Archive:FUDCon:India 2011

FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developer's Conference, an opportunity for all who contribute to or use Fedora to meet, learn, plan, and hack. This event is free and is open to everyone. To learn about what a FUDCon is like, you can view a video from the North American FUDCon 2009. Please read https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_organization_process and understand it thoroughly if you are a event organizing volunteer. If you are responsible for finding a good place, refer to the requirements listed in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/Organization

Event Owner

• Rahul Sundaram

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Event Details

* Venue: COEP (College of Engineering, Pune).  
* Date:  4th, 5th and 6th of November 2011.  Friday and Saturday are talks and Sunday is the hackfest
* Time:  9 AM

Bidding info

Pune is the second largest city in the Indian state of Maharashtra and is located about 75 miles from Mumbai.

Pune has an airport; however international travellers, especially from US and Europe, might consider flying in to Mumbai and getting a flight/taxi from Mumbai to Pune for a more economical plan. Flight takes about an hour and taxi takes about 3 to 4 hours. Getting a taxi is naturally cheaper and we can arrange taxi locally. The cost for a taxi should be less than $100. Sharing a taxi will be preferred for people coming in around similar times, bringing down that cost.

Approximate Round Trip Air Fares from Some Major Cities

#	City	Cost in USD (To Pune)	Cost in USD (To Mumbai)
1	New York	1327	1145
2	Boston	1428	1200
3	Washington	1428	1360
4	Los Angeles	1530	1407
5	Frankfurt	1018	650
6	Munich	1159	634
7	Berlin	1222	677
8	Amsterdam	1214	607
9	Brusells	1231	607
10	Vienna	1194	698
11	Paris	967	622
12	Madrid	1172	605
13	Moscow	3927	604
14	London	1039	612
15	Tokyo	1354	1008
16	Beijing	1031	827
17	Hong Kong	1037	727
18	Singapore	649	497
19	Sydney	1802	1473
20	Brisbane	1616	1489
21	Colombo	362	182
22	Malaysia
23	Dhaka	505	311
24	Islamabad	983

Round Trip Fares from Cities within India

#	City	Cost in INR
1	New Delhi	5522
2	Mumbai	4675
3	Bangalore	4422
4	Hyderabad	4765
5	Chennai	5070
6	Calcutta	7570

Tourism

[The official Indian Tourism website]

[The website for Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation]

Why Pune?

Red Hat has a large office in Pune with many members from Engineering, L10N, I18N and support services who are Fedora community members and active in various roles. Would help the budget quite a bit since we don't have to fly about 40 Red Hat members from various teams who have proposed talks and hackfests to another city and also on logistics to have FUDCon be hosted in Pune. We have run a FAD in May 2010 and sponsored Fedora community volunteers in India to participate so they are already familiar with the place.

Con:

Bangalore is a more well known IT hub and is more accessible for international contributors flying in. To come to Pune, some of them will have to fly to Mumbai and travel to Pune by taxi which takes about 3 to 4 hours in addition to the flight time. Pune has a airport and catching a flight from Mumbai to Pune is possible if one wishes to save time. It is more expensive than catching a taxi so there is a trade off.

Detailed budget estimates: Current total estimate: USD 15707

• • Calculations: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?pli=1&hl=en_GB&hl=en_GB&key=tBowy3DLK2oxq-knHeF-zuQ&authkey=CO7TqeMP#gid=0

Proposed sponsorship criteria

• FUDCon team will sponsor local travel, food and accommodation for everyone who is a speaker or hackfest participant
• Red Hat speakers travelling internationally, talk to your manager for covering the flight expenses. FUDCon team can cover other expenses if needed.
• Community volunteers (international participants), we have limited budget for covering flight cost. FUDCon team will be choosy about this. FUDCon team will cover other expenses.
• Community volunteers (within India). FUDCon team will cover flight costs for you if you are a speaker or hackfest participant

Distance from Venue to hotel: We have dozens of hotels in the vicinity between 3 to 7 miles. We have a choice of several hotels (including Restaurants) which have internet access. Indian, Chinese, Italian and other cuisines are available. Fast food joints like McDonalds and KFC and places for coffee like Coffee day and Barista are available nearby.

