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#156 Swag request for Linux Day 2019 – Italy - October 2019
Closed: Complete by riecatnor. Opened by alciregi.

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This is a preliminary ticket in order to inform you that we will request some swag for the annual event called Linux Day. Some of the Italian Fedorans are still trying to coordinate a presence at some of the events that will be held in various cities around the country.

Background

The Linux Day, https://www.linuxday.it/2019/, is an annual event mainly organized by local LUGs that will be held in various places around the country. Last year edition was held in 77 cities. Some of these events are little ones limited to a bunch of passionate people and tinkerers, while other ones could be prominent occasions to meet developers and other kind of FLOSS contributors.
The audience (and the number of attendees) you can meet at the various events varies based on the city: curious people, beginners, hobbyists, high school students, IT professionals, university students (where there is an university), makers, and so on.

Obviously the Linux Day is not Fedora centric. And as many LUGs have evolved along the years, sometimes the majority of the talks aren't related to Linux as a distribution but to the ecosystem around it (Arduino, Rasperry Pi, makers world, FLOSS world and communities, open source applications, etc.).
In addition, sadly, italian Fedorans are often unwilling to host a talk or to run a booth (or looking at the veterans, they are no more active in representing Fedora in such events, or are no more in Italy :-)).

You can read the 2018 report here: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/linux-day-2018-italy/

Request

As said before we are still coordinating on the it-users@f.o. mailing list. There is a little group of people that is willing to represent Fedora (hosting talks or booths) in the event organized in their city. In many cases such people is also involved in the event organization.
Therefore we are still not sure about the numbers (of the events where we can represent Fedora, nor the number of attendees).

Like the last years we were thinking to make a unique request, then one of us will take care to send the material to the other people (if you agree).

We are tracking the events that will be covered on this wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LD19_italy

  1. Full Name: Alessio Ciregia (on behalf of the group)
  2. FAS ID: alciregi
  3. Target Audience/Goal: various (read the background paragraph)
  4. Event Date: Saturday, October 26, 2019
  5. Event Location: various cities around Italy
  6. Estimated Number of People: from 20 to thousands depending on the city
  7. Swag Needed/Suggested: whatever you will want to provide. Take into account that in the last few years, this is the only Italian event where we have the occasion to distribute some Fedora swag. Even if something will be not distributed during the event, the various LUGs could use what's left in other occasions.

We will provide more details in a subsequent comment to this ticket.

Thank for your attention.

I believe this is a great way to represent Fedora's mindshare amongst all the LUGs in Italy. I am giving my +1. I would also like to know if you are planning for release parties as the dates are post F31 Release and it will be looking forward to your thoughts about the same?

+1

Seems straightforward to me. I vote +1 for this request.

+1

+1

+1

Can you update us with approximately how many cities we will be participating in so I can estimate swag needs in time to get orders placed, if needed.

First of all, thank you all for all those +1.

Can you update us with approximately how many cities we will be participating in so I can estimate swag needs in time to get orders placed, if needed.

Yes, we have a deadline for tomorrow. We will wait for the weekend, then we will communicate the involved cities and the estimated number of attendees. Works for you?

Thanks again.

@alciregi this is fine :)

Can you update us with approximately how many cities we will be participating in so I can estimate swag needs in time to get orders placed, if needed.

OK.
We will cover 4 cities.

There will be a talk in Bari hosted by @corsaro, and another one in Ivrea hosted by @dariolesca. In Pisa and in Catania there will be a booth hosted by me and @lewis41 (Pisa) and @giupardeb (Catania).

These are the expected attendees: 100 in Bari, 100 in Pisa and 100 in Catania; 40/50 in Ivrea.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LD19_italy

What is the process now?
We should open a budget ticket in order to request swag?

Thanks.

ping @bex

Sorry - I have been in all day meetings. Yes, please open a budget ticket to request the swag.

This is approved.

Metadata Update from @bex:
- Issue assigned to alciregi
- Issue tagged with: needs event report

Hello!
Here you can find the report from Bari: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/linux-day-2019-bari-a-retrospective/

We are planning to write another collective report by the end of November, covering the Linux Day in the other cities.

We decided to write two reports because @corsaro was really excited by the event he was involved in: a great success. It is nice to give some emphasis to such event.

In addition the event in Catania has been cancelled due to a weather alert, and hopefully it will take place on November 23.

And here is the collective report: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/linux-day-2019-italy/ so we can close this ticket.

Thank you very much!

Also spreading such articles in various channels (telegram, forums, social), we hope to attract some new (and old) Italian contributor. 🤞

Thanks @alciregi ! Great work :)

Metadata Update from @riecatnor:
- Issue close_status updated to: Complete
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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