Hi Everyone Forgot to mention that i did meet Sriram whos is a fedora ambassaor and was also representing Fedora and was helping out the ILUGC booth.
Thanks for your help ! Cheers, Balaji On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Balaji G <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone > > I am extremely thrilled and pleased to announce that my talk in OSI Days > was a real good success. The talk was quite short and I started off with > A Survey on how many in the audience have heard about Fedora and there was > quite a good number and then I started off with the following > > 1. What is Fedora > 2. What's the Speciality of the Fedora Project > 3. What role does Redhat Play in contributing to fedora. > 4. What's the role I play in Fedora > 5. What's the advantage in Contributing to Fedora and i asked > interested people to get my email ID offline to know more on how to > contribute > and I assured them that i could help them to get into World Of > Open Source Software through Fedora. > 6. Question & answers > > Then people when i got off the stage asked for my email IDs and have asked > me to give talks in LUG and lot of people had questions like > > "i want to do some programming but i am not sure how do i do it in > Ubuntu " these sort of questions came up and then i took that opportunity to > tell them that i would help you do that by asking them to install fedora and > assured them that they could copy of DVD from me. Lot of students wanted to > do projects but they didn't know how to get into Fedora so i answered those > questions and have asked them to contact me through email and then i would > bring them onto the IRC channels. I have also asked them to log in to > #fedora-classroom on the April First Weekend where i would be taking IRC > sessions on kernel topics and Virtualization. > > I strongly feel that this would bring in more users and contributors and I > would be giving more talks too in the future. > > It was a pretty exciting day and i would be sharing some photos soon . > > > Thanks, > Cheers, > Balaji
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