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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	Designs sent- Waiting to be contacted	Almost done
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	Fedora apps - 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 in Fedora - 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
Fedora apps	Adrian Soliard	A presentation and description of the infrastructure and tools beside the community
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 in Fedora	Adrian Soliard	An introduction to SELinux, and why Fedora use it as default

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
 Argentina

Exact location of conference place is:

 Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, sede Medrano
 Avenida Medrano 951
 Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Also known as Capital Federal)
 Buenos Aires
 Argentina
 C1179AAQ

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 switch their site 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.

Getting in conference place from Buenos Aires Bus Station

Retiro bus station location:

 Av. Antártida Argentina y Calle 10
 Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
 Buenos Aires
 Argentina
 C1104AJQ

Some sites of interest:

 Official website (it is in Spanish).[6]
 Wikipedia's Article in English.[7]

How to get from Retiro bus station to Conference place

[To be continued]

Hotels close the venue

[PENDING]

Public transportation in CABA