LCA 2011

This page provides all the information that people need regarding Fedora's presence at LinuxConf Australia 2011.

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UPDATE: 19/1/2011 - LCA will be going ahead in spite of the Brisbane floods. The Open Day venue has been affected, an alternative venue is yet to be determined.

When and Where

In 2011 LCA is going to be held in Brisbane, from the 24th - 29th January, at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) - Gardens Point Campus.

LinuxConf Personnel

Please add yourself to the list below if you want to attend.

#	FAS Name & Full Name	Conference	OpenDay	Arrival	Departure	Comment
1	Luke Martinez	No	yes	Friday Morning	Sunday Evening	Pending Sponsorship
2	Heherson Pagcaliwagan	Yes	yes	23 Jan	31 Jan	Plane tickets to be purchased by Max Spevack
3	Izhar Firdaus	Yes	yes	??	??	Pending
4	Caius 'kaio' Chance	yes	yes	local	local
5	Dennis Gilmore	yes	No	13 Jan	28 Jan	Fedora Release Engineering
6	Jennifer Harris	No	Yes	local	local

For The Red Hat , we have:

#	Full Name	Conference	OpenDay	Comment
1	Cheryn Tan	no	yes
2	Stephen Gordon	yes	yes
3	Lana Brindley	yes	yes
4	David Jorm	yes	yes
5	Fabio Dias da Cunha	no	yes
6	Alison Young	yes	yes
7	Tomas Dabasinskas	no	yes
8	Andrew Milestone	no	yes
9	Misha Husnain Ali	no	yes

Volunteer Schedule (feel free to swap amongst yourselves)

Time	Volunteer	Volunteer
0900	sgordon	cheryn
1000	sgordon	fdacunha
1100	Lana	Alison
1200	Alison	Izhar
1300	Luke	Andrew
1400	Tomas	Azneita
1500	djorm	jharris
1600	Misha	cheryn

Travel & Accommodation

• Luke is travelling from Adelaide to Brisbane with the following cost estimates: $130 adelaide to brisbane (apprx.) $120 brisbane to adelaide (apprx.) $150 two nights accommodation. A total of $400 for the event.

• Herson (pending approval) will be travelling from Manila to Brisbane with plane cost of $1025 (18Nov) and visa cost of $105. An LCA ticket costs an additional $375 bringing the total to $1505. Will probably need help with accomodation once approved but I've not planned that far ahead yet.

• Izhar (pending approval) will be travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Gold Coast with plane cost of AUD609(20Nov), and approximately AUD100 for Gold Coast to Brisbane on train. LCA ticket costs AUD375 which means a total of AUD1084. Probably need help with accommodation too, and fine with any place which comfortable enough to sleep in a sleeping bag.

• Kaio (pending approval) is located in Brisbane who only need AUD$375 for LCA ticket.

OpenDay

The Open Day details are as follows:

Date: Saturday, 29 January 2011

Time: 9am - 5pm (10am-4pm for attendees not stall holders)

Venue: The Edge, State Library of Queensland

• At the Fedora stall these are some of the planned activities:

- One Laptop Per Child display: history, development, impact, etc

- Live USB Creator: getting people to bring their USBs and installing Fedora 14 onto them

- Fielding general questions about Fedora and Red Hat (possibly a small notice announcing that we're hiring)

- Raffle draw/ quiz

- Handing out Fedora 14 CDs, RHEL and Fedora brochures

• Interactive space (separate from the stall):

- OLPC: letting people have a go on an XO running Sugar

- Cheese: let people take pictures of themselves and add effects, email to themselves

• Decoration for the stall:

- Fedora pull-up banner

- 'Red Hat is hiring' banner

- Red Hat and Fedora table cloths

- Your beautiful selves

At this stage we haven't finalised all the details, and we're still welcoming suggestions for further activities. Please email suggestions to: asmartgoat@fedoraproject.org

Tasks

Pre-conference tasks

Confirmed

• Stall booking confirmed

• List of volunteers

• OLPCs procured (1 from Brisbane, 3 being shipped)

• Red Hat swag procured (various Brochures on RHEL 6, Red Hat caps, mints, travel adaptors, pens, keyrings)

In progress

• Finalise activity list

- USB creation station: At this point in time, USB sticks will not be included in LCA's swagbag. Red Hat has provided a handful of USB sticks.

Idea #1: Put a 'multi-spin' version of Fedora onto these sticks, give them out. More info: link here

Idea #2: Spread the word for people to bring their USB sticks to Open Day. Spam avenues: during the conference, blogs, mailing lists, LCA event page, etc

- Raffle draw: Suggestions for activities? Prizes?

- Cheese: Provide a laptop for the interactive area, equipped with webcam and Cheese. And wireless capability, ideally.

- Talks during Open Day: please contact clinton.roy@gmail.com if you have a presentation which may inspire young people to get into open source.

• Additional swag

- Fedora 14 media: 1500 being shipped into Brisbane office from Harish Pillay

- Red Hat and Fedora table cloths: designs have been sent to printer

- Fedora flyers: LCA committee unable to print, facilities damaged. Will seek permission from Red Hat

• Informal training session/ FAQ sheet for volunteers: Cheryn to arrange

FAD

There is interest among attendees in actually pursuing a FAD after the event. Check FAD @ Brisbane 2011 for details.