Fedora Events: FrOSCon 2011 - Sankt Augustin, Germany
About FrOSCon
FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software and Open Source, taking place for the fifth time on August, 20th/21st 2011 at the University of Applied Science in Sankt Augustin near the cities of Bonn and Cologne.
The conference revolves around a rich schedule of talks, highlighting current topics in Free Software and Open Source. Moreover, developers will be offered a large Free Software / Open Source space, allowing them to organize their own meetings or even their own lineup of events.
Additionally, exhibition space will be available to companies and projects, so they can present themselves to the visitors.
For more information, visit:
Date & Location
- Saturday/Sunday, August, 20th/21st 2011
- Sankt Augustin, not far from Bonn in NRW, Germany.
- Getting there
Status
- Applied for booth and devroom
- Booth and devroom confirmed --Cwickert 23:29, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
- FYI: First version of general program is online --Raphael Groner Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:01:09 +0200
- Hotel confirmed --Cwickert 19:22, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Attendees
If you add yourself to this table the event owner will register you at [1] for a free ticket as well as food and drinks.
| Name | Hotel room needed | Booth service | Saturday | Sunday | Hotel Confirmed | Confirmed with FrOSCon (Free admission) |
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| Christoph Wickert (Event owner) | nope |  |
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| Benedikt Schäfer | Sat/Sun +1 |
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| Raphael Groner | Sat/Sun |
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| Dominic Hopf | +1 |
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| Christian Jantz | no | |
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N/A | |
| Sven Lankes | Sat/Sun |
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| Jens Kuehnel | Fri/Sat/Sun |
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| Sirko Kemter | Sat/Sun |
except sunday |
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Hotel Regina |
Speaker
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| Gerd Pokorra | no | |
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| ixs | no | no | no | no | |
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| Robert Scheck | Already booked | |
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| Sandro Mathys | no | maybe | maybe | probably | N/A | |
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Needed
If you can provide us with some of these please drop a note here
- ...
Please feel free to add stuff if you think something is missing here.
Accommodation
Unlike in previous years we will not stay at Hotel Regina in St Augustin but at Hotel zum Stern in Siegburg. FrOSCon was not able to tell us if there are still beds left in Hotel Regina and when they will be given to the projects.
- Hotel zum Stern
- Markt 14-15, 53721 Siegburg
- Phone +49 (0)2241 844090
The hotel is close to the station Siegburg. From there you can reach any other destination by train and FrOSCon is just 2 stops / Minutes away by tram (STR 66)
As of 2011-07-21 rooms have been booked by the event owner. If you need one please add a check mark in the table in the hotel room column.
FAD
We have a devroom on Sunday and want to use it for a FAD
Talks
| Speaker | Title | Abstract | Audience | Comments |
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| Benedikt Schäfer | Fedora Home Server | Create a multi purpose server based on Fedora | Beginners, interested people | |
| Christoph Wickert | RPM Paketbau | Introduction into RPM packaging | Interested people | |
| Christoph Wickert | Fedora Remixen | Create your own Fedora remix | Beginners, interested people | |
| Robert Scheck | Einführung in SELinux | Introduction into SELinux, its reason, stucture, typical issues and some management and handling | Interested people, beginners to intermediate | |
| Add yourself here | Title of your talk | Short summary of your talk | Target audience (Beginners, Hackers, ...) |
Schedule
| Time | Title | Subtitle | Speaker |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 | Fedora Home Server | Fedora als Eier legende Wolmilchsau im Heimnetzwerk | Benedikt Schäfer |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | Einführung in SELinux | Hintergrund, Struktur, typische Probleme und wie man sie löst | Robert Scheck |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Func | Fedora unified network controller | Andreas Thienemann |
| 13:00 Lunch break | |||
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Fedora remixen | Mix dir deine eigene Distribution! | Christoph Wickert |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | RPM Paketbau | Einführung und Tips für Profis | Christoph Wickert |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Offener Workshop | ||
Social Event
The social event takes place on Saturday evening at the event location right after doors are closing.
Reports
- Christoph: http://www.christoph-wickert.de/blog/2011/08/26/looking-back-at-froscon-2011/
- Sirko: http://karl-tux-stadt.de/ktuxs/?p=3335
- Robert: Review on the Fedora Ambassadors mailing list