Archive:FUDCon:Toronto 2009

Toronto, Ontario :: December 5-7, 2009 — General event owners: Paul W. Frields, Mel Chua

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FUDCon Toronto is over.
For transcripts and notes from sessions, see FUDCon:Toronto_2009_Live. For blog posts and reflections from attendees, see FUDCon:Toronto_2009_Blogs.

Quick reference

• Looking for the Sunday schedule? See FUDCon:Toronto 2009 Sunday schedule.
• Looking for the BarCamp schedule?|See FUDCon:Toronto 2009 BarCamp Schedule.
• Live streaming!|OGG streams of rooms 1 and 2 at FUDCon: Room 1 Room 2

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FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developer's Conference, an opportunity for all who contribute to or use Fedora to meet, learn, plan, and hack. This event is free and is open to everyone. To learn about what a FUDCon is like, you can view a video from the last North American FUDCon.

Event Details

FUDCon Toronto 2009 will be held at Seneca College, Seneca@York campus (map), from December 5-7, 2009 (Saturday-Monday). Saturday's activities start at 09:30 a.m. sharp. The hackfest activities on Sunday and Monday start at 10:00 a.m. sharp. For best results, arrive around 9:30-9:45 so you have time to get situated, find out where you want to go, and so on.

Pre-registration

Please add your name to the list if you will attend. Registration is free and open to everyone.

Also, please indicate the following:

• Put an X in the $$$ column if you need funding to attend, and follow the instructions at #Requesting funding (Closed). We'll use these answers to help figure out budgeting for the event. We are no longer accepting funding requests
• Put a V in the Veg column if you would like vegetarian fare for any meals that we provide during the event. If you prefer vegan fare, please mark that column VV. We will do our best to make sure everyone is accommodated!
• Put your T-shirt size in the Size column, so we can have an idea about what sizes to have available.
• If you are looking to share a room, mark an X in the "Roomshare?" column.

Use the Comments section for anything else you think organizers need to know, or to offer or ask for space or rides.

The Hotel Booked column values are: Y for Yes (booked); NA for Not applicable (local, or staying with friends); or blank for pending.

Badges have been printed.
Changes to the table below will not be reflected on the name badges. You are still welcome to sign up and participate -- you can create a handwritten badge at the event. FUDCon is free of cost for everyone.

