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EventReport : Fedora 11 Release Party KL at Saito College

2009-07-10T20:24:00.003+08:00

Another late report .. >.<

On 4th July 2009, the Fedora Malaysia Team , in collaboration with Saito College held a Fedora 11 Release Event at Saito College, Petaling Jaya.

We had a large crowd, more than 90. The audience were mainly students and lecturers who are new or does not know about FOSS, so, like most of Malaysia Team event so far, we did several talks about FOSS and Fedora to give some introduction to them : "What Is FOSS", "What Is Fedora, Fedora Project, and how you can be part of it ", "FOSS artwork tools" (Saito College is mainly an art college), "Security in Fedora".

Before lunch, we played the Fedora 11 Release Video and Big Buck Bunny to the audience. Big Buck Bunny generated quite some interest from the designer crowd among the audience towards blender.

Besides sponsoring the venue for the event, Saito College also generously sponsored lunch for the attendees. On the afternoon, we held a workshop for installing Fedora11 and using it. (and the widely known anaconda partitioning bug made it a tricky for us)

Event ended on 5pm. All of us was flat tired, but I believe it worth it.

Big thanks to Saito College for the great support, sponsoring the venue and lunch for us.

Also thanks to the local community who came to support event, and also thanks ti all the attendees of the event.

My slides are here like usual : http://izhar.fedorapeople.org/presentations

Pics uploaded by Aziz Mydin at his facebook album here

Web buttons

2009-07-06T23:41:00.009+08:00

Created some Fedora web buttons to be put on Fedora-My website.

Icons taken from tango and gnome icon set. Font - MgOpen Modata

200x101 PNG set

Update #1: Changed background colour to follow Fedora guidelines
Update #2: Changed get-help link to help.fedoraproject.org

UpcomingEvent : Fedora 11 Release Party KL

2009-07-01T02:18:00.002+08:00

The Fedora-My team will be having a release party event at Saito College (map) on this 4th July 2009.

More details here : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/MalaysianTeam/Events/F11_Release_KL

Facebook RSVP : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111452258608

Friends, bring your friends :D

EventReport : FOSS Seminar at Mukah Polytechnic

2009-06-25T22:56:00.006+08:00

I was at Mukah, Sarawak on the last 22nd and 23rd June 2009 for a FOSS Seminar organized by a Polytechnic college there. The polytechnic invited speakers from OSCC-MAMPU and Eric (an OSCC-MAMPU staff, an OpenSuSE Ambassador, and also a contributor in Fedora-My activities) invited me to tag along with him as a speaker. The event attendees were primarily lecturers and staff from Mukah Polytechnic itself, Kuching Polytechnic, and several nearby colleges.

First day talks attendees
Eric
Me!

It was a 2 days event where the first day was mainly filled with talks related several FOSS topics: "What is FOSS", "Trends in FOSS world", "GNU/Linux", "Security in FOSS", "Interoperability – Making FOSS and Windows play nice", and "FOSS development tools".

Second day workshop at the lab

The second day was an install workshop of Fedora and OpenSuSE and introduction of several GNOME features to the attendees. Me and Eric take turns on the talks and workshop.

On a different note, being in Mukah town was quite like an escape from busy city to both me and Eric. Slow moving, peaceful town - something thats quite rare back in mainland Malaysia. Eric reiterate frequently that he liked the place very much.

Going to Mukah involves taking a flight on a twin-otter. It was my first time on it and it was a great experience - It was like taking a minibus above the clouds ^-^.

The smallest airport I've ever seen

Food there was great too, especially Umai - a local delicacy - which is a type raw fish dish served with sago and a sauce mix. Other nice foods includes: mee goreng kulat (fried noodle with edible fungus fried together) and nasi ayam penyet (plain rice served with pressed fried chicken, sambal, and raw vegetables).

Umai
Mee goreng kulat
Nasi ayam penyet

Mukah Polytechnic was also a nice place, large area, but considering currently it is their semester break, it was quite silent. The staff there, primarily Mr Zaki and Rudolf were friendly and generous to us.

I hope after this little event there will be more traction towards FOSS at that side of Malaysia, and hopefully more contributions coming from there. Teachers and lecturers are undeniable plays an important role in shaping students' mindset and skills. Hope our trip there generated interests for them to bring more students toward FOSS.

I have uploaded the slides which I created for the event (and several other past Fedora events) here : http://izhar.fedorapeople.org/presentations

~~Btw, pics are currently with Eric, I forgot to bring my camera. Waiting for him to transfer it to me. Will be posting some of them here once I got them.~~

Some pics of Mukah town

Printed new cards

2009-06-19T17:05:00.003+08:00

I've been using the old Fedora card until a few weeks ago. Now that they are done, finally, I print this new design :D.

This tool is neat

yum install fedora-business-cards
fedora-business-cards --pdf

(yup, my phone camera sucks)