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Como ya sabréis nos encanta la Steam Deck, pero también hay otros dispositivos y para esos os recomendamos Bazzite.
Los desarrolladores no han parado de trabajar y entre las nuevas mejoras están el soporte de Ayaneo 3, AOKZOE A1X, y el soporte preliminar de la MSI Claw A8 y la Legion Go 2.
Otros cambios están relacionados con la reducción de los tiempos de arranque y con un mejor rendimiento.
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Como ya sabréis nos encanta la Steam Deck, pero también hay otros dispositivos y para esos os recomendamos Bazzite.
Los desarrolladores no han parado de trabajar y entre las nuevas mejoras están el soporte de Ayaneo 3, AOKZOE A1X, y el soporte preliminar de la MSI Claw A8 y la Legion Go 2.
Otros cambios están relacionados con la reducción de los tiempos de arranque y con un mejor rendimiento.
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Como ya sabréis nos encanta la Steam Deck, pero también hay otros dispositivos y para esos os recomendamos Bazzite.
Los desarrolladores no han parado de trabajar y entre las nuevas mejoras están el soporte de Ayaneo 3, AOKZOE A1X, y el soporte preliminar de la MSI Claw A8 y la Legion Go 2.
Otros cambios están relacionados con la reducción de los tiempos de arranque y con un mejor rendimiento.
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Warum muss es immer Windows sein? Die Uni plant, tausende PCs zu verschrotten, nur weil sie nicht mit Windows 11 kompatibel sind. Das ist nicht nur verschwenderisch, sondern auch frustrierend! Es gibt Fans von Universal Blue (https://universal-blue.org) und wir fragen uns, warum das URZ nicht einfach eigene Images erstellt und die Software-Auswahl anpasst? Es gibt so viele bessere Alternativen! Gemeinsam für eine nachhaltige IT-Zukunft! #CloudNative #NoWindows #LinuxConquer #ublue #nachhaltig
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#bluefin and #ublueaurora users, if you're on the `:latest` tag we've bundled in sched-ext.
Enjoy these new schedulers, I'm kicking the tyres on `bpfland`.
Can't believe how easy this is, my generation had to compile kernels and reboot while walking uphill both ways...
https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/call-for-testing-sched-ext-available-in-latest-channel/4116
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I don't normally judge people's system/platform of choice.... but I can't help but cringe when people whom are rightfully desperate for a #SteamOS (like) machine go for #HoloISO. I was pretty active at reporting issues, and helping other fellows out on their #GitHub on how to fix or work around certain issues but I just gave up soon after - that distro was unstable as hell and clearly unsuitable for any general desktop PCs/handhelds.
Please use #Bazzite instead, I can personally vouch for how active they are at maintaining and improving the distro - and their docs, while perhaps can be improved, are abundant. I'd much rather have a TON of (good) documentation than a cleaner but useless one, or worse, nothing at all. Some people also recommend #ChimeraOS, but it only offering #GNOME desktop instead ain't for me.
Bazzite offers plenty of variants including one suited for general desktops, machines with #NVIDIA graphics, a "Deck" version aimed towards #SteamDeck, #gaming handhelds, and HTPCs, and even a variant that offers GNOME desktop in place of #KDEPlasma. You wanna setup a stable (immutable) #Linux PC based on #Fedora, especially geared towards gaming? Give Bazzite a whirl.
🔗 https://universal-blue.org
🔗 https://universal-blue.discourse.group/c/bazzite/5
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Our ambassadors delivered support, outreach, and swag items via Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference – a 2024 community event.
Portal to Linux wonder: SCaLE 21x.At a Glance
- What: A community-run open-source and free software conference in Pasadena, California
- Where: Pasadena Convention Center
- When: 14 – 17 March 2024
Photo by Carl George.Our Team in the Field
This reports the activities of the following Ambassadors / Red Hatters at the Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference:
- Alejandro “Alex” Acosta (FAS: aacosta)
- Brian Monroe (FAS: paradoxguitarist)
- Scott Williams (FAS: vwbusguy)
- Perry Rivera (FAS: lajuggler)
- Matthew Miller (FAS: mattdm)
- Brian Proffitt (FAS: Bproffit)
- Justin W. Flory (FAS: Jflory7) [remote support]
What is SCaLE 21x?
The SCaLE (The Southern California Linux Expo) community Linux event delivered an iconic experience with four days of open source training, exhibits, and general presentations. This year’s conference took place in Pasadena (Los Angeles) area.
This expo drew worldwide guests to discuss AI, Linux, security, embedded, IoT, and more. The Conference Chair, Mr. Ilan Rabinovitch, and Technical Committee Chairperson, Owen Delong paved the way for a smooth registration.
Ilan RabinovitchConference Highlights
Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference – Ready, Set, Go!
Justin Flory arranged and shipped hand-selected swag and marketing items to Brian Monroe. Items include: pens, stickers, commuter mugs, badge ribbons, badge lanyards, and more.
Furthermore, the ambassadors gathered up supplies for the conference.
Day 1: Thursday 14 March
Red Hatter Brian Proffitt carefully delivered our marketing notebook system.
In addition, Perry brought the following:
- Dry-board markers
- Dry-board flipchart easel
- Opportunity drawing tickets
- Leftover ribbons, mini-swag from 19x event
- Safety scissors
- Gaffers tape
- Glue
- And more!
Some of our ambassadors travelled in the morning, to catch earlier events and workshops. Others, however, arrived later to factor in traffic.
- Portal to New Linux Ideas
- The back of the Fedora booth this year…a sheet wall..
We met in the exhibit hall to check out the booth and to discuss strategy. Henceforth, we thought about our discussions and engagement to attract visitors. In contrast to SCaLE 20x, our booth was some distance away from the Red Hat booth.
The booth did not receive any free-standing banners this year. Thus, aside from our table cover, swag, and flip chart, we had few items to work with which had large Fedora branding. Soon, we discovered that some guests had initial challenges trouble locating our booth.
Upon dropping things off, some of us reconvened at the KWAAI Summit, new for 2024. Matt Small, Reza Rassool, Román Pineda, Khai Pham, John Willis, and others closed out the the event with an engaging Q&A, introductions, wrap up, and reception, for example.
Afterwards, Fedora joined the Red Hat and CentOS teams and others for a meal at the Yard House.
From L to R: Matthew Miller, Shaun McCance, Perry Rivera, and Carl GeorgeDay 2: Friday 15 March
Checking in on the other variants…
Alejandro and I set out for breakfast Friday and discussed booth and expo plans for the days ahead. Eventually, we headed off to the NixCon track co-located in SCaLE 21x to learn about Nix. We were surprised to find a very packed workshop.
Booth Setup
After a brief look into these OSes, we returned to the Expo Hall to begin putting our booth together. For example, Scott arrived to install a notebook system that he configured with Flatpak pinball game running atop Universal Blue.
- A guest re-discovers pinball on an immutable desktop
- Red Hatters setting up a booth
Next, Perry set up a Fedora flip chart and pasted in a handy QR that Alejandro generated for guests to claim a Fedora badge. Then, Alejandro later wrote in our Fedora scheduled talks, which was handy for guests to take pictures of as they stopped by. Concurrently, Brian strategically set up swag items and carefully routed power within the booth.
Perry later stopped by the Red Hat booth to help raise the 5-person banner. It’s not heavy, however, but it is awkward and difficult to stand up with fewer than 5-people in attendance.
What an Exhibit at Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference
At 10am, the Exhibit Hall opened. As a result, we had a steady stream of community throughout the reminder of the conference. Then, we took turns for breaks from time to time; however, as we were down a person, things felt a bit busier this year. We definitely missed not having Iván Chavero there.
We greeted approximately 400+ this day.
One of the many highlights from today was discovering a vending machine that dispenses temporary VMs. The buttons were quite amusing.
Eye-deal VM Vending Re-use.At length, a few of us met up with Red Hat, CentOS, at El Portal Restaurant for dinner.
