Fedora Day Buenos Aires 2014

Fedora Day Buenos Aires 2014

About

Fedora Day Buenos Aires 2014 is an event to promote Fedora and it's related projects like oVirt, Openshift, Openstack, Gluster among others which will take place in Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Also, the plan is to use this event as a kickstart to promote Buenos Aires as candidate to host FUDCon 2015.

Date

• Dec 13, 2014

Venue

The conference will take place at UTN - Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Avenida Medrano, 951 - Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Organization

Team

Name	Tasks
Leonardo Vaz	Conference general organization, Budget and Program
Matias Kreder	Conference general organization, Budget and Program
Rino Rondan	Conference general organization, Venue e Local support
Eduardo Echeverria	Conference Website
Mariela Gigante	Conference Swag Material
Iván Weinberg	Conference Promoting

Tasks

Task	Responsible	Comments	Status
Find a place for the conference	Everyone	Rino did it!	Done!!
Conference Website	Eduardo Echeverria	Let's ask Echeverria to help here	Static version posted on http://fedoraday.com
Organize conference program	Leonardo Vaz	We need it to announce in conference website!!	Program finished, Edu will publish it on Dec 4th
Raise tickets to request travel budget	Leonardo Vaz	Raised and approved	Done!
Conference swag material	Mariela Gigante	Prices for Stickers, buttons and DVDs confirmed	On going
Promote the conference	Mariela Gigante , Ivan Weinberg		On going

Fedora contributors attending the event

Name	City	Tasks at conference	Travel budget USD	Lodging?
Leonardo Vaz	Sao Paulo, Brazil	Organization, talks, etc	-	No
Rino Rondan	Campana , Argentina	Organization, talks, workshops, etc	-	No
Matias Kreder	Buenos Aires , Argentina	Organization, talks, workshops, etc	-	No
Matias Maceira	Cordoba, Argentina	Talks, workshops, etc	200 USD	No
Valentin Basel	Cordoga, Argentina	Talks, workshops, etc	200 USD	No
Julio Sanchez	Tierra del Fuego , Argentina	Talks, workshops, etc	400 USD	No
Adrian Soliard	Entre Rios, Argentina	Talks, workshops, etc	80 USD	No
Fabio Leite	Chapecó, Brazil	Talks, workshops, etc	-	No

Activities at Fedora Day Buenos Aires

Activities

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

Conference Program

Bellow the work-in-progress version of conference program, the order of talks may be changed.

Time	Auditorio - (50 places)	Room #1 - (30 places)	Room #2 - (30 places)
10:00	Openning Session - Making things Happen, how to get involved with Fedora Project - Matias, Rino, Leo and Fabio
11:00	Getting involved with Fedora QA - Fabio Olive	Becoming a Fedora Packager - Rino Rondan	Spread the word: Becoming a Fedora Ambassador - Matias Kreder
12:00	Lunch Interval	Lunch Interval	Lunch Interval
13:30	oVirt Project - Rino Rondan	Business Model - Matias Maceira	Fedora ARM and Pidora - Matias Kreder
14:30	Gluster joining to the super colony - Leo	Fedora Robotics and Education - Valentin Basel	Some security tips - Adrian Soliard
15:30	Fedora Virtualization and Cloud - Matias Kreder	Fedora y GNU/Linux en ambitos empresariales - Julio Sanchez	Firewall and QOS on Fedora - Matias Maceira
16:30	Fedora, Docker and Atomic IO - Rino	To be defined	SELinux Introduction - Adrian Soliard
17:30	Closing Session - FUDCon LATAM 2015 proposal

