Fudcon/Social Media Posts

Scheduled FUDCon APAC 2015 social media posts

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• 15/05/2015
  • Planning to attend FUDCon? Share this cool design with your friends! Check https://jurankdankkal.fedorapeople.org/FUDCon/FUDConPune2015/final/goingto/iamgoingto.png #fudconin15
• 16/05/2015
  • To volunteer for FUDCon join the FUDCon Planning Mailing List (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning) and see how you may contribute! #fudconin15
• 17/05/2015
  • Join the FUDCon APAC 2015 event on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/events/740572616064045/) #fudconin15

Topic : Running Project Atomic and Docker on Fedora

Speakers : Aditya Patawari and Lalatendu Mohanty

Aditya Patawari, the Lead of Systems Engineering at BrowserStack.com, loves playing around with Enterprise Linux, Ansible, Puppet, Nagios, Python, Cloud (AWS and OpenStack) both as a part of his work and out of interest. Lalatendu Mohanty is a free software and open source enthusiast and advocate. He is currently working as senior software engineer-containers in Red Hat. At FUDCon 2015, Aditya and Lalatendu are going to talk about why Docker can be a better choice than LXC and virtual machines in many scenarios.

Topic : Workshop on UTRRS

Speakers : Satyabrata Maitra, Rajesh Ranjan, Bhushan Barve

The founder of award winning FUEL Project, Rajesh Ranjan, possess more than 10+ yearsof experience in working with the FOSS community of localization and four years experience of journalism. An open source enthusiast, Bhushan Bharve, is currently working with Red Hat, in Quality Engineering Services, active contributor as far as QA in Language technology is concerned. Along with Satyabrata Maitra, these three gurus of UTRRS localization as well as Internationalization are going to teach audience how comparing the results of a text rendering engine to actual text can be done without the ability to read or comprehend the language in question.

Scheduled for Social Media

• 21/05/2015
  • Connect with Fedora developers through LinkedIn Professional Networking (https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=8240994)

Suchakra Sharma

"FUDCon APAC 2015 : Our Speaker"

Suchakra Sharma Talking on "Form Zero to Hero in Kernel Module Development"

In short, you will create a small network packet filtering kernel module for a simple use case such a filtering based on the device or length orthe type of network packet.

Boi: Suchakra is a PhD student at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. He researches on JIT compilers and tracing tools full-time and loves to do UX/UI and design stuff when he is free. He is involved with Fedora as a packager and designer. You can know more about him at http://suchakra.in and https://suchakra.wordpress.com/about/

Twitter: @suchakra

Topic : Improving thread synchronization in GlusterD (Daemon for Glusterfs) using Userspace RCU (Read-copy-update)

Speaker : Atin Mukherjee

Atin is a software engineer having around 8 years of experience in various domains which includes Telecom, BFSI & Storage. Currently he is working in a open source distributed scalable file system called 'Gluster' and is responsible of managing the management daemon of gluster for configuration management of the cluster.

Topic : Introduction to GlusterFS and its features

Speaker : Deepak Shetty, Atin Mukherjee

GlusterFS is an open source, clustered file system capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients. If you are someone who is interested to learn GlusterFS and its features, this workshop is for you. Deepak Shetty, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat along with Atin Mukherjee, Senior S/W Engineer at Red Hat will train the audience to setup GlusterFS, consume it and manage it.

Topic : Introduction to kdump and kernel crash analysis

Speaker : Buland Singh and Gopal Tiwari

In the event of a system crash, kdump creates a memory image (vmcore) that can help in determining the cause of the crash and Crash utility allows you to determine the cause of the system crash by analyzing the core dump. Learn more about it from Buland Singh,a FOSS contributor working as an Associate Software Maintenance Engineer and Gopal Tiwari who is a Sr. Software maintenance Engineer at RHIPL.

Topic : Lessons learned from Bijra project

Speaker : KAZI NIZAMUDDIN

The head master of the Bijra High School, Kazi Nizamuddin, will share the story of Bijra project. He was the first person to recognize the benefits of having FOSS communities help in the school curriculum and worked with dgplug to bring the project to life. In 2007, the Birja project was initiated with help from Mr. Indranil Dasgupta from L2C2 Technologies,and Prof. Ashok Ranjan Thakur from WBUT. If you are a FOSS contributor or you are someone still not convinced on why you should contribute to FOSS, join this talk to know how a contributor's simple work effects the life of remote Indian students.

Topic: Achieving Community Goals with Fedora

Speaker: Tenzin Chokden

Tenzin works as a Malware Analyst for Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) exiled Tibetan Government. He is an open source enthusiast, a contributor to the Fedora Security Lab and uses open source tools in his personal and professional life. Tenzin, through his session, will introduce users to ways of using Open Source to improve their security-controls, mitigate attacks and build a community using the power of open source communities.

Topic: Automating Infrastructure by Foreman and Katello

Speaker: Sachin Ghai

Sachin is an Open source contributor and does QA for Katello and Foreman projects. His session will cover an introduction to content management using Katello, provisioning bare metal infrastructure, creating and managing instances across clouds and a demonstration to install Fedora using Foreman.

Topic: Compiling Linux Kernel & Submit first patch

Speaker: Mayur Patil

Mayur is an Assistant Professor at MIT Academy of Engineering, Alandi(D). He is a Github activist who also contributes to the open source projects: Linux Kernel and Apache Cassandra. Through his workshop, you will, get an overview of Linux Kernel, learn tools to build Kernel, compile Linux Kernel in Fedora/CentOS, write a sample device driver and Send that driver as a patch to Mailing List.

Topic: "Selling" Open Source 101

Speaker: Izhar Firdaus

Izhar is a Fedora Ambassador who has been contributing to the Fedora Project since 2007. He is currently working as a Solution Architect in ABYRES, a Malaysian Open Source System Integrator, providing solutions for products from Red Hat, Hortonworks and other Open Source principles. His session is about Open Source businesses and how you can initiate your own business providing support and professional services for your Open Source expertise. He will also talk about his failures at a previous company and his learnings from the past years about the business operations of two major Open Source vendors: Red Hat and Hortonworks.

Topic: Android Development on Fed ora 21

Speaker: Mohan Prakash

Mohan Prakash is a teacher, Java programmer and a social activist. He runs a private institution where he teaches Mathematics and Computers. In his free time, he contributes to the Fedora Project. Through his talk, he will introduce the audience to Android and its architecture, speak about the components of an Android application, requirements for Android Development in Fedora 21, instructions to install Android Studio, show how to build a simple application and run it on a real device, discuss the advantages of Android development in Fedora 21.