Archive:FUDCon:Blacksburg 2012

Blacksburg, Virginia :: January 13 - 15, 2012 — General event owners: Ben Williams, Robyn Bergeron, Jared Smith

Event Details

The 2012 North America FUDCon will be held in Blacksburg, Virginia, on the campus of Virginia Tech, January 13 - 15, 2012.

FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference, a major free software event held in various regions around the world, usually annually per region. FUDCon is a combination of sessions, talks, workshops, and hackfests in which contributors work on specific initiatives. Topics include infrastructure, feature development, community building, general management and governance, marketing, testing and QA, packaging, etc.

FUDCon is always free to attend for anyone in the world.

Location

Blacksburg, Virginia, on the campus of Virginia Tech.

Hackfests: Friday, Sunday (2nd Floor McBryde Hall) (tentative) (Room Survey)

BarCamp: Saturday (100 and 2nd Floor McBryde Hall) (Tentative) (Room Survey)

FUDPub: Breakzone, Squires Student Center (Tentative) (Reservation Form)

catering corkage fees and license fees

Dates

January 13-15, 2012

Pre-registration

Instructions

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, and visit the FUDCon ticket tracker to make a funding request. We have a limited budget and will work hard to fund as many people as possible. We'll use these answers to help figure out budgeting for the event. We are making arrangements for attendees from other geographic regions to encourage specific initiatives such as future FUDCon events, but preference may otherwise be given to people in North America.
• Put a V in the Veg column if you would like vegetarian fare for any meals that we provide during the event. If you prefer vegan fare, please mark that column VV. We will do our best to make sure everyone is accommodated!
• Put your T-shirt size in the Size column, so we can have an idea about what sizes to have available. Only Unisex (Mens Sizes will be ordered)
• Roomsharing:
  1. If you want or need to share a room, mark yes in the "Roomshare?" column.
  2. Once you have a roommate, both of you should mark your roommate's name in the block as well.
  3. If you need a roommate, look for someone with just a yes in the column, and contact them via email. If you encounter any problems, let the organizers know.

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

Fedora means freedom — registration is free and open to everyone.
You can pre-register anonymously, but now is a great time to create a Fedora account if you don't have one! For those new to Fedora, you can register in the Fedora Account System and follow the instructions there to complete the FPCA. This process usually takes less than 5 minutes. The information you enter below is viewable by anyone, and is considered Publicly Available Personal Information.

