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1st Fedora Day Buenos Aires

About

This is going to be the first Fedora Day in Buenos Aires, to promote Fedora and our plan is to make it in a regular basis. We also

Candidate Dates

  • Dec 6 -or- 13, 2014

Candidate Venues

  • Venue: To be defined (se requirements bellow)
  • City/State: Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
  • Country: Argentina

Requirements while looking for a venue for the event

Bellow we have a list of requirements while looking for a venue for Fedora Day. We're not going to charge for the event and therefore we won't have money to pay for the venue.

The local sponsors will pay for expenses like Coffee Break and printed material to be distributed during the event.

Venue Requirements

  • Easy-access venue (close to the Subway and public transportation)
  • Area for registration and Coffee Break
  • Space for conference sponsors (table for exposition, where flyers are going to be distributed)
  • Capacity to have up to 200 participats
  • A big room for opening/closing and keynote sessions
  • Two or three small rooms (50-60 people) with projectors

Material

  • Printed conference program
  • Badges for participants
  • Fedora and other projects stickers

Organization Team

Name Tasks
Leonardo Vaz Conference organization, Lodging and Budget
Rino Rondan Conference organization, Local support

Attendees

Name City Arrival Departure Hotel Need travel subsidy? T-Shirt size
Leonardo Vaz Sao Paulo, Brazil Dec 5th May 14th TBD No XXXG
Rino Rondan Campana , Argentina - - - No XL

Fedora Activities at FISL 15

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
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

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.

Travel information

Getting in Buenos Aires

  • From Ministro Pistarini International Airport
  • From Bus Station of Buenos Aires


Lodging

TODO


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 price 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