Bert blogt

Yesterday we had the first Fedora event in Belgium. Reason to hold one was the release of Fedora 12.

the event took place in  a Don Bosco school, in Antwerp (Wilrijk), and I want to thank them once again for making this possible!

We had something between 20 and 25 people attending.. that was nice, although I expected some more people.. We had food (chips, cheese, bread), and drinks at the place, to make the event somewhat more enjoyable.

after my talk Bart got the idea of forming a ‘getting-to-know-each-other’ circle, I think that in this way we got some people interested in joining the fedora community.

As a last ‘surprise’, Martin showed up, and the crowd was really interested in his talk about OLPC.. Luckily for us, he brought some olpc’s, and he let us play with them

thanks to all people who attended the event, and let’s hope we can make a strong Belgian Fedora Community out of it!

* you can find my presentation here

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Name: Bert “bret” Desmet
IRC nickname: biertie
IRC channels: #fedora, #fedora-ambassadors, #fedora-social, #fedora-nl, #fedora-devel on freenode; #cfk, #ict on Quakenet
Location: Ghent, Belgium

Yes, this will be the first Fedora release party in Belgium since a long time (maybe this IS the first one in Belgium, I don’t know for sure)

So, I hope all the belgian Fedora contributors will come to this event, this would be a great opportunity for a get-together. Off course, also other people are welcome on this event -Fedora users, or people that want to start with linux-. We will help people installing fedora -there will be a local mirror-, try to give them some useful tips, and maybe we’ll throw in a more serious talk too. This is also an opportunity to get to know the Fedora contributors in Belgium.
So, if you’re coming, please register on this page (this _is not_ necessary), but it is useful for us to know how many people are coming!

I created the poster in inkscape, on A4 format, so feel free to print them, and hang the poster in your school / work / wherever you want

Dutch version
English version
French version
German version

I hope I see you guys there, the 28 of november!

cheers,
Bert