DevConf.CZ 2011

Fedora Events: Developers Conference, Brno, Czech Republic

About

• an Open conference for all Linux and JBoss Developers, Admins and Linux users organized by Red Hat Czech Republic
• Presentations will be held by Red Hat, Fedora and JBoss users and developers
• For questions, please contact RadekVokal and MarekMahut
• Check out DeveloperConference2009 for last year event

Media

• redhatbrno.blip.tv (so far there are videos from 2009)

When and Where

• February 11 - February 12, 2011 (Friday, Saturday)
• Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University (google maps) (openstreetmap.org)
• Brno, Czech Republic
• Main entrance to the building

Schedule

Language
Presentations are labelled with the language in which the talk will be given. The (cz/en) label means, that preferred language is Czech, but if there will be more English speaking people in the session the presenter is able to switch to English.

Schedule
.. the schedule will be published apx one month before the event, so far there's only a list of all possible talks

• Talks will be in rooms D2, D3 and also A107
• Workshops will be in room B007 and B011

Talks

subject	language	talker	description
KDE Plasma Workspaces 4	en	Jaroslav Reznik, Lukas Tinkl & Kevin Kofler	New from KDE developers
Java packaging for developers	en/cz	Stanislav Ochotnicky	How to get someone to package your Java application
JCR + ModeShape	cz (en?)	Jozef Chocholáček	introduction into JCR specification and its implementation (but not only) - ModeShape
Gnome 3.0	en	Tomáš Bžatek	Latest news about Gnome 3 bleeding-edge bits, upcoming changes for Fedora 14->15 users
MythTV - User view	en/cz	Lukáš Doktor	Live MythTV demonstration
Func: Fedora Unified Network Controller	en	Marek Mahut	TBD
Developers introduction to Qt	en/cz/es	Jaroslav Reznik	as presented @FIT (ITU)
Modern Linux Desktop alphabet	cz (en slides)	Jaroslav Reznik & Tomas Bzatek	Short (a few minutes) introduction to popular desktop terms
Matahari & FMCI	en/cz/es	Jaroslav Reznik (Radek Novacek, Roman Rakus)	Introduction to system-management initiative, update on various tools
JSF 2 & RichFaces 4 - Concepts	cz (en slides)	Lukas Fryc
Perl packaging for developers	cz (en slides)	Marcela Mašláňová
Testing Java applications with Arquillian	en/cz (en slides)	Karel Piwko	Focused on integration testing part of Arquillian
Planning and Scheduling with Drools	en/cz (en slides)	Lukáš Petrovický	Introduction to Drools Planner + showing a couple solutions
Teiid - data virtualization system	en/cz (en slides)	Boris Belovic	Introduction to Teiid + small example/demo
New features in OpenJDK 7	en/cz (en slides)	Pavel Tisnovsky	Introduction to new features being developed by Oracle, and others, for OpenJDK 7
Seam 3	en/cz (en slides)	Jozef Hartinger	In this session, Seam and its impact on Java EE will be explained. The talk covers introduction to CDI and Seam 3 modules.
Infinispan 4 - Elastic Data Grids	en	Radoslav Husar, Michael Linhard	Introduction to data grids in general (use cases, principles, technology) and creating data grids using Infinispan
Byteman	cz/en	Martin Večeřa	Fault injection testing of Java applications
SysVinit, upstart and systemd in RHEL and Fedora systems	cz (en slides)	Petr Lautrbach	practical comparison of usage and deployment in RHEL/Fedora
Power management	cz/en	Jaroslav Škarvada (jskarvad AT redhat.com), Jan Včelák	Introduction, overview of available tools (pm-utils, powertop, bltk, ...), tips for tuning, info for developers (PM SIG, PM tracker bugs), tuned (introduction, writing your own profiles and plugins, future plans).
Amateur radio in Fedora	cz/en	Jaroslav Škarvada (jskarvad AT redhat.com	Introduction to amateur (ham) radio, overview of available software, actual support in Fedora, future plans.
coreutils - tips & common mistakes	cz/en	Ondřej Vašík	Some good/bad practices in basic shell commands script/CLI usage
Remote desktop	probably cz	Adam Tkac	Overview of TigerVNC and libjpeg-turbo projects, features, usage & benefits
TeX Live	en/cz	Jindřich Nový	TeXLive 2010, features, its way to Fedora and info for packagers
Performance evaluation of Linux Discard Support	en	Lukáš Czerner	Basic overview of discard and why we have it. Introduce discard benchmarking tool and show some of its results. What have we done for ext4 and what can you use now.
OpenLDAP, Kerberos, SSSD, FreeIPA	cz/en	Jan Vcelak, Zbysek Mraz, Jan Zeleny, Pavel Zuna	Four presentations, each for a half of regular presentation. Slight introduction of these tightly bound components. Foundamentals & usage.
AutoQA	cs (en slides)	Kamil Páral	Introduction into the framework used for automated tests execution in Fedora and how to create tests for it.
Build HA cluster	sk/en	Marek Grác	Overview of cluster project from sysadmin perspective
Bachelor and Master thesis on FI MUNI	sk	Marek Grác	State-of-the-art
Deltacloud API	sk/en	Michal Fojtik	Using one REST API for accessing multiple public cloud providers
Debugging Tools Intro	en/cz	Jan Kratochvíl	Introduction to DWARF, ELF, GDB/binutils, core files, build-id etc.
Confining Spacewalk with SELinux	en	Jan Pazdziora	Confining large application suite with SELinux: experience from feature development
Spacewalk on PostgreSQL	en	Jan Pazdziora	Status of the port, lessons learned
Bug Hunting and Static Analysis	cz (en slides)	Kamil Dudka	Overview of some common error patterns and tools for finding them in the code

