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?