- El Portal Restaurant for dinner.
- Rob McBryde: Coordinator of Karaoke goodness.
Subsequently, we met up with Red Hat and CentOS later at Barney’s Beanery to enjoy karaoke and merriment.
Day 3: Saturday 16 March
Specifically, Brian Monroe, Scott, and Perry met up early Saturday morning to go over slide logistics for our Exploring Immutable Linux Desktops with Fedora presentation later that day. Afterward, we caught up with Alejandro at the booth to continue engaging with guests and greeted approximately 500+ this day.
Perry dropped in on a Digital Art / Krita open-source application workshop that went over how the fundamentals of using this tool. They gave pointers on how they use the app in their workflow, for instance.
- Nicholas Maramba and Helen Ortiz present “Digital Art Makes You Smart”
- Humberto Macias, lucky winner of a Fedora commuter tumbler.
- Portal to the endless wonder of immutable desktops..
- Guests listened attentively at the Immutable Desktop presentation
- Scott Williams chats with Joshua Loscar at the Red Hat Booth
- Jeff Carlson ponders his next move..
We also held opportunity drawings throughout the week to beckon more booth interest. Indeed, this proved a success. 40+ people stopped by for each draw.
Comparatively, Perry, Brian Monroe, and Scott later delivered their presentation to 45+ guests.
Thereafter, we re-joined Alejandro to finish up meeting our community at the booth for the expo day. We ate a late linner at the Dog Haus to reflect on the week’s events.
Soon, SCaLE 21x held their annual game night event. Next, we reunited with friends and associates to catch up and enjoy.
Day 4: Sunday 17 March
All of us packed up our rooms early Sunday. Naturally, Alejandro and I re-joined up at the Cordova Cafe for breakfast.
Consequently, we made our way over to the Exhibit Hall to finish up a final day with guests. Altogether, we had a little breather to visit the CentOS booth and say hello.
Shaun McCance and Carl George exhibiting at the CentOS boothThe final exhibit day brought in about 250 guests to our booth. Following, our team packed up the booth for transport.
Ultimately, to complete a fine Sunday, we attentively listened to an excellent closing keynote provided by Bill Cheswick.
Suggestion / Feedback Box Items for Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference
In addition, we had a booth sign-in sheet for visitors to help collect feedback and suggestions about Fedora and related efforts.
From data compiled, we summarize these key highlights:
- Marketing: Many requests for Fedora new logo swag and shirts. Could use stuffed animals, socks, or something different, USB stick. More creative ideas, sticker ideas (hex are popular), floor banners with new logo, DEI stickers were very popular. Portable swag (small and travel-ready) is great for travelers.
- Marketing: One guest suggested a Fedora merch store where community could purchase Fedora logo swag/stickets/items. Above all, proceeds ideally would funnel back to Fedora community where needed.
- Cross: One Debian guest continues prefers Debian for consistency, but wouldn’t mind using Fedora if a consistent spin was available. Potentially opportunity for immutable education or Debian/Ubuntu/NixOS etc. to Fedora presentations.
- Info: Another Debian guest wanted to know key differences between Debian and Fedora. Ultimately, potential opportunity for explainer or migrating presentation or Why Use Fedora vs. ________?
- Usage: One mentioned they are a Rawhide user.
- Info: One requested more information about NeuroFedora. In other words, clearer information about what it is and the status of that Special Interest Group (SIG). Explainer card might be helpful at the booth.
- Usage: One guest enjoys QT packages with DX build.
- Licensing/Booth Info: One guest wanted clearer definition of the licensing relationship and sponsorship between Fedora / RHEL, if any.
- Fedora Activity Day: It might be advantageous for Fedora to identify an organizer for a Fedora Activity Day (or two). For example, possible topics include: Debian to Fedora, command-line, Gnome, KDE, Immutable, Ambassadoring, Why Use Fedora vs. X?, etc.
- Other: Changes for CentOS and Red Hat were points of concern and confusion for some guests.
- Comm: Connect with Universal Blue folks, Lutris, Nobaro (sp?). Bazzite quality badges
- Booth: Engagement with community at the table, opportunity drawing seems to be a success. Let’s get people in the front door of Fedora…for SCaLE 22x, provide challenge or engaging gimmick.
Fedora 39 specific suggestions/comments:
- Usage: Runs great on Dell Lat 7390
- Usage: It’s awesome
- Usage: (I) want to try it!
- Marketing/Immutable/Porting: Cool retro (pinball) demo [at SCaLE 21x]
- Thank You/Derivative: Ultramarine user says thank you for Fedora.
- Thank You/Support: Thank you for Data Transit (GTFS) support
- Magic Wormhole and Fedora are great. Ultimately, we referred this guest to Matthew Miller.
- One guest tracking 39 and 40 Beta packaging and kernel. Definitely, this visitor expressed interest in helping with general or immutable. Additionally, we referred this guest.
In conclusion, we look forward to seeing you at next year’s SCaLE!
Snaps from Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference
- Perry Rivera and Kevin Howell
- Conference Center Conversation Flows. Photo by Carl George
- Patrick Finie and Perry Rivera
- An engaging kernels workshop by Neil Gompa, Shaun McCance, and Carl George. Photo by Carl George.
- Ana Ma and Perry Rivera
- Romy Meyerson@SuSe stops by to visit to say hello..
- Rob McBryde, Jaime Burwood, Katherine Nnanwubar, Perry Rivera, and Brian Proffitt
- Perry Rivera and Siggy
- Perry Rivera and Marc Provitt from SCaLE 21x’s Game Night event.
- Discussing SCaLE strategies. L to R: Scott Williams, Brian Monroe, Shaun McCance, and Carl George.
- Perry Rivera and Bill Cheswick
- Clockwise, L to R: Joshua Loscar, Shaun McCance, Brian Proffitt, Cali Dolfi, Perry Rivera, Alex Acosta, Carl George, and Joshua’s oldest son discussing SCaLE week highlights at Lunasia Dim Sum House…
Related Posts
- Bill Cheswick – Keynote at SCaLE, Bill’s Homepage, Wikipedia Page
- UpSCaLE – SCaLE 21x lightning talks
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/scale-21x-2024/
#California #community #conference #conferences #eventReports #events #FedoraAmbassadors #SCaLE #UnitedStates
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Our ambassadors delivered support, outreach, and swag items via Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference – a 2024 community event.
Portal to Linux wonder: SCaLE 21x.At a Glance
- What: A community-run open-source and free software conference in Pasadena, California
- Where: Pasadena Convention Center
- When: 14 – 17 March 2024
Photo by Carl George.Our Team in the Field
This reports the activities of the following Ambassadors / Red Hatters at the Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference:
- Alejandro “Alex” Acosta (FAS: aacosta)
- Brian Monroe (FAS: paradoxguitarist)
- Scott Williams (FAS: vwbusguy)
- Perry Rivera (FAS: lajuggler)
- Matthew Miller (FAS: mattdm)
- Brian Proffitt (FAS: Bproffit)
- Justin W. Flory (FAS: Jflory7) [remote support]
What is SCaLE 21x?
The SCaLE (The Southern California Linux Expo) community Linux event delivered an iconic experience with four days of open source training, exhibits, and general presentations. This year’s conference took place in Pasadena (Los Angeles) area.
This expo drew worldwide guests to discuss AI, Linux, security, embedded, IoT, and more. The Conference Chair, Mr. Ilan Rabinovitch, and Technical Committee Chairperson, Owen Delong paved the way for a smooth registration.
Ilan RabinovitchConference Highlights
Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference – Ready, Set, Go!
Justin Flory arranged and shipped hand-selected swag and marketing items to Brian Monroe. Items include: pens, stickers, commuter mugs, badge ribbons, badge lanyards, and more.
Furthermore, the ambassadors gathered up supplies for the conference.
Day 1: Thursday 14 March
Red Hatter Brian Proffitt carefully delivered our marketing notebook system.
