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FUDCon Brno 2008

Brno, Czech Republic :: September 5 - 7, 2008

For questions, please contact MaxSpevack, RadekVokal, and MarekMahut

General Information

Location

• Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University (google maps)

Friday, September 5

Hackfest day 1.

BREAKFAST: 9:30 AM

START: 10:00 AM

END: 6:00 PM

Saturday, September 6

BarCamp with sessions, talks, and presentations. Social Event in the evening! This is the most important day of the FUDCon!

BREAKFAST: 9:30 AM

OPENING REMARKS: 10:00 AM

SESSION PITCHING: 10:30 AM

SESSION #1: 11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

SESSION #2: 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM

LUNCH: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

SESSION #3: 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

SESSION #4: 2:55 PM - 3:45 PM

SESSION #5: 3:50 PM - 4:40 PM

SESSION #6: 4:45 PM - 5:35 PM

CLOSING REMARKS: 5:40 PM - 6:00 PM

SOCIAL EVENT: 7:30 PM - ???

Sunday, September 7

Hackfest day 2.

BREAKFAST: 9:30 AM

START: 10:00 AM

END: 4:00 PM

Sessions

If you will pitch a session at the BarCamp on Saturday, give your name and brief description here.

• Max Spevack - Fedora Websites team, and how you can help.
• Dimitris Glezos - Transifex: Upstream-friendly cross-community translations -- Towards v1.0
• Martin Sivak - FirstAidKit: how to simplify boring diagnose and repair tasks
• Peter Vrabec - SecurityAudit: what is it about, sectool and plugin development
• Luca Foppiano - Func: fedora unified network controller
• Marco Mornati - Symbolic: easy large scale environments control
• Jeroen van Meeuwen - Configuration Management with puppet, puppetmanaged.org
• Jeroen van Meeuwen - Custom spins and compose tools
• Jeroen van Meeuwen - Community Services Infrastructure
• Francesco Ugolini - Ambassadors Project and its localization (or, How to improve community interaction)
• Jaroslav Reznik - KDE 4 & developers
• Any topic that is interesting to you!

Hackfest topics

• Becoming a Fedora Package Maintainer (needs a leader)
• Fedora Astronomy hacking (MarekMahut)
• Transifex hacking (Dimitris Glezos)
• SecurityAudit hacking plugins (PeterVrabec)
• FirstAidKit plugin development (MartinSivak)
• Symbolic how to extend symbolic: scripts & plugins development! (MarcoMornati)
• Func hacking (LucaFoppiano)
• Any project you are working on!

Information for attendees

Lodging

• Approximately 50 beds are booked in Hotel Imos (google maps) - studios - two hotel rooms with shared kitchen and bathroom. Direction from the hotel to University (Approximately 10 to 15 minutes by public transport, tram #1, ticket for 15CZK)

Travel

There are several ways to get to Brno.

1. Fly directly to Brno's airport (BRQ) (Check SmartWings and Ryanair for direct flights)
2. Fly to Prague (PRG) and travel to Brno (BRQ)
3. Fly to Vienna (VIE) and travel to Brno (BRQ)
4. Fly to Bratislava (BTS) and take a bus (130km, about 2 hours) or a train (141 km, about hour and a half, group discount for 6+ group)

This page appears to have some good information.