#	Name	$$$	Veg	Size	Roomshare?	Hotel booked	Comments (extra line for badge)
001	Kenny Armstrong			XL
002	Ricky Elrod	yes (scholarship)	no	2X		Not yet	CodeBlock. Breaking things since 1992.
003	ian weller	yes (scholarship)	no	L	yes	no	Not responsible for accidents
004	Kevin Fenzi	no	no	XXL	yes (nb)	yes	Man of many hats
005	Adam M Dutko	yes	no	XL	Toshio Kuratomi	no	chomp();
006	Chris Tyler			XL	yes	no	ctyler
007	John Dulaney	Yes	Steak	XXXL	Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues	no	.moarbacon j_dulaney
008	Nick Bebout	yes	no	XXL	yes (nirik)	yes	nb
009	Scott Glaser	no	no	XXXL	Andrea Glaser	no	Sonar_Guy, Fedora Unity Founder
010	Andrea Glaser	no	no	XL	Scott Glaser	no	Sonar_Gal, Fedora Unity Founder
011	Maurice James	no	no	XL	no	no	Moe__
012	Ben Williams	yes	no	XXL	Cathy Williams Jamie Williams	yes	Host VileGent Fedora Unity Founder
013	Cathy Williams	yes	no	XXL	Ben Williams Jamie Williams	yes	Battleaxe
014	Jamie Williams	yes	no	XXL	Cathy Williams Ben Williams	yes	SGS
015	Eric Christensen	yes	no	L	Clint Savage	yes	Sparks
016	Jeroen van Meeuwen	yes	Hell No	XL	Xavier Lamien	No	Dutch
017	David Cantrell	no	no	XL	clumens	yes	dcantrell
018	Chris Lumens	no	no	L	dcantrell	yes	clumens
019	Clint Savage	yes	no	XXL	Eric Christensen	yes	herlo
020	John McDonough	yes	you're kidding, right?	XXL	Would consider a fellow bad person	no	jjmcd
021	Matt Domsch	no	no	XL	no	no	mdomsch
022	Toshio Kuratomi	yes	no	M	Adam M Dutko	no	Anonymous Badger (abadger1999)
023	Clyde Kunkel	no	no	XXL	no	no
024	Abdel Martinez	yes	no	S	yes	no	potty
025	Josh Boyer	no	no	L	davej	yes	jwb
026	Peter Jones	no	no	L	jforbes	no	pjones
027	Justin Forbes	no	no	XXL	pjones	no	jforbes
028	Brian Lane	no	no	XL		no	bcl
029	Oliver Rivas	yes	no	XL		no	orvtech
030	Brian Pepple	yes	no	L	yes	no	bpepple
031	Rahul Sundaram	yes	no	L	yes	no	mether
032	David Lehman	no	no	L		no	dlehman
033	Dave Johnson	no	no	L	yes	no	PauseBazinga
034	Frank Ch. Eigler	no	no	L	no	no
035	Dave Brolley	no	no	XL	no	no
036	Chris Meek	no	no	M	no	no
037	David Smith	no	no	L	no	no
038	Josh Stone	no	no	L	no	no
039	Stan Cox	no	no	L	no	no
040	Will Cohen	no	no	L	no	no
041	Mark J. Wielaard	no	no	XL	no	no
042	Simon Sekidde	no	no	XL	no	no	ssekidde
043	Tom Callaway	no	V	XXL	yes	no	spot
044	Major Hayden	no	no	L	no	no	rackerhacker
045	Máirín Duffy	no	Vegan	No thanks	Emily Dirsh	Yes	mizmo
046	Dennis Gilmore	no	no	XL	yes	no	dgilmore
047	Jared Smith	no	no	L	yes	no	jsmith
048	Paul Frields	no	no	XXL	yes	no	stickster
049	Zach Oglesby	no	no	L	no	no	zoglesby
050	Ruth Suehle	no	bacontarian	S	no	no
051	Scott Suehle	no	Carnivore	XL	no	no	Kilted1
052	Constantin DRABO	X	no	XL	yes	no	Burkina Faso FA
053	Justin O'Brien	yes	no	XL	yes	no	@threethirty
054	James Gross	no	no	Med	no	no
055	Andy Grimm	no	no	M	gholms	no	mull (Eucalyptus)
056	Diego Búrigo Zacarão	yes	no	L	yes	no	diegobz
057	Nick Lambert	no	no	M	no: J Huestis	no	S@Y
058	Jordan Huestis	no	no	L	no: N Lambert	no	S@Y
059	Luis Bazan	yes	no	M	yes	no	LoKoMurdoK
060	Peter Larsen	No	no	XXL	No	Yes	plarsen
061	Valdis Kletnieks	No	No	XXL	No	No
062	Ben Guzzardi	No	No	XL	No	No	failedassertion
063	Evgeny Fadeev	yes	no	L	yes	no	Askbot, Chile
064	Randy Cone	no	no	L	no	no	rC
065	Bill Nottingham	no	no	XL	no	yes
066	Russell Bryant	no	no	L	no	no