In addition, Perry brought the following:
- Dry-board markers
- Dry-board flipchart easel
- Opportunity drawing tickets
- Leftover ribbons, mini-swag from 19x event
- Safety scissors
- Gaffers tape
- Glue
- And more!
Some of our ambassadors travelled in the morning, to catch earlier events and workshops. Others, however, arrived later to factor in traffic.
- Portal to New Linux Ideas
- The back of the Fedora booth this year…a sheet wall..
We met in the exhibit hall to check out the booth and to discuss strategy. Henceforth, we thought about our discussions and engagement to attract visitors. In contrast to SCaLE 20x, our booth was some distance away from the Red Hat booth.
The booth did not receive any free-standing banners this year. Thus, aside from our table cover, swag, and flip chart, we had few items to work with which had large Fedora branding. Soon, we discovered that some guests had initial challenges trouble locating our booth.
Upon dropping things off, some of us reconvened at the KWAAI Summit, new for 2024. Matt Small, Reza Rassool, Román Pineda, Khai Pham, John Willis, and others closed out the the event with an engaging Q&A, introductions, wrap up, and reception, for example.
Afterwards, Fedora joined the Red Hat and CentOS teams and others for a meal at the Yard House.
From L to R: Matthew Miller, Shaun McCance, Perry Rivera, and Carl GeorgeDay 2: Friday 15 March
Checking in on the other variants…
Alejandro and I set out for breakfast Friday and discussed booth and expo plans for the days ahead. Eventually, we headed off to the NixCon track co-located in SCaLE 21x to learn about Nix. We were surprised to find a very packed workshop.
Booth Setup
After a brief look into these OSes, we returned to the Expo Hall to begin putting our booth together. For example, Scott arrived to install a notebook system that he configured with Flatpak pinball game running atop Universal Blue.
- A guest re-discovers pinball on an immutable desktop
- Red Hatters setting up a booth
Next, Perry set up a Fedora flip chart and pasted in a handy QR that Alejandro generated for guests to claim a Fedora badge. Then, Alejandro later wrote in our Fedora scheduled talks, which was handy for guests to take pictures of as they stopped by. Concurrently, Brian strategically set up swag items and carefully routed power within the booth.
Perry later stopped by the Red Hat booth to help raise the 5-person banner. It’s not heavy, however, but it is awkward and difficult to stand up with fewer than 5-people in attendance.
What an Exhibit at Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference
At 10am, the Exhibit Hall opened. As a result, we had a steady stream of community throughout the reminder of the conference. Then, we took turns for breaks from time to time; however, as we were down a person, things felt a bit busier this year. We definitely missed not having Iván Chavero there.
We greeted approximately 400+ this day.
One of the many highlights from today was discovering a vending machine that dispenses temporary VMs. The buttons were quite amusing.
Eye-deal VM Vending Re-use.At length, a few of us met up with Red Hat, CentOS, at El Portal Restaurant for dinner.
- El Portal Restaurant for dinner.
- Rob McBryde: Coordinator of Karaoke goodness.
Subsequently, we met up with Red Hat and CentOS later at Barney’s Beanery to enjoy karaoke and merriment.
Day 3: Saturday 16 March
Specifically, Brian Monroe, Scott, and Perry met up early Saturday morning to go over slide logistics for our Exploring Immutable Linux Desktops with Fedora presentation later that day. Afterward, we caught up with Alejandro at the booth to continue engaging with guests and greeted approximately 500+ this day.
Perry dropped in on a Digital Art / Krita open-source application workshop that went over how the fundamentals of using this tool. They gave pointers on how they use the app in their workflow, for instance.
- Nicholas Maramba and Helen Ortiz present “Digital Art Makes You Smart”
- Humberto Macias, lucky winner of a Fedora commuter tumbler.
- Portal to the endless wonder of immutable desktops..
- Guests listened attentively at the Immutable Desktop presentation
- Scott Williams chats with Joshua Loscar at the Red Hat Booth
- Jeff Carlson ponders his next move..
We also held opportunity drawings throughout the week to beckon more booth interest. Indeed, this proved a success. 40+ people stopped by for each draw.
Comparatively, Perry, Brian Monroe, and Scott later delivered their presentation to 45+ guests.
Thereafter, we re-joined Alejandro to finish up meeting our community at the booth for the expo day. We ate a late linner at the Dog Haus to reflect on the week’s events.
Soon, SCaLE 21x held their annual game night event. Next, we reunited with friends and associates to catch up and enjoy.
Day 4: Sunday 17 March
All of us packed up our rooms early Sunday. Naturally, Alejandro and I re-joined up at the Cordova Cafe for breakfast.
Consequently, we made our way over to the Exhibit Hall to finish up a final day with guests. Altogether, we had a little breather to visit the CentOS booth and say hello.
Shaun McCance and Carl George exhibiting at the CentOS boothThe final exhibit day brought in about 250 guests to our booth. Following, our team packed up the booth for transport.
Ultimately, to complete a fine Sunday, we attentively listened to an excellent closing keynote provided by Bill Cheswick.
Suggestion / Feedback Box Items for Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference
In addition, we had a booth sign-in sheet for visitors to help collect feedback and suggestions about Fedora and related efforts.
From data compiled, we summarize these key highlights:
- Marketing: Many requests for Fedora new logo swag and shirts. Could use stuffed animals, socks, or something different, USB stick. More creative ideas, sticker ideas (hex are popular), floor banners with new logo, DEI stickers were very popular. Portable swag (small and travel-ready) is great for travelers.
- Marketing: One guest suggested a Fedora merch store where community could purchase Fedora logo swag/stickets/items. Above all, proceeds ideally would funnel back to Fedora community where needed.
- Cross: One Debian guest continues prefers Debian for consistency, but wouldn’t mind using Fedora if a consistent spin was available. Potentially opportunity for immutable education or Debian/Ubuntu/NixOS etc. to Fedora presentations.
- Info: Another Debian guest wanted to know key differences between Debian and Fedora. Ultimately, potential opportunity for explainer or migrating presentation or Why Use Fedora vs. ________?
- Usage: One mentioned they are a Rawhide user.
- Info: One requested more information about NeuroFedora. In other words, clearer information about what it is and the status of that Special Interest Group (SIG). Explainer card might be helpful at the booth.
- Usage: One guest enjoys QT packages with DX build.
- Licensing/Booth Info: One guest wanted clearer definition of the licensing relationship and sponsorship between Fedora / RHEL, if any.
- Fedora Activity Day: It might be advantageous for Fedora to identify an organizer for a Fedora Activity Day (or two). For example, possible topics include: Debian to Fedora, command-line, Gnome, KDE, Immutable, Ambassadoring, Why Use Fedora vs. X?, etc.
- Other: Changes for CentOS and Red Hat were points of concern and confusion for some guests.
- Comm: Connect with Universal Blue folks, Lutris, Nobaro (sp?). Bazzite quality badges
- Booth: Engagement with community at the table, opportunity drawing seems to be a success. Let’s get people in the front door of Fedora…for SCaLE 22x, provide challenge or engaging gimmick.
Fedora 39 specific suggestions/comments:
- Usage: Runs great on Dell Lat 7390
- Usage: It’s awesome
- Usage: (I) want to try it!
- Marketing/Immutable/Porting: Cool retro (pinball) demo [at SCaLE 21x]
- Thank You/Derivative: Ultramarine user says thank you for Fedora.
- Thank You/Support: Thank you for Data Transit (GTFS) support
- Magic Wormhole and Fedora are great. Ultimately, we referred this guest to Matthew Miller.
- One guest tracking 39 and 40 Beta packaging and kernel. Definitely, this visitor expressed interest in helping with general or immutable. Additionally, we referred this guest.
In conclusion, we look forward to seeing you at next year’s SCaLE!
Snaps from Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference
- Perry Rivera and Kevin Howell
- Conference Center Conversation Flows. Photo by Carl George
- Patrick Finie and Perry Rivera
- An engaging kernels workshop by Neil Gompa, Shaun McCance, and Carl George. Photo by Carl George.