#	Name	$$$	Veg	Size	Roomshare?	Comments	Hotel booked	Extra line for badge
1	Paul W. Frields			XXL	Clint Savage	Canadians are cute, they spell things funny. :-)	Y	stickster
2	Andreas Thienemann			XXL	Felix Kaechele		Y	\o/ ixs \o/
3	Tim Burke			M	bpeck
4	Bill Nottingham			XL	sure		Y
5	Chris Tyler			XL		We spell funny, eh?	NA	Seneca College - ctyler - @chris_tyler
6	Peter Jones			L				pjones
7	Peter Robinson			L	sdziallas		Y	Fedora Mini, Moblin and Sugar
8	Dennis Gilmore			XXL	spot			dgilmore - Fedora, SPARC and more
9	Anthony Green			XL
10	Andrew Overholt		V	M		You mean neighboUr, Paul :P	NA
11	Kevin Fenzi			XXL		Looking unlikely that I will be able to attend in person. Will see folks on IRC!
12	Paul Wouters		V	M		Local event for me, ask me for local information	NA
13	Elliott Baron			XL
14	Kent Sebastian			L
15	Jonathan Deni			M
16	Mel Chua			S	Diana Martin	overholt, stickster: n7r?		mchua
17	Michael Ploujnikov			M		I'm a meatatarian and I live close enough to drive to the event.		Plouj
18	Máirín Duffy		V	S	---	I'll be bringing a portable usability lab :)		mizmo, designer
19	Ian Weller	FUNDED $475 conditional on adding running a user track to plans		L	Bert Desmet		Y	Fedora Wiki Czar
20	Adam Miller	FUNDED (FAMNA)		XL	John Rose		Y
21	Steven Parrish	FUNDED $240		XXL	John (J5) Palmieri	Everything's a go	Y	SMParrish - KDE SIG, Triage
22	Clint Savage	$		XXL	Paul W. Frields	Possibly coming early and staying long to save money		Herlo
23	Tom "spot" Callaway		V	XXL	DGilmore	I'm not your buddy, buddy.	Y	·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><(((º>
24	Ray Acayan			XL
25	Mike McGrath			XL	toshio	I can't wait to see America Junior!	Y
26	John Rose			L	Adam Miller			inode0
27	Yaakov M. Nemoy	helpful		M	Xavier Lamien	will be nice to go back to the US for a bit, even if it's canada	Y	loupgaroublond
28	Jeroen van Meeuwen			L	Roommate: Lydia Bossers (#66)
29	Fryderyk Supinski			XL
30	Roland Grunberg			L		I'm not your buddy, friend
31	Charley Wang			S		I'm not your friend, guy
32	Brian Shim			S		I'm not your guy, buddy
33	Jon Stanley	X		XL	Matthew Daniels			jds2001/@jds2001
34	Sebastian Dziallas	FUNDED $500		L	Peter Robinson		Y	sdziallas sugar labs
35	Xavier Lamien	X		S	Yaakov Nemoy		Y
36	Scott Sullivan			L		GTALUG Point of Contact, Great to have FUDcon in my own Backyard!	NA
37	Toshio Kuratomi			M	mmcgrath		Y
38	Jon VanAlten			XL
39	Dan Walsh			XL	Dave Malcolm
40	Ben Boeckel	X		L	Rob Escriva			mathstuf — KDE SIG
41	Matt Domsch			XL		Arriving YYZ 5pm Friday, Departing YYZ 5:30pm Monday.	Y	mdomsch, Dell
42	Dave Malcolm			M	Dan Walsh		Y
43	Boris Chao			L			NA	Seneca College CTY Student - BoChao
44	Luke Macken			M	Yes		Y
45	Andrew Smith			none			NA
46	Deepak Bhole			M			NA
47	Martha Benitez			L
48
49	Pam Chestek			M			Y
50	Jeff Johnston			M
51	Chris Lumens			L	sharing w/ dcantrell		Y
52	David Cantrell			XL	sharing w/ clumens		Y	dcantrell, anaconda
53	Jean-Francois Saucier			L	Yes
54	Matthew Daniels	FUNDED $700		M	John Stanley	Just got to make it back for that Tuesday morning final...
55	Adam Jackson			M	William Jon McCann/ Christopher Aillon
56	William Jon McCann			L	Adam Jackson/ Christopher Aillon
57	Rex Dieter	FUNDED $500		XL	Luya Tshimbalanga		Y	rdieter - KDE SIG
58	Aaron Seigo	FUNDED $150	V	S		UPDATE: Unable to attend
59	Pascal Calarco	FUNDED $120 conditional on FWN in zikula workflow deliverable		XL	Staying w/family in Toronto	Most interested in mizmo's UI Inkscape session, the OLPC/SoaS and mchua's teaching open source sessions; I'd like to learn how to contribute to packaging and had talked to mchua about possibly contributing to font packaging that mizmo would like help with; I plan on participating in the Fedora Insight hackfest to tweak FWN and other content there as well as the Ambassador Event activity; It would be great if I could get some money to offset car rental costs, which are estimated to be about $120; if I can't get that, $50 to help offset gas would be great; also happy to rideshare up with someone from the midwest going by northern Indiana or pick someone up in MI on the way	NA
60	Kerry Taylor			XXL		Free as Beer!
61	Lydia Bossers			S	Roommate: Jeroen van Meeuwen	kanarip's girlfriend
62	Rajith Attapattu			M
63	Christopher Aillon			XL	William Jon McCann/ Adam Jackson
64	Howard Johnson			XXL			Y	merlinthp
65	Stephen Smoogen		V	XL	sure	Happy to going to a country where they spell things correctly.
66	Seth Vidal		V	XL	No
67	James Laska			L		I like chicken	Y
68	L. Skoworo			XL
69	Ivan Avery Frey			XL
70	Jaroslav Reznik			XL	Brennan Ashton		Y	jreznik - KDE SIG
71	Justin M. Forbes			XXL	sharing w/ crobinso		Y
72	Will Woods		V	S
73	Andy Lindeberg			S
74	Rod MacPherson			L		Willing to drive for carpool from Oshawa (Sat. only).	NA
75	Denise Dumas			M
76	Bill Peck			L	tburke
77	Jarod Wilson			XL	jkeating	They don't often let me out, so beware...
78	David Humphrey			L			NA	humph - Seneca College - Mozilla
79	Mohammed Morsi			L	huff	driving from syracuse ny via I90; first fudcon, looking forward to it	Y	Mo
80	Jesse Keating			XL	jwilson	funding through management		No I will not tag your build.
81	Bernie Innocenti	Coming from boston, hotel needed	V	M	Simon Birtwistle	Looking for funding
82	Karlie Robinson			xl	Todd, Clay and Quin Robinson	Am coming from Rochester NY - just 3 hours from Toronto and can possibly be a carpool coordinator for folks traveling through western NY. (as in crossing the border in the Niagara region)	y	On-Disk.com
83	Cole Robinson			M	w/ jforbes		Y
84	Kyle McMartin			XL			NA
85	Bert Desmet	funded plane ticket		L	Ian Weller	see my profile page :)	Y	@biertie - bdesmet.be
86	James Bowes			L			NA
87	John Poelstra			L			Y	@poelcat
88	Hugh Redelmeier			S		Local	NA
89	John (J5) Palmieri			S	Steven Parrish		Y
90	Brennan Ashton	FUNDED $266.01		M	Jaroslav Reznik	I am a student that has been involved for a while, I would very much like to attend the event and meet people I have been working with. I will be getting in early Sat and leaving Mon late, I cannot afford the hotel right now. (Brennan, your hotel will be covered.)
91	Adam Williamson		V	M			Y	adamw - QA Monkey
92	Simon Birtwistle	X (Flight From Europe/Hotel)		M	Bernie Innocenti
93	Remy DeCausemaker			XXXL	Chez Lmacken		Y
94	Sarah Lumens			M
95	Mohamed Aden		V V	L		I am student from Seneca who is attending in a software building, packaging and testing course. So, I am highly appreciated to attend this event to meet people from whom I am sure that I will learn more about how to contribute to packaging and all sort of things related to software building, packaging and testing.	NA
96	Arlene Daniel			L			NA
97	Adam Hilts			M			NA	Seneca College
98	Ben Konrath		V	M			NA
99	Curtis Taylor			L		Was a student at Seneca@York. Interested in tech events. Would appreciate meals	NA
100	Felix Kaechele	X		L	Andreas Thienemann		Y	heffer - German Ambassador
101	William Cohen			L		NA
102	Diana Martin	X		L	Mel Chua	NA
103	Tom Wisniewski			XL		NA		t0mmyw
104	Benjamin Kreuter	x	v	L	Will share a hotel room
105	Andrew Ross			L
106	Thomas Fitzsimmons			M
107	Todd Robinson			xxl	Karlie Robinson		Y	On-Disk.com
108	Aaron Clark			XL		Local Fedora User, this opportunity is too good to pass up	NA	Ophi - Fedora User
109	John 'Warthog9' Hawley			XL		Linux Foundation - Chief Kernel.org Administrator. NOTE: Flying into YYZ on AC756 arriving 2041 on Dec 4th. - how do we get from YYZ -> Hotel? (long distance cab would be particularly expensive right?) Leaving via VIA Rail, need guidance on how to get down there (40K from hotel)
110	Ahmad Nassri			L			NA
111	Alex Vlahopoulos			XL				Seneca College CTY Student
112	Josh Stone			XL
113	Stan Cox			L
114	Rob Escriva			L	Ben Boeckel			rescrv — CHASM, RPI
115	Brandon Lozza			XL		eh?	NA
116	Hassan Assiri			XL			NA
117	Luya Tshimbalanga			L	Rex Dieter	First ever FUDCon participation. First journey in three years since Libre Graphic Meeting 2007	Y	finalzone - Design Team
118	Mark Wielaard			XL
119	John Selmys		V	L			NA
120	Bob Boyczuk			M			NA
121	Feroz Hyder			L			NA
122	Peter Wierzbicki		V	M			NA
123	Dave Lehman			L	X
124	Raymond Chan			M			NA
125	Mark Eamiguel						NA
126	David Clarke						NA
127	Marc Lima						NA
128	Alfred Liu						NA
129	Sami Wagiaalla						NA
130	Austin Acton			S	N		NA
The "130" mark Registration for FUDCon Toronto 2009 continues below this point. However, this is where we can no longer guarantee extra freebies for everyone. You are still welcome to sign up and participate -- FUDCon is free of cost for everyone.
131	Andrew Petersen						NA
132	Felipe de Oliveira			S	N	I want a t-shirt =[	NA
133	Mike Martin			XL			NA
134	FrancescoCrippa			XL	Availabe to share		Y
135	David Huff			L	mmorsi		Y
136	Louis Daly			M			NA
137	Jonathan Steffan			XL			Y
138	jesus m. rodriguez			XXL	N		Y
139	Othniel James			L			NA
140	Abdolreza Sakhapour			XXL			NA
141	Ashraf Mirza			XXL			NA
142	Peter Liu						NA
143	Bello Sulaiman						NA
144	Alex Venafro						NA
145	Magz Bautista			L			NA
146	Nikita Pchelin			XXL			NA
147	Tiffany Antopolski			M			NA
148	Ryan Lortie			L			NA
149	David Smith			L
150	Craig Easton
151	Patrick Ian			XXL		Welcome to my city T-Dot O-Dot	NA	Jerome W
152	Jordan Cwang			XXL
153	Jerilyn Edginton			S			NA
154	Fardad Soleimanloo			XL			NA
155	Jason Spiro		NA: not attending FUDPub	no T-shirt please			NA
156	Dmitry Khaliapin			XL			NA
157	Anatoliy Kostyuk			M			NA
158	Brett Vangina			L			NA
159	Todd Westacott			L			NA
160	Leon Mez			L			NA
161	Behdad Esfahbod			S			NA
162	Maxwell Groves			M			NA
163	René Jr Purcell			M	Jean-Francois Saucier		NA
164	Steven Liang			M			NA
165	Mohak Vyas		V	L			NA
166	Nestor CHAN			M			NA
167	Adam Holt			XL			NA
168	Houssam Haidar			XXL			NA
169	Leigh Honeywell			S			NA
170	Greg DeKoenigsberg
171	Minoo Ziaei			S			NA
172	Colin Walters			M
173	Matthew Shalno			xxl
174	Max Spevack
175	Frank Ch. Eigler			L
176	Shawn Starr			S		Please, no snow!	NA
177	Fabrice Bautista			XXL			NA
178	Sean Kerner			L			NA
179	Hugh Gamble			S			NA
180	Gustavo Garcia			M			NA
181	Sim Brigden			XL			NA
182	Ghazaleh Manavipour			S			NA
183	Yoram Rostas			L			NA
184	Milton Paiva Neto			L		Shawn: for no snow, you have to ask Chris Tyler, he is the only one who can set the flag to "nosnow" :-)	NA	mpaiva - Former LUX@Seneca
185	Gregory Masseau			M			NA
Badges have been printed! Names added below this line will not appear on the pre-printed badges. You are still welcome to sign up and participate -- you can create a handwritten badge at the event. FUDCon is free of cost for everyone.
186	Kelly Brown			XL			NA
187	Anton Verevkin			L			NA
188	Bill Thanis			L			NA
189	Gordon Chillcott			L			NA
190	Ivan Duplantie			XXL			NA
191	Kyle Briggs			L			NA
192	Andrew Volasko			M			NA
193	Kris Mastoropoulos			S			NA
194	John Fluck			S			NA
#	Name	$$$	Veg	Size	Roomshare?	Comments	Hotel booked	Extra line for badge