067	Mark Terranova	x	maybe	M	no	Yes	ALL Hail the Beefy Miracle!
068	Mathias HOUNGBO	x	no	XL	yes	no	Hi, i'm Mathias
069	Seth Vidal	no	V	XL	no	no	Please be nice to me.
070	Robert 'Bob' Jensen	X	no	XL	073	no	B2
071	Robert 'Bobby' Jensen	X	no	youth(s)	072	no	B3
072	Perry Myers	no	no	XL	no	no
073	Jesus Rodriguez	no	no	XXL	no	no
074	Kevin Mulvey	no	no	L	no	no
075	Neville A. Cross	yes	no	L	yes	no	yn1v
076	Dan Walsh	no	no	XL	no	yes
077	Fabio Araujo	X	Carnivore	L	yes	no	Hello :)
078	Thom Carlin	no	no	XL	no	no	Fedora Engineering Services
079	Klaatu	no	yes	S	no	no
080	Emily Dirsh	X	no	M	Máirín Duffy	no	Emichan
081	Dave Jones	no	no	M	Josh Boyer	no	☠
082	Stephen Smoogen	no	no	XL	no	yes	bringing his dad.
083	Thomas Smoogen	no	no	XL	no	yes	bringing his son.
084	John Rose	X	no	L	no	yes	inode0
085	Elad Alfassa	X	no	M	yes	no	elad661
086	Mike Barker	no	no	L	no	no
087	Ben Boeckel	no	V	L	yes	no	mathstuf
088	Mike McLean	no	no	L	no	yes	mikem
089	Peter Borsa	X	no	XL	Pascal Calarco	no	asrob
090	Keiran Smith	X	no	M	yes	no	It's a Beefy Miracle
091	Mark Walker	no	no	XL	no	no need	marwalk
092	Peter Robinson	X	no	L			pbrobinson
093	Pascal Calarco	yes	yes	XXL	Peter Borsa	not yet	pcalarco
094	Robyn Bergeron	no	I <3 beef	M	Amber Graner	not yet	Still thinking of a snarky badge comment
095	John Mark Walker	no	no	XL	no	no	ask me about beer or GlusterFS
096	Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues	no	no	S	John Dulaney	no	Autotest guy (lmr)
097	Calvin Locklear	no	no	M	no	no	calbadude
098	Matthew Galgoci	no	no	L	no	yes	mgalgoci
099	Amanda Barzdins	no	no	M	no	yes	abarzdins
100	Sandro Mathys	no	no	S	yes	no	red_alert
101	Christoph Wickert	yes	yes	M	sure	not yet	cwickert
102	Mo Morsi	no	no	M	sure	not yet	mmorsi / Aeolus Representative
103	Natalie Raven	no	no	S	no	not needed	natalie_
104	Mike McGrath	no	no	L	no	Not Yet
105	Chris Whitehorn	X	no	M	Mark Terranova	Yes
106	Xavier Lamien	X	no	S	Jeroen van Meeuwen	no	SmootherFrOgZ
107	Jonathan Steffan		no	L	no	not yet	daMaestro
108	Maria "tatica" Leandro	X	no	S	yes	not yet	Geek - Photographer - Gamer - Venezuelan - Girl
109	Trever "tdbro" Fischer	X	no	L	yes	not yet	tdfischer, esq., phonominal
110	Adam Miller	no	no	XL	no	not yet	maxamillion
111	Jamie Duncan	no	no	XXL	meh.	not yet	RVaLUG!
112	Dennis Johnson	no	no	L	no	yes	old man
113	Donald Buchan	no	Beefy-Miracle-tarian	XL	no	no	Wearing Phase I. Got Phase II = <a href="www.fedorafriendfinder.com">FFF</a>. Where's my profit?
115	Will Woods	no	VEGAN POLICE	S	no	no	FLOAT WITH ME INTO THE WONDROUS MUSTARDY BEYOND
116	Tim Flink	no	V	XL	yes - adamw	yes	tflink
117	Phil Knirsch	no	MOOOO	L	yes - karsten (kick)	no	S390x and PPC Secondary arch r0x!
118	Jon Stanley	no	Beefy Miracle, please	XXL	not opposed	not yet	jds2001
119	Jay Dobies	No	No	L	No	No	jdob
120	Robert Foreman	No	No	XL	No	Yes
121	M Abed	Yes	No	M	Yes	No	maxamaxim
122	John (J5) Palmieri	No	No	S	Elad?	No
123	Brad Buckingham	No	No	XL	No	No	bbuckingham
124	Justin Sherrill	No	No	M	No	No	jsherrill
125	Bob McWhirter	No	No	XXL Tall	No	No	JBoss, TorqueBox, BoxGrinder
126	Carlisle Childress	No	No	M	No	Yes
127	Marek Goldmann	No	No	M	No	No	JBoss / BoxGrinder
128	Karsten Hopp	No	No	L	yes - Phil Knirsch	No	Kick_, PPC and System z secondary arch maintainer
#	Name	$$$	Veg	Size	Roomshare?	Hotel booked	Comments (extra line for badge)

