Fedora 24 Release Party Bangalore

     We had a Fedora 24 Release Party on the 3rd of July, 2016, organised by Sumantro Mukherjee, Sudhir Dharanendraiah and Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay in Red Hat, Bangalore. During this release party, we discussed new features in Fedora 24. Around 50 people came to the Fedora 24 release party and most of the people were college students.

    We initiated the party by cutting the cake.  

Sudhir (QA Manager) slicing the Fedora cake

Fedora 24 Cake

This event had three booths for each of the following:
1. Cool features of Fedora 
2. Internet of Things
3. Fedora 24 Installation desk - Here, we installed Fedora 24 OS for the participants. 

After that, Sumantro and Arvind explained new features of Fedora 24. 

Arvind initiated Fedora 24 Release Party

Sumantro explaining Fedora 24 new features

In the second session, Sumantro talked about 'Internet of Things' on Fedora and Pidora.

Pidora

This sums up the morning session.During lunch, Sachidananda talked about the history of Linux.

Sachidananda talks about History of Linux

Hereafter, I had presented "The Power of Linux" presentation and discussed the advantages of using Linux operating system and made comparisons between Linux and other operating systems. 

In the afternoon session, Suraj Deshmukh talks about DGPlug training. 

SurajD talks about DGPlug training

 Richa Rupela talked about her contribution to open source, how she began her journey in the open source world and also shared ideas with the audience on how to contribute to open source.

Richa talks about her open source contribution

In  the evening session, Sumantro demonstrated how to contribute to Fedora projects. After demonstrating the presentation, interested attendees tested Fedora Bodhi packages. They also earned badges at the end.

Fedora 24 Graphical Upgrade Test Day - Red Hat, Bangalore

I got my first exposure to the Fedora community and open source contribution. It was an exciting event held on the 16th of May 2016 at Red Hat, Bangalore. In total, there were four people attending the event in person. Many others attended the event through Hangout &IRC. Sumantro (QA Intern), Karthik (Storage Intern) , two new open source enthusiasts (Vipul Siddharth and Prakash Mishra) and I attended the event at the Red Hat office in Bangalore.

Vipul Siddharth and Prakash Mishra had come from Christ University, Bangalore. They have a keen interest in contributing to open source technologies. Sumantro deserves a special mention. He mentored the new comers and also took us through the entire Red Hat enterprise workflow operations.

The Fedora Graphical Upgrade procedure is here. We were able to make the Fedora Graphical Upgrade test day a success. One great news is that the new comers got a part-time internship opportunity at Red Hat. Congrats Vipul Siddharth and Prakash Mishra! :)

In this event, Each and every one exposure their workflow in Red Hat. I had an opportunity to know the operations of other teams like the storage team and the quality testing team. This event also helped us to group together quality assurance (Sumantro), storage (Karthik) and infrastructure (Me) :) and share our point of views with each other.

We published the result on the Fedora test results page. The link for Fedora test results page is here. In upcoming days, we plan to work on the Fedora release validation testing project. 

Finally I want to say thanks to Sudhir Dharanendraiah (QA Manager). He is organised the Fedora Graphical Upgrade Test Day very well and also helped us a lot.