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FUDCon Brno 2008
Brno, Czech Republic :: September 5 - 7, 2008
For questions, please contact MaxSpevack, RadekVokal, and MarekMahut
General Information
Location
Friday, September 5
Hackfest day 1.
BREAKFAST: 9:30 AM
START: 10:00 AM
END: 6:00 PM
Saturday, September 6
BarCamp with sessions, talks, and presentations. Social Event in the evening! This is the most important day of the FUDCon!
BREAKFAST: 9:30 AM
OPENING REMARKS: 10:00 AM
SESSION PITCHING: 10:30 AM
SESSION #1: 11:15 AM - 12:05 PM
SESSION #2: 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM
LUNCH: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
SESSION #3: 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
SESSION #4: 2:55 PM - 3:45 PM
SESSION #5: 3:50 PM - 4:40 PM
SESSION #6: 4:45 PM - 5:35 PM
CLOSING REMARKS: 5:40 PM - 6:00 PM
SOCIAL EVENT: 7:30 PM - ???
Sunday, September 7
Hackfest day 2.
BREAKFAST: 9:30 AM
START: 10:00 AM
END: 4:00 PM
Sessions
If you will pitch a session at the BarCamp on Saturday, give your name and brief description here.
- Max Spevack - Fedora Websites team, and how you can help.
- Dimitris Glezos - Transifex: Upstream-friendly cross-community translations -- Towards v1.0
- Martin Sivak - FirstAidKit: how to simplify boring diagnose and repair tasks
- Peter Vrabec - SecurityAudit: what is it about, sectool and plugin development
- Luca Foppiano - Func: fedora unified network controller
- Marco Mornati - Symbolic: easy large scale environments control
- Jeroen van Meeuwen - Configuration Management with puppet, puppetmanaged.org
- Jeroen van Meeuwen - Custom spins and compose tools
- Jeroen van Meeuwen - Community Services Infrastructure
- Francesco Ugolini - Ambassadors Project and its localization (or, How to improve community interaction)
- Jaroslav Řezník, Lukáš Tinkl - KDE 4 & developers
- Jonathan Roberts - Fedora Marketing, where to go next
- Alan Pevec - oVirt - Virtualization Management for Fedora
- Any topic that is interesting to you!
Hackfest topics
- Becoming a Fedora Package Maintainer (needs a leader)
- Fedora Astronomy hacking - MarekMahut
- Transifex hacking - DimitrisGlezos
- SecurityAudit hacking plugins - PeterVrabec
- FirstAidKit plugin development - MartinSivak
- Symbolic how to extend symbolic: scripts & plugins development! - MarcoMornati
- Func hacking - LucaFoppiano
- Any project you are working on!
Information for attendees
Lodging
- Approximately 50 beds are booked in Hotel Imos (google maps) - studios (2+2) - two double bed rooms with shared kitchen and bathroom. Direction from the hotel to University (Approximately 10 to 15 minutes by public transport, tram #1, ticket for 15CZK)
Travel
There are several ways to get to Brno.
- Fly directly to Brno's airport (BRQ) (Check SmartWings and Ryanair for direct flights)
- Fly to Prague (PRG) and travel to Brno (BRQ)
- Fly to Vienna (VIE) and travel to Brno (BRQ)
- Fly to Bratislava (BTS) and take a bus (130km, about 2 hours) or a train (141 km, about hour and a half, group discount for 6+ group)
Pre-Registration (Deadline: Friday August 15)
| No. | Name | Which nights do you need hotel? | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MaxSpevack | Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun | |
| 2 | JeroenVanMeeuwen | yes | |
| 3 | GianlucaVarisco | yes | - |
| 4 | JensKuehnel | yes | - |
| 5 | DimitrisGlezos | Thu, Fri, Wed 10/9, Thu 11/9 | Need to be in Brussels Sun-Tue |
| 6 | LucaFoppiano | yes | - |
| 7 | SandroMathys | yes | - |
| 8 | JonathanRoberts | Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun | - |
| 9 | RadekVokal | no | - |
| 10 | AdamTkac | no | - |
| 11 | MarcelaMaslanova | no | - |
| 12 | IvanaVarekova | no | - |
| 13 | FabianAffolter | Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun | - |
| 14 | LubomirRintel | no | - |
| 15 | MartinSivak | no | - |
| 16 | DanHorak | no | - |
| 17 | MartinKoci | no | - |
| 18 | MarekMahut | no | will help with organization |
| 19 | MatejCepl | no | will help with organization, living in Prague |
| 20 | AlexanderTodorov | yes | - |
| 21 | OndrejVasik | no | - |
| 22 | AdamPribyl | Fri-Sat, Sat-Sun (2 nights) | - |
| 23 | JoergSimon | yes | - |
| 24 | OliverFalk | yes | Can only attend on Friday |
| 25 | FrancescoUgolini | fri and sat | - |
| 26 | AntonArapov | no | - |
| 27 | AndreaModestoRossi | yes | 80% sure to attend |
| 28 | FrancescoCrippa | yes | - |
| 29 | ThomasWoerner | yes | - |
| 30 | DominikMierzejewski | yes | planning to attend |
| 31 | MartinNagy | no | - |
| 32 | HaraldHoyer | yes | - |
| 33 | AdrianPilchowiec | no | 90% sure to attend |
| 34 | MichalSchmidt | no | - |
| 35 | VitFoukal | no | - |
| 36 | Ivan Stojmirov | no | - |
| 37 | JaroslavReznik | no | - |
| 38 | JiriMoskovcak | no | - |
| 39 | MarcoMornati | yes | - |
| 40 | ChristosBacharakis | Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun | - |
| 41 | JanPazdziora | no | - |
| 42 | David Kovalsky | no | - |
| 43 | Chris Ward | no | - |
| 44 | MichalNowak | no | - |
| 45 | Lukas Petrovicky | no | - |
| 46 | Jakub Hrozek | no | can attend from Fri afternoon onwards |
| 47 | MilosJakubicek | no | - |
| 48 | JanBusta | no | - |
| 49 | TomasSmetana | no | - |
| 50 | Eduard Benes | no | - |
| 51 | Phil Knirsch | yes | Depends on travel budget |
| 52 | Hans de Goede | Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun? | Planning to attend |
| 53 | Jhutar | no | - |
| 54 | Marek Kasik | no | - |
| 55 | Zbysek Mraz | no | - |
| 56 | Michal Marciniszyn | no | - |
| 57 | Oldrich Plchot | no | - |
| 58 | Simone Pucci | yes | - |
| 59 | JanKratochvil | no | - |
| 60 | ZdenekPrikryl | no | - |
| 61 | Petr Muller | no | - |
| 62 | Vadim Grinco | no | - |
| 63 | Karel Volny | no | - |
| 64 | Lukáš Tinkl | no | - |
| 65 | KarolTrzcionka | Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun? | planning to attend |
| 66 | Alan Pevec | Fri,Sat | - |
| 67 | PatrikCevela | Yes | - |
Information for Organizors
Meetings
There is a weekly organization/planning meeting in #fedora-meeting on Freenode every Tuesday at 13:00 UTC (15:00 CEST).
- Log from 2008-07-29 planning meeting
- Log from 2008-07-22 planning meeting
- Log from 2008-07-15 planning meeting
Current action items
Update travel information on wiki (MarkeMahut)Internet access -- we'll use university network (RadekVokal)Fedora Live DVDs (MarekMahut)Publicity on Fedora Planet & mailing lists (MaxSpevack)Email/invitation to europe (europe-list) offices (MaxSpevack)Talk to Denise Dumas about RH travel budget(MaxSpevack)Check out rooms at the University (RadekVokal & MarekMahut)Figure out how much of hotel bill can be paid from FUDCon budget (MaxSpevack)- Food for Friday, Saturday, Sunday
- Detailed list of needs for each day (MaxSpevack)
- Get price quotes based on list (RadekVokal)
- Social Event for Saturday night
- Determine budget for event (MaxSpevack)
- Figure out location (RadekVokal)
- Projectors from the RH office (MarekMahut)
- Tshirts (MaxSpevack & NicuBuculei)
- Advertisement flyer
- English text (MaxSpevack)
- Czech text (RadekVokal)
- Ask Art Team to make it look good (MaxSpevack)
- Publicity at universities or other places in Brno & Prague
- sci.muni.cz (MarekMahut)
- fi.muni.cz (MarekMahut)
- Travel subsidies and sponsorships (MaxSpevack)
- Confirm number of rooms with hotel (MaxSpevack & RadekVokal)
- Banner ad for FUDCon on RH Europe website
Budget
- 20k USD = 12.5k EUR = 290k CZK
- Travel estimate 4,000 EUR
- Hotel estimate 4,000 EUR
- Food estimate 3,000 EUR
- Tshirts estimate 1,500 EUR