Lodging / Hotel

The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center.

901 Prices Fork Rd Blacksburg, VA 24061

Reservations: Click the Link or Call the Hotel Directly at 540 231-8000 or Toll Free 877-200-3360 and ask for the Fedora room block. Block will Expire December 28, 2011.

Cost: $90 per night plus tax (5%) -- Parking $3 per night

Travel and transportation

If you are trying to coordinate travel with other attendees, you may want to visit the travel planning page.

Getting to Blacksburg

Roanoke Regional Airport (Airport Code: ROA) is the major airport servicing the Roanoke Valley area, approximately 35 miles from the VT campus. The following airlines have flights going in / coming out of Roanoke Regional Airport:

• Allegiant Air
• Delta
• United Airlines
• US Airways

The closest general aviation airport is Virginia Tech/Montgomery Executive Airport.

The driving distance from Raleigh, NC is 200-233 miles (depending on route).

Directions from Airport to Hotel

Roanoke Regional Airport 5202 Aviation Drive Northwest, Roanoke, Virginia 24012

1. exit Parking lot
   Take the 1st right onto Aviation Dr NW
2. Take the VA-101 W/Hershberger Rd ramp to I-58
3. Merge onto VA-101 W/Hershberger Rd NW
4. Merge onto I-581 N/US-220 N via the ramp to Lexington/Bristol/I-81/Blacksburg
5. Take exit 1S on the left to merge onto I-81 S toward Salem/Bristol
6. Take exit 118B toward U.S 460 W/Blacksburg
7. Continue onto US-460 W
8. Exit onto VA-412 N/Prices Fork Rd/State Route 685 toward Downtown
9. Left at First Stop Light
10. Arrive

The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center 901 Prices Fork Road, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0100

Airport shuttle

Smartway Bus to/from airport: http://www.smartwaybus.com/schedule.htm

Consult the bus schedule before booking flights (there is no bus service on Sunday).

(OPTION: rent a Van from University for $40/day for shuttle service to/from Airport)

Map To Event, FUDPub Hotel

Map

• A = Inn At Virginia Tech
• C = Squires Student Center (FUDPub)
• D = Event Location (McBryde Hall)

Local Transportation

Local Mass Transit Blacksburg Transit http://www.blacksburg.gov/index.aspx?page=791

Parking

At the hotel

The hotel has a significant amount of parking and has told us they don't believe there will be a problem accommodating some out of town drivers there.

Virginia Tech

VT visitor parking information

Network Access

Virginia Tech is a major state university with over 30,000 students and staff, so bandwidth should not be an issue, but portable wifi devices may be handy. Bring them if you have them.

There is also wireless available at the hotel. Refer to the information provided by your hotel for details.

Most cell service providers have poor coverage inside the academic buildings. Verizon has the strongest cell coverage out of all the major providers.

Wireless Registration

Everyone needs to sign up for a guest wireless account (before arriving at the event, please).

1. Go to the guest wireless registration page
2. Enter Start Date: 1/13/2012, for example
3. Enter End Date: 1/15/2012, for example
4. Sponoring Department: Select Mathematics
5. Contact Person: Ben Williams
6. Purpose: FUDCon
7. Click the Create Request button
8. Enter email address and select New Guest
9. Fill out form including check the secret questions and password boxes and agree to the Acceptable Use Policy
10. Click Create Account

Packing List

Everybody:

• Appropriately warm clothing — it will probably snow in Virginia in January
• Laptop with 802.11b/g wireless
  • Extension cord
  • Ethernet cable (for hotel and/or hackfest)
  • Optional: Bring a Fedora Friend Finder (power strip)
• Credit card (VISA or MasterCard) or small amount of cash (List of ATMs on VT campus)
• Your presentation slides or anything needed for the hackfest

International visitors:

• Passport/visa and any other official documentation needed
• Converters for power (reference link)

If staying at the hotel:

• Optional: swimsuit, gym clothes.

Agenda

FUDCon is a community event in which the complete schedule is developed interactively starting with an opening orientation session. Attendance at orientation is recommended for those who are new to this format, or to FUDCon, Fedora, or free and open source software community events in general.

General Schedule

• Friday, January 13
  • Starting at 9:00am, McBryde Hall, 2nd Floor. Hackfests / Workshops.
• Saturday, January 14
  • 8:30am - 5:00pm. Meet up at McBryde Hall, Room 100 in the morning; 2nd floor of McBryde hall for the afternoon.
  • Morning: FPL State of Fedora, Barcamp pitches. Later in the morning, for duration of day: Barcamp sessions.
  • FUDPub: Squires Student Zone, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
• Sunday, January 15
  • 9:00am - 5:00pm, McBryde Hall, 2nd Floor. Hackfests/Workshops.

Friday, January 13

Time	Room 1 TBD	Room 2 TBD	Room 3 TBD	Room 4 TBD	Room 5 TBD
0900
1000
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1300
1400
1500
1600

Time	Room 6 TBD	Room 7 TBD	Room 8 TBD	Room 9 TBD	Room 10 TBD
0900
1000
1100
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Saturday, January 14

Sessions last 50 minutes, with 10-minute breaks between each session.