Requesting funding (Closed)

Requests for funding are now closed.

Bus Travel

A bus has been arranged for attendees from the Boston and Westford MA areas. In order to make sure we'll be all set at the border, passports will be required to board the bus.

Sign up sheet
If you intend to ride the bus, you need to sign up on the bus riders list!

Date	Time	Details
Friday, December 04, 2009 -- Boston to Toronto
04 Dec	09:00	FUDBus picks up at Boston Alewife T station. Meet in front of the Dunkin Donuts.
	09:15	FUDBus departs Alewife and travels to the Red Hat office in Westford, MA to pick up more riders. Meet in the lobby.
	10:00	FUDBus arrives at Red Hat.
	10:15	FUDBus departs no later than this time from Red Hat for the FUDCon hotel.
	22:30	FUDBus approximate arrival time at the hotel.
Tuesday, December 08, 2009 -- Toronto to Boston
08 Dec	09:30	FUDBus departs the hotel in Toronto for Westford, MA. Meet in the lobby.
	21:30	FUDBus approximate arrival time at Red Hat in Westford.
	21:45	FUDBus departs for Boston Alewife T station.
	22:30	FUDBus arrival at Boston Alewife T station.

Bus Wardens

Mel Chua has agreed to act as one of the "bus wardens" for the trip, to make sure that everyone who gets on the bus in Massachusetts gets off the bus in Toronto, and vice versa. Other volunteers are welcome. The bus wardens will also ensure that the driver and passengers are kept informed of travel times, passenger needs such as stops, and other useful information.

Stephen Smoogen volunteers to be bus warden, as does Ian Weller.

Air Travel

Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) is served by most major carriers.

Alternately, you can fly into the Toronto City Centre Airport (downtown) from Boston, Chicago (Midway), New York (Newark), Montreal, Quebec, Halifax, Thunder Bay, or St. John's via Porter Airlines. Rates are fairly good, e.g., $95 each way to/from Boston, plus taxes.