Workshops

subject	language	talker/group	description
Systemtap workshop	en	Petr Muller	kernel, userspace, python tracing...
Porting apps from GTK2 to GTK3	en/cz	Tomáš Bžatek	Bring your laptop and sources you want to port!
MythTV - Plug-in development	en/cz	Lukáš Doktor	MythTV simple plug-ing develpment (from hello world to complete (SQL, UI, skinable, ...) plug-in)
Working with Tito	en	Miroslav Suchý	Building dozen packages from one git repo. How to create dozen releases per day. How to create patches against upstream automatically.
Qt Dev Workshop	en/cz/es	Jaroslav Reznik	Qt, Qt Quick, MeeGo Touch Framework etc.
SSSD setup	en/cz	Jan Zeleny, Jakub Hrozek	How to setup SSSD so you can login to your company network.
Infinispan 4 Hands-On lab	en	Radoslav Husar, Michael Linhard	Hands-on part of the Infinispan 4 EDG talk
libcg/control groups	cz	Ivana Hutarova Varekova, Jan Safranek	restrict your pacman

/dev/pub - The Pub Event

• Dinner for all participants on Friday!

FAQ

• Q: Do I have to do my presentation in English?
• A: Nope, it's up to you. We're expecting some foreigners and visits from Red Hat to come, but if you don't feel comfortable doing the presentation in English, do it in Czech/Slovak

• Q: So what kind of conference is it going to be? Like every other Linux conference?
• A: No! The plan is to have a conference for developers, admins and testers, eg. not average Linux users, but for skilled Linux users who are either administering some servers, deploying services on Linux or developing apps on Linux

• Q: How long does my presentation or session have to be?
• A: Anylong from 30minutes up to one hour, workshops will probably be longer. We'll prepare a schedule apx a month before the event, at that time you'll be asked for time estimate.

Lodging

• Hotel Avanti - closest hotel, 5-10 minutes of walking to University
• Hotel Vista (formerly known as hotel Imos) - cheaper option, apx 20minutes by public transport far from University

Travel

to Brno, Czech Republic

There are several airports around Brno; http://whichbudget.com can be used to see which budget airlines operate flights to a destination; for your convenience, the airport names below are linked there; http://skyscanner.net can help you finding non-direct connections. For information about booking the train or bus tickets, follow the links in the rightmost column.

Airport (code, people transported/year)	Distance from Brno	By bus (time, price one way)	By train (time, price/price back	Detailed instructions
Brno (BRQ, 0.5 mil.)	0 km
Bratislava (BTS, 2 mil.)	130 km	2:30 EUR 9	2:00, EUR 9 (return EUR 13)	Bratislava -> Brno
Wien, Vienna (VIE, 18 mil.)	150 km	2:40, CZK 310 (EUR 12.70)	1:40, EUR 27/EUR 9	Vienna -> Brno
Prague (PRG, 13 mil.)	210 km	2:30, CZK 200 or 150 (EUR 8.20 or 6.15)	from 2:45 to 3:30, CZK 314/175 (EUR 12.80/7.15)	Prague -> Brno

Note: the times include the time needed to get from the airport to the railway or bus station.

There are no relevant return discounts for trains, and the budget airlines often offer no return discount as well, so there is little incentive to use the same airport for both direction. Thus it might be a good idea, for example, to visit Vienna during your return journey; for details, see Vienna -> Brno.

in Brno

From Main railway station take tram #1 (towards Řečkovice). Get off the tram on 5th stop - Hrnčířská (after apx 10minutes). Take the street on the left - Hrnčířská - up and after apx 300 meters the building on your right hand is the University.

From Main bus station (Zvonařka) take bus number 60, get off on second stop - Nové Sady (apx 2minutes). Take tram #1 towards Řečkovice. After two stops you are on the Main railway station, follow instructions above.

From Česká street (City center) take trolley 32 (towards Královo pole) for 4 stops and get off on stop Botanická right in front of the main University building.

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