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Toronto, Ontario :: December 5-7, 2009 - General event owners: Paul W. Frields, Mel Chua
General Information
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| PRE-REGISTRATION Lodging information Technical sessions Hackfests FUDCon area map | ||
| Administrivia | ||
| Poll data | Logistics | Budget |
Location and Dates
FUDCon Toronto 2009 is located at Seneca College, Seneca@York campus (map), from December 5-7, 2009 (Saturday-Monday). Each day's activities start at 10:00 a.m. sharp. For best results, arrive around 9:30-9:45 so you have time to get situated, find out where you want to go, and so on.
Outreach
We will be doing specific outreach to the following groups:
- Toronto area Linux Users Groups
- The Red Hat office in Toronto
- Seneca College and other area EDU's
We hope to provide one or two tracks of new-user training that will help people get the most out of Fedora, while showing them some of the benefits of getting involved in the wider open source community.
Event Details
Pre-registration
Please add your name to the list if you will attend. Also, please indicate the following:
- Put an X in the $$$ column if you need funding to attend. We'll use these answers to help figure out budgeting for the event.
- Put a V in the Veg column if you would like vegetarian fare for any meals that we provide during the event. If you prefer vegan fare, please mark that column VV. We will do our best to make sure everyone is accommodated!
- Put your T-shirt size in the Size column, so we can have an idea about what sizes to have available.
- If you are looking to share a room, mark an X in the "Roomshare?" column.
Use the Comments section for anything else you think organizers need to know, or to offer or ask for space or rides.
We typically cannot fund everyone who wants to attend. You can save quite a bit of money by carpooling or bussing, and sharing hotel rooms. We will make every effort to have FUDCon be as affordable as possible.
For Seneca registration instructions, please see http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/FUDCon_Toronto_2009
| No./Nr. | Name | $$$ | Veg | Size | Roomshare? | Comments |
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| 1 | Paul W. Frields | XXL | Canadians are cute, they spell things funny. :-) | |||
| 2 | Andreas Thienemann | XXL | ||||
| 3 | Tim Burke | M | ||||
| 4 | Bill Nottingham | XL | sure | |||
| 5 | Chris Tyler | XL | We spell funny, eh? | |||
| 6 | Peter Jones | L | ||||
| 7 | Peter Robinson | L | ||||
| 8 | Dennis Gilmore | XXL | ||||
| 9 | Anthony Green | XL | ||||
| 10 | Andrew Overholt | V | M | You mean neighboUr, Paul :P | ||
| 11 | Kevin Fenzi | XXL | pending passport and travel plans, but will most likely make it. | |||
| 12 | Paul Wouters | V | M | Local event for me, ask me for local information | ||
| 13 | Elliott Baron | XL | ||||
| 14 | Kent Sebastian | L | ||||
| 15 | Edward Kirk | XL | ||||
| 16 | Mel Chua | S | overholt, stickster: n7r? | |||
| 17 | Michael Ploujnikov | M | I'm a meatatarian and I live close enough to drive to the event. | |||
| 18 | Máirín Duffy | V | S | depends if halfline is coming or not | I'll be bringing a portable usability lab :) | |
| 19 | Seth Vidal | V | XL | |||
| 20 | Ricky Zhou | XL | Sure :-) | If it doesn't completely conflict with finals (which is pretty likely). | ||
| 21 | Ian Weller | $$$ | L | why not? | overholt, stickster, mchua: n31ghb0(u)r | |
| 22 | Adam Miller | X | XL | X | ||
| 23 | Steven Parrish | $$$ | XXL | Sure | Pending passport, Got flight covered | |
| 24 | Clint Savage | $ | XXL | Sure | Possibly coming early and staying long to save money | |
| 25 | Tom "spot" Callaway | V | XXL | dgilmore | I'm not your buddy, buddy. | |
| Number | Name | $$$ | Veg | Size | Roomshare? | Comments |
Lodging
Lodging will be at the Hilton Garden Inn, Vaughan. The nightly rate for a single or double occupancy room (1 king/2 queens) is CA$105; the group rate is good for Friday through Sunday nights; reserve here (short link here) before November 13. Breakfast buffet vouchers will be available for CA$6 each (regular price $14.95) during check-in.
Air Travel
Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) is served by most major carriers.
Alternately, you can fly into the Toronto City Centre Airport (downtown) from Boston, Chicago (Midway), New York (Newark), Montreal, Quebec, Halifax, Thunder Bay, or St. John's via Porter Airlines.
Ground Transportation
This location is well-served by public transit -- over 1700 vehicles a day stop at the adjacent transit loop. For more information:
- Toronto - TTC website - MyTTC trip planner
- Southern Ontario - GO Transit
- York Region, North of Toronto - including the Hilton Garden Inn hotel - YRT/VIVA
Transit instructions - hotel to/from campus (refer to map):
- From hotel to campus: Board VIVA ORANGE - DOWNSVIEW STATION at the VIVA Station across the road on the west side of the hotel.