From most US locations, it is significantly cheaper to fly to Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BUF) and then take a low-cost bus carrier such as Megabus (under $20 each way)

Border Crossing

• Information on entering Canada including documentation requirements and restrictions on firearms and other possessions.
• Information on entering the USA - note that US citizens now require a passport or other approved documentation to return to the USA regardless of the mode of transportation.
• If you plan on taking a plane to the US and then riding the bus to Toronto, you may need special documentation and a transit visa. Consult the appropriate authorities in the USA and Canada well in advance of travel!

Lodging

Lodging will be at the Hilton Garden Inn Vaughan. The nightly rate for a single or double occupancy room (1 king/2 queens) is CA$105 before November 13. (Note: if you did not make reservations before November 13 and would still like to receive the group room rate, please contact Paul Frields (stickster), Mel Chua (mchua), or Chris Tyler (ctyler) on #fudcon-planning on freenode -- the hotel has offered to extend the group rate for any additional registrations, but this must be done through the group sales coordinator rather than through the web site).

Breakfast buffet vouchers will be available for CA$6 each (regular price $14.95) during check-in.

Hack Room

Suite 316 at the hotel has been set aside as a hospitality suite/hack room/social space for Saturday through Monday evenings. The Hack 'n' Snack will be held here.

Ground Transportation in Toronto

The FUDCon campus location is well-served by public transit -- over 1700 vehicles a day stop at the adjacent transit loop. For more information:

• Toronto - TTC website - MyTTC trip planner
• Southern Ontario - GO Transit -NOTE: GO doesn't seem to have any buses or trains stopping at the York Campus on Sat.
• York Region, North of Toronto - including the Hilton Garden Inn hotel - YRT/VIVA

For specific transit instructions between the campus, hotel, airports, and coach terminal, see FUDCon:Toronto 2009 Transportation.

Parking

Parking in the Student Services parking garage adjacent to Seneca@York is abundant but costs $14/day.

Parking at the hotel and FUDPub is free.

Networking

Campus: The Seneca@York campus has wireless networking (802.11b/g) and web authentication information will be available at registration. Wired access will also be available in some rooms (bring an ethernet cable) to reduce load on the wireless network.

Hotel: Wireless access (802.11b/g) is available in all public areas and guest rooms; wired access is also available in guest rooms. No authentication is required.

Packing List

• Passport (if from outside Canada)
• Laptop with 802.11b/g wireless.
  • Extension cord (and North American power adapter, if from outside NA).
  • Ethernet cable (for hotel and/or hackfest).
  • In Firefox, select "about:config" and set the value of network.dns.disableIPv6 to true to work around an IPv6-timeout-before-IPv4 problem.
• Credit card (VISA or MasterCard) or small amount of Canadian cash. (ATMs are common, ones operated by banks generally have lower service fees).
• Your presentation slides or anything needed for the hackfest.
• Casual clothes for the event.
• Warm clothes for outdoors.
  • Temperatures are currently a few degrees above the historic average, just above freezing. No significant snow yet but it could come anytime.
  • Warm coat, mits, scarf/tuque recommended, especially for Skating.
• Optional: Skates (or rent them at Nathan Phillips Square).

If staying at the hotel:

• Optional: swimsuit, gym clothes.

Cell Phones

If you live outside of Canada, call your cell phone service provider and add their International or Canada-specific rate plan add-on - it may save you a lot of money. For Sprint, the call rate drops from $0.59/min to $0.20/min for voice calls. Sprint drops from $0.03/KB to $0.002/KB for data. For AT&T the rate is $20/MB if you don't have a pre-paid data plan.

Agenda

Tracks

Tracks for Saturday
Based on the currently proposed technical sessions we have designed two tracks. While these session topics are confirmed the actual time may vary. Remember FUDCon is for you and you are free to attend the sessions of your choice. These are just our recommendations.

• Track #1 - For those new to Fedora
  • Session #1 - How to install Fedora - Bert Desmet
  • Session #2 - How to add & remove software in Fedora - Bert Desmet
  • Session #3 - How The Fedora Project Works - Ian Weller
  • Session #4 - Everything you could want to know about LVM - Chris Tyler
  • Session #5 - Running Rawhide - Clint Savage

• Track #2 - For those looking to contribute to the Fedora Project
  • Session #1 - Effective Bug reporting - Steven M. Parrish
  • Session #2 - Fedora QA: What we do, and how you can help - Adam Williamson
  • Session #3 - Getting Started in the Fedora Community - Yaakov Nemoy & Bert Desmet
  • Session #4 - Introduction to Packaging - Yaakov Nemoy & Rex Dieter
  • Session #5 - Designing UI Mockups in Inkscape - Máírín Duffy

General schedule

Scheduling on Saturday
Technical sessions on Saturday are 50 minutes in length followed by a ten-minute break. There is a one-hour break for lunch, and an additional 30 minutes after the last session for people to converse or blog, before the final wrap-up session.

Saturday, December 5, 2009
Time	Event
0930 - 1045	Orientation, BarCamp pitches and scheduling
1100 - 1150	Sessions block 1
1200 - 1250	Lunch
1300 - 1350	Sessions block 2
1400 - 1450	Sessions block 3
1500 - 1550	Sessions block 4
1600 - 1650	Sessions block 5
1730 - 1800	The Highly Esteemed Fedora Project Leader's World-Famous State of Fedora Address!
1900 - 2300	FUDPub
Sunday, December 6, 2009
1000 - 1800	Hackfests
Evening	Skating
Monday, December 7, 2009
1000 - 1800	Hackfests

Technical sessions - Saturday

Refereeing for technical sessions
Note that this FUDCon, technical sessions may be referred or decided by panel or other means. However, we do require material for all sorts of experience levels, so do not worry about competition. Simply propose something you think would be of interest to attendees.

Technical sessions
ANYONE can propose a session, including you. Just pick a topic near and dear to your heart and propose it here.

