gnu/linux) enabler and FOSS enabler. Of course this would be more on the field of a corporation, still, I need to nurse this politicians has they can enable lots of things in the future for us at a local level. I would like also to get my University involved in this as up to a point my contributions go from a student of them and they indeed have a lot to teach/preach that we can learn. I don't know if this makes sense, but the theorical stuff should provide the support needed to create a local Fedora community, which can be sponsored by the City Hall. If such a community appears, there are other things that need to be done, else it will disappear shortly after. So we need to keep events up and keep people being present. For such to happen having a space we can use is great. We can do local hack fests, meetings, conferences, etc. If we can accomplish this, eventually go to schools and give conferences about FOSS/Fedora, we can start nursing future enthusiasts and such to be fond of us and foment their needs of being a part of something great like Fedora. This is what I am trying to accomplish, maybe a fool's dream, but like the CEO of Coca Cola says: "we only fail when we stop trying". nelson -- Nelson Marques <07721@xxxxxxx> -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
