FOSDEM 2010 - Day 1
After a long Friday, that included travelling Athens to Brussels, sightseeing and finally drinking beers on Delerium, I was on the “misfortune” to sleep with Christos and Vangelis (good friends of mine) with lots of snoring (I guess i was snoring too 
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Day 1 started early,waking up in 7am to prepare ourselves for the first Day of FOSDEM. We (as the fedora team) was the first one to set up a booth, which arguably was the best one for the first day
The talks started, and I was happy enough to get informed by Robert Hughes on ICC profiles management and GNOME. If all those fabulous integrations are integrated in GNOME it would certainly become a professional multimedia/art/studio platform (something that I desperately need )
Next one was Max Spevack with his talk on Fedora Governance. The talk was an excellent presentation of how things are decided in Fedora and what sets us apart from other projects. Knowing how things work on your project and trying to resolve decision and leader problems is what keeps a project running smoothly, and Max presented that to us in his own special way! (by chalkboard, waking up and down, graphical renderings of his thoughts etc) Always glad to hear a talk from Max
“Governments are not inspiring, people and ideas are” said Max on his talk. Couldn’t agree more.
Next one was a very entertaining and kinda funny presentation on HTLM 5 by Paul Rouget. I really like the clearness of the code
Finally it was time for Fedora again with a presentation on SpaceWalk by Marcus Moeller and Sandro Mathys which started with a brilliant showcase of SpaceWalk’s feature but unfortunatelly due to time constraints we weren’t able to see any hands-on testing and deployment 
Now, in the end of they day, after hours talking on communities and projects I HAVE to sleep… See ya next day! (Still can’t believe I am in FOSDEM this year too 
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Fedora 12 Athens Release Party - the summary
So the time came! And we gathered up in Egalite Pub to celebrate the new Fedora 12 - Constantine. Thalia, Anastasis and myself arrived early to set the things up. Soon we were joined by the newcomer Pantelis
We did some testing on new features (mainly the ipv6 and connection sharing) and during those tests the first people started to come. At first I was afraid not many would show up, but fortunately I was mistaken.
Gathering Up!
Then it was time for the presentation! Thanks to the Belgian Ambassadors I was able to have good media on my hand to throw a really nice general presentation on Fedora Project and on Fedora 12 in specific. There were questions mainly on the new features and I though that some hands-on testing of them should be good.
Giving the presentation
For that reason we setup 2 laptops with F12 and we saw some Virtualization magic (nice flaw-management), the really nice new packageKit plug-in (although it needs some bug zapping-I’ve already filed the bug ), and other cool feature including some testing of the Moblin platform which is now proudly based on Fedora!
The time passed by so we got ready for the surprise of our party - the birthday cake!
Damn! We really enjoyed that cake
Many discussions followed and I am really happy with the support and respect everyone shows on Fedora Project. Some couple round of beers later and a nice dropout on a local restaurant and the night was done, leaving me (and I hope others too) with the can’t-wait-for-the-next-event feeling!
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Thanks to Thalia we have some really nice photo album from the event here !
I guess she is becoming a nice photographer with her new camera
Many thanks to all who attended and made this event happen. See ya on the next one!
Fedora 12 Athens Release Party
I am so excited about this!
After many years the turn of Athens has come for the Greek Release Party! So it’s my time, Anastasis’ and Thalia’s to organize it!
After the successful Fedora Coffee @ Egalite Pub, we decided that this is going to be our venue for the Release Party as well. So we created a google calendar event, a google map, bloged it, tweeted it, mailed it, spread it! I hope it’s going to be a nice event with many people coming to meet our Constantine
More info on our wiki and on our greek page.
Stay tuned for summary and photos!
Glezos got PWNED
PWNED !
Dimitris got pwned in his homebase! I got access and took the chance to leave a message! Apparently he has to be trained more in order to become a real ninja!
