Fedora Users and Developers Gather in Kuala Lumpur for FUDCon in May

KUALA LUMPUR - 27 March 2012 – Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, will host the Asia Pacific Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) on May 18-20, 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference, a major free software event held in various regions around the world, usually annually per region. FUDCon is a combination of sessions, talks, workshops, and hackfests in which contributors work on specific initiatives. FUDCon is free to attend for anyone in the world.

The Asia Pacific FUDCon will take place at Asia Pacific University College of Technology and Innovation (UCTI), Bukit Jalil, and will include both user and developer focused talks. A self-organizing BarCamp is also planned, as well as multiple workshops covering Fedora 17, open source education, community building, packaging RPMs, and open source infrastructure tools for provisioning and managing systems. Attendance at FUDCon is free, but registration is recommended. For more information about FUDCon Kuala Lumpur 2012, please visit the FUDCon Kuala Lumpur website at http://fedora.my/events/fudconkl2012

The Fedora operating system is free of cost to download and includes free and open source software for users to enjoy and share. Developed by a worldwide community, the Fedora Project collaborates closely with upstream free software project teams to provide a compelling experience for users and to access and integrate improvements and innovation rapidly.

The Fedora Project aims to release a new version of its free operating system approximately every six months. This rapid development cycle encourages collaboration and the inclusion of the latest, most cutting-edge open source features available. Fedora is built by community members from across the globe, and the Fedora Project’s transparent and open collaboration process has attracted more than 24,000 registered contributors. The total of unique IPs across Fedora releases since tracking was initiated at Fedora 7 is now approaching 35 million connections. Information about Fedora’s statistics and collection methodology is open and transparent to the public on the following wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics.

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