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Fedora 12 Release Party, Valencia (ES)

Everything went better than expected (seven attendees!).

Most of the people came from the Linux associations and LUGs of the city (there are 2 public universities in the area, plus some private), and I tried to advocate Fedora, but all of them are long time Linux users (even a Gentoo user in the house!). The Linux associations/LUGs in Valencia are quite dormant (one of the attendees used the word dead), so I think the meeting was a big success!

We had a nice time talking about free software, programming languages, and (to some extent) the new features of Fedora (in the photo, because we were local logged users, we didn’t have to identify us to get a signed beer from a licensed repository heh, nice Fedora already fixed this).

The seventh attendee arrived a little late, but we had a big surprise because actually he was a Fedora user! I think we (the two only Fedora users in the party) deserve a photo:

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Fedora 12 Release Party, Valencia (ES)

As Fedora ambassador I’m going to host a release party in Valencia.

I’m not sure about how many people will come to the event, because I don’t know if there’s a Fedora community in Valencia, but I’m sure it’ll be fun (no matter if we’re two or twenty).

In fact, this little event will be a proof of concept. As far as I know there are some Linux user groups and Linux user associations in Valencia, but they’re quite dormant. So the motto of this release party will be very simple: come to hang out for a beer (or a coke, or whatever you like to drink), and chat about Fedora, Linux and free software.

The meet will be next November 20th, from 21:00h, at The Black Sheep pub (it’s a nice and spacious place).

There’s a little poster for the event. If you’re in the area, it would be great if you come!

Update: the start time has been delayed one hour up to 21:00h!