- From campus to hotel: Board VIVA ORANGE - MARTIN GROVE at the VIVA Station on the east side of Ian MacDonald Blvd near Seneca@York.
- VIVA works on a proof-of-payment system - before boarding, obtain a one-ride ticket from the VIVA Station ticket machine, or validate one of the tickets from a 10-ticket pack.
- Single tickets are available at any VIVA Station (payment by cash, or by credit card at the hotel VIVA Station, or by Interac debit card at the campus VIVA Station).
- 10-pack of tickets are available at the VIVA Station on campus (payment by cash or Interac debit card). They are also available from the bookstore at Seneca@York, adjacent to the cafeteria in the SEQ building.
Transit instructions - to/from Toronto Pearson International airport:
Note: It will take 1.5-2 hours to travel to or from Pearson by bus; consider sharing a taxi to save a significant amount of time.
- To hotel from airport: take the 58A Malton bus from Terminal 3 Arrivals Level or Terminal 1 Ground Level; travel to Jane St. Board the 35C Jane northbound; travel to Highway 7. Walk 500 m west to the Hilton Garden Inn.
- To airport from campus: take the 35E Jane St. bus from the campus transit loop; travel to Lawrence Ave. Board the 58A Malton bus westbound to the Airport.
Transit instructions - to/from Toronto City Centre Airport:
- To campus or hotel from airport: Take the Porter shuttle bus to Royal York Hotel/Union Station. Board the subway, University line; travel to Downsview Station. Board the 196 York University Rocket to the University, or board the VIVA ORANGE to the University or the Hilton Garden Inn (Hwy 7 & Interchange).
- To airport from hotel or campus: Board the VIVA ORANGE - DOWNSVIEW STATION at the VIVA Station across the road on the west side of the hotel, or board the 196 York University Rocket at the campus transit loop. Travel to Downsview Subway Station. Take the subway southbound to Union Station. Exit to Front Street and catch the Porter Airlines shuttle at the north-east corner of Front St and York St.
Parking
Parking in the Student Services parking garage adjacent to Seneca@York is abundant but costs $14/day.
Parking at the hotel and FUDPub is free.
Agenda
Note that this FUDCon, technical sessions may be referred or decided by panel or other means. However, we do require material for all sorts of experience levels, so do not worry about competition. Simply propose something you think would be of interest to attendees.
Technical sessions - Saturday
ANYONE can propose a session, including you. Just pick a topic near and dear to your heart and propose it here.
For Audience Level, indicate whether your talk is appropriate for a beginner, intermediate (current skilled contributor), or expert level.
| Session Name | Description | Audience Level | Owner |
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| Effective Bug reporting | The what and why of bug reports | Beginner and up | Steven Parrish |
| OLPC, Sugar and Fedora Oh My! | How Fedora contributes and how you can help | Beginner and up | Steven Parrish |
| How I Got Started with PyGTK | SSIA, a gentle introduction to tools and making sense of toolkits. Helpful to know a little about Python, but not strictly required. | Beginner | Paul W. Frields |
| Eclipse and You | An introduction to the Eclipse SDK, the CDT, Mylyn, and the Eclipse Linux Tools project | Beginner and up | Andrew Overholt |
| Designing UI Mockups in Inkscape | Inkscape is the ultimate UI mockup creation tool. Learn some tips, tricks, and suggested workflows to create awesome mockups in it. | Beginner and up | Máírín Duffy |
| Design Eye for Frightful UIs | Do you need a design eye for your frightful UI? Are you a developer or maintainer of a free & open source application and are not sure where to start in improving your application's usability or how to get design help? Learn some of the basics you can do on your own to improve your application's usability, and also learn what kind of prep work will make it easy for designers to help you before you approach them. | Intermediate and up (emphasis towards devels) | Máirín Duffy |
| Session Name | Description | Audience Level | Owner |
Hackfests - Sunday & Monday
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 | Prerequisites, if any |
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| Session Name | Session Leader | General Plan | Prerequisites, if any |
Other Scheduled Meetings
| Session Name | Session Leader | General Plan |
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| Project Board F2F | Paul Frields | As many members of the Fedora Board as possible will gather face to face for discussions about the previous term's work, elections, and the road ahead for the Fedora Project. |
| Usability Testing | Máirín Duffy | Come check out our open source portable usability lab and help us out by running through a quick usability test. We'll be running tests on Fedora Community and the upcoming www.fedoraproject.org redesign. |
| Session Name | Session Leader | General Plan |
Social Events
Saturday, December 5
Following the day of technical sessions, we'll be moving the fun to Dave and Buster's. We'll provide food, pool and snooker tables, and non-alcoholic beverages for all pre-registrants. There's also a full bar available for those so inclined, and a midway full of other entertainment options!
Sunday, December 6
On Sunday 6 December after the day's hackfest sessions, we will be taking a group down to Nathan Philips Square (in front of Toronto City Hall) where there's an outdoor skating rink. Skate rentals are available for something less than $10.