Revision as of 00:46, 16 September 2014

1st Fedora Day Buenos Aires

About

This is going to be the first Fedora Day in Buenos Aires, to promote Fedora and our plan is to make it in a regular basis. We also

Candidate Dates

Dec 6 -or- 13, 2014

Candidate Venues

Venue: To be defined (se requirements bellow)
City/State: Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
Country: Argentina

Requirements while looking for a venue for the event

Bellow we have a list of requirements while looking for a venue for Fedora Day. We're not going to charge for the event and therefore we won't have money to pay for the venue.

The local sponsors will pay for expenses like Coffee Break and printed material to be distributed during the event.

Venue Requirements

Easy-access venue (close to the Subway and public transportation)
Area for registration and Coffee Break
Space for conference sponsors (table for exposition, where flyers are going to be distributed)
Capacity to have up to 200 participats
A big room for opening/closing and keynote sessions
Two or three small rooms (50-60 people) with projectors

Material

Printed conference program
Badges for participants
Fedora and other projects stickers

Organization Team

Name	Tasks
Leonardo Vaz	Conference organization, Lodging and Budget
Rino Rondan	Conference organization, Local support

Fedora contributors attending the event

Name	City
Leonardo Vaz	Sao Paulo, Brazil
Rino Rondan	Campana , Argentina

Fedora Activities at FISL 15

Activities

Fedora 21 release party
Talks on Fedora and related projects (40 minutes slot)
Workshops (90 min slot)

Talks at Fedora Day

Activity	Speaker(s)	Details
Building an inexpensive and scalable storage system powered by ARM and GlusterFS	Leonardo Vaz	How build an inexpensive and scalable storage system powered by ARM, commodity hard drivers powered by Linux and GlusterFS.

Workshops at Fedora Day

Activity	Speaker(s)	Details
KVM Workshop on Fedora	Rino Rondan	KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.k. I will invite to talk about kvm and their uses in Desktop/Server enviroments in order to create a Labs enviroment for Student and more examples for use it on a server enviroments.

Travel information

Getting in Buenos Aires

From Ministro Pistarini International Airport
From Bus Station of Buenos Aires

Lodging

TODO

Budget

At the moment we're looking for local sponsors, and we're probably going to request budget to the project to fund travel expenses for the volunteers going to Buenos Aires the conference and requests must be done through |LATAM ticket tracker.

Travel costs

Name	Departure City	Transportation?	Lodging?
Leonardo Vaz	Sao Paulo, Brazil	200 USD (Flight)	No

Costs

Description	Cost in BRL	Cost in USD
Airfare subsidy	Todo	Todo
Lodging subsidy	Todo	Todo
Total

Considering 1.00 USD = 8.40 BRL in Sep 2013

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