Archive:FUDCon:FUDConF11

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We will hold a 3-day FUDCon a few weeks after the release of Fedora 10, to celebrate the occasion and kick off development of Fedora 11.

If you have questions, please contact the event's organizer -- Paul W. Frields.

The FUDCon will include two days of hackfests and a day of BarCamp. All days will be located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Tang Center (E51), in Cambridge, MA USA.

Friday, Sunday hackfest hours: 10:00am-6:00pm
Saturday BarCamp hours: 9:00am-5:00pm

Current Attendees

Please add your name to the list if you will attend. Also, please indicate the following:

• Put an X in the $$$ column if you need funding to attend. We'll use these answers to help figure out budgeting for the event.
• Put a "Veg" in the Veg column if you would like vegetarian fare for any meals that we provide during the event. We'll try to err on the side of vegan so no one will be left out.
• Put your T-shirt size in the Size column, so we can have an idea about what sizes to have available.

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

Budget is tight!
We typically cannot fund everyone who wants to attend. You can save quite a bit of money by carpooling or busing, and sharing hotel rooms. We will make every effort to have FUDCon be as affordable as possible.

Note: some of the comments below discuss dates which were previously proposed but which have now been ruled out.

No./Nr.	Name	$$$	Veg	Size	Comments
1	Paul W. Frields			XXL	Back in Boston in January. So happy.
2	Tom 'spot' Callaway		Veg	XXL	Grand vizier. (no crash space, sorry!)
3	Máirín Duffy		Veg	S mens / M womens
4	Scott Fitchet
5	Matt Domsch			XL	I love Boston in January. It's why I moved to Austin. Looking forward to reliving those snowy memories!
6	Russell Harrison			L
7	Jon Stanley	X		XL
8	Chris Tyler			XL	Considering bringing ~12 Fedora folks from Seneca by bus. If you're interested in a cheap/free charter coach seat from Toronto area, let me know.
9	Ricky Zhou	X		XL	Jan 9-11 should be perfect :-)
10	Ian Weller	X		L	Needs hotel room Sunday night for departure on Monday.
11	Clint Savage	X		XXL	Can likely make this based upon advanced notice.
12	Mike McGrath	X			You can take my life. But you can't take my FREEDOM!
13	Jesse Keating			XL	Arriving on the 3rd, departing on the 12th.
14	James Laska			L	No preference at this point
15	Jeroen van Meeuwen			XL
16	Luke Macken			M
17	Bernie Innocenti	X	Veg	M	Depends on availability of good tasting coffee
18	Brian Powell	X		XL
19	Xavier Lamien	X		S
20	Kevin Kelleher
21	Michel Salim	X			Might be driving from Bloomington, IN -- any carpoolers, email me @fedoraproject.org
22	David Nalley	X		XL	Might bus several contributors (GDK is at least interested) from SC up - if you are interested in riding, contact me
23	Steven Parrish	X		XXL	Got transport just need a place to stay.
24	John Rose	X		L
25	Seth Vidal	X	Veg		Wow, Boston, who would have thought it!
26	Christopher Aillon			XL	Claiming line #26 from Removed entry
27	Dennis Gilmore	X		XXL	Would like to crash at some ones house.
28	Paul Stauffer			M
29	Jared Smith	X		L	Am happy to catch a ride from the Washington D.C. area and/or share a room
30	Will Woods		Veg	S
31	Thibault North	X		M	Anybody coming from Canada ?
32	DaveJ			M (pre-baconator)
33	Andrew Overholt	X	Veg	S	Looks like I can do about $300 return for bus to Buffalo and flight
