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Hello readers! It’s been a long time since my last post. Apologies for that but I was working on an online IDE for Arduino with the rest of the Codebender team.
However I think it’s time to share with you some of my “adventures” inside the amazing Fedora world!
In November I was invited by the Hungarian community to attend their yearly national FOSS conference named OSOL Szeged 2014.
It was an amazing experience since I had the opportunity to meet in person the awesome local Fedora community and have a presentation to OSOL event on the upcoming Fedora products. Thank you Levex for organizing the presence of the Fedora Project in OSOL Szeged
It was one of the moments where I really enjoyed my presentation since I received a lot questions and had some interesting discussions. And when you have a lot of questions you know that the topic of your talk was interesting and the audience was actually listening to you.
The feedback I received on our decision for dramatically changing the Fedora operating system and creating three different but more innovative products was really positive and encouraging.
One of the highlights of the event and my whole trip was the energy of the Fedora Hungarian community. I consider them as one of the most active FOSS (not only in Fedora) communities in Europe who focus on actual contributions and not only on running events.
During my stay I had the opportunity to brainstorm with Gergely and Zoltan on how to sustain large and highly active FOSS communities. We also discussed the agenda of the upcoming Fedora Ambassadors EMEA meeting in Germany where I represented both Greece and Hungary since non of the Hungary community members was able to attend.
Last but not least I want to thank Gergely for having me in his home and make me feel like part of his beautiful family! Honestly this is something that cannot be described with words.
FAD are the initials for the Fedora Activity day, a day dedicated to the Fedora project. Actually in Leverkusen we had two days with activities dedicated on the Ambassador program with people joining from almost all the Fedora European communities.
After the introductions and presenting the current status of each community we reviewed in detail all the important events in the EMEA region for the year 2015. As a result we could be more accurate on our yearly budget. We decided to focus on events with certain audience and more technical topics where we believe the audience of our three products (Workstation, Cloud, Server) exists.
Swag production was in the agenda (as always 😉 ) and we reviewed some of the existing or new ideas on producing swag. However I am sorry but I can’t share more with you, it’s a surprise!
One of the highlights of the event was the conference call with our new Fedora project leader Matthew Miller who walked on the same path for focusing on specific and more technical events where we can engage more active contributors with Fedora.
I left the event with a lot of pleasant memories and thoughts since I spent a weekend with my Fedora friends. I was really happy seeing old and good friends and meeting new ones, people who joined the Fedora Project recently and they are already active and contributing in their area of expertise.
Until the next time my Fedora friends.
Christos Bacharakis events, fedora Leave a comment March 11, 2015 2 Minutes
Η κοινότητα του Mozilla σας εύχεται καλή χρονιά με ένα από τα ενδιαφέροντα Mozilla Coffee στην πόλη της Θεσσαλονίκης.
Τα λέμε λοιπόν το ερχόμενο Σάββατο στις 12 το μεσημέρι στον χώρο του Coho.
Θα συζητήσουμε τις τελευταίες εξελίξεις γύρω από το Firefox OS στα πλαίσια των ανακοινώσεων της φετινή CES 2015. Επίσης θα μιλήσουμε για τον Firefox Developer Edition. Ένας Firefox απευθυνόμενος κυρίως σε Web developers! Θα αναλύσουμε τα μοναδικά Firefox developer tools με τα οποία είναι εξοπλισμένος και κάνουν την καθημερινότητα του εκάστοτε web developer ευκολότερη.
Τέλος θα δούμε πόσο εύκολο είναι να βοηθήσεις και εσύ στην μετάφραση του Firefox στα ελληνικά καθώς και το πως να συνεισφέρεις στη νέα υπηρεσία τοποθεσίας: Mozilla Location Service.
Η συμμετοχή είναι δωρεάν και οι παρουσιάσεις αφορούν αρχάριους αλλά και προχωρημένους.
Σας περιμένουμε! Μην ξεχάσετε να κάνετε attend στο facebook event μας 😉
Christos Bacharakis events, Mozilla 1 Comment January 6, 2015 1 Minute
Σας καλούμε στο δεύτερο MozCoffee της κοινότητας του Mozilla στη Θεσσαλονίκη.
Πρόκειται  για μία χαλαρή συνάντηση και συζήτηση γύρω από όλες τις  τελευταίες εξελίξεις του Project. Δεν θα λείπουν συζητήσεις σχετικά με το  Firefox OS, τα τελευταία features του Firefox καθώς και ο σχεδιασμός των δράσεων της κοινότητας μας στα πλαίσια του παγκόσμιου MakerParty που  λαμβάνει χώρα όλο το καλοκαίρι και μέχρι τα τέλη Σεπτέμβρη.