Some hotel info:

http://www.cleartrip.com/hotels/results?city=Pune&state=Maharashtra&country=IN&ckIn=3/11/2011&ckOut=5/11/2011&noOfRooms=1&ad=2&cd=0&nri=false

Why COEP?

Map of venue

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=coep+pune&hl=en&cid=2150857724025808625

• Has a history of hosting and supporting Free and open source activities within the college and hosting conferences like DebConf
• Enthusiastic professors and college administration support
• COEP won't charge anything to host us and provides wireless access as well for free
• Has a budding Free software users group within the college run by the student body
• Spacious auditorium that can host 1000 people and smaller rooms that can host between 150 to 50 people
• Guest house can host six people (we intend to host the organizing team volunteers here)
• Bandwidth and wireless access provided by college
• Since COEP will cancel regular classes, we will have large number of students participating
• Potential to be the biggest FUDCon in the world in terms of number of talks and people attending!

Local mass transit: Public transportation system is weak but we will arrange vans and taxis.

Experience of the team: All of the members of the organizing team are long standing Fedora community members and have participated and organized Fedora talks in several FOSS events, FAD's and Fedora release events. Rahul Sundaram (event owner) has a attended and participated in FUDCon Delhi in 2006 and FUDCon Boston on a couple of occasions and is a member of the Fedora community for the last seven years after joining the project, a couple of months after it was originally announced.

FUDCon Planning meetings

June 4th 2011: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-June/002399.html

Budget Details

FUDCon APAC has been provided a tentative budget of 15000 US Dollars as per

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-May/002350.html

Rahul Sundaram will talk to teams within Red Hat and others on complimenting the budget but for the bidding process, our planning must be limited within this amount. Note that if a Red Hat person comes from some other country, his or her manager will generally fund that travel and that's what we will encourage. Max Spevack has additional discretionary budget in special cases. Community volunteers need funds to be taken out of the FUDCon allotted budget typically.

We are also tracking this at https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/48. This ticket is private to event organizers.

Pre-registration

free and open
Add your name to the list if you will attend. FUDCon is free and open for everyone to attend.

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Sessions

Barcamp format
We are following barcamp format for the talks. If you want more details, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_barcamp