34	Jeremy Katz			S
35	Greg DeKoenigsberg			L	Hey Dave Nalley! If you're coming up 85, stop in Durham to get me!
36	Deepak Bhole	X		L	To be confirmed
37	Kyle McMartin	X		XL	what, no bojangles?!
38	Susan Lauber			L
39	Bill Nottingham	X		XL
40	Toshio Kuratomi	X		M
41	Matthew Miller		Veg	M	Chicken is a vegetable.
42	Nalin Dahyabhai		Veg	XL
43	Harpreet Singh			XL
44	Bill Peck		Veg	L
45	Dave Malcolm			M
46	Tim Burke			M
47	Jon Masters		Veg	M	Can possibly offer a ride from Cambridge, in the unlikely event that it's very far away. I bet it's in Cambridge.
48	Dan Walsh			XL
49	Andy Lindeberg			S
50	Jarod Wilson			XL
51	Mike Bonnet			XL
52	Eve McGlynn			S
53	John Poelstra			XL
54	Stephen Gallagher			L
55	Chris Lumens			M	THUD
56	Rebecca Sobol	X		L	Will share a room
57	Chuck Ebbert			L	The cake is a lie
58	Ed Hill			XL	May (?) have a convertible couch available
59	Dan Winship			M
60	Karsten Wade			XL	Sharing hotel with $someone from CommunityArchitecture
61	Rags Srinivas		Veg	XL
62	Chris Ball		Veg	L
63	Bill Cattey			M
64	Chuck Anderson			M	Will there be any cellular peptide cake?
65	Jeff Arnold			M
66	Greg Smith			L	Boston based so let me know if you need anything while in town.
67	Jim Gettys			XXXL
68	SJ Klein	N	Y	S	May have futon avail in Cambridge
69	Walter Bender			XL	May have a couch or two available (but in Newton)
70	Ben Schwartz			M
71	Caroline Meeks			XL
72	David Farning	X		XL	Will find housing via one of the generous OLPC folks
73	Michael Stone			L
74	Yaakov Nemoy			M
75	Mel Chua			S mens/M womens
76	Bobby Powers		Vegan	L
77	Kevin Fenzi			XL	waiting to see if employer will send me, so still a bit up in the air
78	James Antill			XL
79	Steve Orr			XL
80	Jack Aboutboul			XL
81	Anders Kaseorg			L
82	Tim Abbott			XL
83	Jason Tibbitts			M
84	John Price			XL
85	John (J5) Palmieri			S
86	Waseem Daher			M
87	David Cantrell	X		XL	Looking for about $150 in help money to get me there. I will be coming from Atlanta since I will be there for New Years.
88	Jesse Larrew			M	I live in the area, and I have a guest room & bath available for anyone who needs it. :)
89	Yifan Sun			M
90	Peter Jones			L
91	Jonathan Steffan			L
92	Edward Kirk			L
93	Ray Strode		Veg	M mens
94	Kenny Parnell			L
95	Simon Schampijer	X		L
96	Doran Barton			XL	Strongly considering coming. Trying to work it into an independent contractor's budget. :)
97	Matt Anderson		Veg	M
98	Josh Boyer	X		XL
99	John Eckersberg			L
100	Dan Radez			L
101	Stefan Hartsuiker			XL
102	Allan Clements			XXL
103	Marco Pesenti Gritti			XL
104	John Selmys		Veg	L
105	Varinder Singh			L
106	Raymond Chan			L
107	Mark Fernandes			L
108	Stephen Carter			L
109	John Ford			L
110	Gregory Masseau			L
111	Patricia Constantino			M
112	Mohak Vyas			L

Daily Schedule

Thursday, January 8

FUDCon does not start until Friday. Thursday is when most non-local travelers will want to make their travel plans.

Friday, January 9

LOCATION : Tang Center at MIT (E51).

TIME : Beginning at 10:00 a.m. each day.

FUDCon is free to attend. You do not need to pre-register to attend, but pre-registration gives us a better idea of how to plan for food and space.

More details will appear here over the next few weeks.

Hackfest sessions

Add a hackfest!
ANYONE can run a hackfest, including you! Just pick a topic near and dear to your heart which you'd like to improve with a little elbow grease.