Talks and Workshops

Activity	Speaker(s)	Details
Making things happen: How to contribute to Fedora	Matias Kreder, Rino Rondan, Fabio Olive Leonardo Vaz	Understanding how Fedora project works you can find a way to get involved
Getting involved with Fedora QA	Fabio Olive	How to contribute to make Fedora better by testing software
Becoming a Fedora Packager	Rino Rondan	First steps to know what we need to package on Fedora, Sponsoring new packagers .
Spreading the word: Becoming a Fedora Ambassador	Matias Kreder	Requirements and tasks for to be a Fedora Ambassador
oVirt Project	Rino Rondan	Talk on oVirt Project.
Business Models	Matias Maceira
Fedora ARM and Pidora	Matias Kreder	Summary of supported ARM devices and architectures and how to run Fedora on some ARM devices like the HummingBoard and Raspberry Pi (Pidora)
Gluster project - Joining the supercolony	Leonardo Vaz	Gluster is a powerful distributed filesystem running entirely in userspace and capable to scale beyond petabytes. In this talk we'll see the architecture of GlusterFS, the features, use cases and how to use it on Fedora.
Fedora Robotics and Education	Valentin Basel	Icaro is a hardware and software development, part of the official FEDORA packages designed for teaching robotics in schools using free software and hardware. Last year a robot to carry demonstrations in the booth installed FEDORA and had very good results with the general public
Some security tips	Adrian Soliard	This presentations shows that linux have all the tools and ways to be secure, but it must be configurated to that. (It requires live demostrations)
Fedora Virtualization and Cloud	Matias Kreder, Rino Rondan	Review of most of the virtualization and cloud technologies and tools shipped with the Fedora distribution
Fedora y GNU/Linux en ambitos empresariales	Julio Sanchez
Firewall and QOS on Fedora	Matias Maceira
Fedora, Docker and Atomic IO - Rino	Rino Rondan	What is docker? How i can use it? First steps to use this kind of virtualization.
SELinux introduction	Adrian Soliard	Introduction to SELinux

Material

• Printed conference program
• Badges for participants
• Fedora and other projects stickers

Buttons

The idea is to make some buttons to give for free. Some designs found in | Fedora Marketing Collateral :

And some others modified by me:

Stickers

The idea is to give for free stickers as well...

• To promote Fedora:

• To promote Fedora 4 Fs:

• To welcome Fedora 21:

• Fedora Day Buenos Aires Stickers

Travel information

Getting in conference place from Ministro Pistarini International Airport

Exact location is:

Ezeiza International Airport

Autopista Tte Gral. Ricchieri Km 33,5

1802 Ezeiza

Buenos Aires

Exact location of conference place is: Avenida Medrano 951, C1179AAQ Capital Federal, Buenos Aires

Airport information according to their official website[1].

Car parking[2].

Car rental[3].

Private transportation (limo and cab services) offered by the airport[4].

Public transportation and long distance buses[5].

Be advised that there's a link on the upper right corner to change the site you're viewing to English.

Also, it is better for travellers to go to the official stands and refuse any car services not offered there. According to the site, it is for security reasons.

[To be continued...]

Getting in conference place from Buenos Aires Bus Station

[PENDING]

Hotels close the venue

[PENDING]

Public transportation in CABA

[PENDING]

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.

Costs

Description	Cost in USD	People Sponsored
Airfare subsidy	500	Julio Sanchez
Bus subsidy	80	Adrian Soliard
Car subsidy	200	Matias Maceira, Valentin Basel, Emanuel Nazzeta
Lodging subsidy	Pending	Julio Sanchez, Adrian Soliard, Valentin Basel
Total	780

• Considering 1.00 USD = 8.50 ARS in Oct 2014

We are planning to provide swag material for free (Live DVDs, stickers, buttons) so we will like to count on your support for this.

Description	Cost in USD	Cost in Argentinean Pesos (AR $)
200 Live DVDs	US$ 177	AR$1500
100 10x10cm stickers	US$ 24	AR$200
50 10x15cm stickers	US$ 18	AR$150
100 buttons	US$ 16	AR $130
100 copies of "Fedora Libro de Trucos"	US$ 17	AR$140
Total	US$ 252	AR$2120

• Considering 1.00 USD = 8.50 ARS in Oct 2014

Event Reports

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