Lightning talks signup

#	Name	$$$	Veg	T-shirt size	Roomshare?	Country	Hotel booked	Comments
1	Shakthi Kannan	-		L		India	N
2	Rahul Sundaram	-		L		India	N
3	Ankur Sinha	-		M		India	N
4	Hiemanshu Sharma	-		XL		India	N
5	JoergSimon	X		XXL		Germany	N
6	Aditya Patawari	-		M		India	N
7	Harsh Verma	-		L		India	N
8	Lakshmi Narasimhan T V	-	Y	XL		India	N
9	Chetan Patil	-		L		India	N/A
10	Ranjan Joishi	-		L		India	N/A
11	Buland Kumar Singh	-		M		India	N
12	Ashish Jaiswal	-		L		India	N/A
13	Amit Upadhye	-	Veg	L		India	N/A
14	Pratik Bandarkar	-		M		India	N/A
15	Ashwinikumar Ladke	-		XL		India	N/A
16	Rahul Walunj	-		L		India	N/A
17	Deepanshu Bhalerao	-		M		India	N/A
18	Pushpendra Chavan	-		M		India	N/A
19	Kashyap Chamarthy	-		XL		India	N
20	Saleem Ansari	-		L		India	N
21	Kushal Das	-		XL		India	N
22	Imran Ahmed	-		M		India	N
23	Arun S A G	-		M		India	N
24	Praveen Kumar	-		S		India	N
25	Naveen Kumar	-		XXL		India	N
26	Huzaifa Sidhpurwala	-		M		India	N/A
27	Prasad J Pandit	-	Y	M		India	N/A
28	Pravin Satpute	-		L		India	N
29	Ramakrishna Reddy Y	-		M		India	N
30	Rakesh Pandit	-		XL		India	N/A
31	Gowrishankar Rajaiyan	-		XXXL		India	N/A
32	Siddhesh Poyarekar	-		XL		India	N/A
33	Kaushik Banerjee	-		XL		India	N/A
34	Amit Shah	-	Veg	L		India	NA
35	M.R.Niranjan	-	Veg	S		India	NA
36	Yogesh Chavan	-		M		India	NA
37	Nikhil AR	-		XL		India	NA
38	Prashant Ingale	-		M		India	NA
39	Siddharth A. Waikar	-		M		India	NA
40	Siddharth Mankad	-		L		India	NA
41	M.K.Pai	-		XXL		India	N/A
42	Shreyank Gupta	-		M		India	N
43	Minto Joseph	-		M		India	N
44	Nilesh Patil	-		M		India	N
45	Tirtha Chatterjee	-		S		India	N
46	Charles Rose	-		M		India	N
47	ashwin moily	-		XL		India	NA
48	Soumya Kanti Chakraborty	-		M		India	NA
49	Balaji Damodaran	-		XL		India	N
50	Pranay Agarwal	-		M		India	N
51	Samikshan Bairagya	-		M		India	N
52	Gireesh Sreekantan	-		M		India	N
53	Buddhika Kurera	-		L		India	N
54	Anuj More	-		M		India	N
55	Satyaakam Goswami	-		XXL	Y	India	N
56	Satya Komaragiri	-	Veg	S	N	India	N
57	Biraj Karmakar	-		XL		India	N
58	Suchakra	-		L		India	N
59	pnemade	-		XL		India	N
60	Eugene Teo	X	N	XXL	N	Singapore	Not yet	Not sure, hopefully
61	Ratnadeep Debnath	-	Veg	XL		India	N
62	Jay Patel	-	Veg.	M	-	India	-	-
63	Yusuf wagh	-	N	L	-	India	-	-
64	Oindrila Gupta	-	N	M		India	N
65	Parshwa Nemi	-	Veg.	XL		India	-
66	Kartik Kohli	-	Veg.	L		India	-
67	Sayan Chowdhury	-		L		India	N
68	Chandan Kumar	-		L		India	N
69	Neependra Khare	-		L		India	NA
70	Susmit Shannigrahi	-		M	Y	India	NA
71	Danishka Navin	-		L		Srilanka	Not yet
72	Mahay Alam Khan	-		L		Bangladesh	N
73	Koustava Goswami	-		L		India	NA
74	Didar Hossain	-		M		India	NA
75	AbdulKarim Memon	-		XL		India	NA
76	Mohd Muneeb Shaikh	-		XL		India	NA
77	Bijay Dhitakl	-		M	Y	India	NA
78	Vivek Kumar Gupta	-		S		India	N
79	Tej Narayan Kunwar	-	Y	M		India	NA
80	Nihar Godbole	-		XL		India	NA
81	Sudhir Dharanendraiah	-		M		India	NA
82	Tejas Bubane	-		M		India	NA
83	Sachitanand Pandey	-	Y	M		India	NA
84	Saurabh Mukharjee (Rob)	-		XXL		India	NA
85	Steve Fernandez	-		XL		India	NA
86	Shubhmay Potdar	-		XL		India	NA
87	Nikhil Gupta	-	Veg	L		India	NA
88	Anand Nande	-	Veg	L		India	NA
89	Amit Jadhav	-	Veg	M		India	NA
90	Arpit Tolani	-	Non-Veg	L		India	NA
91	Sagar Gulati	-	Veg	XL		India	NA
92	Sunny Nihalani	-	Veg	L		India	NA

Talk description	Speaker
Introducing to SCM systems	Ramakrishna Reddy Y

BarCamp Sessions Needing Owners

Session Name	Description
Btrfs	Introduction to Btrfs, the next generation filesystem