Σας  περιμένουμε λοιπόν την Τετάρτη 30 Ιουλίου στις 18:00 το απόγευμα στο  καφέ Tre Marie επί της οδού εθνικής αμύνης στο κέντρο της Θεσσαλονίκης.
Εάν δε μπορέσετε να παρευρεθείτε, stay tuned στα social media προφίλ μας (Twitter, Facebook) καθώς και στην mailing list μας.
Christos Bacharakis events, Mozilla Leave a comment July 27, 2014 1 Minute
μία πόλη γεμάτη νέους ανθρώπους παθιασμένος με την τεχνολογία, προγραμματιστές και makers. Ανήσυχοι άνθρωποι που δεν κάθονται με τίποτα στα αυγά τους προσπαθώντας να λύσουν όσα περισσότερα προβλήματα βλέπουν γύρω τους. Και όταν δεν υπάρχουν προβλήματα κατεβάζουν νέες και φρέσκες ιδέες γύρω από την τεχνολογία.
Τις περισσότερες φορές όμως όλοι αυτοί οι άνθρωποι ενεργούν αυτόνομα ή σε μικρές ομάδες/κοινότητες. So lets GET TOGHETHER.
Όλοι αυτοί οι άνθρωποι λοιπόν βρισκόμαστε την ερχόμενη Τετάρτη 30/4 στο Νέο Δημαρχιακό μέγαρο προκειμένου να γνωριστούμε, να ανταλλάξουμε γνώσεις, απόψεις, ιδέες και να δημιουργήσουμε συνέργειες.
Μαζευόμαστε λοιπόν στις 18:30 όπου 13 ενεργές κοινότητες της πόλης θα μας παρουσιάσουν την ταυτότητα και τις δράσεις τους. Έπειτα θα ακολουθήσει το καθιερωμένο networking όπου καλούμαστε όλοι να αλληλεπιδράσουμε με τις κοινότητες που μας ενδιαφέρουν ή και να δημιουργήσουμε τη δική μας!
Οι κοινότητες που θα παρουσιάσουν είναι οι εξής: SKGTech, MAKE DIY, Arduino, Ruby, Java, iOS, Mozilla, Google Developers Group, Behance, Agile, Social Media, Open Thessaloniki, Open Coffee.
Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στο http://skgtech.io/together/
Christos Bacharakis Blog, events Leave a comment April 25, 2014 1 Minute
Introduction to Firefox OS – Create your first Open Web App Workshop
This workshop will walk you through  the most exciting new platform in mobile, Firefox OS.
You will have the opportunity to take a look under the hood of Firefox OS, the web technologies adopted and how open web applications work. In addition we are going to build our own first open web application using HTML5, Javascript and CSS using Firefox’s innovative developer tools.
Join us the upcoming Tuesday 29/4 at 13:00 at the International Hellenic University.
Christos Bacharakis Blog, events, Mozilla 7 Comments April 25, 2014 1 Minute
This weekend I had the pleasure to experience the first Mozilla Weekend event in Tirana, Albania. They were two days dedicate to Mozilla, it’s products, the community and of course the Open Web.
It was my first time in Tirana and the first time I was meeting the Albanian community in general. From the early beginnings, when Elio Qoshi first contacted me and invited me to the event I was able to see his passion. After I had the chance to meet the rest of the Albanian community I have to say that they all share the same passion. The passion of doing great things, the passion for knowledge and of course sharing their knowledge with other people as well. Let me try to describe the Albanian community with 3 words: passion, professionalism and hard working people.
So yes, the #MozWeekend was a blast! The event was well organized in an amazing venue with a great content. The attendant had the chance to learn about Mozilla’s vision about the open web, some of our amazing products such as Firefox, Firefox OS, developer tools and conquer the knowledge on how to create his first Open Web Application. And after creating his first Open Web Application he learned how Mozilla can help him on how to turn his idea to a product or a startup by signing up to WebFWD. He also leaned how is it to be part of an amazing community such as Mozilla’s, how to join and how can he help on keeping the web open and accessible for everyone.
I am really glad that I was part of the MozWeekend in Tirana because I saw the impact of the event in the attendees. I saw people’s hunger for writing Open Web Apps and contributing to our mission. It was really amazing!
Thank you #MozWeekend, thank you #MozAlb!
Hope to see you soon
Here is my Flickr album of the event
and my presentations files from the three sessions I run.
Mozilla Persona and Lightbeam
Introduction to Firefox OS
Christos Bacharakis events, Mozilla Leave a comment February 13, 2014 1 Minute
Mozilla Webmaker and Webvistas community go to public libraries
Photo by Thalia Papoutsaki
I am really happy to announce you a series of workshops regarding the web in our lives.