Session Name	Session Leader	General Plan
Build an AmbassadorKit	Clint Savage / David Nalley / John Rose	Design and build an entire AmbassadorKit
Package Grouping - the future of comps.xml	Jon Stanley	Discuss the future of comps.xml and package grouping for packaging frontends
Booting	Bill Nottingham	It's time to boot fast
Docs Project	Karsten Wade and Paul W. Frields	It's time to kick Docs Project in the tush. All processes should be documented by the time we get to FUDCon. At this point we'll assess them, figure out what needs changing, and DO IT.
SELinux Policy	Dan Walsh	Writing SELinux policy. Pick your favorite daemon, cgi script or user app, and see if we can write a policy to confine it. I will have a list of daemons that currently do not have SELinux policy in Fedora, if you just want to try to write policy.
fedora-event-splash	Ian Weller / Clint Savage / Yaakov Nemoy	Starting work on fedora-event-splash, a future tool for Ambassadors that are at/holding events and would like some additional marketing tools. Join if you're interested. [1]
Giving wikilove	Ian Weller	Fix as many pages that need love as possible.
Fedora security	Kevin Fenzi	discussion about security updates process, fixing outstanding security bugs, being more proactive about searching for problems, etc.
EPEL improvements	Kevin Fenzi	Where do we take EPEL from here? How to get involved, update pushes, push for koji inclusion, and more!
Push mirroring	Matt Domsch	Fedora mirrors currently use rsync to poll for updates. We need a push mirror system (ala Debian) to notify mirrors when new content is available to sync. Will discuss how we can get there before F11.

Saturday, January 10

LOCATION: Tang Center at MIT (E51).

TIME: 9:00 a.m. SHARP. PLEASE try to be on time! All the important scheduling and other information about the sessions takes place between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.

This will be the BarCamp day of presentations, sessions, and talks. Lunch will be provided. Attendance is free. At the end of the day, there will be a FUDPub.

BarCamp Sessions with Owners

Session Name	Description	Owner
State of the Wiki	A run-through of new wiki policy and the reasons for following it	Ian Weller and anyone else who wants to help
Git for Dummies, by Dummies	Learning from git masters is wonderful if you can do it. What about learning the simple, getting-started bits from someone who's just good at teaching?	Paul W. Frields, hopefully with heckling from a git master when he gets lost
Write Docs with DocBook XML	DocBook XML is by far the preferred documentation method for Linux and FOSS. Some Fedora contributors have written entire books in DocBook! Learn how it works -- it's easier than you think, and more powerful than you imagine.	Paul W. Frields and Jared Smith
Configuration Management	Configuration Management with puppet, Puppet Common Modules and puppetmanaged.org	Jeroen van Meeuwen
Comps	Brainstorm session on comps capabilities and usage and renewal(?)	Jeroen van Meeuwen
Spins	Creating custom spins, spins process. Include information on what's a Remix, as opposed to a Spin, and how the guidelines differ for each.	Jeroen van Meeuwen
State of the Kernel	What's going in for Fedora11 (~2.6.30/2.6.31 mergability), general discussion about what we're supporting	Kyle McMartin
Performance Tuning Renegade	Finding and fixing performance issues for fun and profit.	Mike McGrath
Public Speaking for Shy Bearded Hackers	So you're a bearded hacker who needs to give a presentation. Come learn how to be an Ambassador	Yaakov Nemoy
The Once and Future Anaconda	Talking about the current state of anaconda and where it's going for F11, F12, and beyond.	Chris Lumens
Asterisk and Fedora Talk	A brief introduction to Asterisk, followed by some practical advice on connecting to the Fedora Talk service	Jared Smith
File Systems, New and Used	What's coming up in file systems for Fedora	Valerie Aurora Henson vaurora at redhat dot com
Fedora Classroom: What it is, why it's important, and how to participate.	An exciting discussion on the new Fedora Classroom, its purpose and what we need to keep it going.	Clint Savage and Kevin Fenzi

BarCamp Sessions Needing Owners

Session Name	Description

Final Session Schedule

Times are approximate and may change on BarCamp day.

