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FUDCon Brno 2008

Brno, Czech Republic :: September 5 - 7, 2008

Overview

For questions, please contact MaxSpevack, RadekVokal and MarekMahut

Friday, September 5 -- Hackfest day 1.

Saturday, September 6 -- BarCamp with sessions, talks, and presentations. Social Event in the evening! This is the most important day of the FUDCon!

Sunday, September 7 -- Hackfest day 2.

The specific schedule for each day is coming soon!

Location

• Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University (google maps)

Lodging

• Approximately 50 beds are booked in Hotel Imos (google maps) - studios - two hotel rooms with shared kitchen and bathroom. Direction from the hotel to University (Approximately 10 to 15 minutes by public transport, tram #1, ticket for 15CZK)

Travel

There are several ways to get to Brno.

1. Fly directly to Brno's airport (BRQ) (Check SmartWings and Ryanair for direct flights)
2. Fly to Prague (PRG) and travel to Brno (BRQ)
3. Fly to Vienna (VIE) and travel to Brno (BRQ)
4. Fly to Bratislava (BTS) and take a bus (130km, about 2 hours) or a train (141 km, about hour and a half)

This page appears to have some good information, but I (Max) have never made the trip personally. (If someone has more information, feel free to update this section!)

Current Attendees

Please add your name to the list if you will attend.

No.	Name	Need Lodging?	Comments
1	MaxSpevack	yes	-
2	JeroenVanMeeuwen	yes
3	GianlucaVarisco	yes	-
4	JensKuehnel	yes	-
5	DimitrisGlezos	yes	-
6	LucaFoppiano	yes	-
7	SandroMathys	yes	-
8	JonathanRoberts	yes	-
9	RadekVokal	no	-
10	AdamTkac	no	-
11	MarcelaMaslanova	no	-
12	IvanaVarekova	no	-
13	FabianAffolter	yes	I will try to make it happen
14	LubomirRintel	no	-
15	MartinSivak	no	-
16	DanHorak	no	-
17	MartinKoci	no	-
18	MarekMahut	no	will help with organization
19	MatejCepl	no	will help with organization, living in Prague
20	AlexanderTodorov	yes	-
21	OndrejVasik	no	-
22	AdamPribyl	no	-
23	JoergSimon	yes	-
24	OliverFalk	yes	Can only attend on Friday
25	FrancescoUgolini	yes	90% sure to attend
26	AntonArapov	no	-
27	AndreaModestoRossi	yes	80% sure to attend
28	FrancescoCrippa	yes	-
29	ThomasWoerner	yes	-
30	DominikMierzejewski	yes	planning to attend
31	MartinNagy	no	-
32	HaraldHoyer	yes	-
33	AdrianPilchowiec	no	90% sure to attend
34	MichalSchmidt	no	-
35	VitFoukal	no	-
36	Ivan Stojmirov	no	-
37	JaroslavReznik	no	-
38	JiriMoskovcak	no	-
39	MarcoMornati	yes	-
40	ChristosBacharakis	yes	-
41	JanPazdziora	no	-
42	David Kovalsky	no	-
43	Chris Ward	no	-
44	MNowak	no	-
45	Lukas Petrovicky	no	-

Sessions

If you will pitch a session at the BarCamp on Saturday, give your name and brief description here.

• Max Spevack - Fedora Websites team, and how you can help.
• Dimitris Glezos - Transifex: Upstream-friendly cross-community translations -- Towards v1.0
• Any topic that is interesting to you!

Hackfest topics

• Becoming a Fedora Package Maintainer (needs a leader)
• Fedora Astronomy hacking (MarekMahut)
• Transifex hacking (Dimitris Glezos)
• Any project you are working on!

Information for Organizational Team

There is a weekly organization/planning meeting in #fedora-meeting on Freenode every Tuesday at 13:00 UTC (15:00 CEST).

• Log from 2008-07-15 planning meeting

Current action items:

• Update travel information on wiki (MarkeMahut)
• Breakfast and lunch for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. (RadekVokal)
• Wireless network for the location (MarekMahut) - we'll use university network (RadekVokal)
• Projectors from the RH office (MarekMahut)
• Social event on Saturday night (RadekVokal)
• Tshirts (MaxSpevack)
• Fedora Live DVDs (MarekMahut)
• Travel subsidies and sponsorships (MaxSpevack)
• Publicity on Fedora Planet & mailing lists (MaxSpevack)
• Email/invitation to Brno and Stuttgart europe (europe-list) offices (MaxSpevack)
• LATER: Confirm number of rooms with hotel (RadekVokal)
• LATER: Figure out how much of hotel bill can be paid from FUDCon budget (MaxSpevack)

Total budget from Fedora Project:

• 20k USD = 12.5k EUR = 290k CZK