- Ana Ma and Perry Rivera
- Romy Meyerson@SuSe stops by to visit to say hello..
- Rob McBryde, Jaime Burwood, Katherine Nnanwubar, Perry Rivera, and Brian Proffitt
- Perry Rivera and Siggy
- Perry Rivera and Marc Provitt from SCaLE 21x’s Game Night event.
- Discussing SCaLE strategies. L to R: Scott Williams, Brian Monroe, Shaun McCance, and Carl George.
- Perry Rivera and Bill Cheswick
- Clockwise, L to R: Joshua Loscar, Shaun McCance, Brian Proffitt, Cali Dolfi, Perry Rivera, Alex Acosta, Carl George, and Joshua’s oldest son discussing SCaLE week highlights at Lunasia Dim Sum House…
Related Posts
- Bill Cheswick – Keynote at SCaLE, Bill’s Homepage, Wikipedia Page
- UpSCaLE – SCaLE 21x lightning talks
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/scale-21x-2024/
#California #community #conference #conferences #eventReports #events #FedoraAmbassadors #SCaLE #UnitedStates
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Our ambassadors delivered support, outreach, and swag items via Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference – a 2024 community event.
Portal to Linux wonder: SCaLE 21x.At a Glance
- What: A community-run open-source and free software conference in Pasadena, California
- Where: Pasadena Convention Center
- When: 14 – 17 March 2024
Photo by Carl George.Our Team in the Field
This reports the activities of the following Ambassadors / Red Hatters at the Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference:
- Alejandro “Alex” Acosta (FAS: aacosta)
- Brian Monroe (FAS: paradoxguitarist)
- Scott Williams (FAS: vwbusguy)
- Perry Rivera (FAS: lajuggler)
- Matthew Miller (FAS: mattdm)
- Brian Proffitt (FAS: Bproffit)
- Justin W. Flory (FAS: Jflory7) [remote support]
What is SCaLE 21x?
The SCaLE (The Southern California Linux Expo) community Linux event delivered an iconic experience with four days of open source training, exhibits, and general presentations. This year’s conference took place in Pasadena (Los Angeles) area.
This expo drew worldwide guests to discuss AI, Linux, security, embedded, IoT, and more. The Conference Chair, Mr. Ilan Rabinovitch, and Technical Committee Chairperson, Owen Delong paved the way for a smooth registration.
Ilan RabinovitchConference Highlights
Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference – Ready, Set, Go!
Justin Flory arranged and shipped hand-selected swag and marketing items to Brian Monroe. Items include: pens, stickers, commuter mugs, badge ribbons, badge lanyards, and more.
Furthermore, the ambassadors gathered up supplies for the conference.
Day 1: Thursday 14 March
Red Hatter Brian Proffitt carefully delivered our marketing notebook system.
In addition, Perry brought the following:
- Dry-board markers
- Dry-board flipchart easel
- Opportunity drawing tickets
- Leftover ribbons, mini-swag from 19x event
- Safety scissors
- Gaffers tape
- Glue
- And more!
Some of our ambassadors travelled in the morning, to catch earlier events and workshops. Others, however, arrived later to factor in traffic.
- Portal to New Linux Ideas
- The back of the Fedora booth this year…a sheet wall..
We met in the exhibit hall to check out the booth and to discuss strategy. Henceforth, we thought about our discussions and engagement to attract visitors. In contrast to SCaLE 20x, our booth was some distance away from the Red Hat booth.
The booth did not receive any free-standing banners this year. Thus, aside from our table cover, swag, and flip chart, we had few items to work with which had large Fedora branding. Soon, we discovered that some guests had initial challenges trouble locating our booth.
Upon dropping things off, some of us reconvened at the KWAAI Summit, new for 2024. Matt Small, Reza Rassool, Román Pineda, Khai Pham, John Willis, and others closed out the the event with an engaging Q&A, introductions, wrap up, and reception, for example.
Afterwards, Fedora joined the Red Hat and CentOS teams and others for a meal at the Yard House.
From L to R: Matthew Miller, Shaun McCance, Perry Rivera, and Carl GeorgeDay 2: Friday 15 March
Checking in on the other variants…
Alejandro and I set out for breakfast Friday and discussed booth and expo plans for the days ahead. Eventually, we headed off to the NixCon track co-located in SCaLE 21x to learn about Nix. We were surprised to find a very packed workshop.
Booth Setup
After a brief look into these OSes, we returned to the Expo Hall to begin putting our booth together. For example, Scott arrived to install a notebook system that he configured with Flatpak pinball game running atop Universal Blue.
- A guest re-discovers pinball on an immutable desktop
- Red Hatters setting up a booth
Next, Perry set up a Fedora flip chart and pasted in a handy QR that Alejandro generated for guests to claim a Fedora badge. Then, Alejandro later wrote in our Fedora scheduled talks, which was handy for guests to take pictures of as they stopped by. Concurrently, Brian strategically set up swag items and carefully routed power within the booth.
Perry later stopped by the Red Hat booth to help raise the 5-person banner. It’s not heavy, however, but it is awkward and difficult to stand up with fewer than 5-people in attendance.
What an Exhibit at Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference
At 10am, the Exhibit Hall opened. As a result, we had a steady stream of community throughout the reminder of the conference. Then, we took turns for breaks from time to time; however, as we were down a person, things felt a bit busier this year. We definitely missed not having Iván Chavero there.
We greeted approximately 400+ this day.
One of the many highlights from today was discovering a vending machine that dispenses temporary VMs. The buttons were quite amusing.
Eye-deal VM Vending Re-use.At length, a few of us met up with Red Hat, CentOS, at El Portal Restaurant for dinner.
- El Portal Restaurant for dinner.
- Rob McBryde: Coordinator of Karaoke goodness.
Subsequently, we met up with Red Hat and CentOS later at Barney’s Beanery to enjoy karaoke and merriment.
Day 3: Saturday 16 March
Specifically, Brian Monroe, Scott, and Perry met up early Saturday morning to go over slide logistics for our Exploring Immutable Linux Desktops with Fedora presentation later that day. Afterward, we caught up with Alejandro at the booth to continue engaging with guests and greeted approximately 500+ this day.
Perry dropped in on a Digital Art / Krita open-source application workshop that went over how the fundamentals of using this tool. They gave pointers on how they use the app in their workflow, for instance.
- Nicholas Maramba and Helen Ortiz present “Digital Art Makes You Smart”
- Humberto Macias, lucky winner of a Fedora commuter tumbler.
- Portal to the endless wonder of immutable desktops..
- Guests listened attentively at the Immutable Desktop presentation
- Scott Williams chats with Joshua Loscar at the Red Hat Booth
- Jeff Carlson ponders his next move..
We also held opportunity drawings throughout the week to beckon more booth interest. Indeed, this proved a success. 40+ people stopped by for each draw.
Comparatively, Perry, Brian Monroe, and Scott later delivered their presentation to 45+ guests.
Thereafter, we re-joined Alejandro to finish up meeting our community at the booth for the expo day. We ate a late linner at the Dog Haus to reflect on the week’s events.
Soon, SCaLE 21x held their annual game night event. Next, we reunited with friends and associates to catch up and enjoy.
Day 4: Sunday 17 March
All of us packed up our rooms early Sunday. Naturally, Alejandro and I re-joined up at the Cordova Cafe for breakfast.
Consequently, we made our way over to the Exhibit Hall to finish up a final day with guests. Altogether, we had a little breather to visit the CentOS booth and say hello.
Shaun McCance and Carl George exhibiting at the CentOS boothThe final exhibit day brought in about 250 guests to our booth. Following, our team packed up the booth for transport.
Ultimately, to complete a fine Sunday, we attentively listened to an excellent closing keynote provided by Bill Cheswick.
Suggestion / Feedback Box Items for Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference
In addition, we had a booth sign-in sheet for visitors to help collect feedback and suggestions about Fedora and related efforts.
