1. FUDConBrussels 2007 - chitlesh@fedoraproject.org FUDConBrussels Fedora ProjectFedora Project – 24 February 2007 Thomas Canniot FUDConBrussels Organisation of French Fedora Users FUDCon2007 @ Fosdem 2007

2. FUDConBrussels 2007 - chitlesh@fedoraproject.org FUDConBrussels Fedora ProjectFedora Project – 24 February 2007 Thomas Canniot Post Graduate Student In Educational and social sciences Actual fields: Fedora Ambassador Fedora Translator In charge of fedora-fr organization

3. FUDConBrussels 2007 - chitlesh@fedoraproject.org FUDConBrussels Fedora ProjectFedora Project – 24 February 2007 Thomas Canniot Fedora French Community: 9000 registered members 30 documentation writers 12 fedora ambassadors

4. FUDConBrussels 2007 - chitlesh@fedoraproject.org FUDConBrussels Fedora ProjectFedora Project – 24 February 2007 Thomas Canniot The results of an active action from users and ambassadors

5. FUDConBrussels 2007 - chitlesh@fedoraproject.org FUDConBrussels Fedora ProjectFedora Project – 24 February 2007 Thomas Canniot What we started from: A website: www.fedora-france.org An IRC channel #fedora-fr on Freenode

6. FUDConBrussels 2007 - chitlesh@fedoraproject.org FUDConBrussels Fedora ProjectFedora Project – 24 February 2007 Thomas Canniot December 2005: Identify the website problems and fix them (short term) Turn it to a more community oriented website (long term)

7. FUDConBrussels 2007 - chitlesh@fedoraproject.org FUDConBrussels Fedora ProjectFedora Project – 24 February 2007 Thomas Canniot Upgrading to a newer version of XOOPS CMS Cut down useless bandwidth usages But this was not enough to help the development of the French Fedora Community

8. FUDConBrussels 2007 - chitlesh@fedoraproject.org FUDConBrussels Fedora ProjectFedora Project – 24 February 2007 Thomas Canniot A new web hosting service and a new server... * Sempron 2400/2600+ * 1024 Mo RAM * 2x80 Go IDE * BW 10 Mbs * hosted by Fedora Core ;-)...for free !

9. FUDConBrussels 2007 - chitlesh@fedoraproject.org FUDConBrussels Fedora ProjectFedora Project – 24 February 2007 Thomas Canniot Changing the URL : fedora-fr.org was born 190 millions French native speakers around the world

10. FUDConBrussels 2007 - chitlesh@fedoraproject.org FUDConBrussels Fedora ProjectFedora Project – 24 February 2007 Thomas Canniot a new forum based on PunBB (conversion scripts from XOOPS forum to PunBB are free and open source) a MediaWiki based wiki: to help users using and understand fedora Removing XOOPS for...

11. FUDConBrussels 2007 - chitlesh@fedoraproject.org FUDConBrussels Fedora ProjectFedora Project – 24 February 2007 Thomas Canniot More services: A planet based on DotClear 2 A blog platform based on DC 2 Frappr A Bittorrent server

12. FUDConBrussels 2007 - chitlesh@fedoraproject.org FUDConBrussels Fedora ProjectFedora Project – 24 February 2007 Thomas Canniot French Ambassadors activities: Active communication: a mailing list and a weekly meeting Organizing or participating in major events

13. FUDConBrussels 2007 - chitlesh@fedoraproject.org FUDConBrussels Fedora ProjectFedora Project – 24 February 2007 Thomas Canniot In the near future... A non-profit organization to push promotion forward A goodies webstore (done with Spreadshirts)

14. FUDConBrussels 2007 - chitlesh@fedoraproject.org FUDConBrussels Fedora ProjectFedora Project – 24 February 2007 Thomas Canniot The team