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We will hold a 3-day FUDCon a few weeks after the release of Fedora 10, to celebrate the occasion and kick off development of Fedora 11.
If you have questions, please contact the event's organizer -- Paul W. Frields.
The FUDCon will include two days of hackfests and a day of BarCamp. All days will be located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Tang Center (E51), in Cambridge, MA USA.
Friday, Sunday hackfest hours: 10:00am-6:00pm
Saturday BarCamp hours: 9:00am-5:00pm
Current Attendees
Please add your name to the list if you will attend. Also, please indicate the following:
- Put an X in the $$$ column if you need funding to attend. We'll use these answers to help figure out budgeting for the event.
- Put a "Veg" in the Veg column if you would like vegetarian fare for any meals that we provide during the event. We'll try to err on the side of vegan so no one will be left out.
- Put your T-shirt size in the Size column, so we can have an idea about what sizes to have available.
Use the Comments section for anything else you think organizers need to know, or to offer or ask for space or rides.
We typically cannot fund everyone who wants to attend. You can save quite a bit of money by carpooling or busing, and sharing hotel rooms. We will make every effort to have FUDCon be as affordable as possible.
Note: some of the comments below discuss dates which were previously proposed but which have now been ruled out.
| No./Nr. | Name | $$$ | Veg | Size | Comments |
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| 1 | Paul W. Frields | XXL | Back in Boston in January. So happy. | ||
| 2 | Tom 'spot' Callaway | Veg | XXL | Grand vizier. (no crash space, sorry!) | |
| 3 | Máirín Duffy | Veg | S mens / M womens | ||
| 4 | Scott Fitchet | ||||
| 5 | Matt Domsch | XL | I love Boston in January. It's why I moved to Austin. Looking forward to reliving those snowy memories! | ||
| 6 | Russell Harrison | L | |||
| 7 | Jon Stanley | X | XL | ||
| 8 | Chris Tyler | XL | Considering bringing ~12 Fedora folks from Seneca by bus. If you're interested in a cheap/free charter coach seat from Toronto area, let me know. | ||
| 9 | Ricky Zhou | X | XL | Jan 9-11 should be perfect :-) | |
| 10 | Ian Weller | X | L | Needs hotel room Sunday night for departure on Monday. | |
| 11 | Clint Savage | X | XXL | Can likely make this based upon advanced notice. | |
| 12 | Mike McGrath | X | You can take my life. But you can't take my FREEDOM! | ||
| 13 | Jesse Keating | XL | Arriving on the 3rd, departing on the 12th. | ||
| 14 | James Laska | L | No preference at this point | ||
| 15 | Jeroen van Meeuwen | XL | |||
| 16 | Luke Macken | M | |||
| 17 | Bernie Innocenti | X | Veg | M | Depends on availability of good tasting coffee |
| 18 | Brian Powell | X | XL | ||
| 19 | Xavier Lamien | X | S | ||
| 20 | Kevin Kelleher | ||||
| 21 | Michel Salim | X | Might be driving from Bloomington, IN -- any carpoolers, email me @fedoraproject.org | ||
| 22 | David Nalley | X | XL | Might bus several contributors (GDK is at least interested) from SC up - if you are interested in riding, contact me | |
| 23 | Steven Parrish | X | XXL | Got transport just need a place to stay. | |
| 24 | John Rose | X | L | ||
| 25 | Seth Vidal | X | Veg | Wow, Boston, who would have thought it! | |
| 27 | Dennis Gilmore | X | XXL | Would like to crash at some ones house. | |
| 28 | Paul Stauffer | M | |||
| 29 | Jared Smith | X | L | Am happy to catch a ride from the Washington D.C. area and/or share a room | |
| 30 | Will Woods | Veg | S | ||
| 31 | Thibault North | X | M | Anybody coming from Canada ? | |
| 32 | DaveJ | M (pre-baconator) | |||
| 33 | Andrew Overholt | X | Veg | S | Looks like I can do about $300 return for bus to Buffalo and flight |
| 34 | Jeremy Katz | S | |||
| 35 | Greg DeKoenigsberg | L | Hey Dave Nalley! If you're coming up 85, stop in Durham to get me! | ||
| 36 | Deepak Bhole | X | L | To be confirmed | |
| 37 | Kyle McMartin | X | XL | what, no bojangles?! | |
| 38 | Susan Lauber | L | |||
| 39 | Bill Nottingham | X | XL | ||
| 40 | Toshio Kuratomi | X | M | ||
| 41 | Matthew Miller | Veg | M | Chicken is a vegetable. | |
| 42 | Nalin Dahyabhai | Veg | XL | ||
| 43 | Harpreet Singh | XL | |||
| 44 | Bill Peck | Veg | L | ||
| 45 | Dave Malcolm | M | |||
| 46 | Tim Burke | M | |||