From data compiled, we summarize these key highlights:
- Marketing: Many requests for Fedora new logo swag and shirts. Could use stuffed animals, socks, or something different, USB stick. More creative ideas, sticker ideas (hex are popular), floor banners with new logo, DEI stickers were very popular. Portable swag (small and travel-ready) is great for travelers.
- Marketing: One guest suggested a Fedora merch store where community could purchase Fedora logo swag/stickets/items. Above all, proceeds ideally would funnel back to Fedora community where needed.
- Cross: One Debian guest continues prefers Debian for consistency, but wouldn’t mind using Fedora if a consistent spin was available. Potentially opportunity for immutable education or Debian/Ubuntu/NixOS etc. to Fedora presentations.
- Info: Another Debian guest wanted to know key differences between Debian and Fedora. Ultimately, potential opportunity for explainer or migrating presentation or Why Use Fedora vs. ________?
- Usage: One mentioned they are a Rawhide user.
- Info: One requested more information about NeuroFedora. In other words, clearer information about what it is and the status of that Special Interest Group (SIG). Explainer card might be helpful at the booth.
- Usage: One guest enjoys QT packages with DX build.
- Licensing/Booth Info: One guest wanted clearer definition of the licensing relationship and sponsorship between Fedora / RHEL, if any.
- Fedora Activity Day: It might be advantageous for Fedora to identify an organizer for a Fedora Activity Day (or two). For example, possible topics include: Debian to Fedora, command-line, Gnome, KDE, Immutable, Ambassadoring, Why Use Fedora vs. X?, etc.
- Other: Changes for CentOS and Red Hat were points of concern and confusion for some guests.
- Comm: Connect with Universal Blue folks, Lutris, Nobaro (sp?). Bazzite quality badges
- Booth: Engagement with community at the table, opportunity drawing seems to be a success. Let’s get people in the front door of Fedora…for SCaLE 22x, provide challenge or engaging gimmick.
Fedora 39 specific suggestions/comments:
- Usage: Runs great on Dell Lat 7390
- Usage: It’s awesome
- Usage: (I) want to try it!
- Marketing/Immutable/Porting: Cool retro (pinball) demo [at SCaLE 21x]
- Thank You/Derivative: Ultramarine user says thank you for Fedora.
- Thank You/Support: Thank you for Data Transit (GTFS) support
- Magic Wormhole and Fedora are great. Ultimately, we referred this guest to Matthew Miller.
- One guest tracking 39 and 40 Beta packaging and kernel. Definitely, this visitor expressed interest in helping with general or immutable. Additionally, we referred this guest.
In conclusion, we look forward to seeing you at next year’s SCaLE!
Snaps from Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference
- Perry Rivera and Kevin Howell
- Conference Center Conversation Flows. Photo by Carl George
- Patrick Finie and Perry Rivera
- An engaging kernels workshop by Neil Gompa, Shaun McCance, and Carl George. Photo by Carl George.
- Ana Ma and Perry Rivera
- Romy Meyerson@SuSe stops by to visit to say hello..
- Rob McBryde, Jaime Burwood, Katherine Nnanwubar, Perry Rivera, and Brian Proffitt
- Perry Rivera and Siggy
- Perry Rivera and Marc Provitt from SCaLE 21x’s Game Night event.
- Discussing SCaLE strategies. L to R: Scott Williams, Brian Monroe, Shaun McCance, and Carl George.
- Perry Rivera and Bill Cheswick
- Clockwise, L to R: Joshua Loscar, Shaun McCance, Brian Proffitt, Cali Dolfi, Perry Rivera, Alex Acosta, Carl George, and Joshua’s oldest son discussing SCaLE week highlights at Lunasia Dim Sum House…
Related Posts
- Bill Cheswick – Keynote at SCaLE, Bill’s Homepage, Wikipedia Page
- UpSCaLE – SCaLE 21x lightning talks
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/scale-21x-2024/
#California #community #conference #conferences #eventReports #events #FedoraAmbassadors #SCaLE #UnitedStates
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Our ambassadors delivered support, outreach, and swag items via Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference – a 2024 community event.
Portal to Linux wonder: SCaLE 21x.At a Glance
- What: A community-run open-source and free software conference in Pasadena, California
- Where: Pasadena Convention Center
- When: 14 – 17 March 2024
Photo by Carl George.Our Team in the Field
This reports the activities of the following Ambassadors / Red Hatters at the Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference:
- Alejandro “Alex” Acosta (FAS: aacosta)
- Brian Monroe (FAS: paradoxguitarist)
- Scott Williams (FAS: vwbusguy)
- Perry Rivera (FAS: lajuggler)
- Matthew Miller (FAS: mattdm)
- Brian Proffitt (FAS: Bproffit)
- Justin W. Flory (FAS: Jflory7) [remote support]
What is SCaLE 21x?
The SCaLE (The Southern California Linux Expo) community Linux event delivered an iconic experience with four days of open source training, exhibits, and general presentations. This year’s conference took place in Pasadena (Los Angeles) area.
This expo drew worldwide guests to discuss AI, Linux, security, embedded, IoT, and more. The Conference Chair, Mr. Ilan Rabinovitch, and Technical Committee Chairperson, Owen Delong paved the way for a smooth registration.
Ilan RabinovitchConference Highlights
Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference – Ready, Set, Go!
Justin Flory arranged and shipped hand-selected swag and marketing items to Brian Monroe. Items include: pens, stickers, commuter mugs, badge ribbons, badge lanyards, and more.
Furthermore, the ambassadors gathered up supplies for the conference.
Day 1: Thursday 14 March
Red Hatter Brian Proffitt carefully delivered our marketing notebook system.
In addition, Perry brought the following:
- Dry-board markers
- Dry-board flipchart easel
- Opportunity drawing tickets
- Leftover ribbons, mini-swag from 19x event
- Safety scissors
- Gaffers tape
- Glue
- And more!
Some of our ambassadors travelled in the morning, to catch earlier events and workshops. Others, however, arrived later to factor in traffic.
- Portal to New Linux Ideas
- The back of the Fedora booth this year…a sheet wall..
We met in the exhibit hall to check out the booth and to discuss strategy. Henceforth, we thought about our discussions and engagement to attract visitors. In contrast to SCaLE 20x, our booth was some distance away from the Red Hat booth.
The booth did not receive any free-standing banners this year. Thus, aside from our table cover, swag, and flip chart, we had few items to work with which had large Fedora branding. Soon, we discovered that some guests had initial challenges trouble locating our booth.
Upon dropping things off, some of us reconvened at the KWAAI Summit, new for 2024. Matt Small, Reza Rassool, Román Pineda, Khai Pham, John Willis, and others closed out the the event with an engaging Q&A, introductions, wrap up, and reception, for example.
Afterwards, Fedora joined the Red Hat and CentOS teams and others for a meal at the Yard House.
From L to R: Matthew Miller, Shaun McCance, Perry Rivera, and Carl GeorgeDay 2: Friday 15 March
Checking in on the other variants…
Alejandro and I set out for breakfast Friday and discussed booth and expo plans for the days ahead. Eventually, we headed off to the NixCon track co-located in SCaLE 21x to learn about Nix. We were surprised to find a very packed workshop.
Booth Setup
After a brief look into these OSes, we returned to the Expo Hall to begin putting our booth together. For example, Scott arrived to install a notebook system that he configured with Flatpak pinball game running atop Universal Blue.
- A guest re-discovers pinball on an immutable desktop
- Red Hatters setting up a booth
Next, Perry set up a Fedora flip chart and pasted in a handy QR that Alejandro generated for guests to claim a Fedora badge. Then, Alejandro later wrote in our Fedora scheduled talks, which was handy for guests to take pictures of as they stopped by. Concurrently, Brian strategically set up swag items and carefully routed power within the booth.
Perry later stopped by the Red Hat booth to help raise the 5-person banner. It’s not heavy, however, but it is awkward and difficult to stand up with fewer than 5-people in attendance.
