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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
One Riverfront Plaza
Lawrence, KS 66044

$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.

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.

Airport shuttles

NOTE: IMPORTANT CHANGE IN PICKUP LOCATION If you requested an airport shuttle, you should have received an email with the relevant information. Shuttles will be picking you up at TERMINAL B baggage claim. Look for a person holding from Redy2Party bus service holding a FUDCon sign. If your plane is early or late, simply look for the next arriving shuttle.

If you did not request a shuttle, you may see if there is room on one when you land. The 4:15 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. shuttles are quite full. There will be shuttles on Thursday at:

11 a.m.
2:15 p.m.
3:15 p.m.
4:15 p.m.
5:15 p.m.
7:15 p.m.
10:15 p.m.
11:45 p.m.

Departing from the FUDCon location on campus on Sunday:

11 a.m.
1 p.m.
3 p.m.
4 p.m.

Departing from the hotel on Monday:

8 a.m.
12 p.m.
2 p.m.

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

Shuttles from hotel to conference

Shuttles will be leaving the hotel Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings beginning at 7:15 a.m. The last shuttle will leave at 8:15 a.m.

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.

Thursday, January 17

Thursday evening at 8 pm., there is a global Raspberry Pi meetup over Google Hangout. MAKE is the host and guests are Matt Richardson and Shawn Wallace, authors of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi. All meetup attendees will receive a free PDF download of MAKE Magazine Volume 33. The guests will talk about the projects featured in the magazine and discuss everything Pi. There's a live chat where you can ask them questions as well as share your own projects.

https://plus.google.com/+MAKE/posts

We'd like to gather to join the Hangout and then hang out amongst ourselves talking Pi. Please add your name here if you'd like to join us so that we're sure to have enough room:

Ruth Suehle
Tom Callaway
Jeff Ollie
Chris Tyler
Emily Dirsh
Shyam Prasad
Ben Williams
Sarah White
Zach Oglesby
Nick Bebout

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 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
"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
"An introduction to the new Anaconda"	Lots has changed about Anaconda in Fedora 18. This session is your handy guide to the new shiny.	All levels	Adam Williamson
"EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) roundtable"	We need to hash out some proposals on handling overlaps and incompatible upgrades.	Any EPEL users/developers	Kevin Fenzi
"HyperKitty, the next-generation Mailman archiver"	Learn about the new web-based user interface for mailing-list archives	All levels	Aurélien Bompard
"Fedora Cloud Images for F19 and Beyond"	Let's plan what we're going to do to make our cloud images more useful to users.	Intermediate	Matthew Miller
"Fedora Cloud Infrastructure Software in Fedora 19"	Develop plans and talk about OpenStack, OpenShift Origin, Eucalyptus, CloudStack, OpenNebula, and all the rest.	Intermediate	Matthew Miller
"Everything you never wanted to know about Secure Boot and weren't afraid not to ask"	Discuss where we are with Secure Boot; Q&A.	All levels	Peter Jones
Fedora Formulas Brainstorming session	Discuss if https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_formulas is a viable thing to work on / make happen	All levels	Kevin Fenzi
"ARM-building exercises: the new build platform for Fedora on ARM"	A demonstration of the Calxeda ECX-1000 server rapidly and reliably rebuilding FC for ARM	All levels	Mark Langsdorf
"COPRs - Fedora Ad-hoc package buildsystem"	A demonstration and technical explanation of the new copr buildsystem	All levels	Seth Vidal
"Ansible - Config Mgmt, Command/Control and RPC"	What fedora is doing with ansible and what you can be doing with it	All levels	Seth Vidal
"Micro-web-framework, unit-tests and maintainable web-application"	What's interesting about micro-web-framework with regards to continuous integration and maintainability	All levels	Pierre-Yves Chibon (pingou)
Improving the FAmA (Fedora Ambassador Administration) Mentoring Process	Discussion on how to better manage mentoring, tips and tricks, share the current process and improve it. Plus educating current and potential mentors and manatees (mentees).	All levels	Clint Savage
State of the Kernel	Current status, plans, and aspirations of the Fedora kernel team	Intermediate	Justin M. Forbes
Open Compute - why you should care (emphasis on Hardware Management track)	Current status of Facebook's Open Compute Project, how you can help	Intermediate	Jon Stanley
Pulp 2.0 - Enterprise Repository Management	Learn how to create and host repositories (yum, Puppet module), add custom content, and push install to large numbers of machines. Promote content through dev, test, and production repos.	Intermediate	Michael Hrivnak
Apache CloudStack - Open Source Cloud Computing	Learn all about Apache CloudStack: What it is, what it does, and how it can be used to create/deploy an IaaS cloud.	Intermediate	Joe Brockmeier
Fedora Ambassadors - Present and the Future	A session to discuss the current state of FAm program and its future. What FAmSCo has done, is planning.	Intermediate	Jiri Eischmann

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
Texas Hold'em Poker for fun and profit: Learn how to play before the annual Fedora Poker Game	Robyn Bergeron	A super-quick overview of the rules of Texas Hold'em.
pkgwat and the Fedora Packages webapp	Ralph Bean	An introduction the Fedora Packages webapp and related tools.
fedocal: a calendar webapp for Fedora	Pierre-Yves Chibon	Short presentation to fedocal, a calendar web application for Fedora.
OpenLMI: The Open Linux Manageability Infrastructure	Stephen Gallagher	Short introduction to centralized manageability
Open Source Security	Eric Christensen	I'm looking for a few good hackers to help create developer training and resources.
Write docs without pain	Dan Allen	An introduction to AsciiDoc, a lightweight alternative to doc writing without abandoning the DocBook toolchain.

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)
GPG SmartCard Configuration	Tips for setting up a gpg smartcard with Fedora. Two-factor SSH configuration, signing and encryption	60-90 minutes (should happen before GPG Signing event)	Clint Savage
i18n in Fedora: what's bad, what we broke in Fedora 18, how to fix it?	There's lots of badness in i18n configuration in Fedora, and it got worse between Fedora 17 and Fedora 18. Aim is to ensure everyone has a high-level understanding of what a good i18n config architecture would look like, and a low-level understanding of all the bits that are broken in Fedora 18+, and hopefully start some work on some of the low-hanging fruit.	Could run and run!	Adam Williamson
Fedora Infrastructure Hackfest	will plan out specific tasks/areas saturday morning. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_infrastructure_tasks_2013 for ideas container and lists. Everyone welcome to help/join in!	space both days would be nice	Kevin Fenzi
Fedora ARM Hackfest	Board support hackfest, PA planning, ARMv[5678] direction, and growing community contributions	Space both days	Jon Masters (jonmasters), Chris Tyler (ctyler), Brendan Conoboy (bconoboy) et al.
Marketing	Would like to have a group chat if there's interest.	2-3 hours	Ruth Suehle
Fedora PPC Brainstorming	Topics at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC/Meetings/FUDCon_Lawrence_2013	Space both days	Karsten Hopp, et al.
Websites	Help improving the websites build scripts to avoid duplicates, human error and speed up the process! Plans here − python & Makefiles hack	both days..	Kévin Raymond
Static Analysis Hackfest	Let's build tools for automated static analysis of the code in Fedora	Space both days	Dave Malcolm
Fedora Cloud Image Generation and Automated Testing Hackfest	Let's get cloud image generation integrated into the releng process, and maybe automated nightly generation	Probably could use as much time as there is	Matthew Miller + others from Cloud SIG and Rel Eng
Fedora JavaScript/Node.js Packaging Brainstorm	Now that Node.js is in Fedora, we need to set up some official packaging guidelines	Two hours either day	Stephen Gallagher

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