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March 6, 2009

The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, announces today that it will host the Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) between June 26 and 28 in Berlin, Germany.

FUDCon is a periodically held, community event where the Fedora development community meets to discuss and collaborate on Red Hat technology features that eventually become part of the next release of the Fedora operating system.

Partly because it will be co-located with LinuxTag, FUDCon will be held in Germany, Europe's leading exhibition place on Linux and Open Source, and also because there is increasing interest in the Fedora Project throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia markets.

LinuxTag and Fedora have had a strong presence for several years. The FUDCon event will leverage the large audience at LinuxTag to ensure that Fedora can reach both users and developers equally well. The conference will run from Friday through Sunday, and will include speeches in English and German that are both user and developer focused.

Discussion topics include the new Fedora version 11 OS, packaging RPMs, open-source education and infrastructure tools for provisioning and managing Linux systems.

"Momentum around FUDCon Berlin will mirror the major uptick in Fedora involvement that we've seen over the last six months. Since the release of Fedora 10 we've seen about 1 million new installations and approximately two million unique visitors to fedoraproject.org each month," said Paul Frields, Fedora Project Leader.

He added "we are very pleased about the number of contributors and interest that we are seeing in the Fedora Project, and we intend to build on that enthusiasm at FUDCon Berlin."

"Fedora community members are in every corner of the world and in order to keep our global community healthy, we regularly hold FUDCons outside of North America," said Max Spevack, former Fedora Project Leader and current manager of Red Hat's Community team.

"Following successful events in the Czech Republic last year and in Boston, Massachusetts last January, we are very excited to bring FUDCon back to Europe."

Source: Operating Systems Today.

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