Current attendees

No.	Name	Which nights do you need hotel?	Comments
1	MaxSpevack	Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun?	prefer single room
2	JeroenVanMeeuwen	yes
3	GianlucaVarisco	yes	-
4	JensKuehnel	yes	-
5	DimitrisGlezos	Thu, Fri, Wed 10/7, Thu 11/7	Need to be in Brussels Sun-Tue
6	LucaFoppiano	yes	-
7	SandroMathys	yes	-
8	JonathanRoberts	yes	-
9	RadekVokal	no	-
10	AdamTkac	no	-
11	MarcelaMaslanova	no	-
12	IvanaVarekova	no	-
13	FabianAffolter	yes	I will try to make it happen
14	LubomirRintel	no	-
15	MartinSivak	no	-
16	DanHorak	no	-
17	MartinKoci	no	-
18	MarekMahut	no	will help with organization
19	MatejCepl	no	will help with organization, living in Prague
20	AlexanderTodorov	yes	-
21	OndrejVasik	no	-
22	AdamPribyl	no	-
23	JoergSimon	yes	-
24	OliverFalk	yes	Can only attend on Friday
25	FrancescoUgolini	yes	90% sure to attend
26	AntonArapov	no	-
27	AndreaModestoRossi	yes	80% sure to attend
28	FrancescoCrippa	yes	-
29	ThomasWoerner	yes	-
30	DominikMierzejewski	yes	planning to attend
31	MartinNagy	no	-
32	HaraldHoyer	yes	-
33	AdrianPilchowiec	no	90% sure to attend
34	MichalSchmidt	no	-
35	VitFoukal	no	-
36	Ivan Stojmirov	no	-
37	JaroslavReznik	no	-
38	JiriMoskovcak	no	-
39	MarcoMornati	yes	-
40	ChristosBacharakis	Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun?	-
41	JanPazdziora	no	-
42	David Kovalsky	no	-
43	Chris Ward	no	-
44	MichalNowak	no	-
45	Lukas Petrovicky	no	-
46	Jakub Hrozek	no	can attend from Fri afternoon onwards
47	MilosJakubicek	no	-
48	JanBusta	no	-
49	TomasSmetana	no	-
50	Eduard Benes	no	-
51	Phil Knirsch	yes	Depends on travel budget
52	Hans de Goede	Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun?	Planning to attend
53	Jhutar	no	-
54	Marek Kasik	no	-
55	Zbysek Mraz	no	-
56	Michal Marciniszyn	no	-
57	Oldrich Plchot	no	-
58	Simone Pucci	yes	-
59	JanKratochvil	no	-
60	ZdenekPrikryl	no	-
61	Petr Muller	no	-

Information for Organizors

Meetings

There is a weekly organization/planning meeting in #fedora-meeting on Freenode every Tuesday at 13:00 UTC (15:00 CEST).

• Log from 2008-07-29 planning meeting
• Log from 2008-07-22 planning meeting
• Log from 2008-07-15 planning meeting

Current action items

• Update travel information on wiki (MarkeMahut)
• Internet access -- we'll use university network (RadekVokal)
• Fedora Live DVDs (MarekMahut)
• Publicity on Fedora Planet & mailing lists (MaxSpevack)
• Email/invitation to europe (europe-list) offices (MaxSpevack)
• Talk to Denise Dumas about RH travel budget(MaxSpevack)
• Check out rooms at the University (RadekVokal & MarekMahut)
• Figure out how much of hotel bill can be paid from FUDCon budget (MaxSpevack)
• Food for Friday, Saturday, Sunday
  • Detailed list of needs for each day (MaxSpevack)
  • Get price quotes based on list (RadekVokal)
• Social Event for Saturday night
  • Determine budget for event (MaxSpevack)
  • Figure out location (RadekVokal)
• Projectors from the RH office (MarekMahut)
• Tshirts (MaxSpevack & NicuBuculei)
• Advertisement flyer
  • English text (MaxSpevack)
  • Czech text (RadekVokal)
  • Ask Art Team to make it look good (MaxSpevack)
• Publicity at universities or other places in Brno & Prague
  • sci.muni.cz (MarekMahut)
  • fi.muni.cz (MarekMahut)
• Travel subsidies and sponsorships (MaxSpevack)
• Confirm number of rooms with hotel (MaxSpevack & RadekVokal)

Budget

• 20k USD = 12.5k EUR = 290k CZK
  • Travel estimate 4,000 EUR
  • Hotel estimate 4,000 EUR
  • Food estimate 3,000 EUR
  • Tshirts estimate 1,500 EUR