| 47 | Jon Masters | Veg | M | Can possibly offer a ride from Cambridge, in the unlikely event that it's very far away. I bet it's in Cambridge. | |
| 48 | Dan Walsh | XL | |||
| 49 | Andy Lindeberg | S | |||
| 50 | Jarod Wilson | XL | |||
| 51 | Mike Bonnet | XL | |||
| 52 | Eve McGlynn | S | |||
| 53 | John Poelstra | XL | |||
| 54 | Stephen Gallagher | L | |||
| 55 | Chris Lumens | M | THUD | ||
| 56 | Rebecca Sobol | X | L | Will share a room | |
| 57 | Chuck Ebbert | L | The cake is a lie | ||
| 58 | Ed Hill | XL | May (?) have a convertible couch available | ||
| 59 | Dan Winship | M | |||
| 60 | Karsten Wade | XL | Sharing hotel with $someone from CommunityArchitecture | ||
| 61 | Rags Srinivas | Veg | XL | ||
| 62 | Chris Ball | Veg | L | ||
| 63 | Bill Cattey | M | |||
| 64 | Chuck Anderson | M | Will there be any cellular peptide cake? | ||
| 65 | Jeff Arnold | M | |||
| 66 | Greg Smith | L | Boston based so let me know if you need anything while in town. | ||
| 67 | Jim Gettys | XXXL | |||
| 68 | SJ Klein | N | Y | S | May have futon avail in Cambridge |
| 69 | Walter Bender | XL | May have a couch or two available (but in Newton) | ||
| 70 | Ben Schwartz | M | |||
| 71 | Caroline Meeks | XL | |||
| 72 | David Farning | X | XL | Will find housing via one of the generous OLPC folks | |
| 73 | Michael Stone | L | |||
| 74 | Yaakov Nemoy | M | |||
| 75 | Mel Chua | S mens/M womens | |||
| 76 | Bobby Powers | Vegan | L | ||
| 77 | Kevin Fenzi | XL | waiting to see if employer will send me, so still a bit up in the air | ||
| 78 | James Antill | XL | |||
| 79 | Steve Orr | XL | |||
| 80 | Jack Aboutboul | XL | |||
| 81 | Anders Kaseorg | L | |||
| 82 | Tim Abbott | XL | |||
| 83 | Jason Tibbitts | M | |||
| 84 | John Price | XL | |||
| 85 | John (J5) Palmieri | S | |||
| 86 | Waseem Daher | M | |||
| 87 | David Cantrell | X | XL | Looking for about $150 in help money to get me there. I will be coming from Atlanta since I will be there for New Years. | |
| 88 | Jesse Larrew | M | I live in the area, and I have a guest room & bath available for anyone who needs it. :) | ||
| 89 | Yifan Sun | M | |||
| 90 | Peter Jones | L | |||
| 91 | Jonathan Steffan | L | |||
| 92 | Edward Kirk | L | |||
| 93 | Ray Strode | Veg | M mens | ||
| 94 | Kenny Parnell | L | Looking for someone to room with. | ||
| 95 | Simon Schampijer | X | L | ||
| 96 | Doran Barton | XL | Strongly considering coming. Trying to work it into an independent contractor's budget. :) |
Daily Schedule
Thursday, January 8
FUDCon does not start until Friday. Thursday is when most non-local travelers will want to make their travel plans.
Friday, January 9
LOCATION : Tang Center at MIT (E51).
TIME : Beginning at 10:00 a.m. each day.
FUDCon is free to attend. You do not need to pre-register to attend, but pre-registration gives us a better idea of how to plan for food and space.
More details will appear here over the next few weeks.
Hackfest sessions
ANYONE can run a hackfest, including you! Just pick a topic near and dear to your heart which you'd like to improve with a little elbow grease.
| Session Name | Session Leader | General Plan |
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| Build an AmbassadorKit | Clint Savage / David Nalley / John Rose | Design and build an entire AmbassadorKit |
| Package Grouping - the future of comps.xml | Jon Stanley | Discuss the future of comps.xml and package grouping for packaging frontends |
| Booting | Bill Nottingham | It's time to boot fast |
| Docs Project | Karsten Wade and Paul W. Frields | It's time to kick Docs Project in the tush. All processes should be documented by the time we get to FUDCon. At this point we'll assess them, figure out what needs changing, and DO IT. |
| SELinux Policy | Dan Walsh | Writing SELinux policy. Pick your favorite daemon, cgi script or user app, and see if we can write a policy to confine it. I will have a list of daemons that currently do not have SELinux policy in Fedora, if you just want to try to write policy. |
| fedora-event-splash | Ian Weller / Clint Savage / Yaakov Nemoy | Starting work on fedora-event-splash, a future tool for Ambassadors that are at/holding events and would like some additional marketing tools. Join if you're interested. [1] |
| Giving wikilove | Ian Weller | Fix as many pages that need love as possible. |
Saturday, January 10
LOCATION: Tang Center at MIT (E51).