Mozilla’s and Webvistas‘ communities are co-organizing along with the municipality of Thessaloniki a series of workshops in the central public library of the city.
Our meeting is around every second Wednesday at 6pm in the first floor of Thessaloniki’s central public library. You can check the map here for directions.
Below you can find a detailed schedule of our workshops:
1.    16/10 2013 – Christos Bacharakis, Mozilla – Create your own videos simple, easy and fast using the popcorn tool.
2.     30/10 2013 – Giannis Kaskamanidis, Psychologist – The web and the children. Pros and cos of the usage of the internet
3.     13/11 2013 – Maria Filipopoulou, Mathematician  – Scratch 2.0: Programming while playing or playing while programming?
4.     4/12 2013 – Christos Bacharakis, Mozilla – Create your own web page in HTML using thimble. First part.
5.     11/12 2013 – Christos Bacharakis, Mozilla – Create your own web page in HTML using thimble. Second part.
6.     18/12 2013 – Dimitris Alvanos, lawyer – Online transactions
7.     8/1 2014 – Despoina Drivakou, Psychologist – Social interaction on the web
8.     22/1 2014 – Christos Bacharakis, Mozilla – Create your first  Open Web Application.
Ανακοίνωση και στα Ελληνικά από την κοινότητα των Webvistas.
Το πρόγραμμα και στα ελληνικά – the schedule in Greek
1.    Τετάρτη16 Οκτωβρίου 2013 – Χρήστος Μπαχαράκης Mozilla – Δημιουργώντας βίντεο εύκολα, γρήγορα και απλά.
2.    Τετάρτη 30 Οκτωβρίου 2013 – Γιάννης Κασκαμανίδης Ψυχολόγος – Διαδίκτυο και ανήλικοι: θετικές και αρνητικές συνέπειες της χρήσης του.
3.    Τετάρτη 13 Νοεμβρίου 2013 – Μαρία Φιλιπποπούλου  Μαθηματικός – Scratch 2.0: Προγραμματίζω παίζοντας ή παίζω προγραμματίζοντας;
4.    Τετάρτη 4 Δεκεμβρίου 2013 – Χρήστος Μπαχαράκης Mozilla – Μαθαίνοντας να φτιάχνουμε ιστοσελίδες σε HTML μέρος 1ο.
5.    Τετάρτη 11 Δεκεμβρίου 2013 – Χρήστος Μπαχαράκης Mozilla – Μαθαίνοντας να φτιάχνουμε ιστοσελίδες σε HTML και CSS μέρος 2ο.
6.    Τετάρτη 18 Δεκεμβρίου 2013 – Δημήτρης Αλβανός  Δικηγόρος – Διαδικτυακές τραπεζικές συναλλαγές.
7.    Τετάρτη 8 Ιανουαρίου 2014 – Δέσποινα Δριβάκου  Ψυχολόγος – Κοινωνική διάδραση στο διαδίκτυο
8.    Τετάρτη 22 Ιανουαρίου 2014 – Χρήστος Μπαχαράκης Mozilla – Μαθαίνοντας να γράφουμε ανοιχτές διαδικτυακές εφαρμογές – Open Web Applications.
Τα λέμε εκεί! – See you there!
Christos Bacharakis Blog, events, Mozilla 1 Comment October 15, 2013 1 Minute
Fedora Romania and OSOM
This February was an amazing month full with awesome events regarding Free and Open Source software.
In the mid of the month I was invited in Bucharest in order to have a session in OSOM conference. OSOM (awesome) is the annual meet up/conference of the Romanian FOSS communities and projects.
This year there were re-presenters and presentations from the following communities: Fedora Project, Mozilla, OpenSUSE, Java User Group, Ubuntu, Drupal and ROSEdu. All presentations were really interesting but I would like to choose Mozilla’s, OpenSUSE’s and ROSEdu’s presentations where they were simply amazing!
In this point I would like to give an extra credit to ROSEdu which is a group of people who promote and support open source in education. Way to go guys, keep up the great work!
During my presentation on Friday I had the chance to present the Fedora project and it’s community. I presented Fedora 18’s new cutting edge features and I put a special effort in our official spins and special interest groups. Romania was a challenge for me because except of my presentation I wanted to seek more active contributors along with the experienced ones like my best friend Nicu. I am really glad that I had the chance to spend to full days with him!
During the dinner after OSOM I was approached by Theodora which is a young developer who wants to be more involved in Fedora’s development process!
On Saturday, thanks to Marcela and Ioana, the two girls that made OSOM happen and with the help of ROSEdu, Fedora had it’s release party in the Facultatea de Automatica si Calculatoare. Along with Nicu, we had the chance to make a more detailed presentation of the Fedora Operating system and the Fedora wiki. We presented Gnome 3, some tips and tricks on that, Fedora Project’s wiki, steps on how to contribute in a variety of roles, how to translate and of course some hacking sessions. During the hacking sessions, we hacked our raspberry pi installing Fedora, we presented some cool GIMP tricks and finally we had our rpm packaging session.
