FAD Pune 2011 Sep 24

Fedora Activity Day I, Pune, September 24, 2011

The goal of this FAD is to get any beginner involved in Fedora ahead of FUDCon Pune to enable them to get a head start and be more productive during and after FUDCon. We will cover the basics of getting started via a series of talks and workshops. The material presented should be accessible to everyone even completely new to free and open source software.

Event Owners

• Rahul Sundaram
• Shakthi Kannan

When and Where

Venue: Red Hat, Pune

Red Hat Software Services Pvt Ltd Tower X, Level-1, Cybercity, Magarpatta City, Hadapsar, Pune-411 013

Date : Saturday, September 24th 2011.

Time : 1000 IST onwards.

Attendees

• Rahul Sundaram
• Shakthi Kannan
• Siddhesh
• Kushal
• Gowrishankar Rajaiyan
• Kaushik Banerjee
• Kashyap Chamarthy
• Raghu Udiyar
• Muneeb Shaikh
• Akshay Mankar

Agenda

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Owner	Topic	Time	Comments
Rahul Sundaram	Fedora - How to contribute	45 minutes + 15 minutes questions time	Understanding Fedora, Where to start and Tools of the trade
Shakthi Kannan	Packaging and reviews	1 hour	Introduction to Fedora packaging (hands-on)
Shakthi Kannan	di-git-ally-managing-love-letters	1 hour	Introduction to Git (hands-on)
Shakthi Kannan	Communication Guidelines	30 minutes	Talk on how to use IRC, wiki, mailing lists etc.
Prasad Pandit	Introduction to Python	1 hour	Introduction to programming with Python.
Shreyank Gupta	Introduction to Django	1 hour	Talk on how to get started with web development using Django.
Siddhesh	Introduction to Autotools	1 hour	A hands-on session on autotoolizing C projects
Kashyap Chamarthy	Introduction to Fedora Virtualization	30 min	A quick demo of virtualization in Fedora.

Reports

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