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 6 -or- 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 |
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 |
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 |
Costs
| Description | Cost in BRL | Cost in USD | People Sponsored |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airfare subsidy | Todo | Todo | |
| Lodging subsidy | Todo | Todo | |
| Total |
- Considering 1.00 USD = 8.40 BRL in Sep 2013
Event Reports
TODO