What an Exhibit at Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference
At 10am, the Exhibit Hall opened. As a result, we had a steady stream of community throughout the reminder of the conference. Then, we took turns for breaks from time to time; however, as we were down a person, things felt a bit busier this year. We definitely missed not having Iván Chavero there.
We greeted approximately 400+ this day.
One of the many highlights from today was discovering a vending machine that dispenses temporary VMs. The buttons were quite amusing.
Eye-deal VM Vending Re-use.At length, a few of us met up with Red Hat, CentOS, at El Portal Restaurant for dinner.
- El Portal Restaurant for dinner.
- Rob McBryde: Coordinator of Karaoke goodness.
Subsequently, we met up with Red Hat and CentOS later at Barney’s Beanery to enjoy karaoke and merriment.
Day 3: Saturday 16 March
Specifically, Brian Monroe, Scott, and Perry met up early Saturday morning to go over slide logistics for our Exploring Immutable Linux Desktops with Fedora presentation later that day. Afterward, we caught up with Alejandro at the booth to continue engaging with guests and greeted approximately 500+ this day.
Perry dropped in on a Digital Art / Krita open-source application workshop that went over how the fundamentals of using this tool. They gave pointers on how they use the app in their workflow, for instance.
- Nicholas Maramba and Helen Ortiz present “Digital Art Makes You Smart”
- Humberto Macias, lucky winner of a Fedora commuter tumbler.
- Portal to the endless wonder of immutable desktops..
- Guests listened attentively at the Immutable Desktop presentation
- Scott Williams chats with Joshua Loscar at the Red Hat Booth
- Jeff Carlson ponders his next move..
We also held opportunity drawings throughout the week to beckon more booth interest. Indeed, this proved a success. 40+ people stopped by for each draw.
Comparatively, Perry, Brian Monroe, and Scott later delivered their presentation to 45+ guests.
Thereafter, we re-joined Alejandro to finish up meeting our community at the booth for the expo day. We ate a late linner at the Dog Haus to reflect on the week’s events.
Soon, SCaLE 21x held their annual game night event. Next, we reunited with friends and associates to catch up and enjoy.
Day 4: Sunday 17 March
All of us packed up our rooms early Sunday. Naturally, Alejandro and I re-joined up at the Cordova Cafe for breakfast.
Consequently, we made our way over to the Exhibit Hall to finish up a final day with guests. Altogether, we had a little breather to visit the CentOS booth and say hello.
Shaun McCance and Carl George exhibiting at the CentOS boothThe final exhibit day brought in about 250 guests to our booth. Following, our team packed up the booth for transport.
Ultimately, to complete a fine Sunday, we attentively listened to an excellent closing keynote provided by Bill Cheswick.
Suggestion / Feedback Box Items for Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference
In addition, we had a booth sign-in sheet for visitors to help collect feedback and suggestions about Fedora and related efforts.
From data compiled, we summarize these key highlights:
- Marketing: Many requests for Fedora new logo swag and shirts. Could use stuffed animals, socks, or something different, USB stick. More creative ideas, sticker ideas (hex are popular), floor banners with new logo, DEI stickers were very popular. Portable swag (small and travel-ready) is great for travelers.
- Marketing: One guest suggested a Fedora merch store where community could purchase Fedora logo swag/stickets/items. Above all, proceeds ideally would funnel back to Fedora community where needed.
- Cross: One Debian guest continues prefers Debian for consistency, but wouldn’t mind using Fedora if a consistent spin was available. Potentially opportunity for immutable education or Debian/Ubuntu/NixOS etc. to Fedora presentations.
- Info: Another Debian guest wanted to know key differences between Debian and Fedora. Ultimately, potential opportunity for explainer or migrating presentation or Why Use Fedora vs. ________?
- Usage: One mentioned they are a Rawhide user.
- Info: One requested more information about NeuroFedora. In other words, clearer information about what it is and the status of that Special Interest Group (SIG). Explainer card might be helpful at the booth.
- Usage: One guest enjoys QT packages with DX build.
- Licensing/Booth Info: One guest wanted clearer definition of the licensing relationship and sponsorship between Fedora / RHEL, if any.
- Fedora Activity Day: It might be advantageous for Fedora to identify an organizer for a Fedora Activity Day (or two). For example, possible topics include: Debian to Fedora, command-line, Gnome, KDE, Immutable, Ambassadoring, Why Use Fedora vs. X?, etc.
- Other: Changes for CentOS and Red Hat were points of concern and confusion for some guests.
- Comm: Connect with Universal Blue folks, Lutris, Nobaro (sp?). Bazzite quality badges
- Booth: Engagement with community at the table, opportunity drawing seems to be a success. Let’s get people in the front door of Fedora…for SCaLE 22x, provide challenge or engaging gimmick.
Fedora 39 specific suggestions/comments:
- Usage: Runs great on Dell Lat 7390
- Usage: It’s awesome
- Usage: (I) want to try it!
- Marketing/Immutable/Porting: Cool retro (pinball) demo [at SCaLE 21x]
- Thank You/Derivative: Ultramarine user says thank you for Fedora.
- Thank You/Support: Thank you for Data Transit (GTFS) support
- Magic Wormhole and Fedora are great. Ultimately, we referred this guest to Matthew Miller.
- One guest tracking 39 and 40 Beta packaging and kernel. Definitely, this visitor expressed interest in helping with general or immutable. Additionally, we referred this guest.
In conclusion, we look forward to seeing you at next year’s SCaLE!
Snaps from Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference
- Perry Rivera and Kevin Howell
- Conference Center Conversation Flows. Photo by Carl George
- Patrick Finie and Perry Rivera
- An engaging kernels workshop by Neil Gompa, Shaun McCance, and Carl George. Photo by Carl George.
- Ana Ma and Perry Rivera
- Romy Meyerson@SuSe stops by to visit to say hello..
- Rob McBryde, Jaime Burwood, Katherine Nnanwubar, Perry Rivera, and Brian Proffitt
- Perry Rivera and Siggy
- Perry Rivera and Marc Provitt from SCaLE 21x’s Game Night event.
- Discussing SCaLE strategies. L to R: Scott Williams, Brian Monroe, Shaun McCance, and Carl George.
- Perry Rivera and Bill Cheswick
- Clockwise, L to R: Joshua Loscar, Shaun McCance, Brian Proffitt, Cali Dolfi, Perry Rivera, Alex Acosta, Carl George, and Joshua’s oldest son discussing SCaLE week highlights at Lunasia Dim Sum House…
Related Posts
- Bill Cheswick – Keynote at SCaLE, Bill’s Homepage, Wikipedia Page
- UpSCaLE – SCaLE 21x lightning talks
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/scale-21x-2024/
#California #community #conference #conferences #eventReports #events #FedoraAmbassadors #SCaLE #UnitedStates
-
Our ambassadors delivered support, outreach, and swag items via Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference – a 2024 community event.
Portal to Linux wonder: SCaLE 21x.At a Glance
- What: A community-run open-source and free software conference in Pasadena, California
- Where: Pasadena Convention Center
- When: 14 – 17 March 2024
Photo by Carl George.Our Team in the Field
This reports the activities of the following Ambassadors / Red Hatters at the Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference:
- Alejandro “Alex” Acosta (FAS: aacosta)
- Brian Monroe (FAS: paradoxguitarist)
- Scott Williams (FAS: vwbusguy)
- Perry Rivera (FAS: lajuggler)
- Matthew Miller (FAS: mattdm)
- Brian Proffitt (FAS: Bproffit)
- Justin W. Flory (FAS: Jflory7) [remote support]
What is SCaLE 21x?
The SCaLE (The Southern California Linux Expo) community Linux event delivered an iconic experience with four days of open source training, exhibits, and general presentations. This year’s conference took place in Pasadena (Los Angeles) area.
This expo drew worldwide guests to discuss AI, Linux, security, embedded, IoT, and more. The Conference Chair, Mr. Ilan Rabinovitch, and Technical Committee Chairperson, Owen Delong paved the way for a smooth registration.
