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.
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! 
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:
).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:
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!
What happens when two very touchy feely people meet each other?
Mario Calabresi, Italian journalist for Repubblica.it, published an interview between Roberto Saviano, Italian writer and journalist, author of the bestselling book Gomorra, and Salman Rushdie, Indian-British novelist and essayist, author of The Satanic Verses.
Roberto, that received strong threats after his worldwide success with Gomorra (nowadays translated in 42 countries), which strongly denounces the activities of the Camorra, lives today with a personal body guard.
Salman’s verses received violent protests from Muslim, faced with death threats and a fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini which called for him to be killed.
Both of them have something in common: They wrote something innovative (touching hot topics such as Italian’s criminal organisations), that can be considered as ‘real narrative‘, instead of write another boring novel or fiction narrative. I won’t speak about my thoughts regarding Italian’s criminal organizations, but I want to send kudos to them for such an excellent journalist work done until today.