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Lawrence, Kansas, USA :: January 18–20, 2013 — General event owners: Robyn Bergeron, Ruth Suehle, Ian Weller

Pre-registration

Event details

The 2013 North America FUDCon will be held in Lawrence, Kansas, on January 18–20, 2013.

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. Topics include infrastructure, feature development, community building, general management and governance, marketing, testing and QA, packaging, etc.

FUDCon is always free to attend for anyone in the world.

Dates

January 18–20, 2013 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)

Lodging

SpringHill Suites

Lawrence, KS

$119/night

We have a block of rooms with two queens and some with only a king. Both types have foldout sofa beds as well. The block is available for the nights of Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Please reserve your room by December 21. Rooms include:

pull out sofa bed
mini fridge and microwave
free wifi
breakfast buffet

The hotel has an indoor pool, gym, and business center with printing and faxing services available.

Check-in time is 3:00 pm. Check-out time is 12:00 noon. Hotel is non-smoking.

To reserve a room, use these links:

For the Queen/Queen Suites: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/LWCKS?groupCode=TFPTFPB&app=resvlink&fromDate=1/17/13&toDate=1/21/13
For the King Suites: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/LWCKS?groupCode=TFPTFPA&app=resvlink&fromDate=1/17/13&toDate=1/21/13

Transportation

To and from Lawrence via airline

Kansas City International (IATA: MCI) is about a 60-minute drive from Lawrence.

If you are flying to Kansas City to come to FUDCon, please add your name and flight information to the flights page. We will organize car pools through that page.

To and from Lawrence via private plane

Lawrence Municipal Airport (IATA: LWC) is about a 10-minute drive from Lawrence.

To and from Lawrence via train

Amtrak has a Lawrence station (LRC).

To and from Lawrence via car

Lawrence is accessible via exits 202 and 204 on the Kansas Turnpike (Interstate 70).

The Kansas Turnpike is a toll road. The toll from the Topeka entrance to Lawrence exit 202 is USD $1.00. The toll from the Kansas City-side entrance to Lawrence exit 204 is USD $1.60. For more information on the Kansas Turnpike, visit www.ksturnpike.com.

Within Lawrence

Lawrence has public transportation with routes covering most of the city and University of Kansas campus with a trip planner also available to assist with getting around town.

Parking

Information about parking on the University of Kansas campus can be found on the KU Parking & Transit site.

Network access

TBA

Packing List

Everybody:

Appropriately warm clothing — it will possibly snow in Kansas in January
Laptop with 802.11g wireless
- Extension cord
- Ethernet cable (for hotel and/or hackfest)
- Optional: Bring a Fedora Friend Finder (power strip)
Credit card (VISA or MasterCard) or small amount of cash
Your presentation slides or anything needed for the hackfest

International visitors:

Passport/visa and any other official documentation needed
Converters for power (reference link^[1])

If staying at the hotel:

Optional: swimsuit, gym clothes.^[2]

Agenda

General schedule

Friday, January 18: Introductory session, BarCamp sessions, lightning talks, and hotel party
Saturday, January 19 and Sunday, January 20: Hackfests, FUDPub

Rooms available in Learned hall, all three conference dates: 1131, 1136, 2111, 2112, 2133, 2148, 3150, 3152, 3153, 3154. Spahr Engineering Classroom is also available on all three dates.

Friday, January 18

This schedule is subject to approval. Talks will be assigned Friday morning during BarCamp voting. All times are Central Standard Time (local time for Lawrence).

Time	Room A	Room B	Room C	Room D	Room E	Room F
09:00–10:15	Plenary session: welcome, BarCamp pitches and voting, FPL talk (Spahr Engineering Classroom)
10:30–11:20
11:30–12:20
12:30–13:20	Lunch!
13:30–14:20	Lightning talks (Spahr Engineering Classroom)
14:30–15:20
15:30–16:20
16:30–17:20

Technical sessions (Friday)

As with all BarCamp conferences, technical sessions will be presented, voted on and scheduled the morning of the conference. If you like, you may list your session proposal below.

Session name	Description	User level	Lead
Creating FUDCon booklets, or "Ian's raptor-proofing talk"	A quick overview on tips and tricks I've learned in creating information booklets for Tempe, Blacksburg, and Lawrence, and a demonstration of the tools involved and some best practices in desktop publishing.	Intermediate	Ian Weller
Creating SECure Linux Containers"	A quick overview on Containers	Intermediate	Dan Walsh
"SELinux for Mere Mortals"	An introduction to SELinux (it's not scary at all - you'll love it!)	Intermediate	Thomas Cameron
"Spacewalk Power User Tips and Tricks Part 1 - Systems Management"	Tips and tricks on managing systems with Spacewalk	Intermediate	Thomas Cameron
"Spacewalk Power User Tips and Tricks Part 2 - Building Packages"	Tips and tricks on building packages for Fedora/RHEL - even if you don't have the source code.	Intermediate	Thomas Cameron
"Building a Software NAS using Gluster"	An introduction to Gluster	Intermediate	Thomas Cameron
"HA Clustering with Fedora"	How to set up a high availability application cluster using a shared filesystem with Fedora	Intermediate	Thomas Cameron
"Virtualization with oVirt"	How to set up oVirt, the upstream project for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization	Intermediate	Thomas Cameron
"GPG SmartCard Configuration"	Tips for setting up a gpg smartcard with Fedora and use it for SSH and other things	Intermediate	Clint Savage
"fedmsg - What's in place and what's next."	A look at the past year of development and what exciting goodies are planned	Intermediate	Ralph Bean

Lightning talks (Friday)

We'll do lightning talks after lunch on Friday (depending on things). These talks are to be no longer than 5 minutes, at which point we will gong you out. Talk about what you are passionate about, which doesn't have to necessarily be Fedora.

If you're interested, list your proposed talk below. We have time for 10 talks, so please don't list your talk here if there are already 10.

Talk name	Talker	Comments

Hackfests (Saturday and Sunday)

Session name	Description	Time Needed	Lead
Ham Radio Test Session	Ham Radio Test Session For Attendees to get/upgrade their Licenses	3 hours	Ben Williams
GPG Key Signing Event	Exchanging of GPG key fingerprints and identification to enable people to sign each other's keys	1 hour	Nick Bebout (nb)
CAcert Assurance Event		1.5 hours	Nick Bebout (nb)
OpenShift Origin - Build Your Own PaaS	Build your own Open Source PaaS using Fedora and OpenShift Origin	3 hours	Troy Dawson (tdawson), Adam Miller (maxamillion)
OpenShift Online - Deploy WebApps to the Cloud	Utilize the Hosted version of OpenShift to deploy and/or develop Applications in the Cloud for free!	1.5 hours	Adam Miller (maxamillion), Troy Dawson (tdawson)
Features/scheduling revamp	Work on Feature process and release scheduling, blackboard needed ;-)	at least a few hours	Jaroslav Reznik (jreznik)
Meet your FESCo	Come and meet the men and women of the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee!	30 minutes to an hour	Stephen Gallagher (sgallagh)

Saturday, January 19

This schedule is subject to approval. All times are Central Standard Time (local time for Lawrence).

Time	Room A	Room F
09:00–10:15
10:30–11:20
11:30–12:20
12:30–13:20	Lunch!
13:30–14:20
14:30–15:20
15:30–16:20		CAcert Assurance Event
16:30–17:20		GPG Key Signing Event

Sunday, January 20