Thanks to Thalia for her help
These are the reactions (before Beredimas told Dimitris it was me) :
http://twitter.com/glezos/statuses/4846047221
http://twitter.com/glezos/statuses/4846082562
Till next time my dear friend….till next time
FAD EMEA 2009 - Final Half
I am in the plane, returning back home (Athens). I recall the things that we have done during the last 2 days in Rheinfelden and I am amazed! They amount of things that can be organized-done by a bunch of people given a small amount of time and specific goals, is just impressive! We managed to have all our discussions (noted in our agenda) on schedule and even discuss on topics brought up, out of the agenda
One such topic was the “merit badge” idea! Instead of having a t-shirt or something (apparel) distinctive for each Fedora Team whouldn’t it be nice to have a generic polo shirt (Fedora Contributor) and then put badges on it depending on the team that you participate ? This way you can show the involvement that you have in Fedora right-away! We can even have regional badges for every region of the world (NA,EMEA,LATAM,APAC). The other participands of FAD EMEA liked the idea so I’ll contact the Art Team in order to discuss it further and possible put it in motion! Please leave some feedback on that so we can have multiple opinions
Maybe Fedora ones?
For the last dinner in Rheinfelden we went in a nice Italian restaurant to relax from the tension of the day. Max was kind enough to explain me some USA sports issues :) Afterwards we all slept like woods (thats a Greek phrase ) except from Max and Gerold cause Gerold had to give Max a ride to the airport at 5:30 in the morning!!
Next morning, after waking up once again by the “4min bells” (!) we dropped by Gerold’s house for a morning calm session. Then Fabian, Yaakov and Jeroen were kind enough to join me lunching in Rheinfelden while I was waiting to catch my train back to Zurich Airport.
All things considered, FAD EMEA was a wonderful experience for me as I got a real smell of what “organization” of a big project (like Fedora) means. Hopefully my addition to that was positive
Can’t wait for the next Major Fedora Event in Europe, possibly FOSDEM in Feb 2010 !
FAD EMEA 2009 - First Half
After a smooth ride to Rheinfleden (air-plane-train) on Friday, I ended up in Gerold’s house with the other Fedora EMEA team and Max (visiting us from USA). We had a night talk on next day’s agenda and some minor things and then we were dragged into a conversation on legal issues for using Fedora logo and name regionally. Gerold’s wife was kind enough to cook us dinner (a wonderful local pizza-like thing :O ) !
Later night, we ended up in the castle, in witch we will sleep the next two days (kinda creepy ).
In the morning we were woke up by the castle’s chapel bells ringing for 4 minutes! After a quick breakfast we ended up at Gerold’s living room once again and the sessions started!
We discussed on what and how we need things from Red Hat (especially on shipping etc) and then it was my time to present the Greek Community and the Fedora Coffee event proposal. This will be an easily-organised minor news-update event (I said it in a phrase!) organised by a local Ambassador. More updates to come on this topic after next Friday (the first Demo Fedora Coffee in Athens). Then Joerg informed us on mentoring ambassadors processes and updates on this subject, just before the coffee-break happening just about now
More on the rest FAD EMEA 2009 tomorrow! Meanwhile feel free to join us in #fedora-fad @ Freenode
Kam Workshop 2009 - Final Half
The final days where full of anxiety about the final result (an archive shelf mechanism) from each team.
Using Alfresco I had set up a collaboration website where everything (progress, photos, concepts etc) was logged tagged and stored. Even though I was enlisted at the team number 1 I was not able to fulfil my duties there full-time partially because of the KERNEL side-project and partially for the Site Tweaking.
Kam Workshop KERNEL Cube
As KERNEL side-project is concerned, we built 3 realizations of it, with the 3rd being the most interesting. It was a Dexion Cube (1.2m) where a man good sit inside and be isolated from the outer world. The project had some interesting metaphorical meanings and some structural details to be looked into. The Final outcome was so good, it was even modified to become a DJ-Deck for the last night party (which I proudly DJed).