Ilan RabinovitchConference Highlights
Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference – Ready, Set, Go!
Justin Flory arranged and shipped hand-selected swag and marketing items to Brian Monroe. Items include: pens, stickers, commuter mugs, badge ribbons, badge lanyards, and more.
Furthermore, the ambassadors gathered up supplies for the conference.
Day 1: Thursday 14 March
Red Hatter Brian Proffitt carefully delivered our marketing notebook system.
In addition, Perry brought the following:
- Dry-board markers
- Dry-board flipchart easel
- Opportunity drawing tickets
- Leftover ribbons, mini-swag from 19x event
- Safety scissors
- Gaffers tape
- Glue
- And more!
Some of our ambassadors travelled in the morning, to catch earlier events and workshops. Others, however, arrived later to factor in traffic.
- Portal to New Linux Ideas
- The back of the Fedora booth this year…a sheet wall..
We met in the exhibit hall to check out the booth and to discuss strategy. Henceforth, we thought about our discussions and engagement to attract visitors. In contrast to SCaLE 20x, our booth was some distance away from the Red Hat booth.
The booth did not receive any free-standing banners this year. Thus, aside from our table cover, swag, and flip chart, we had few items to work with which had large Fedora branding. Soon, we discovered that some guests had initial challenges trouble locating our booth.
Upon dropping things off, some of us reconvened at the KWAAI Summit, new for 2024. Matt Small, Reza Rassool, Román Pineda, Khai Pham, John Willis, and others closed out the the event with an engaging Q&A, introductions, wrap up, and reception, for example.
Afterwards, Fedora joined the Red Hat and CentOS teams and others for a meal at the Yard House.
From L to R: Matthew Miller, Shaun McCance, Perry Rivera, and Carl GeorgeDay 2: Friday 15 March
Checking in on the other variants…
Alejandro and I set out for breakfast Friday and discussed booth and expo plans for the days ahead. Eventually, we headed off to the NixCon track co-located in SCaLE 21x to learn about Nix. We were surprised to find a very packed workshop.
Booth Setup
After a brief look into these OSes, we returned to the Expo Hall to begin putting our booth together. For example, Scott arrived to install a notebook system that he configured with Flatpak pinball game running atop Universal Blue.
- A guest re-discovers pinball on an immutable desktop
- Red Hatters setting up a booth
Next, Perry set up a Fedora flip chart and pasted in a handy QR that Alejandro generated for guests to claim a Fedora badge. Then, Alejandro later wrote in our Fedora scheduled talks, which was handy for guests to take pictures of as they stopped by. Concurrently, Brian strategically set up swag items and carefully routed power within the booth.
Perry later stopped by the Red Hat booth to help raise the 5-person banner. It’s not heavy, however, but it is awkward and difficult to stand up with fewer than 5-people in attendance.
What an Exhibit at Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference
At 10am, the Exhibit Hall opened. As a result, we had a steady stream of community throughout the reminder of the conference. Then, we took turns for breaks from time to time; however, as we were down a person, things felt a bit busier this year. We definitely missed not having Iván Chavero there.
We greeted approximately 400+ this day.
One of the many highlights from today was discovering a vending machine that dispenses temporary VMs. The buttons were quite amusing.
Eye-deal VM Vending Re-use.At length, a few of us met up with Red Hat, CentOS, at El Portal Restaurant for dinner.
- El Portal Restaurant for dinner.
- Rob McBryde: Coordinator of Karaoke goodness.
Subsequently, we met up with Red Hat and CentOS later at Barney’s Beanery to enjoy karaoke and merriment.
Day 3: Saturday 16 March
Specifically, Brian Monroe, Scott, and Perry met up early Saturday morning to go over slide logistics for our Exploring Immutable Linux Desktops with Fedora presentation later that day. Afterward, we caught up with Alejandro at the booth to continue engaging with guests and greeted approximately 500+ this day.
Perry dropped in on a Digital Art / Krita open-source application workshop that went over how the fundamentals of using this tool. They gave pointers on how they use the app in their workflow, for instance.
- Nicholas Maramba and Helen Ortiz present “Digital Art Makes You Smart”
- Humberto Macias, lucky winner of a Fedora commuter tumbler.
- Portal to the endless wonder of immutable desktops..
- Guests listened attentively at the Immutable Desktop presentation
- Scott Williams chats with Joshua Loscar at the Red Hat Booth
- Jeff Carlson ponders his next move..
We also held opportunity drawings throughout the week to beckon more booth interest. Indeed, this proved a success. 40+ people stopped by for each draw.
Comparatively, Perry, Brian Monroe, and Scott later delivered their presentation to 45+ guests.
Thereafter, we re-joined Alejandro to finish up meeting our community at the booth for the expo day. We ate a late linner at the Dog Haus to reflect on the week’s events.
Soon, SCaLE 21x held their annual game night event. Next, we reunited with friends and associates to catch up and enjoy.
Day 4: Sunday 17 March
All of us packed up our rooms early Sunday. Naturally, Alejandro and I re-joined up at the Cordova Cafe for breakfast.
Consequently, we made our way over to the Exhibit Hall to finish up a final day with guests. Altogether, we had a little breather to visit the CentOS booth and say hello.
Shaun McCance and Carl George exhibiting at the CentOS boothThe final exhibit day brought in about 250 guests to our booth. Following, our team packed up the booth for transport.
Ultimately, to complete a fine Sunday, we attentively listened to an excellent closing keynote provided by Bill Cheswick.
Suggestion / Feedback Box Items for Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference
In addition, we had a booth sign-in sheet for visitors to help collect feedback and suggestions about Fedora and related efforts.
From data compiled, we summarize these key highlights:
- Marketing: Many requests for Fedora new logo swag and shirts. Could use stuffed animals, socks, or something different, USB stick. More creative ideas, sticker ideas (hex are popular), floor banners with new logo, DEI stickers were very popular. Portable swag (small and travel-ready) is great for travelers.
- Marketing: One guest suggested a Fedora merch store where community could purchase Fedora logo swag/stickets/items. Above all, proceeds ideally would funnel back to Fedora community where needed.
- Cross: One Debian guest continues prefers Debian for consistency, but wouldn’t mind using Fedora if a consistent spin was available. Potentially opportunity for immutable education or Debian/Ubuntu/NixOS etc. to Fedora presentations.
- Info: Another Debian guest wanted to know key differences between Debian and Fedora. Ultimately, potential opportunity for explainer or migrating presentation or Why Use Fedora vs. ________?
- Usage: One mentioned they are a Rawhide user.
- Info: One requested more information about NeuroFedora. In other words, clearer information about what it is and the status of that Special Interest Group (SIG). Explainer card might be helpful at the booth.
- Usage: One guest enjoys QT packages with DX build.
- Licensing/Booth Info: One guest wanted clearer definition of the licensing relationship and sponsorship between Fedora / RHEL, if any.
- Fedora Activity Day: It might be advantageous for Fedora to identify an organizer for a Fedora Activity Day (or two). For example, possible topics include: Debian to Fedora, command-line, Gnome, KDE, Immutable, Ambassadoring, Why Use Fedora vs. X?, etc.
- Other: Changes for CentOS and Red Hat were points of concern and confusion for some guests.
- Comm: Connect with Universal Blue folks, Lutris, Nobaro (sp?). Bazzite quality badges
- Booth: Engagement with community at the table, opportunity drawing seems to be a success. Let’s get people in the front door of Fedora…for SCaLE 22x, provide challenge or engaging gimmick.
Fedora 39 specific suggestions/comments:
- Usage: Runs great on Dell Lat 7390
- Usage: It’s awesome
- Usage: (I) want to try it!
- Marketing/Immutable/Porting: Cool retro (pinball) demo [at SCaLE 21x]
- Thank You/Derivative: Ultramarine user says thank you for Fedora.
- Thank You/Support: Thank you for Data Transit (GTFS) support
- Magic Wormhole and Fedora are great. Ultimately, we referred this guest to Matthew Miller.