Time	What	Location
0830	Meet up	McBryde Hall 100
0845	Welcome and organization	McBryde Hall 100
0855	Group photo	McBryde Hall 100
0900	The Highly Esteemed Fedora Project Leader's World-Famous State of Fedora Address!	McBryde Hall 100
0930	BarCamp topics and voting	McBryde Hall 100
1030–1120	Workshops and BarCamp sessions (see below)	2nd floor, McBryde Hall
1130–1250	Lunch
1300–1650	Workshops and BarCamp sessions (see below)	2nd floor, McBryde Hall
1900–2200	FUDPub	BreakZone Squires Student Center

BarCamp sessions

Time	BarCamp 1 TBD	BarCamp 2 TBD	BarCamp 3 TBD	BarCamp 4 TBD	BarCamp 5 TBD	BarCamp 6 TBD
1030–1120
1300–1350
1400–1450
1500–1550
1600–1650

Workshops

Time	Workshop 1 TBD	Workshop 2 TBD	Workshop 3 TBD	Workshop 4 TBD
1030–1120	Intro to Fedora Docs
1300–1350	Intro to DocBook XML and Publican	System Administration Study Group	Open Source Tools in Design
1400–1450
1500–1550	Intro to Drupal Internals
1600–1650			GPG Key Signing Event

Sunday, January 15

Time	Location	Room 1 TBD	Room 2 TBD	Room 3 TBD	Room 4 TBD	Room 5 TBD	Room 6 TBD	Room 7 TBD	Room 8 TBD	Room 9 TBD	Room 10 TBD
0900	McBryde Hall 2nd Floor	Fedora Insight Calendar uses cases hackfest	F17 Docs Hackfest	Intro to Fedora QA Workshop
1000	McBryde Hall 2nd Floor	Fedora Insight Calendar uses cases hackfest	F17 Docs Hackfest	Anaconda QA Hackfest
1100	McBryde Hall 2nd Floor	Fedora Insight Calendar uses cases hackfest	F17 Docs Hackfest	Anaconda QA Hackfest
1200	McBryde Hall 2nd Floor	Fedora Insight Calendar uses cases hackfest		Anaconda QA Hackfest
1300	McBryde Hall 2nd Floor	Fedora Insight Calendar uses cases hackfest		Anaconda QA Hackfest
1400	McBryde Hall 2nd Floor	Fedora Insight Calendar uses cases hackfest
1500	McBryde Hall 2nd Floor	Fedora Insight Calendar uses cases hackfest
1600	McBryde Hall 2nd Floor	Fedora Insight Calendar uses cases hackfest

Hackfests & Workshops

Instructions: If you want to have a hackfest or a workshop, please list it below for possible early scheduling of room space.

Hackfests are collaborative sessions to work on a problem, issue or area of Fedora.

Workshops are a classroom style session session (with varying levels of interaction) teaching about software or processes.

