Red Hat Summit 2012

This page contains information about the Fedora Project at the Red Hat Summit 2012. You can compare this to the original vision for the event on its own page.

The Red Hat Summit is a conference where Red Hat converses with its customers. A Fedora presence supports the event by demonstrating the importance of community in the Red Hat ecosystem, but also benefits Fedora because Red Hat's customers are sometimes interested in looking at and contributing to Fedora once they find out about us.

The coordinator for the Fedora presence at Summit is Robyn Bergeron. The Summit-planning mailing list is also used to coordinate the logistics of prepping and attending Summit, and those intending to attend or participate in planning are encouraged to sign up to receive mail from this list.

Previous Summit information: Red Hat Summit 2011 | Red Hat Summit 2010 | Red Hat Summit 2009

Date and Location

When

2012-06-26 through 2012-06-29 (Tue-Fri), see schedule below

Where

Hynes Convention Center, 415 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210

Map

Conference URL

Red Hat Summit 2012

Registration is now open.

Twitter / identi.ca

There is typically an identified #hashtag for tweeting and denting; it is typically #redhat or #summitjbw, will update this as we go along.

Event Owner

Robyn Bergeron

Fedora Representatives

If you are representing Fedora at this event please sign up below, include the link to your personal wiki page and note the capacity in which you will be representing the project (i.e. helping at the booth, speaking, running special Fedora activities at the event, etc.).

#	Name	Need pass	Capacity	Comments
001	Robyn Bergeron	No	Event owner and coordinator
002	Sarah White	Yes		Can help at booth or with other activities
003	Sandro Mathys	No		Will spend much time at the booth but will need to attend some talks (just as in previous years)
004	Ruth Suehle	No
005	Sebastian Dziallas	Maybe		Around for OSDC session; happy to help
006	Tom Callaway	Yes

Event Activities

List conference events, including date, start time, and location, below that may be relevant to Fedora users. Relevant events include when the booth might be staffed, when Fedora contributors are giving talks, when special activities are happening, etc.

Event	Date	Time	Location (building, room #, etc)
Event title here

Room

In the past, we've sometimes had a dedicated Fedora Room, for impromptu or lightly planned sessions (not to compete with Summit. No word on this yet for 2012. We may have a variety of spaces at our disposal as well; list here as needed!

Tuesday, June 26
Time	Event	Owner	Notes
	Add event here
Wednesday, June 27
Time	Event	Owner	Notes

Booth

We are back in the Hynes Convention Center this year, albeit newly refurbished. More info on our prospective location soon.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Time	Event
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012
Robyn Bergeron will be available at most times except where marked, but could use help any time you're free. If you've already checked the agenda and know when you're free, please mark your name above!

Attendee List

Add yourself at the end of this list if you're planning to attend the summit.
Please also indicate the scheduled arrival/departure times at the local (international) airport.

#	Name	Arrival	Departure	Airport	Need pass	Comments
001	Robyn Bergeron	??	??	BOS	No	???
002	Sarah White	??	??	BOS	Yes	I'll be in town a few days early to attend JUDCon
003	Sandro Mathys	Mon ~11:20 PM	Fri PM	-	No	I'll arrive by a Greyhound from NYC and I'll leave for an extra night in another hotel in Boston on Friday (after)noon
004	Thorsten Leemhuis	Tue 10 PM	Sat 8 PM	-	No	I'm there for work and there won't be much free time, but I guess I'll show up at the booth a few times, similar to how I did it the past few years
005	Sebastian Dziallas	Thu 7 PM	Fri 9 PM	BOS	Maybe	around for OSDC session; happy to help
006	Another awesome person
007	Beefy Miracle!					I am tasty and delicious.
#	Name	Arrival	Departure	Airport	Need pass	Comments

Who's in Charge

Any difficulties or issues should be resolved by the event owner(s).

Responsibility area	Description	Contributor(s)	Status
Event Box	Request event box	needsowner	Need to determine if it's needed.
Booth setup	Track down swag boxes, incl. banners	Sandro Mathys	Need confirmation: swag boxes with Kristin Nordstrom and booth on the mezzanine level? (like 2010)
Booth schedule	Organize the wiki of booth duties, booth people wrangler	Sarah White
Live USB	Get desktop artwork and link; make image; coordinate with organizers and duplication house	Robyn Bergeron
Room schedule
Fedora dinner			Depends on evening activities. TBD!
Booth teardown			Could use some help!
Middleware+Fedora Literature		Sarah White	Brainstorming ideas for pamphlets/handouts/cheatsheets/postcards featuring AS7 on Fedora, java development on Fedora....
Other Swag / Literature			Could think about new pamphlets / handouts. Anyone? Bueller?

Ideas/Brainstorming

Ideas/Brainstorming
Use this section to brainstorm ideas about things to do at the event.

Photography/Audio/Video Recording Ideas

If we could get a room (for audio quality), graphite6 could bring the following equipment:

• two studio lights with tripods
• two usb yeti microphones (one yeti can record a single person, an interview, or an entire conference table)
• HD digital video camera
• DSLR camera
• tripod for camera
• 9' x 6' backdrop (can be either black or white)
• tablets (can be used as teleprompters)

We could offer attendees the opportunity to record (talking head style):

• brief messages
• biographies
• their stories about how they use Fedora
• how they contribute to Fedora
• how they combine Fedora community benefits, Fedora os, JBoss middleware, Red Hat products
• and/or how these things and the fact they are open source makes them happy, productive, etc
• interviews of Fedora users, developers, Fedora hosted project members, the beefy miracle, etc
• pictures of people with the Beefy Miracle stand up cut out

Basically graphite6 will pimp her equipment out to educate/help Fedora users, developers, and the community.

Question: Would this need to be cleared with Red Hat?

Info/Media Ideas

• Literature or goodies about middleware+Fedora and its benefits
• how to get involved with middleware/application development on the Fedora

Booth Talk Subject Ideas

• Lure some of the JBoss middleware developers to the Fedora booth to give little talks about packaging middleware/apps/server stuff * using middleware on Fedora
• developing applications on Fedora