- One guest tracking 39 and 40 Beta packaging and kernel. Definitely, this visitor expressed interest in helping with general or immutable. Additionally, we referred this guest.
In conclusion, we look forward to seeing you at next year’s SCaLE!
Snaps from Fedora @ SCaLE 21x Linux Conference
- Perry Rivera and Kevin Howell
- Conference Center Conversation Flows. Photo by Carl George
- Patrick Finie and Perry Rivera
- An engaging kernels workshop by Neil Gompa, Shaun McCance, and Carl George. Photo by Carl George.
- Ana Ma and Perry Rivera
- Romy Meyerson@SuSe stops by to visit to say hello..
- Rob McBryde, Jaime Burwood, Katherine Nnanwubar, Perry Rivera, and Brian Proffitt
- Perry Rivera and Siggy
- Perry Rivera and Marc Provitt from SCaLE 21x’s Game Night event.
- Discussing SCaLE strategies. L to R: Scott Williams, Brian Monroe, Shaun McCance, and Carl George.
- Perry Rivera and Bill Cheswick
- Clockwise, L to R: Joshua Loscar, Shaun McCance, Brian Proffitt, Cali Dolfi, Perry Rivera, Alex Acosta, Carl George, and Joshua’s oldest son discussing SCaLE week highlights at Lunasia Dim Sum House…
Related Posts
- Bill Cheswick – Keynote at SCaLE, Bill’s Homepage, Wikipedia Page
- UpSCaLE – SCaLE 21x lightning talks
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/scale-21x-2024/
#California #community #conference #conferences #eventReports #events #FedoraAmbassadors #SCaLE #UnitedStates
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Last October, Ford CEO Jim Farley was blunt about the challenge his company faces. With growing production capacity,…
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A fundamental result in universal algebra is the Subdirect Representation Theorem, which tells us how to decompose an algebra \(A\) into its "basic parts". Formally, we say that \(A\) is a subdirect product of \(A_1\), \(A_2\), ..., \(A_n\) when \(A\) is a subalgebra of the product
\[
A_1\times A_2\times\cdots\times A_n
\]
and for each index \(1\le i\le n\) we have for the projection \(\pi_i\) that \(\pi_i(A)=A_i\). In other words, a subdirect product "uses each component completely", but may be smaller than the full product.A trivial circumstance is that \(\pi_i:A\to A_i\) is an isomorphism for some \(i\). The remaining components would then be superfluous. If an algebra \(A\) has the property than any way of representing it as a subdirect product is trivial in this sense, we say that \(A\) is "subdirectly irreducible".
Subdirectly irreducible algebras generalize simple algebras. Subdirectly irreducible groups include all simple groups, as well as the cyclic \(p\)-groups \(\mathbb{Z}_{p^n}\) and the Prüfer groups \(\mathbb{Z}_{p^\infty}\).
In the case of lattices, there is no known classification of the finite subdirectly irreducible (or simple) lattices. This page (https://math.chapman.edu/~jipsen/posets/si_lattices92.html) by Peter Jipsen has diagrams showing the 92 different nontrivial subdirectly irreducible lattices of order at most 8. See any patterns?
We know that every finite subdirectly irreducible lattice can be extended to a simple lattice by adding at most two new elements (Lemma 2.3 from Grätzer's "The Congruences of a Finite Lattice", https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.06539), so there must be oodles of finite simple lattices out there.
#UniversalAlgebra #combinatorics #logic #math #algebra #AbstractAlgebra
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La saga de acción que empezó con la película Olympus Has Fallen, ahora llega a París en esta nueva serie; Sean Harris interpreta a un villano que busca venganza, y amenaza a la “ciudad de la luz” con un violento ataque terrorista.
¿Podrán detenerlo el agente de protección Vicent Taleb, y su equipo? ¡Descúbrelo en #ParisBajoFuego (#ParisHasFallen) ya disponible solo en #UniversalPlus! -
Una producción inglesa/francesa con #GerardButler como productor, llega este spin-off de lo que ya se ha convertido en una franquicia.
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This week is #UniversalLetterWritingWeek!
Do you still write letters, or do they feel outdated to you? ✉️📮
Sindija Franzetti analyses epistolarity in 5 #EpistolaryNovels by contemporary #AmericanWriters#LiteraryStudies #AmericanStudies #AmericanLiterature
Find it here: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=188213009X
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Just found an English translation of Emmy Noether's 1921 "Idealtheorie in Ringbereichen" ("Ideal Theory in Rings"): https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.2577
(while editing the wikipedia page on subdirect products - my first wiki edit to add an Emmy Noether reference! Turns out there's a direct lineage from Noether to Birkhoff's introduction of subdirect products in universal algebra. Just one more way in which she really revolutionized algebra.)
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But! TIL there's a categorical definition that supposedly agrees w/ "surjection" on any variety of algebras:
h is "categorically surjective" (a term I just made up) if for any factorization h=fg with f monic, f must be an iso.
(h/t Knoebel's book https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4642-4)
Are there categorical definitions that agree w/ injective (resp. surjective) on all concrete categories?
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Apparently I missed that Zhuk posted a *simplified* proof of the CSP Dichotomy Conjecture back in January: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01080
I'd really love to understand all of this!
#ComputationalComplexity #complexity #math #UniversalAlgebra
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My eleventh Math Research Livestream is now available on YouTube:
This time, I continued my work from the previous week and produced a higher-dimensional version of the formula for the number of Latin squares given in this paper (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0012365X9290722R). It turned out to be quite similar!
The only real difference in the higher-dimensional case was the need for an analogue of the permanent of a matrix for a rank \(d\) hypermatrix. This can be obtained by summing over all \((d-1)\)-ary quasigroups, which specializes to the usual unary quasigroups (i.e. permutations) in the \(d=2\) case.
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Earlier this summer I did this livestream (https://youtu.be/XwdgxMARr9c), in which I ended up finding a lot of examples of simple quasigroups showing up. I took a look at Bruck's 1944 paper on the subject (https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1944-50-10/S0002-9904-1944-08236-0/S0002-9904-1944-08236-0.pdf), and I saw an unusual pronoun show up: her.
Now there are a few usual suspects for women in early abstract algebra, but not too many. In order of decreasing proximity to quasigroup theory, we have Ruth Moufang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Moufang), Hanna Neumann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Neumann), and Emmy Noether (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether). The woman in question was new to me: Harriet Griffin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Griffin).
Strangely, Bruck refers to Griffin as "Miss Griffin" rather than "Dr. Griffin", although he references her PhD thesis work. I'm not sure what his intent was in specifying her gender.
In any case, I'm always happy to discover another woman who was an early pioneer in non-associative algebra.
#math #algebra #WomenInSTEM #WomenInAcademia #AbstractAlgebra #UniversalAlgebra
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I will be giving a talk on a functorial semantics for neural nets on Friday at the #Cambridge computer lab's Logic and Semantics Seminar. If you happen to be in the area at the time, consider checking it out!
This will be my first talk on a synthesis of my paper on discrete neural nets (https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00677) and the categorified invariant theory appearing in my thesis (https://aten.cool/documents/thesis.pdf).
Abstract and other info: https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/seminars/list/208831
#CategoryTheory #AppliedCategoryTheory #AI #MachineLearning #ComputerScience #logic #math #combinatorics #UniversalAlgebra
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@stiefel_fan der 2 Vorteil in der Universalkleber Masse lieg darin das ich ihn auch benutzt habe als eine Spachtelmasse um teilweise etwas größere Lücken zu füllen.
Der mit Papier verkleidete Rohbau mit den schrägen ist auch aus Styrodur. Teilweise sind die Elemente mit Zahnstochern vor dem verkleben fixiert worden. Der Nachteil beim Kleber ist allerdings die lange Trocknungszeit. Da ich den #Würfelturm aber in der #Ergotherapie baue habe ich nur 1 Std täglich da ist das nicht schlimm.