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> We need more fancy-sounding awards in open source / free softwareIn Aotearoa we have Ngā Tohu Pūmanawa Herekore o Aotearoa, the NZ Open Source Awards;
I'm embarrassed to admit I haven't really paid them any attention to since before the pandemic.
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@mattdm
> We need more fancy-sounding awards in open source / free softwareIn Aotearoa we have Ngā Tohu Pūmanawa Herekore o Aotearoa, the NZ Open Source Awards;
I'm embarrassed to admit I haven't really paid them any attention to since before the pandemic.
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@mattdm
> We need more fancy-sounding awards in open source / free softwareIn Aotearoa we have Ngā Tohu Pūmanawa Herekore o Aotearoa, the NZ Open Source Awards;
I'm embarrassed to admit I haven't really paid them any attention to since before the pandemic.
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@mattdm
> We need more fancy-sounding awards in open source / free softwareIn Aotearoa we have Ngā Tohu Pūmanawa Herekore o Aotearoa, the NZ Open Source Awards;
I'm embarrassed to admit I haven't really paid them any attention to since before the pandemic.
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@mattdm Terry Prachett's Discworld series comes to mind.
Or any of the books in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmx_YSPcujE
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@mattdm @sozutovo @fedora Even in Fedora Atomic upgrades are not automatic. Someone has to press a button. In my experience watching people using any computing device, many people do not see or care about notifications. People will fall on EOL OS image for years unless you do yearly support.
So, I'd substitute #UniversalBlue in this response.
Lack of automatic updates is the reason #Fedora #Silverblue is not my first recommendation to beginners, preferring #EndlessOS or #UBlue instead.
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@mattdm @sozutovo @fedora Even in Fedora Atomic upgrades are not automatic. Someone has to press a button. In my experience watching people using any computing device, many people do not see or care about notifications. People will fall on EOL OS image for years unless you do yearly support.
So, I'd substitute #UniversalBlue in this response.
Lack of automatic updates is the reason #Fedora #Silverblue is not my first recommendation to beginners, preferring #EndlessOS or #UBlue instead.
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@mattdm @sozutovo @fedora Even in Fedora Atomic upgrades are not automatic. Someone has to press a button. In my experience watching people using any computing device, many people do not see or care about notifications. People will fall on EOL OS image for years unless you do yearly support.
So, I'd substitute #UniversalBlue in this response.
Lack of automatic updates is the reason #Fedora #Silverblue is not my first recommendation to beginners, preferring #EndlessOS or #UBlue instead.
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@mattdm @sozutovo @fedora Even in Fedora Atomic upgrades are not automatic. Someone has to press a button. In my experience watching people using any computing device, many people do not see or care about notifications. People will fall on EOL OS image for years unless you do yearly support.
So, I'd substitute #UniversalBlue in this response.
Lack of automatic updates is the reason #Fedora #Silverblue is not my first recommendation to beginners, preferring #EndlessOS or #UBlue instead.
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@mattdm @sozutovo @fedora Even in Fedora Atomic upgrades are not automatic. Someone has to press a button. In my experience watching people using any computing device, many people do not see or care about notifications. People will fall on EOL OS image for years unless you do yearly support.
So, I'd substitute #UniversalBlue in this response.
Lack of automatic updates is the reason #Fedora #Silverblue is not my first recommendation to beginners, preferring #EndlessOS or #UBlue instead.
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@mattdm Yeah, I had to do some digging. It's actually made by RetroGames. It has a built in virtual keyboard that you use with their new USB controller. I'm impressed they managed to make an even less practical keyboard than the original membrane one!
https://retrogames.biz/support/the400-mini/faq/safe-region-vk/
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2026/4/27 Media Summary #crosspost
mattpocock/skillsZ4nzu/hackingtool
gastownhall/beads
home-assistant/core
quendimax/ bumpish
mattdm/ gourmand
sileshn/ android_frameworks_base
gigirassy/ 84codes-crystal-mimalloc
kerframil/ portage-overlay
Avanini/ UpCloudGitOps
museoa/ guix
lorsupra/ Izanagi
TheGreatMcPain/ guru-distfiles
Bibostin/ babble
menameismoo234/ sportal
https://blog.wuyuansheng.com/2026/04/27/2026-4-27-media-summary-crosspost/
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@j1mcOh, and please use https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ by @Luca as long as it works to rebuild your networks! Thank you!
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What is Fedora Strategy 2028? You may have heard us reference this here and there, but why not learn more directly from project leader @mattdm on the Fedora Podcast!
Show premieres at 5pm EDT (9pm UTC).
Watch premiere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdMMjJI4-54
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What can you expect from Fedora in 2025? We dive into what's happening with Fedora 42, 43, and with the transition to a new Fedora Project Leader.
➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23cWDXvt-Fo
:fedora: ❤️ @mattdm
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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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We need more fancy-sounding awards in open source / free software so that people who have made amazing things that literally affect and improve the whole world can get Wikipedia pages at least on the level of minor-league sportsball players.
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Don't miss this from our friends at @Hellotux
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I wrote about Logic Models in open source software planning a few days ago. Now, feast on this hot take: Logic Models are a superset of OKRs that avoid some of the common failures of that tool, and provide other advantages too!
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... One such tool I personally find helpful and think would be good is called a "logic model" — it's a way of expressing your _theory of change_.
And all of this is to say, I wrote a short post about this tool in Fedora -- we're using it as a framework to plan and structure our strategy for the next five years.
Check it out if this is at all interesting to you:.
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/theory-of-change-how-we-plan-and-explain-our-plans/46632
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #TheTalentedMrRipley #MattDamon 27 Years Later, Matt Damon’s Twisted Psychological Thriller Is Leaving Streaming Soon http://dlvr.it/TSZ774
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@mattdyson99
Matthew,
If I remember correctly, I think Kylie is one of your favorite singers?😊
#KylieMinogue #MusicVideo
#Music #Video #Locomotion
#RetroMusic #RetroSongs
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@mattdyson99
Matthew,
If I remember correctly, I think Kylie is one of your favorite singers?😊
#KylieMinogue #MusicVideo
#Music #Video #Locomotion
#RetroMusic #RetroSongs
#Song #Songs #Throwback