Pegy Zali Coordinating KERNEL Construction
The overall experience of such an event was quite good for any architecture related student or young professional. On the pros where the nice (even strict) program, and the community sense between everybody (I even managed to give a speech on FOS-Architecture!). On the down side I would put the low usage of any digital enhancements (the site i built, other collab software) and the really absent breakfast on the Dormitories of Maich (How the hell are they holding Symposiums there ? :S) :P.
I definitely look forward for the next experience like this
Kam Workshop 2009 - First Half
Posted by admin in Architecture, Weblog on August 21st, 2009
Here we are in Chania already spend 4 days in KAM for a workshop on Shelves and Archive Structures. Having passed the threshold of socializing I manage to communicate quite well with almost everyone here. We have a strict schedule on projects (KERNEL included) and presentations.
Yesterday we build an realization of KERNEL that could possibly be used for a hackfest (open source serves open source!!). I was very passionate on the idea and after a discussion with Petros Moris we came up with an idea!
The organization of a joined workshop on free and open source culture in all kind of projects. Open software, open hardware, open architecture, open art, open music, open movies and so on!
I am already trying to figure out the possibility on such an event. In fact i cant get it out of my mind! It would be just awsome!
On the practical aspects of the Workshop we are staying in a conference centre nearby Chania. Mr. Oreopoulos (one of the instructors here) was kind enough to introduce us with the nigh-side of Chania! Military pubs full of history and hardcore bars
More to follow in the next days.
Fedora 11 through every option
Leonidas is out (for about a week now), and having 4 PCs on Fedora 10 it was about time to upgrade
My main Desktop moved to F11 through pre-upgrade, an excellent tool that handles the upgrade process
My secondary Desktop was upgraded through the DVD (slower because i had to download firstly the DVD-iso and burn it)
Moving to my secondary laptop, which was clean installed to the x86_64 version. It was about time for that kind of change. At first I was worried about incompatibility issues with plug-ins in firefox etc but everything seems to work just fine till now.
And last but not least, my main everyday-use laptop. I am still in the balance for the upgrade. It currently runs on Fedora 10 i386. Propably I should have to upgrade it to x86_64 version of F11 but this has to be done by the fearFULL process of clear-install So I have to back up my keys my settings etc… Not having time for these (exams approaching) I shall wait for another 2 weeks and see how the F11 x86_64 in my second laptop goes.
There is no *really* NO need to mention that everything worked out great and there was NOT a single problem during the above upgrades
Fedora FTW !
Multitouch Presentation #1
Posted by admin in Architecture, NTUA Projects, Weblog on May 22nd, 2009
Today, in NTUA- School of Architecture Costas and me presented our initial setup of a multitouch display and its capabilities regarding the urban-space reform and the interaction capabilities on public space.
The setup we used was a Sony Digicam hooked on a Linux-based laptop running tbeta (o community open-source multitouch cross-platform system ) and then via a projector the result (tracked IR blobs) is projected back to the acryllic that has created the IR-blobs (through FTIR) in the first place.
Primary Setup from front side
This was just a proof of concept on multi-touch and multi-input systems, that can be easily be the core technology behind an interactive installations in public spaces. Many ideas come up today during a brainstrorming and we are trying to detrmine our next step towards a more specific scenario-based approach
Primary Setup
Pierros @ Identi.ca- #fosdem is over but lets have a nice final day on Brussels :)
- Testing moblin's capabilities with @bacharakis at #fosdem
- "Make manufacturing more like agriculture!" Start your revolution with RepRap #fosdem
- Enjoying an excellent so far talk for RepRap at #fosdem
- Going for sleep after long day in #fosdem !
- Spacewalk rocks! Easy and clean :) #fosdem #wow
- @bacharakis ' mouse saves the day on SpaceWalk talk #fosdem
- Waiting outside dev room for Spacewalk talk to start at #fosdem
- "Governments are not inspiring, people and ideas are" Max Spevack on #Fedora Governance fedora #fosdem
- Over at hackers room on #fosdem This year the network sucksbut the climate is just great!