FOSDEM - day 2

 January 31, 2016 -  Bruxelles, BE

This morning I’ve assisted to one of the most fun and interesting talk I’ve have ever seen. I’m talking about the talk of Richard M Stallman on licensing and patents. I’ve really liked how the talk has been conducted by the speakers and I think the contents were great (you can probably find it available online and if I’ll find a link, I’ll post it).

After Stallman’s talk, I went to listen Langdon White talk Re-thinking Linux Distributions. I think this was a great talk, and even if I do not agree completely with Langdon, he made very good point and he explained a lot of things that are going on in the Fedora’s modularization effort.

FOSDEM - day 1

 January 30, 2016 -  Bruxelles, BE

After one day at FOSDEM, I’ve to admit that people are not lying when they affirm that FOSDEM is awesome. It really is.

Today I had the occasion of following multiple very interesting talks. The only problem I’ve found with the FOSDEM organization is that too often there are multiple very interesting talks at the same time and you have to pick only one (unless you have ubiquity capabilities, but I don’t). I think one of the most interesting talk of the day - at least for me - was the Lennart Pottering one.

FOSDEM - day 0

 January 29, 2016 -  Bruxelles, BE

For years I wanted to attend some major FLOSS conferences, but I’ve never had the occasion since I’ve always had other things to do in the conferences dates. This year, due to multiple causes and good planning, I’ve been able to go to FOSDEM :).

One thing that I like to do at all kind of events, but even more in big events, is to volunteer. Volunteering, in my opinion, gives you big advantages, since you often can find very interesting people.

Fedora 23 release party

 December 13, 2015

Few days ago, on November 23, we have had a Fedora 23 release party in Milan, as we announced in the wiki.

This time we did something different from the previous one (the Fedora 21 release party) because we tried to do it in Milan, while the previous time we did it in Cernusco sul Naviglio that is a city very close to Milan.

The number of people that participated at the event was below expectation, but probably this is not only caused by the more central location, but also the limited planning time we had due to the location that has been provided to us by StartMiUp, a coworking space.

Elettronica Libera

 March 21, 2015 -  Settala, IT

Today ViGLug organized the “Elettronica Libera” (free, as-speech, electronics) event in Settala.

In the morning, we had many sessions, and the focus was more on the general public and promoting those ideas with non-expert people. In the morning, many topics were covered, such as the various boards available, Linux, and the open-source software around them.

In the afternoon, the focus moved to more advanced topics, such as GPIO, OpenWrt, the networking bits, as well as a hands-on session.

LinuxDay 2014 in Melzo

 November 3, 2014 -  Melzo, IT

In Italy every year, during the last weekend of October, there is the Linux Day, an “open day” for the LUGs where they create events to publicize GNU/Linux and the Free Software. As usual (for the last 5 years now), the ViGLug organized it’s event and this time has been in Melzo, a city less than half hour drive east from Milan. We had a very nice event with more than 50 new people coming to learn about Linux and its wonderful world.