TIME: 9:00 a.m. SHARP. PLEASE try to be on time! All the important scheduling and other information about the sessions takes place between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.
This will be the BarCamp day of presentations, sessions, and talks. Lunch will be provided. Attendance is free. At the end of the day, there will be a FUDPub.
BarCamp Sessions with Owners
| Session Name | Description | Owner |
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| State of the Wiki | A run-through of new wiki policy and the reasons for following it | Ian Weller and anyone else who wants to help |
| Git for Dummies, by Dummies | Learning from git masters is wonderful if you can do it. What about learning the simple, getting-started bits from someone who's just good at teaching? | Paul W. Frields, hopefully with heckling from a git master when he gets lost |
| Write Docs with DocBook XML | DocBook XML is by far the preferred documentation method for Linux and FOSS. Some Fedora contributors have written entire books in DocBook! Learn how it works -- it's easier than you think, and more powerful than you imagine. | Paul W. Frields and Jared Smith |
| Configuration Management | Configuration Management with puppet, Puppet Common Modules and puppetmanaged.org | Jeroen van Meeuwen |
| Comps | Brainstorm session on comps capabilities and usage and renewal(?) | Jeroen van Meeuwen |
| Spins | Creating custom spins, spins process. Include information on what's a Remix, as opposed to a Spin, and how the guidelines differ for each. | Jeroen van Meeuwen |
| State of the Kernel | What's going in for Fedora11 (~2.6.30/2.6.31 mergability), general discussion about what we're supporting | Kyle McMartin |
| Performance Tuning Renegade | Finding and fixing performance issues for fun and profit. | Mike McGrath |
| Public Speaking for Shy Bearded Hackers | So you're a bearded hacker who needs to give a presentation. Come learn how to be an Ambassador | Yaakov Nemoy |
| The Once and Future Anaconda | Talking about the current state of anaconda and where it's going for F11, F12, and beyond. | Chris Lumens |
| Asterisk and Fedora Talk | A brief introduction to Asterisk, followed by some practical advice on connecting to the Fedora Talk service | Jared Smith |
BarCamp Sessions Needing Owners
| Session Name | Description |
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Final Session Schedule
Times are approximate and may change on BarCamp day.
| Time | Room | Room1 | Room2 | Room3 | Etc. |
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| 0900 | Speaker pitches and scheduling | ||||
| 1000 | |||||
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| 1200 | Lunch | ||||
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FUDPub
Flat Top Johnny's, from 6:00pm - 10:00pm. FTJ's is a well-regarded pool hall near the FUDCon site. We will provide dinner food and one beverage per person, as well as a number of pool tables reserved for attendees.
Sunday, January 11
LOCATION: Tang Center at MIT (E51).
TIME: Beginning at 10:00 a.m.
See #Hackfest_sessions for more information. Continuation of Friday's activities and adding to them based on Saturday's BarCamp.
Travel Details
Hotel
Making Reservations
To make a reservation, use this handy link and select the following:
- Arrival date: January 8, 2009
- Departure date: January 11, 2009
- Group code: RSFRSFA
This group code will give you the room rate in question. Also feel free to enter your Marriott rewards number if you have one.
OR call +1 800 MARRIOTT to make a reservation at the Boston Marriott Cambridge, using group code RSF. (Note the difference in the group name if you make your reservation by phone instead of online.)
ALL attendees must reserve their own rooms. Room rates are good until December 19, 2008. Information will be forthcoming about how to extend your reservation if needed. If you have any problems making reservations, please email the organizers and include details about the issue you encountered.
Other Hotel Details
One complimentary wireless network access account has been arranged per room.
We have reserved 5 rooms for the nights of the 7th and the 11th for people who require "shoulder dates." Contact the organizers for more information.
Local Transit
The hotel is very close to MBTA (Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority) facilities for public tranportation. It is also minutes from MIT, Harvard, and other desirable points in Boston.
Area Map via OpenStreetMap.org
East Coast Road Trip
We are looking to rent a van and drive up the east coast of the US. The plan is to leave late on the night of Wednesday the 7th, arrive sometime midday on Thursday the 8th, enjoy an awesome FUDCon, and then return late on the night of Sunday the 11th, depositing people along the way. If you are anywhere near the I-85 or I-95 corridor up the East Coast (starting point: Greenville SC), and if you want to hitch a ride, please add yourself to this list. If we get 8 names, we'll get the van. A van can hold a max of 16 people.
- Greg DeKoenigsberg (Durham, NC)
- David Nalley (Greenville, SC)
- Jared Smith (Stafford, VA) <-- assuming I can make it work with my travel schedule at work
- Kenny Parnell (Charlotte, NC) <-- Looking for a roommate.
- Colby Hoke (Raleigh, NC) <-- video producer for Red Hat
- Steven Parrish (Raleigh, NC)