Revision as of 20:12, 8 October 2014

1st Fedora Day Buenos Aires

About

Event to promote the Fedora and related projects (Gluster, oVirt, Openshift, Openstack etc) in Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Candidate Dates

Dec 13, 2014

Candidate Venues

Venue: To be defined (se requirements bellow)

Venue requirements

Bellow we have a full list of requirements to chose the venue. Since we're not going to charge for the event, the venue must be free of charge. The local sponsors will pay the printed material and a Coffee Break during the event.

A big room for opening/closing and keynote sessions, capable to accomodate up to 200 participants.
Two or three smaller rooms with projectos for talks and workshops.
Easy-access. The venue must to be close to the subway and public transportation.
Area to be used for event registration and Coffee Break.
Some space for sponsors (table for exposition, where flyers are going to be distributed).

Organization Team

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

Fedora contributors attending the event

Name	City	Tasks at conference
Leonardo Vaz	Sao Paulo, Brazil	Organization, talks, etc
Rino Rondan	Campana , Argentina	Organization, talks, workshops, etc
Matias Kreder	Buenos Aires , Argentina	Organization, talks, workshops, etc
Matias Maceira	Buenos Aires , Argentina	Talks, workshops, etc
Julio Sanchez	Buenos Aires , Argentina	Talks, workshops, etc
Valentin Basel	Buenos Aires , Argentina	Talks, workshops, etc
Emanuel Nazzeta	Cordoba, Argentina	Talks, workshops, etc
Adrian Soliard	Entre Rios, Argentina	Talks, workshops, etc

Activities at Fedora Day Buenos Aires

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.

Material

Printed conference program
Badges for participants
Fedora and other projects stickers

Travel information

Getting in Buenos Aires

From Ministro Pistarini International Airport
From Bus Station of Buenos Aires

We need help here, to provide information about how to get in the conference venue comming from the International Airport, Bus/Train Stations and the Port. Please include information such prices, addresses and website, if available

Lodging

TODO

Important: After defining the place we need to find Hotels and Hostels nearby

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
Matias Maceira	Córdoba, Argentina	200 USD (car)(shared)	No
Valentin Basel	Córdoba, Argentina	200 USD (car)(shared)	Yes
Emanuel Nazzeta	Cordoba, Argentina	200 USD (car)(shared)	No
Julio Sanchez	Tierra del Fuego, Argentina	400 USD(Flight)	Yes
Adrian Soliard	Entre Rios, Argentina	80 USD(Bus)	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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