Time	Room	Room1	Room2	Room3	Etc.
0900	Speaker pitches and scheduling
1000
1100
1200	Lunch
1300
1400
1500
1600

FUDPub

Flat Top Johnny's, from 6:00pm - 10:00pm. FTJ's is a well-regarded pool hall near the FUDCon site. We will provide dinner food and one beverage per person, as well as a number of pool tables reserved for attendees.

Sunday, January 11

LOCATION: Tang Center at MIT (E51).

TIME: Beginning at 10:00 a.m.

See #Hackfest_sessions for more information. Continuation of Friday's activities and adding to them based on Saturday's BarCamp.

Travel Details

Hotel

Boston Marriott Cambridge -- Rate: $99/night single or double occupancy

Making Reservations

To make a reservation, use this handy link and select the following:

• Arrival date: January 8, 2009
• Departure date: January 11, 2009
• Group code: RSFRSFA

This group code will give you the room rate in question. Also feel free to enter your Marriott rewards number if you have one.

OR call +1 800 MARRIOTT to make a reservation at the Boston Marriott Cambridge, using group code RSF. (Note the difference in the group name if you make your reservation by phone instead of online.)

ALL attendees must reserve their own rooms. Room rates are good until December 19, 2008. Information will be forthcoming about how to extend your reservation if needed. If you have any problems making reservations, please email the organizers and include details about the issue you encountered.

Other Hotel Details

One complimentary wireless network access account has been arranged per room.

We have reserved 5 rooms for the nights of the 7th and the 11th for people who require "shoulder dates." Contact the organizers for more information.

Local Transit

The hotel is very close to MBTA (Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority) facilities for public tranportation. It is also minutes from MIT, Harvard, and other desirable points in Boston.

MBTA Kendall Square Station

Area Map via OpenStreetMap.org

From the Airport

If you'll be there for the weekend, you may find a $15 Charlie Ticket, good for 7 days, to be your best value. Otherwise, the subway is $2 cash and the bus is $1.50 cash each trip. Charlie Tickets are available from the T ticket machines. You may use cash or a credit card to purchase.

You have 2 options when taking the subway:

1. Take the Silver Line busses to get to the subway, then the subway to Kendall Square T.
2. Take the Blue Line bus to the Airport station, then the subway to Park Street Station, then the subway to Kendall Square T.

If taking the Silver Line:

1. Leaving the airport, you'll get on a Silver Line T bus which takes you to South Station.
2. Take the Red Line towards Arlington to Kendall Square Station.

If taking the Blue Line:

1. Leaving the airport, you'll get on a Blue Line T bus which takes you to the subway terminal.
2. Take the Blue Line "inbound" to Government Center Station.
3. Take the Green Line "outbound" to Park Street Station.
4. Take the Red Line towards Arlington to Kendall Square Station.

East Coast Road Trip -- CONFIRMED!

We will rent a van and drive up the east coast of the US. The plan is to leave late on the night of Wednesday the 7th, arrive sometime midday on Thursday the 8th, enjoy an awesome FUDCon, and then return late on the night of Sunday the 11th, depositing people along the way. If you are anywhere near the I-85 or I-95 corridor up the East Coast (starting point: Greenville SC), and if you want to hitch a ride, please add yourself to this list. We can accept up to 14 people.

1. David Nalley (Greenville, SC)
2. Mrs. David Nalley (Greenville, SC)
3. Jared Smith (Stafford, VA) <-- assuming I can make it work with my travel schedule at work
4. Kenny Parnell (Charlotte, NC)
5. Greg DeKoenigsberg (Raleigh, NC)
6. Colby Hoke (Raleigh, NC) <-- video producer for Red Hat
7. Steven Parrish (Raleigh, NC)
8. John Eckersberg (Raleigh, NC)
9. Dan Radez (Raleigh, NC)