For Audience Level, indicate whether your talk is appropriate for a beginner, intermediate (current skilled contributor), or expert level.

Session Name	Description	Audience Level	Owner
Fedora's update user experience	A chat about how we can improve the update experience for Fedora users.	Current Fedora Contributors; Intermediate knowledge	Jon McCann & Chris Aillon
Effective Bug reporting	The what and why of bug reports	Beginner and up	Steven M. Parrish
OLPC, Sugar, Sugar on a Stick and Fedora Oh My!	How Fedora contributes and how you can help	Beginner and up	Steven M. Parrish & Sebastian Dziallas
How I Got Started with PyGTK	SSIA, a gentle introduction to tools and making sense of toolkits. Helpful to know a little about Python, but not strictly required.	Beginner	Paul W. Frields
Eclipse and You	An introduction to the Eclipse SDK, the CDT, Mylyn, and the Eclipse Linux Tools project	Beginner and up	Andrew Overholt
Designing UI Mockups in Inkscape PDF	Inkscape is the ultimate UI mockup creation tool. Learn some tips, tricks, and suggested workflows to create awesome mockups in it.	Beginner and up	Máírín Duffy
Design Eye for Frightful UIs PDF	Do you need a design eye for your frightful UI? Are you a developer or maintainer of a free & open source application and are not sure where to start in improving your application's usability or how to get design help? Learn some of the basics you can do on your own to improve your application's usability, and also learn what kind of prep work will make it easy for designers to help you before you approach them.	Intermediate and up (emphasis towards devels)	Máirín Duffy
Fedora Electronic Lab in Action: The Moxie Experience So Far	This talk will provide an accessible introduction to rolling your own Linux-capable microprocessor from scratch using only the Free Software tools provided by Fedora and modern FPGA technology. This talk will be based on the presenter's experience with the Moxie project, and no special knowledge of electronic design will be required to enjoy (although a sense of wonder and adventure is mandatory!).	Beginner and up	Anthony Green
Teaching Open Source	We'll have a session related to http://teachingopensource.org and Fedora's involvement in it, and how this can help you build capacity in your project or bring real-world learning into your classroom (or both!) Placeholder description until we figure out exactly what that is. ;)	Beginner	Mel Chua
Bootstrapping Puppetmanaged	Puppetmanaged can be used to manage your entire IT toolchain, from provisioning with cobbler to managing puppet itself. Come learn how to deploy your entire infrastructure from a USB stick. (Pending success at work, namely, if a actually finish this in time)	Intermediate - Advanced	Yaakov M. Nemoy & Jeroen van Meeuwen
Puppet Common Modules	Why, and how to create modules for Puppet that you can share.	Advanced	Jeroen van Meeuwen
Secure Virtualization	Why you should be afraid of virtualization.	Intermediate	Dan Walsh
What is SELinux trying to tell me?	This talk covers the four causes of SELinux errors.	Intermediate	Dan Walsh
Sandbox	Introduction to the SELinux Sandbox including Sandbox -X	Intermediate	Dan Walsh
Silverblu Minks and Titleist Golf Balls	The intersection of trademark reality and trademark law in open source	All	Pam Chestek
Panel Discussion: Developers and Sysadmins: How to work together	Fedora Infrastructure has about an even mix of Programmers and System Administrators. Listen to their experiences on how their views conflict and how they work together despite their differences. Bring questions!	beginner and up	Toshio Kuratomi
Lawyering for Fedora	The differences and similarities between serving as in house counsel for a traditional business enterprise and the Fedora Project	All	Pam Chestek
Metrics: The difference between problems and measurements	Some real world problem solving from Fedora Infrastructure	Intermediate	Mike McGrath
Yum in F12 and F13	Changes/additions to yum in the F12 and those planned for F13.	Allish	Seth Vidal
System configuration tools overview and future	I'd like to talk about s-c-tools, what we have, cleanup, Policy Kit porting and future of system configuration in Fedora. It could be hacksession too.	Intermediate, more developers oriented	Jaroslav Reznik
AMQP Messaging for Fedora Developers	Right now within the Fedora infrastructure we are setting up AMQP brokers in order to provide unified messaging across all of our services. Come to find out what AMQP means for Fedora and how developers and users will benefit. This is an introduction to the concepts of the AMQP protocol and how we intend to utilize it in Fedora. It will be of interest to coders and admins alike.	Intermediate and up (though a beginner might find the introduction and Fedora specific parts interesting)	John (J5) Palmieri
Kernel - misc, other, bonghits...	What's new in F-12, and what's projected for F-13	All users.	Kyle McMartin
AutoQA - What, where, and how?	An update on the AutoQA project, and a look into the future.	All packagers	Jesse Keating
Deltacloud - open source cloud management	An intro to the world of cloud computing and the Deltacloud project, a free / open source, vendor-independent, cloud management framework/API	Beginner and up	Mohammed Morsi
Fedora graphics future	Plans and possibilities for the graphics stack	All, emphasis on admins and developers	Adam Jackson
GIT for Developers	how can I use GIT efficiently?	Beginner-up	Bert Desmet
Installing Fedora	How to get started using Fedora	Beginner	Bert Desmet
Getting Started in the Fedora Community	How to join the Fedora community - getting a FAS account, using the lists/IRC/Planet/FWN	Beginner	Yaakov Nemoy && Bert Desmet
How to Add and Remove Software in Fedora	Using RPM, Yum, Presto, PackageKit, and the other bits that make software management on Fedora a snap	Beginner	Bert Desmet
Using LVM	How to use LVM effectively, including snapshot backups, filesystem resizing, and disk migration	Beginner	Chris Tyler
Configuring Fedora Networking	Basic configuration of Fedora networking in common residential and small office scenarios, including PPOE, wireless connection sharing, system-wide NM configuration.	Beginner	Up for grabs / You know you want to!
Intro to Packaging	How to become a packager	Beginner-Intermediate	Yaakov Nemoy, Rex Dieter
Running Rawhide	How to run the "next" release of Fedora, now.	Beginner-Intermediate	Clint Savage
Sound in Fedora	How to effectively use sound in Fedora, including setting different levels for different apps, switching streams between devices, and using inputs.	Beginner	Up for grabs / You know you want to!
Mirroring Fedora for Fun and Profit!	or at least to save money on bandwidth. Targeting system administrators at companies and schools, we'll discuss how to set up a Fedora mirror, get registered in MirrorManager, and watch the bits fly by.	Intermediate	Matt Domsch, Fedora Mirror Wrangler and MirrorManager author.
AMQP/Qpid on Fedora - The definitive guide	A step by step introduction on how to set up a low latency, scalable messaging infrastructure. Topics covered includes how to get the bits, client API's, configuration, tuning & troubleshooting and how/where to get help if needed. Recommended for folks planning to attend Jesse Keating's 'Get on the BUS' and John (J5) Palmieri's 'AMQP Messaging for Fedora Developers'	Intermediate and up	Rajith Attapattu
Edge Programming	Fedora is developed in a style that has been described as "edge programming" -- features are developed by individual projects, then combined to form a complete system. This style is being researched as a software engineering strategy for future software systems that will be developed over the next decade; the first such system is the medical records system being pushed for in the USA. The research on edge programming has implications for Fedora and similar projects.	Anyone	Benjamin Kreuter
