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After event: Fedora Cafe – Győr, Hungary
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by admin on 17-01-2010
We had yesterday an great event, surprisingly successful. I was hold in Győr Plaza Cafe.
I have putted out the ad about Fedora Cafe event 2 weeks before, and asked people to send private mails to registrate, and if they have – special theme suggestion, for the open floor talk at the end. I had luck with the place: we have received the wifi internet connection for free. Also I have made also request for official media in tracker, but sadly I have received none. However, I have copied F12 Gnome, and several LXDE, FEL respins too.
Later I have received at first 8 peoples mail, 2 has cancelled before the day, so it seemed that I will hold the event for 6 people, and they arrived in time. But it was a surprise: 3 other people has just walk-in between talks for an half hour when we hold an pause. They has seen my ambassador t-shirt and asked me to stay if possible, because they were curious about linux. Surely said yes! Never imaged that, indeed.
I have talked about our 4 foundation, 4F, a bit FOSS talk, about Fedora Factory (thanks for the earlier presentation fcrippa!) and our respins – because of 3 of my participants were artificer, and they had big interest in Fedora Electronic Lab. For others introduced the LXDE spin.
The oldest man (picture above), he came from Budapest, and I met with him at the earlier FSF conference. I was happy to see him again.
However, the event has took 6 hours, and the end of the event we agreed that was nice, we will return, hopefully with more people.
Brilliant – was this based on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cafe_con_Linux?
Great Report Zoltan.
it sounds like you deliver them the whole Fedora Package
– Could you find potential contributors as well?
I have set asside enough Media for you to bring it to FOSDEM, so the next event you will have enough.
Mel- yes, basically it was based on that idea. And the greatest in it: WORKS! For sure, I keep everyone's contact, and give them fluently some buzz around/about Fedora. This keeps them busy with it, and I try to convert them first to Fedora user, and then contributor, later on if they have gathered some experience – to ambassador. This keeps the user-flow, and generations that will grew after me… One of the earlier meeting (at Budapest), I've gained some trainee contributors: one of them wants to be part of the Fonts SIG, and the another for translation. By the way, it would be great to see the most missing/wanted positions in the community – to hit the drums – to call people.