The attendances were 15 and except some Fedora users the variety of them was from other FOSS communities such as Ubuntu and OpenSUSE but In the end of the day they all had a fresh Fedora installation!
Speaking of new Fedora users lets talk about new Fedora contributors too. Ioana Chiorean and Alex Lakatos expressed a lot of interest in contributing to Fedora project. Both of them are leaders in Mozilla Romanian community organizing A LOT of events and mentoring new contributors. Especially Ioana is willing to put a lot of effort in organizing and coordinating the Romanian community. I am really glad that I have the chance to mentor them in Fedora and watch them contribute in the project. Welcome guys and thank you for your effort! I am pretty sure that more updates are going to follow. 😉
Wrapping up my thoughts, OSOM was an excellent event where I had the chance to meet a lot of active and interesting FOSS contributors, see another perspective specially of open source in education, seek 3 new contributors and make a lot of friends!
Thank you Marcela, Ioana, Nicu, ROSEdu and of course Fedora for make it happen!
My photo album from OSOM and the Fedora release party can be found here.
Christos Bacharakis Blog, events, fedora 6 Comments April 9, 2013 2 Minutes
FOSDEM 2013 – review
The first weekend of February of every year is always dedicated to FOSS Developers Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels.
FOSDEM is always a great opportunity to meet all my old Fedora and Mozilla friends from around the world. Unfortunately I didn’t get in time in Brussels in order to attend Fedora community’s dinner but I met them afterwords in the Delirium Cafe enjoying a large variety of beers. Right Christoph 😉
Saturday morning wake up is always tricky but along we Nikos we managed to get in time in order to prepare the Fedora booth along with Jiri where there was a surprising waiting for us as you can see in the picture above. Generally the most of my time I spend it in attending sessions but I did some contribution in Mozilla’s and Fedora’s booths too. This year’s Mozilla and Fedora booths where better than any other year with a lot of new and passionate people spreading the word of their favourite open source project and seeking more and more contributors.
It was another great year with a lot of enlightening presentations, a lot of awesome and brainstorming conversations with hackers from all over the world and of course a lot of hacking. The discussions you have outside dev rooms with amazing hackers, the brainstorming and all this energy can’t be compared with anything in the world. I want to give an extra credit to flash Fredy and Panos for having a live demo session in Mozilla’s booth, presenting Firefox OS devices the whole weekend! You were amazing guys, thank you! Finally I want to thank all the Reps who spend some time in booth talking with people, answering questions and solving problems.
As I blog posted before, more than 40 Greek hackers took over Brussels and FOSDEM where some of them run 8 sessions regarding open source software, open source hardware, their awesome projects or the project where they contribute in.
But this year was special for me too because it was my first time attending FOSDEM as a speaker. At Sunday noon I had a session in Mozilla’s dev room regarding debugging Firefox OS and open web apps as well as Gaia apps too. Thank you Clarista and Benoit for the excellent organization of the Mozilla presence. In general I think my presentation was a success despite the stress I had on stage. You can find my presentation online and you can always mail me for anything regarding debugging Firefox OS and Gaia.
World, watch out! Firefox OS is coming and it’s going to be astonishing!
FOSDEM 2013 is over and I cant wait a year for the next one! I am really glad for having a lot and great time with my old and new friends.
You can check FOSDEM’s 2013 photo album here.
Christos Bacharakis Blog, events, fedora, Mozilla 4 Comments March 23, 2013 2 Minutes
OSOM and Fedora 18 Release Event in Bucharest
I am really happy to announce you that the Friday 15 and the Saturday 16 of the February are going to be two days dressed up in blue.
On Friday is going to be National Open Source Conference in Bucharest (OSOM) where Fedora is going to be there with a pretty booth and an introduction presentation. Our meeting is at 13:00 at Adobe Systems Romania. BD Timisoara, 26Z, Anchor Plaza, 6th floor , Bucharest. See you there!
On Saturday at 12:00 we are having the Fedora 18 Release event at Facultatea de Automatica si Calculatoare at room number EC102. We are going to have a lot of sessions and hackfests regarding our favourite operating system!
An introduction to Fedora Project. What is Fedora, why to use it, Fedora 18 new features.
Fedora Project as a community. How to contribute, why to contribute.
Introduction to Fedora 18 and Gnome shell tips and tricks.
Fedora on ARM (raspberry pi).
Designing with Fedora and Gimp.
Christos Bacharakis events, fedora 2 Comments February 10, 2013 1 Minute
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