Talks

#	Session Name	Description	Owner	Audience Level
1	What it takes to make a perfect website	-websites stuff to find more contributors	Hiemanshu Sharma	IDK
2	Fedora Security Lab and the OSSTMM	This talk introduces how Information Security work can be done with the Fedora Security Lab and how you can contribute to it. It demonstrates the development state of the Fedora Security Lab and how the Fedora Security Lab implements and aids the OSSTMM.	JoergSimon	this is for anyone who want to learn about FSL, or can/want to help me to improve it
3	Fedora Ambassadors a global/regional challenge	Different cultures, different groups - one conduct and so many challenges. This is about how the Ambassadors group evolved over the years, what work was necessary to maintain the group in an healthy state and how we work torwards to face new challenges - and of course it will be a ground for discussions around this topic.	JoergSimon	Intermediate
4	Introduction to RPM packaging in Fedora	Tools, process and a basic walk through of a hello world package	RahulSundaram	Beginner
5	Writing desktop applications using Vala	Will go though various benefits of using Vala to develop applications and some demo apps	KushalDas	Beginner
6	Qt Application Development on Embedded Devices	Will cover building embedded devices based on Qt framework from ground up. Then move on to developing custom applications, cross-compiling and porting to the device. Examples and demo devices are ready. Must for embedded enthusiasts.	Suchakra	Beginner/Intermediate
7	Creating web apps using Django and packaging its add-ons	This talk will introduce Django and enlighten the users on how to package/test its addons for Fedora project	Arun S A G	Beginner/Intermediate
8	From RDBMS to BigData	Structure your data to make your services more scalable	Saleem Ansari	Beginner/Intermediate
9	Fedora on Rails	Ruby on Rails for the Fedora User	Shreyank Gupta	Beginner/Intermediate
10	gEDA: A Love Story	Learning electrical circuit theory with gEDA using Fedora Electronic Lab	Shakthi Kannan	Beginner/Intermediate
11	Recreational Mathematics using Open Source tools	A small tutorial on how to use GNU/Linux for Mathematical recreations and fun	Naveen Kumar	Beginner/Intermediate
12	Security : (More details later)	A talk on Software Security	Huzaifa Sidhpurwala and Eugene Teo	Beginner/Intermediate
13	Introduction to n-djbdns	Introduction to n-djbdns & it's deployment.	Prasad J Pandit	Beginner/Intermediate
14	Indic Typing Booster	Next Generation input method for Indian Languages.	Pravin Satpute	Beginner/Intermediate
15	Fedora Virtualization for power admins	configure/manage/tune guests via shell using libvirt and friends. And brief intro to svirt(secure virt.). More details later.	Kashyap Chamarthy	Beginner/Intermediate
16	Writing better python	Talk about using Python in pythonic way	Rakesh Pandit	Beginner/Intermediate Python programmers
17	How to be a Fedora contributor ?	Introduction for beginners about how one can contribute in Fedora project	Rakesh Pandit	Beginner
18	Fedora India Community	Past, present and future of Fedora India community	RahulSundaram	Beginner
19	Python For Django	Take advantage of features of Python to write better Django Apps	Ramakrishna Reddy Yekulla	Advanced, Must Be a *Lazy* Python Programmer, Meta Classes, Duck Typing, Decorators
20	Debugging code you have never seen before	A brief look at approaches one could take to analyse code that you have never seen before in your life and how they could be used in bugzapping	Siddhesh Poyarekar	Beginner
21	The introduction to "How to write shared libraries"	A talk attempting to simplify and present Ulrich Drepper's paper How to write shared libraries	Siddhesh Poyarekar	Beginner/Intermediate
22	Python's Data Structure	Categorising the Data Structure Use Cases	Ramakrishna Reddy Yekulla	Beginner
23	Introduction to System Security Services Daemon	Brief introduction of how one can manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms via SSSD	Kaushik Banerjee	Beginner/Intermediate/Admin
24	The latest in Linux Virtualization	I'll cover the Fedora virt stack: KVM, Linux, libvirt, SPICE, etc.	Amit Shah	Beginner
25	Working with GNOME community	About gnome-love, working with upstream/desktop., code contribution	Ritesh Khadgaray	Intermediate
26	ABRT	Automatic Bug Reporting Tool - how it works	Yogesh Chavan	Basic
27	The Cleaner Web	Haml, Sass and CoffeeScript	Shreyank Gupta	Web Developers
28	How not to reinvent the wheel	Programming using KDE libraries	Tirtha Chatterjee	Some knowledge of Qt
29	From rags to riches using Qt and Fedora	Build a simple file monitoring program using Qt and package it	Tirtha Chatterjee	Beginner
30	Tracing on Linux	Insight of tracing and profiling on Linux systems (Kernel & User space)	Soumya Kanti Chakraborty	Beginner
31	Fedora Medical	Introducing people to Fedora Medical, getting more folks involved	Ankur Sinha	Novice
32	Getting started with Haskell on Fedora	A brief introduction about Haskell and func. programming. An overview of Haskell packages and tools available for development. Getting started with packaging Haskell libraries for Fedora	Lakshmi Narasimhan T V	Beginner - some knowledge about rpm packaging will help
33	Security (TBC)	A talk on software security, maybe combine with huzaifas? or about kernel?	Eugene Teo	Beginner/Intermediate
34	An introduction to testing your Django app	Will go through the basics of testing Django apps and code coverage	Ratnadeep Debnath	Beginner and Intermediate
35	Debugging Kernel OOPs	How to debug when kernel panics?	Neependra Khare	Beginner and Intermediate
36	FUEL Project : Content Collaboration Consistency	A description of project and its efforts of creating linguistic resources for standardization and consistency through community collaboration	Rajesh Ranjan	l10n, i18n and Language Computing People

