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
The conference will take place at UTN - Facultad Regional Buenos Aires (Avenida Medrano, 951 - CABA). A Map is available here.
Organization
Team
| Name | Tasks |
|---|---|
| Leonardo Vaz | Conference organization, Lodging and Budget |
| Rino Rondan | Conference organization, Local support |
| Matias Kreder | Conference organization, Local support |
Tasks
| Task | Responsible | Comments | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Find a place for the conference | Everybody | Rino did it! | Done!! |
| Conference Website | Rino Rondan, Leonardo Vaz | Let's ask Echeverria to help here | In progress |
| Organize conference program | Rino Rondan, Matias Kreder | We need it to announce in conference website!! | Pending |
| 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 |
Conference Program
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 | 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 |
| Fabio Leite | Chapecó, Brazil | Talks, workshops, etc | - | No |
| Douglas Landgraf | Porto Alegre, Brazil | Talks, workshops, etc | - | No |
| Eduardo Echeverria | Valencia, Venezuela | Talks, workshops, etc | 1142 USD from valencia, 956 from colombia | No |
| Wolnei Junior | Jaragua do Sul, Brazil | Talks, workshops, etc | 560 USD | Yes |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fedora Ambassador Role | Rino Rondan y Matias Kreder | Requirements and tasks for to be a Fedora Ambassador |
| 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. |
| Dockerizing your distributed applications | Eduardo Echeverria | How distribute your application thruought containers,provisioning dependencies and start up over development or production environments. |
| Configure OpenStack to enable Docker | Eduardo Echeverria | Docker is a way of managing multiple containers on a single machine. However used behind Nova makes it much more powerful since it’s then possible to manage several hosts, which in turn manage hundreds of containers. |
| Packaging for Fedora | Rino Rondan, Matias Kreder Eduardo Echeverria | First steps to know what we need to package on Fedora, Sponsoring new packagers . |
| 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. |
| Making things happen: How to contribute to Fedora | Fabio Olive Leonardo Vaz | Understanding how Fedora project works you can find a way to get involved |
| Beyond the 4 Fs: What is Fedora effectively doing for Open Source? | Fabio Olive Leonardo Vaz | Fedora turned 10 in 2013 and this is the story so far. |
| 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) |
| Business Models | Matias Maceira | |
| Bandwidth control with Free Software | Matias Maceira | |
| Iptables - Firewall - QOS | Matias Maceira | |
| Un poco de Seguridad en Fedora | 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 y GNU/Linux en ambitos empresariales | Julio Sanchez | |
| Why contribute to Free Software? | Wolnei Tomazelli Junior | A brief historic of Free Software, where we are, code quality, visual beauty, make money and most importantly, what I got all the last 6 years contributing. |
| Fedora QA | Wolnei Tomazelli Junior | What we do, tools, day by day, schedule and why joining us |
| Fedora.Next | Wolnei Tomazelli Junior | What is Fedora.Next, Why, Difference between Product and Spins, Fedora Workstation, Fedora Server and Fedora Cloud |
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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