Askbot

Day 2 of FUDCON KL started with a talk on Fedora book by Joshua Wulf (for me Sitapati Prabhu). This idea is very intuitive for any one (especially newbies) to start contributing to Fedora documentation. Although, contributors need to know some basics of docbook, I guess that’s not tough. There were many interesting talks for the day on topics like Ask Fedora, Transifex, Fedora Tour, etc. Soumay‘s talk on Fedora in Education was really inspiring. He shared how he initially started as a contributor and many things about DGPLUG‘s Bijra project. Following this talk, there was another talk by Soumya on Ask Fedora. This one explained to the attendees what is Ask Fedora, why was it needed and how it can be used. Soumya also explained to the attendees that Ask Fedora runs on Askbot (an Open Source QA forum) and encouraged people to contribute to Askbot. ...

I arrived in Pune for FUDCON on November 2, 2011. On November 3, 2011, I had an opportunity to visit the Red Hat office in the city and hang around with Fedora community members. I learnt more about the mechanism and importance of localization from Runa Bhattacharjee. In my free time, I also helped with some FUDCON related work. I was able to meet Jared Smith, Joerg Simon and Robert Scheck for the first time in my life, talk with them. I couldn’t ask for anything better. ...