Gianluca Varisco

Last Sunday, 15th of June, Italian Fedora Ambassadors, Pavia’s TiLUG and the City of Garlasco (Pavia) held an afternoon session that featured six presentations having interdisciplinary interests:

• Matteo Pasotti, from TiLUG, spoke about the philosophy of the Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux project.
• I and Luca Foppiano, both Fedora Italian Ambassadors, gave out a talk, followed by
  a very-interesting Q/A session, about The Fedora Project.
• Giovanni Condello, from TiLUG, spoke about 3D environments (gaming, drawing, compositing desktop effects) and tools under Linux.
• Marco Moraschi spoke about interoperability between applications under Linux and Microsoft Windows.
• Marco Graia, from Spike Reply,  gave out a technical talk about Web Applications/Web Services attacks.
• Last, but not least, Alessandro Rubini (Linux Kernel Developer) spoke about Open Source Licenses and Software patents.

It was a great chance to talk to lots of folks (about 40) about technical and non-technical things.
I’d personally like to congratulate everyone who attended and organized it (as well to The Fedora Project for its support in many ways).

Photo sets are available here and here.

Italian Fedora Ambassadors, in association with the Ticinum Linux User Group (TiLUG, Pavia, Italy) and with the partecipation of the City of Garlasco (Pavia), are proud to announce the GNU/Linux “Tech Day“, wich will be held at Garlasco’s “Sala Polivalente” the 15th of June 2008 (starting at 2PM).

The conference aims to make the public, IT experts and not, aware of the opportunities offered not only by the GNU/Linux OS, but also by many OpenSource applications.

Thanks to the workshops and the participation of many experts, users will have the opportunity to know best several topics such as network security, software licenses, OS interoperability and others.

During the afternoon, it will be also presented the latest Fedora release, the GNU/Linux distribution by the Fedora Project: an OpenSource project sponsored by Red Hat and supported by the community. A team of volunteers will be ready to install this OS on the computers of the participants.

Fedora is indicated for any uses since it contains all the most common tools a user will ever need in a server environment, as well as a bundle of graphical tools for the system configurations, useful to those users who are in search of a user-friendly desktop distribution.

If you’re interested, join us!

I got my RHCE Certification (805007044027706) less than one year ago (July 27, 2007), just two days after my 19’s birthday. I’m grateful I had this chance during my summer internship at Red Hat, personally and professionally. There’re other Linux certifications outside, such as those provided by LPI, Novell and CompTIA. Do you know other Linux certifications that would like to advise me?

Another question for all the RHCErs: How old were you when you got it?

I took the subway to the EUR area in the early morning: Marco Palazzotti, our Fedora Italian Ambassador in Rome (can I change his nickname from MEP to ‘hero‘ ? ;-)), had already bought savoury/sweet pies, drinks and a beer vat. We quickly reached our event location: Roma 12 Associazione Sportiva. They offered us for free a big-sized sports hall full of lighting, tables and chairs.

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Rome, probably one of the most beautiful - full of historical sights - cities in the whole world, held our Fedora 9 Release Party last Saturday.

I left Milan on Friday afternoon by using our national high-speed railway line: 580km in about 4h30min!
Arrived at Roma Termini’s railway station, a really good friend of mine was already there waiting me! He kindly hosted me at his house in Rome for two nights.

I spent the evening preparing my two presentations: the first one about “The Fedora Project“, the other one about “F9’s Release notes“. Previous to sleep, I set up all my toys: an XO machine (re-installed with its latest stable build, 656), a FON AP with its “Fontenna” (weatherproof indoor/outdoor directional antenna) and my shiny Lenovo Thinkpad X31.

I membri italiani del Fedora Project, in occasione dei festeggiamenti per il rilascio della distribuzione GNU/Linux Fedora 9 avvenuto in data Martedì 13 maggio, sono lieti di invitarvi a partecipare al “Fedora 9 Release Party” che si terrà, a partire dalle ore 16:00, presso lo “Sporting Roma12″ a Roma, in Via di Decima 42.

Il “Fedora 9 Release Party” è un evento internazionale. Dopo il successo ottenuto dai ragazzi de LOLUG a Lodi la scorsa settimana, il mese di Maggio vedrà altre due città coinvolte:

* Fedora 9 Release Party - Roma (24/05)
* Fedora 9 Release Party - Firenze (31/05)

E’ un party informale e conviviale, un ottimo modo per conoscersi e passare la serata in allegria. Come tutti gli eventi Fedora, è dedicato a utenti e sviluppatori di tutte le distribuzioni.
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Lisa Lavie’s debut album - Everything Or Nothing - is simply amazing!

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Lodi was the first of three locations that will be kept in mind by Fedora Italian Ambassadors for a long time. What’s happened last Tuesday was simply GREAT. F9 Release Party has been a mix of great social achievements and, at the same time, permitted us to share goodies about The Fedora Project and its last - amazing - release.

Last but not least, a lot of good food has been eaten! Did you see beer? If yes, you were probably wrong!

Luca Foppiano, Francesco Crippa and I gave all together a presentation covering all the new features of F-9, speaking about our community-driven development model and the role that SIGs have within our project. Q&A session after our speech was very very interesting: people there were very intelligent, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic about the Open Source ecosystem: Which distribution are you using doesn’t really matter.

Release Party wouldn’t be possible without the strong efforts made by a group of talented and passionate people. I’d like to say THANK YOU especially to:

• Byte-Code Srl guys (and Fedora Ambassadors): Francesco Crippa, Lucia Losi, Luca Foppiano, Raffaele Cigni, Samuele Storari.
• LOLUG guys: Matteo Castellini, that helped us with kobold and our usb live key station, and all the others (don’t hurt me, but unfortunately I can’t remember all the names, ).
• Daniele, Luca’s friend, that helped us  to have all the stuffs ready in time.

You can also read Francesco and Luca’s reports.

And now? Next appointment with Fedora Italian Ambassadors is scheduled for Saturday, 24th May 2008, 4 pm: Rome’s F9 Releasy Party. Keep rocking!

I thought about that a little before take a decision: In the next events I will attend, I’ll also give a presentation about Fedora Special Interest Groups (SIGs).  These teams (more than twenty) need more attention, especially from all users interested in helping Fedora grow and want to contribute in upcoming releases. I’ll license my work under a Creative Commons license and will publish it here.

F9 Release Party in Lodi is scheduled for next Tuesday, 13th May 2008: I’ll speak about that event later today

Fedora Italian Ambassadors are very busy organizing Fedora 9 Release Events here in Italy. We’re trying to define three locations:

• Lodi - Tue May 13, 2008
• Florence - official date not defined yet
• Rome - Sat May 24, 2008

In order to hit our objectives we should have everything ready as soon as possible. If you’re interested and want to be part of our team (by promoting the event and/or by helping us with technical/logistics issues), drop us an e-mail!