Gents,
after months trying, wasted faxes to the sucker italian registry, I succesfull to register the fedoraproject.it domain.
Now finally the Italian community may have a cool website which will be the official italian place for fedora.
Tag Archives: linux
June june, what a crazy month :)
June is going to be a bit heavy. All weekends are taken:
- 6th: Memobyte (Mantova): Event related on electronic and embedded systems, with a lot of companies involved in. I’ll be there to support Fedora FEL with some light speeches (during all the day) and a booth with gadgets, USB station. Thanks to Gianluca, Alexjan and Stefano who agreed to come with me.
- 13th: ConfSL & LUGConf (Bologna): I’ll be in Bologna as two role: as President of LOLUG (no profit organization about Linux) and as Fedora Ambassador. This conference is really important to give a structure and exchange experiences in local user groups. Of course I’ll be there as Fedora ambassador because ConfSL has a lot of ubuntu/debian supporter, so I have to bring some fresh air
- 19th-21th: Byte-code MeetUp (Bormio): The third annual Byte-Code MeetUp, a combination of sessions, talks, workshops, and hackfests in which contributors work on specific initiatives. This year will be some international VIPs
- 26th-28th: Fedora EMEA FUDCon (Berlin): Fedora user and developer conferences will include two days of hackfests and possibly some presentations, followed by a day of BarCamp.
Fedora is everywhere…
…and I’m too nerd
Symbolic 1.3.0 released
Finally, after three months Symbolic 1.3.0 has been release with new cool features and new website.
Symbolic 1.3.0 has three key features:
- Cloud computing support (virtual machines management over Cluster)
- Machines provisioning with cobbler
- XEN console connection through VNC protocol.
you can see it in action on videos published weeks ago:
As usually, any suggestion and/or proposal is welcome!
Document Freedom Day
“Document Freedom Day” is an event, promoted by the Free Software Foundation, whose aim is to spread free documents formats and the Free Software culture. Last Wednesday I attended the Italian DFD 2009 in Opera (near to Milan, where in 2008 was organized “Liberamente“).
Me and Gianluca Varisco proposed a talk about the core values of the Fedora project, whose aim is to spread the meaning of the 4 foundations in general, and Fedora’s policies around codecs and firmwares in particular – thus covering a wider subject matter, not only documents.
Fedora gadgets
However, I couldn’t stay there all the time because it was a workday. I came during my lunch break and brought an OLPC (the byte-code one), some Fedora stickers and gadgets with me. Stefano Frontori, my colleague at byte-code, accompanied me and he was the official photographer (you will find some photos attached to this post). He’s a very good photographer but he has only one defect: he’s a Canonist (yep, this is a neologism “A person who uses a Canon” )
Fedora attenders
The initial plan was to do a two-people speech, but unfortunately Gianluca was unable to attend, due to last-minute-problems. I want to thank him: he took care all boring pre-event tasks: put together an abstract, contact the event owners and so on. There weren’t many people, but some interested students (better than 100 bored and inattentive people). I had only 30 minutes for my speech so I tried to do it in a more interactive way, people could interrupt me, ask questions and so on. At the end there was an important question about Fedora hardware support, about the community, and Fedora/Ubuntu comparison.
Me and my talk
I want also to point out the spirit of the FSF, in this case FSF Italy. Where the hell were they? FSF choose the most ugly day to organize this event (it was a workday, how can you expect a wide audience?), and didn’t send any FSF person.
Fedora ambassadors
Last but not least, many thanks to every voluntary people who organized this event. Special thanks to Alexjian Carraturo who allowed Fedora presence to this event.
Happy birthday Symbolic
Moving Fedora-it on rails
I’m 2 month late to write this post, but on the other hand, I adjusted my thought with last three months experience and give you a better perspective.
When I think about Fedora-IT community origin, I start smiling. I remember clearly when on #fedora-it IRC channel were only two (me and Matteo), and two Fedora Ambassador (Francesco & Francesco). Today we are officially a community. We are about 10/15 people on IRC and 5/7 active Fedora Ambassadors. This is nothing respect to French and German communities but for now is enough.
Since 2009 I have been decided to enhance the community by add short regular activities:
- We have to do at least one meeting for month (no matter who is the owner or who ask for it, it’s important to keep in touch regularly, have brainstorming, discussions and involving all interested people.
- We have few localized pages on fedora wiki to keep and track internal informations:
- Event page with a list of Italian events where we my participate (for example LinuxDay, Document Freedom Day, Software Freedom Day ,etc). This page has multiple goals: track every event may be interesting for us, give to Ambassador people the possibility to choose which event they want to attend, Today this page is incomplete but next year we will have a really valuable event list.
- Inventory page collects gadget location and owner, this page exist because gadget are distributed all around Italy. This list give you the possibility to know what is available and who ask to.
- Meeting page with transcript and summary meeting.
I think we are on the right way.Stay tuned!
Action – Reaction
After I noticed about this annoying bug on Xorg that break your keyboard layout (if you are not using US one), and considering some of people with laptop like mine (Dell D630) confirmed it, I decided to save my laptop…so:
[lfoppiano@sboing ~]$ uptime
21:52:13 up 8 days, 3:54, 7 users, load average: 1.14, 1.02, 1.05
Right now I’m surviving
IT’s an hard world….
I was looking for new information about Evolution planning and I found a IRC chat meeting of evolution team here.
The good news is that we will be a 2.24.5 release on February 25th, the bad (or sad, as you prefer) news is that Novell team will be reduced (about an half).
This is not encouraging me to continue to use it because the quality may be reduced without so many full-time developers. I’ll stay tuned and you too. 
Random thoughts about FAD EMEA
Basel
Basel is a very nice location, I didn’t expect to find a so beautiful city. It was a great choose.
Organization was perfect. I want to say a great “Thank you” to Sandro for his brilliant and complete management. His also included a tour (with a skilled guide, Riccardo, if I don”t remember bad) in Basel and a visit to the botanic garden.
I really enjoined this meeting and I hope to participate again, and more actively, next year.
LinuxTAG
Linux tag planning was the main topic, on Saturday morning. There were a lot of points: budget was the most discussed one. Last year, Linux Tag had about 20K$ of budged, which will probably reduce a bit next year, maybe booking a less expensive hotel, reducing the booth dimension and move FUDCon in a separate place/time.
I’m the ones who vote to separate FUDCon from LinuxTAG because are two different events, and as far as I remember last year there weren’t many attenders, probably because is an internal event. I’d like to partecipate to FADCon in Stuttgard.
Linux Day
Here my presentation about our result on Linux Day. Nothing more to say, you can find my reports here, here, here and here.
About contributors
I don’t think we should point to “get $number contributor(s)” philosophy, we just spread Fedora as much as possible and try to let Fedora known to a larger number of people. After this, it will be automatic that we will find other contributors.
The first step is the more time consuming and hard to do, because to get at least one new contributor you have to talk to at least hundred people, after that the work became less difficult.
Random photos
Thanks to Francesco Crippa’s set, I forgot my camera at home :’(
A lot of compressed and amused geeks.
Joerg, Fabian, Felix, Jeroen (from left to right)
Italian “delegation” (me, Francesco Ugolini e Gianluca Varisco) 
Joerg
Francesco Ugolini
Francesco Ugolini