Getting started with IPv6	Use Fedora services and other cool stuff over IPv6. Learn how to deploy a simple IPv6 setup for small home/office networks.	Beginner-Intermediate	Felix Kaechele
Being Present - a Beginners Guide to FLOSS Outreach in Education	While somethings require luck and timing, nothing happens unless we make an effort to be present when people are gathering. In this presentation we'll cover techniques you can use while we discuss actual events. Answering the question... How did one seemingly random meeting result in Rochester Institute of Technology students being some of the first to receive FOSS development course work as part of their formal education?	Beginner	Karlie Robinson
boot.kernel.org	boot.kernel.org - or how we can change the world one distro & user at a time. Making more, and better, use of network resources to help with mirroring and distribution. Start with an intro & demo of boot.kernel.org, what's available w/ respect to Fedora. Moves to problems we have, what Fedora can do and a general discussion about what more we can do with this new tool. All welcome, all input good.	Beginner on up	John 'Warthog9' Hawley
Hacking with Fedora Community, Moksha, and TurboGears2	Learn about the new real-time collaboration platform that we've been building, how we're building it, and how you can help make it better.	Advanced	Luke Macken
DXR and Dehydra	An introduction to the dehydra static analysis and DXR code navigation tools.	Programmers from beginner on up.	Chris Tyler and David Humphrey
Observe your Fedora system with SystemTap	Ever wondered what your Fedora system is doing? Want to get a general overview of what your system is doing? Or dive deep into applications, java processes or the kernel without needing to stop or interrupt anything? SystemTap is the tool of choice for complex tasks that may require live analysis, programmable on-line response, and whole-system symbolic access. SystemTap can also handle simple tracing jobs. Learn how to setup SystemTap, what ready to run scripts there are, and how to tailor your probes to specific applications or kernel usage patterns.	Users and Administrators	William Cohen Mark Wielaard Frank Eigler
How I got the best job in the world, and how I (nearly) lost it by forgetting my tickets	I was hired by Red Hat to be Mike McGrath's and Ricky Zhou's helper on Fedora Infrastructure. It is the greatest systems administrator job one could ask for.. but the learning curve can be rather hard to get. This is how to not lose your mind or your job if you get this some day in the future.	System Administrators from beginner on up.	Stephen Smoogen
Fedora QA: What we do, and how you can help	An exciting & informative guide to getting involved with ensuring and improving the quality of Fedora. Also, free beer	All levels	Adam Williamson
What's the Latest with GDB	There has been a lot of GDB development recently. This talk will illuminate many of the features added to GDB lately as well as collect some feedback on how things can be improved futher.	All levels	Sami Wagiaalla
How to extend your application to improve observability with Systemtap	SystemTap can observe on multiple levels, from kernel, libraries, applications, java to database transactions. To help your users to get a better view what your package is doing you can add tapsets and static markers. Learn how to rapid prototype observability of your application through tapsets with function and statement probes (on any existing binary) and how to add high-level (zero-overhead) markers to your package sources that tell users about everything important, passes, transactions, service starting/stopping, etc.	Developers and Packagers	William Cohen Mark Wielaard Frank Eigler
Fedora and Amazon EC2, Where do we go from here	The Amazon EC2 cloud is a great platform for users, developers, and organizations needing scalable access to server resources. Unfortunately Fedora 8 is the latest supported release available there. How do we get this current, keep it current, and why is it important?	Developers and Users	Justin M. Forbes
All you ever wanted to about OpenJDK .. and then some	A lot of work happens between an upstream OpenJDK drop and it going to users as an rpm. This talk will focus on all of the things that the OpenJDK team does -- the testing, patching, building, etc. The talk will also focus on the team's efforts on items like Shark/Zero (non x86/x86_64 ports), JigSaw integration, SystemTap support, WebStart/Plugin, etc.	All levels	Deepak Bhole
Who is this anthropologist and what does she want with me?	A meet and greet + discussion about anthropology, my research for Fedora, and the benefits of this research for the community, your groups, and you.	All levels	Diana Harrelson Martin
Integrating with Cobbler	Strategies for integrating your project with Cobbler. Covering the API, language bindings, and different ways of integrating with Cobbler.	Intermediate	jesus m. rodriguez
State of Text Rendering	If you hate your fonts, or if love them, if you don't know what Unicode is but willing to learn, if you are into typography, or internationalization, this talk is for you. Behdad is to blame for everything font, text, and Unicode related on Fedora's default desktop, and here's your chance to boo him on the stage! Come hear about FreeType, fontconfig, Pango, automatic font installation, and oh, the new HarfBuzz. I'll tailor my content for the audience.	Beginner and up	Behdad Efahbod
AutoQA and You	A look at Fedora's new AutoQA system, including its history and design, how QA is using it to solve the Broken Rawhide problem, and how we're going to use it to keep broken packages out of the repos. We're also hoping to hear about tests you want to add, and discuss how people might add tests for their packages.	Intermediate	Will Woods
Package and update flow for maintainers	You just became a packager, or like me, you have maintained several packages for years, but you don't do this as your day job. Things change and documentation is scattered. What systems do you need to use? What tools are there to keep track of your tags, packages, branches, updates, abi changes. What are all these different package queues and how do you keep track of these? I dont have all the answers, and still find myself lost on too many occasions. I hope this talk will attract some junior and senior packagers to try and make a "package life cycle" diagram for packagers or perhaps some additional tools to assist with Fedora's package flow	New and experienced Packagers	Paul Wouters
Secondary arches	Go over where we are, what the road blocks are and whats still to do. This will be followed up with a hackfest to work on some of the issues.	Anyone who wants to run Fedora on non intel hardware	Dennis Gilmore
EPEL for RHEL 6	Somewhere over the rainbow exists RHEL6. When should we start building for it? what will we branch. will we do a mess rebuild? or ask maintainers to branch and build themselves. there is lots we can do to make sure that EPEL is ready to go when things start to show up.	Any existing packager interested in EPEL	Dennis Gilmore
KojiMaven	A talk on what kojiMaven is how it could help Fedora what we would need to to to be able to use it. wiki page describing KojiMaven	People interested in making Java on fedora easier to use	Dennis Gilmore
Wiki syntax	A review over the idiosyncrasies of MediaWiki syntax. AKA "MediaWiki for Non-MediaWiki People."	Beginner and up	Ian Weller
Replace dist-cvs with git	My plan for replacing CVS and improving developer workflow along the way	Developers interested in future source control plans	Jesse Keating
CHASM	A project to add cryptographic hashing and peer to peer networking to software archive mirroring.	Developers of Python and Mirror maintainers.	Ben Boeckel

