Fedora Day Buenos Aires 2014
About
Event to promote the Fedora and related projects (Gluster, oVirt, Openshift, Openstack etc) in Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Kickstart event to promote the city as candidate to host FUDCon 2015.
Date
- Dec 13, 2014
Venue
- Universidad John F. Kennedy
- Bartolomé Mitre, 1411
- Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Organization Team
| Name | Tasks |
|---|---|
| Leonardo Vaz | Conference organization, Lodging and Budget |
| Rino Rondan | Conference organization, Local support |
| Matias Kreder | Conference organization, Local support |
Conference Program
Fedora contributors attending the event
| Name | City | Tasks at conference | Travel budget USD | Lodging? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leonardo Vaz | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Organization, talks, etc | 200 USD | 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 | Yes |
| Valentin Basel | Cordoga, Argentina | Talks, workshops, etc | 200 USD | Yes |
| Emanuel Nazzeta | Cordoba, Argentina | Talks, workshops, etc | 200 USD | Yes |
| Julio Sanchez | Tierra del Fuego , Argentina | Talks, workshops, etc | 400 USD | Yes |
| Adrian Soliard | Entre Rios, Argentina | Talks, workshops, etc | 80 USD | Yes |
| Gabriel Acosta | Montevideo, Uruguay | Talks, workshops, etc | 120 USD | Yes |
| Diego Daguerre | Montevideo, Uruguay | Talks, workshops, etc | 120 USD | Yes |
| Fabio Leite | Chapecó, Brazil | Talks, workshops, etc | - | No |
| Douglas Landgraf | Porto Alegre, 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)
Talks and Workshops
| Activity | Speaker(s) | Details |
|---|---|---|
| A brief Description of Docker in Fedora | Rino Rondan | What is docker? How i can use it? First steps to use this kind of virtualization. |
| 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. |
| 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. I want to give a workshop on robotics classroom FISL, for teachers and students.
Last year a robot to carry demonstrations in the booth installed FEDORA and had very good results with the general public |
| oVirt Project | Douglas Landgraf | Talk on oVirt Project. |
| 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. |
| Local filesystem in Linux Kernel | Leonardo Vaz | The current status of local filesystem in Linux Kernel, focusing in ext4, XFS and Btrfs. |
| Virtualization and Cloud | Matias Kreder | Review of most of the virtualization and cloud technologies and tools shipped with the Fedora distribution |
| 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) |
| Modelos de Negocios | Matias Maceira | |
| Control de Ancho de banda con Software Libre | Matias Maceira | |
| Matias Maceira |
1)Modelos de negocios.
2)Control de ancho de banda con software libre
3)iptables - Firewall - QOS.
Material
- Printed conference program
- Badges for participants
- Fedora and other projects stickers
Travel information
Getting in conference place from Ministro Pistarini International Airport
[PENDING]
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 | 600 | Leonardo Vaz, Julio Sanchez |
| Bus subsidy | 320 | Adrian Soliard, Gabriel Acosta, Diego Daguerre |
| Car subsidy | 600 | Matias Maceira, Valentin Basel, Emanuel Nazzeta |
| Lodging subsidy | 400 | Julio Sanchez, Adrian Soliard, Gabriel Acosta, Diego Daguerre, Matias Maceira, Valentin Basel, Emanuel Nazzeta |
| Total | 1920 |
- Considering 1.00 USD = 8.50 ARS in Oct 2013
Event Reports
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