Type	Name of Event	Day(s)	Lead	Time per session	# of Sessions
Workshop	Intro to Fedora Docs	Sat	Sparks	1 hr	1
Workshop	Intro to DocBook XML and Publican	Sat	Jared	2 hrs	1
Hackfest	F17 Docs Hackfest	Sat Sun	Sparks
Workshop	GPG Key Signing Event		Sparks	1.5 hr	1
Workshop	Intro to Drupal Internals	Sat	Paul Frields	2 hrs	1
Hackfest	Design team toolchain hackfest	Sat	Emily Dirsh		1
Hackfest	Insight calendar use cases hackfest	Sun	Pascal Calarco	3 hours	1
Workshop	Intro to Fedora QA: software testing, test plans and test cases	Sat, late PM	Sandro Mathys	1h	1
Hackfest	Anaconda QA hackfest: getting ready and starting QA on Anaconda 17	Sun	Sandro Mathys	4h	1
Hackfest	Fedora Infrastructure: Revamping our staging server setup, then implemeting it	Fri and Sun	Kevin Fenzi	2h	2
Hackfest	Fedora Infrastructure: 2 factor authentication brainstorming	Sat	Kevin Fenzi	2h	1
Workshop	Fedora Infrastructure: Getting started/apprentices/Getting involved	Sun	Kevin Fenzi	1h	1
Worksop	Using Fedora Infrastructure as a Classroom: Python Programming	Fri	Toshio Kuratomi	1h	1
Workshop	Using Fedora Infrastructure as a Classroom: Releasing Free Software	Fri	Toshio Kuratomi	1h or less	1
Hackfest	Using Fedora Infrastructure as a Classroom postmortem/brainstorm	Sun	Toshio Kuratomi	1-2h	1
workshop	Learning how to use Blender: Environment and Shapes - Textures and Lights - Rigging and Animation	6h	María "tatica" Leandro	2h	3
workshop	Web Style and CSS: How did we build Fudcon.fedoraproject.org and how to improove it	2h	María "tatica" Leandro	2h	1
Hackfest	Rethinking Fedora governance: The Fedora Council	don't care	Christoph Wickert	2h	1
Hackfest	Ambassadors: New FAmSCo election rules and standard operating procedures	don't care	Christoph Wickert	2h	1
Hackfest	Implementing the new spins process in Trac	Sun	Christoph Wickert	2h	1
Hackfest	Xfce 4.10 feature for F17 (only if Xfce 4.10 is in time for F17)	don't care	Christoph Wickert	2h	1
Hackfest	Improving Desktop and Spins QA	don't care	Christoph Wickert	2h	1
Hackfest	Xfce and LXDE on ARM	don't care	Christoph Wickert	1h	1
Hackfest	Hacking aeolus - Using the APIs to deploy to the cloud in interesting ways from Fedora	don't care	Mo Morsi	2h	1
Hackfest	Hacking snap - Adding more custom snapshot targets to take on Fedora	don't care	Mo Morsi	2h	1
Hackfest	MirrorManager TG2 conversion & testing	don't care	Matt Domsch	4h	1
Hackfest	OpenStack packaging & testing	don't care	Matt Domsch & Cloud SIG	4h	1
Hackfest	Making people understand that we are not fedora employees and we have a real life going on when we are offline	1	María "tatica" Leandro & Jared Smith & Eric Christensen	1h	1

Proposed Barcamp Sessions

Please fill in the following grid with proposed BarCamp sessions: (If listed here will be Printed and at the Site ready for your Pitch)

Session name	Description	User Level	Lead
Fedora Test automation: State of the union	Discuss the current tools used to do automated regression test on Fedora, accomplishments and roadmap	Intermediate	Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues
Using control groups (cgroups) to manage resources in virtualization/cloud computing	Real world examples of how to increase density in virtual or cloud computing environments via cgroups	Intermediate	Thomas Cameron (choirboy)
Spacewalk power user tips and tricks	What to do once you've got Spacewalk up and running to automate system installation and deployment	Intermediate	Thomas Cameron (choirboy)
High availability clustering with Fedora	How to set up a clustered GFS2 filesystem using iSCSI and run a highly available application on it	Intermediate	Thomas Cameron (choirboy)
Security Enhanced Linux for Mere Mortals	Introduction to SELinux and real world examples of how to use it. Includes some common scenarios where you might need to configure SELinux	Beginner	Thomas Cameron (choirboy)
Building RPMs for mere mortals	Introduction to building packages. I'll cover building RPMs from Open Source software and from binaries from software for which you don't have the source code.	Beginner	Thomas Cameron (choirboy)
Introduction to Fedora QA	Overview on what the QA team and its various subgroups do from the beginning of the development of a new release to its EOL. (Not including AutoQA.)	Beginner	Sandro "red" Mathys
Creating FUDCon booklets, or "Ian's raptor-proofing talk"	A quick overview on tips and tricks I've learned in creating information booklets for FUDCon Tempe and Blacksburg, and a demonstration of the tools involved and some best practices in desktop publishing.	Intermediate	Ian Weller
Systems Management with Matahari	In this talk Russell will introduce the Matahari project, an interface for system management APIs of all kinds. Russell will discuss the architecture of the Matahari ecosystem and how the use of AMQP as a transport layer allows it to scale to large collections of servers in the Cloud. Russell will also describe the ways in which developers and system administrators can get involved in the Matahari ecosystem: by creating agents to provide access to existing APIs through Matahari; by creating their own APIs; by writing their own clients to interact with agents; and by interacting through a command line shell or script.	Advanced	Russell Bryant

Meetings

Meetings are on Wednesdays in #fedora-meeting at 17:00 UTC (9am US pacific, Noon US eastern.)

FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012_meetings

The current spreadsheet for subsidy requests is here.

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