Hackfests - Sunday & Monday

Where are these hackfests?
See FUDCon:Toronto 2009 Sunday schedule.

Session Name	Session Leader	General Plan	Prerequisites, if any	Where?
Zikula hackfest	Mel Chua	Migrate FWN to zikula. This weekend. We're going live, baby.	None.	Rm. 4
FUDBus HackFest	Clint Savage	Hack on fedora-event-splash, or other interesting things. Nothing really specific atm.	Wifi on Bus from Boston to Toronto, might be to and from?	Rm. ?
FUDBus Topics	Toshio Kuratomi	Hack some packagedb code, stabilize 0.5.x, work on Python3 Guidelines		Rm. ?
Packaging Guidelines Reorganization	Toshio Kuratomi	The packaging guidelines are hard to navigate. We need to reorganize them so that packagers and reviewers can easily find what they're looking for. I (and any other Packaging Committee members that are present) would like to have a brainstorming session with other packagers to come up with problems. Then sit down with people from the Documentation Project to work on reorganizing the pages to address those issues.	Small room and a whiteboard	Rm. ?
Fedora Event Splash	Clint Savage	Ambassadors need some good tools to help recruit attendees at conferences, LUG activities and other useful events. F-E-S plans to be a portal to this sort of need and will provide a front end for each conference for attendees to get more information about groups to join, etc. In addition, integration into Fedora Community to help manage the new recruits, mentorees, etc.		Rm. ?
Fedora Eclipse plugins	Andrew Overholt & Elliott Baron	Elliott has written the basis for koji and bodhi integration with Eclipse. We need to update these, write tests, verify usability, and generally polish and plan for the future. This will be a great opportunity to see how easy it is to hack on Eclipse plugins and will be an excellent alternative to the command-line for new packagers.	eclipse-pde installed.	Rm. ?
Yum miscellaneous	Seth Vidal	Since it is what I'm always doing I'll probably be working on yum and the related tools(yum, yum-utils, urlgrabber, createrepo, preupgrade). Anyone is welcome to come along and ask questions on how to write their own tools using the yum/createrepo/etc apis. Since this is over 2 months away I have no idea what I'll be working on.	comfort in python	Rm. ?
Eclipse SystemTap script integration	Charley Wang & Roland Grunberg	Charley and Roland have been working on an API for adding SystemTap user-space scripts for launch via Eclipse. The API is set up to handle real-time or post-script processing on any C/C++ project in the Eclipse workspace, and we're working on easily accessible Zest integration. This is a fun opportunity to play around with Eclipse plugins and stap scripts at the same time!	eclipse-pde installed SystemTap installed eclipse-cdt installed	Rm. ?
No Frozen Rawhide	Jesse Keating	Come help us hack on the next generation development processes for Fedora.	Knowledge of our current development processes	Rm. ?
Get on the (Message) BUS!	Jesse Keating	We're going to hack on a message bus for Fedora infrastructure.	Comfort in python, some knowledge of qpid/amqp	Rm. ?
Get rid of CVS!	Jesse Keating	I'm always thinking about ways to replace CVS with something better, I welcome a discussion on this.	Knowledge of dist-cvs, and hopefully some other SCM	Rm. ?
Sugar Desktop	Sebastian Dziallas	Hacking, packaging and testing the Sugar Desktop implementation and getting it to rock for F13. Plan- & Progress-making for SoaS included. More to come.	None specifically, knowing what Sugar is can't really hurt, though.	Rm. ?
Fedora Mini	Peter Robinson	A review of where Fedora Mini is at the moment including the state of Moblin. Moving Fedora Mini forward in F-13 and beyond! Will cover what people what it to be, where they see it going ,who wants to do what. Merging with Fedora sugar/olpc as there's too much overlap not to. Supporting gnome mobile, moblin and other small device groups to help attract them. What is required to support the ARM platform as that's where the 'mini' devices are headed in some part	None specifically but not to conflict with the Sugar/SOAS sessions.	Rm. ?
Fedora Community / Moksha	Luke Macken	Hacking on new app/widget ideas, fixing bugs, teaching, etc.	Python, and ideally TurboGears2	Rm. ?
Bodhi Update System	Luke Macken	Hacking on Bodhi v2.0, new features, fixing bugs, learning, etc.	Python, and ideally TurboGears2	Rm. ?
SystemTap Static Probes	Mark Wielaard Frank Eigler William Cohen	Systemtap allows event tracing of programs when they have static probes inserted. This allows for tracing specifics of an application on a higher level that is meaningful to the application user so they don't have to know the exact source code details for tracing what is happening. We want to go over the packages in the SystemTap Static Probes feature list. But everybody is encouraged to bring their package and hack together to make it more observable.	Having followed the Technical Session on How to extend your application to improve observability with Systemtap would be good.	Rm. ?
Campus Ambassadors	John Rose	Integrate ideas from students and faculty about how to be an effective campus advocate as well as to develop a plan to involve the marketing team in the development of supporting materials.	Students, faculty, marketing folks, others interested welcome.	Rm. ?
AutoQA Depcheck	Will Woods	Designing and hacking on the AutoQA stuff needed to keep packages with broken deps out of the live repos.	Python, knowledge of Yum/RPM depsolving, and someone who knows the Bodhi/Rawhide repo push process	Rm. ?
Secondary Arches	Dennis Gilmore	work on syncing builds, updates, tags, between primary and secondary kojis. making it all just work.	Python, Ideas and desire.	Rm. ?
Koji	Dennis Gilmore	write a fas auth plugin for koji. work on other koji improvements	Python	Rm. ?
Python 3	Dave Malcolm	Can we port your Python package to Python 3?	Python	Rm. ?
virt_web	Mike McGrath	Continued work on virt_web, a libvirt frontend - https://fedorahosted.org/virt_web/	Python	Rm. ?
CHASM	Ben Boeckel and Rob Escriva	Futher design and implementation of CHASM	Python	Rm. ?
gcc/ld-changes	Charley and Roland	Changes to ld that may affect you! UnderstandingDSOLinkChange. Currently in Room E.	Packages that use C/C++	Rm. E
Session Name	Session Leader	General Plan	Prerequisites, if any