Hackfests/Demos

Hackfest info
Refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_hackfest on what is expected from a hackfest

#	Session Name	Description	Owner	Pre-requisites
1	FEL tickets	Working on Fedora Electronic Lab packaging	Shakthi Kannan	Packaging RPM
2	FSL tickets	Working on Fedora Security Lab packaging	JoergSimon & RobertScheck	Packaging RPM
3	FreeIPA integrated security management system on Fedora	A working demo of a FreeIPA instance which involves several technologies like an ldap server(389-ds), kerberos, CA(dogtag), DNS, and client side technolgoies like SSSD, Certmonger.	Gowrishankar Rajaiyan & Kashyap Chamarthy	Intermediate Linux admin skills
4	Autotools	A walkthrough explaining how one could autotoolize a project	Siddhesh Poyarekar	Beginner/Intermediate programming
5	HTSQL	URI-based high-level query language for relational databases	Ramakrishna Reddy Yekulla	Intermediate RDBMS Understanding
6	vsevm	Very simple enterprise virtualisation management	M.K.Pai	Basic/Intermediate Understanding of Virtualization
7		Using an RDBMS as a task queue	M.K.Pai	Basic understanding of workflows
8	QPID	A demo on using qpid to quickly hack up distributed applications	Siddhesh Poyarekar	Beginner/Intermediate programming
9	System automation using Puppet	A walk through on how to create a puppet server and using it to maintain large infrastructures	Aditya Patawari	Beginner/Intermediate Newbie/Aspiring System Admins
10	KDE-fy	Create KDE frontend to some Fedora utility that does not have one yet	Owner needed	Intermediate
11	LaTeX	A quick start up on using LaTeX to create documents and presentations.	Ankur Sinha	Beginner
12	Shell scripting	A quick introduction to basic shell commands, and how to use these in shell scripts	Ankur Sinha	Beginner
13	Packaging	Creating and reviewing your own RPM package	Parag Nemade	Packaging RPM
14	Beacon	[CODE SPRINT] A WYSIWYG DocBook Editor for Fedora Documentation	Satya Komaragiri	Beginner/Intermediate Programmers/Web Developers/UI Designers

Organizers

#	Responsibility	Name
1	-	Aditya Patawari
2	Volunteer Team/Photography	Suchakra
3	Budget	Amit Shah
4	-	Harsh Verma
5	Goodies/Photography	Kushal Das
6	Hospitality	Satya Komaragiri
7	Catering	Prasad J. Pandit
8	Logistics	Narayan Murty Gundala
9	Registration (venue welcome team)
10	Speakers lounge
11	FUDPub
12	-	Hiemanshu Sharma