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Aaaaa… I’m back…

McGiwer — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:03:35 +0000

Hello everyone Hmm, so I’m back to life. I’ll put here some info why I wasn’t giving any sign of life throughout the last months, but for now it’s enough…

Fedora and Red Hat Open Day 2008 finished!

McGiwer — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:53:12 +0000

I didn’t write about the event we’re organizing before, but I’ll write a short brief on this now So, the event took place on 1st June in Cracow. The name for the second time was Fedora and Red Hat Open Day, although the topics spoken during the conference were mainly Fedora-related. We were really surprised with the huge interest in our event. We had 173 registered people what was a real success. Of course not everybody appeared but that was a success anyway. The attendance was the biggest during first presentations, but we shouldn’t complain about this during the whole event as well. I won’t write long report here, because if you’re intrested in more detailed account, I’ve posted it here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-June/msg00068.html.

Linux-reinstalacja in Wroclaw

McGiwer — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:56:11 +0000

I’m glad to inform you about a great iniciative taken by Wroclaw Linux community. Local folks are organizing an action called Linux-reinstalacja (Linux-reinstallation) whose target is to help new users in installing Linux on their desktops, and to help people solve problems they can encounter during work with the operating system. Me with my friends have a honor to represent the Fedora Project on this event. We’re gonna set a booth there, too. The event will take place at Wroclaw University of Technology, on 15th December (this Saturday), building C-13. We’re waiting to see ya there!

The event’s website: www.linux-reinstalacja.pl
Trailer: view

Software Freedom Day 2007

McGiwer — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:47:29 +0000

Few days ago Open Source had its big holiday – Software Freedom Day. It’s an international Open Source event. In Poland, the event took place in two Polish cities – Wroclaw and Krakow. Fedora was represented in Wroclaw by a group of Polish Fedora Ambassadors. Without any doubt, that was the best organized Fedora representation in Poland till now. Besides, we were the best represented Open Source project there as we were the only booth The event took place at Wroclaw University of Technology and it looked as most of the attendees were an academic community, what is a good sign for Open Source Software, as young people are interested in it. People could listen to many interesting presentations connected with Open Source projects and everyone could find something for himself. What’s even more interesting, we could talk with these people about Fedora, and I had a speech about the Fedora Project. I think it was the first step to create a strong Fedora community in Wroclaw. The future is presented in bright colours Below you have some photos.

Fedora Open Days 2007 – summary

McGiwer — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:33:46 +0000

A bit late, but I’m sending you a very short report from Fedora Open Days I mentioned in my previous post. I won’t write a long introduction, as I think everything is written in the report

1st day (Saturday, June 16th)

The whole event took place at one of the buildings of Cracow University
of Technology. When we arrived at the meeting place, there were many
community members. They were waiting for registration. Before the event
started, we set had set up our booth. Registration didn't take long,
immediately after this almost everyone went for the room where
presentations took place. The first speech was an official welcome from
organizers. Then the presentations started. On the first day, there were
many speeches about the new Fedora 7 release, Red Hat Neterprise Linux
5, virtualization and the Fedora community in Poland and Europe. After
these topics, we had a break for a dinner. After a meal people come back
for next presentation, about virtualisation (Xen), Red Hat in Poland,
preparing the RPM packages and Ruby on Rails. Then the "official" part
of the event on the first day was finished. We met again on a Krakow
marketplace for Linux Party, to integrate the community We had a
great fun till late hours, but because of the next day we had to come
back and sleep a bit.

2nd day (Sunday, June 17th)

On the second day, the event started with a presentation about licences.
Then, we could see speeches about Compiz, KDE4, Jabber and Fedora
Directory Server. After them, the community went for a short break for
dinner, that is delicous pizza After coming back, there were
presentations about Red Hat Internet servers and TeX.

Preparations for Fedora Open Days 2007

McGiwer — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:45:17 +0000

Hi! So, I’m packing my luggage for Fedora Open Days 2007, which will take place on 16-17 days of this month in Cracow (Poland). I have Fedora T-shirts, few bracelets from FUDCon, Fedora posters (and one Red Hat poster), Fedora 7 leaflets & Fedora stickers (small, large & extra large ). Oh, and a few FC6 DVDs to be given away. I should get to Cracow at about 8 p.m. Today, we’ll have a meeting somewhere at the Cracow Marketplace. Btw. – I promised you more photos from LinuxTag some time ago and I’ll put them here, but not yet I hope FOD will be a great holiday for Polish Fedora community.

Welcome from Berlin! :)

McGiwer — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:21:47 +0000

I haven’t told it to you earlier due to lack of time, but I’m doing it now So, here is event in Berlin, the largest event of this kind in Europe, LinuxTag. We have our Fedora booth here with some schwag. The closest booths around us that might interest you are Suse ( ), Ubuntu and IBM ones. I have told with guys from Free Software Foundation Europe and decided I will join their translation team, when I have more free time. But ok, let’s tell in few sentences what’s happened here since I’ve arrived yesterday. So, when I arrived at the Pegasus hostel where all Fedora team is staying, we had FAD (Fedora Ambassador Day). We’ve talked some important issues and had a briefing for LinuxTag. After a tiring trip and FAD, we went to our rooms and went to a dreamed sleep. Early in the morning (6:45), we had a breakfast and after that we went to LinuxTag for setting a booth. When we had finished doing this, the event started. There were not too many visitors today, but I’ve been told that next days are gonna be much more busy than Wednesday. At about 12:10, I started to write this post but while doing this, I went for a dinner and I wanted to finish the post but the battery went down after a while, that’s why I’m writing now Just before 18 o’clock we started cleaning our booth. Then, we came back to our hostel, ate something and discussed topics related (mainly) to Fedora and the Open Source Software. While writing this, we’re sitting on the first floor of the building we’re staying at and most of us are doing some stuff at their laptops Below you have few photos from today, I’ll give youmore tomorrow. So bye for now, see you tomorrow

I’m back!

McGiwer — Wed, 23 May 2007 01:12:04 +0000

Hi again! I’m back after a long absence. I’m already after all exams, now I have to just wait for results. I gotta orientate what’s going on in the world, so I will be able to normally function. I think that’s all for now. For next hearing

Reducing activity until May

McGiwer — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:29:53 +0000

Hi! I’m writing this post to announce you I’m reducing my activity in all areas until May. This is because of very important exams I’m gonna have on May. I won’t be reading my mails, so I’ll be almost unreachable. Also on May I’ll post some photos I’ve taken during FOSDEM. All I can say now is that it was a really great time spent there. I think that cutting off is the most reasonable thing I can do now. So, see you on May!

Fedora Ambassador Day

McGiwer — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:00:12 +0000

Hi, it’s Brussels! I haven’t written about it before, as I had to prepare for travel. Tomorrow, there will be FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting) here. But for us, the most important event is FUDCon which will take a place there. Today, we had a meeting connected with the Fedora Ambassador Day. We met in a such group for the first time in a real life. It was a really exciting and fantastic experience. There were ambassadors from Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Poland and UK. There were also two Red Hat folks from the US who’re connected with Fedora. These were Max Spevack, the Fedora Project leader and Tom Callaway (spot). We also met some CentOS, Firefox and FreshRPMS guys, as well as Dag Wieers who produces RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and CentOS. We had a really great time together. I’ve also met some Kubuntu guy who’s staying with me in the same room, he’s also cool folk I’ll post here some photos after FOSDEM. I’ll also try to write something tomorrow, if I’ll still be able to do so