Other Scheduled Meetings

Session Name	Session Leader	General Plan
Project Board F2F	Paul Frields	As many members of the Fedora Board as possible will gather face to face for discussions about the previous term's work, elections, and the road ahead for the Fedora Project.
Usability Testing	Máirín Duffy	Come check out our open source portable usability lab and help us out by running through a quick usability test. We'll be running tests on Fedora Community and the upcoming www.fedoraproject.org redesign.
FESCo F2F	Jon Stanley	A face to face FESCo meeting, providing opportunities for a highly focused FESCo meeting
Session Name	Session Leader	General Plan

Documentation

Logging everything at FAD EMEA via IRC was a complete success. It enabled us to integrate people better in the conversation flow without being present. I (Yaakov Nemoy) want to do this again for FUDCon on a larger scale. If we include the streaming audio and video solution we had in Boston last winter, we can cover as many bases as possible. In order to cover as many sessions as possible, we need a few things:

• Volunteers - Yes, You. If you're not planning on doing too many sessions, volunteer to show up with your laptop and fingers ready for typing
• A/V Equipment - Let that inner nerd shine
• Bandwidth - Can we make sure we can get the QoS guarantees we need to keep the a/v flowing smoothly?

The planned structure at the moment is to provide one irc channel per room. We can name them after the actual rooms, so it's easy to see the traffic based on the posted schedule. This has the added advantage of enabling people to participate in more than one session at a time.

• How to transcribe a session

If you are willing to volunteer, please put your name on the list below

Name	Help you're willing to bring
Yaakov Nemoy	Coordinating the effort and IRC logging
Mel Chua	Livetranscribing sessions I'm present in; also willing to sort/clean-up wiki notes afterwards (on the FUDBus ride out).
Ian Weller	Wiki cleanup on the FUDBus home sounds awesome.
Bert Desmet	Livetranscribing sessions I'm present in; also willing to sort/clean-up wiki notes afterwards. + I can bring a standard webcam, and use my laptop to stream
Pascal Calarco	Livetranscribing sessions I'm present in; also willing to sort/clean-up wiki notes afterwards. I also can bring a standard webcam, and use my laptop to stream
Matt Domsch	Video conversion and posting. Need other people to bring video cameras.
Adam Miller	IRC logging and any other tasks that I may be able to help with as they are presented.

• FUDCon:Toronto 2009 Live

Social Events

Saturday, December 5

FUDPub

Following the day of technical sessions, we'll be moving the fun to Dave and Buster's. We'll provide food, pool and snooker tables, and non-alcoholic beverages for the first 130 registrants (up to the "130 mark" in the pre-registration table). There's also a full bar available for those so inclined, and a midway full of other entertainment options!

Sunday, December 6

Skating

On Sunday 6 December after the day's hackfest sessions, we will be taking a group down to Nathan Phillips Square (in front of Toronto City Hall) where there's an outdoor skating rink. Skate rentals are available for something less than $10. We will take the TTC (bus -> subway) and it will cost $2.75 each way. Exact change or over payment is required for the TTC.

After skating, we will head to The 3 Brewers pub/restaurant which is about a 10 minute walk from Nathan Phillips Square. Everyone is responsible for covering their own costs. In case anyone is hungry before/during skaing, there are trucks adjacent to the rink which serve fries, hot dogs, burgers, etc. The trucks will only accept cash.

In order to enable travel directly downtown from campus, arrangements have been made for laptops to be securely stored at Seneca (with options for delivery to the hotel hack room Sunday night or pickup at campus Monday morning).

Monday, December 7

Hack 'n' Snack

On Monday 7 December, there will be appetizers in the hack room/hospitality suite at the hotel from 8-9 pm, courtesy of the Hilton Garden Inn. This will include a selection of bruchetta, melon and prosciutto, cheese platter, crudite platter, and finger sandwiches.