Council/2024 Hackfest

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This is the main page for the Fedora Council 2024 Hackfest. The purpose of the 2024 Council Hackfest is to forge a path forward for the Fedora 2028 Strategy.

At a glance:

• Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Red Hat Amsterdam office)
• Dates: 6-9 February 2024

Participants

No	Name	FAS	Role	Origin location	Remote?	Day 1 (Tue, 6 Feb)	Day 2 (Wed, 7 Feb)	Day 3 (Thu, 8 Feb)	Day 4 (Fri, 9 Feb)
1	Justin W. Flory	jflory7	Community Architect	Brussels, BE	no
2	Matthew Miller	mattdm	Project Leader	Brussels, BE	no
3	Aoife Moloney	amoloney	Operations Architect	Brussels, BE	no
4	Sumantro Mukherjee	sumantrom	Elected Representative	Kolkata, IN	no
5	Akashdeep Dhar	t0xic0der	Elected Representative	Kolkata, IN	no
6	David Cantrell	dcantrell	Engineering Representative	??	no
7	Alberto Rodríguez Sánchez	bt0dotninja	Mindshare Representative	Mexico City, MX	no
8	Jona Azizaj	jonatoni	DEI Advisor	Brussels, BE	no
9	Fernando Fernandez Mancera	ffmancera	Initiative Co-Lead	Brussels, BE	no
10	Smera Goel	smeragoel	Initiative Co-Lead	??	??

 : present  : absent  : undecided

Purpose

The purpose of the Fedora Council 2024 Hackfest is accomplish the following:

1. Example 1
2. Example 2
3. Example 3

Impact

• Vision: An abstract idea of where we want to go.
• Mission: A more concrete picture of how we get to the vision.

Why this vision and mission?

1. Supporting evidence 1
2. Supporting evidence 2
3. Supporting evidence 3

Primary goals

Primary goals are our most urgent tasks that set the minimum bar for what we want to accomplish.

Example Goal 1

• Goal: One-sentence summary of what we want to accomplish.
• Success metric: The metric we use to know whether we accomplished this goal or not.

Descriptive text to provide more details about the goal and why it is important.

Example Goal 2

• Goal: One-sentence summary of what we want to accomplish.
• Success metric: The metric we use to know whether we accomplished this goal or not.

Descriptive text to provide more details about the goal and why it is important.

Example Goal 3

• Goal: One-sentence summary of what we want to accomplish.
• Success metric: The metric we use to know whether we accomplished this goal or not.

Descriptive text to provide more details about the goal and why it is important.

Secondary goals

Secondary goals are other important tasks that are valuable to discuss in person, but are not defined as "mission critical" for the success of the hackfest. How much time we get to cover secondary goals depends on how much ground we cover with the primary goals.

Example Goal 1

• Goal: One-sentence summary of what we want to accomplish.
• Success metric: The metric we use to know whether we accomplished this goal or not.

Descriptive text to provide more details about the goal and why it is important.

Example Goal 2

• Goal: One-sentence summary of what we want to accomplish.
• Success metric: The metric we use to know whether we accomplished this goal or not.

Descriptive text to provide more details about the goal and why it is important.

Q&A

1. Is this realistic to accomplish?
   • Answer here.
2. Does everyone need to be in the same room for this to happen?
   • Answer here.
3. What happens if this hackfest does not happen?
   • Answer here.

Logistics

Planning pre-requisites

• Publish wiki page proposal for feedback
• Create new logic model based off original planning notes
• Finalize participant list
• Calculate final budget
• Submit proposal to Fedora Council
• Complete supporting research leading up to hackfest

Proposal: 2020

1. Location: Brno, Czechia
2. Dates: 20-22 March 2020
3. Travel itinerary:
   • US-based participants arrive on Thursday evening, May 9th
   • International participants arrive on Wednesday evening, May 8th
   • Participants leave on Sunday night, May 12th

Budget

Not yet finalized
Budget is not yet confirmed.

Contributor	Travel plan	Estimated travel cost (USD)
Alisha Mohanty	Bhubaneswar <=> DEL <=> ?? <=> PRG	$800
Justin W. Flory	NYC <=> ?? <=> PRG	$1000
Marie Nordin	ROC <=> NYC <=> ?? <=> PRG	$900
Maria Gracia Leandro Lombardo	CUC <=> ?? (not U.S.) <=> PRG	$1200
Maria Leonova	BRQ	$0
Matthew Miller	BOS <=> PRG	$600
Michael S.	CDG <=> PRG	$120
Nick Bebout	Evanston <=> ORD/MDW <=> PRG	$925
Renata Gegaj	PRN <=> PRG	$200
Sayan Chowdhury	BLR <=> ?? <=> PRG	$700
Shraddha Agrawal	DEL <=> ?? <=> PRG	$800
Tanvi Shrivastava	BLR <=> ?? <=> PRG	$700
Xavier Lamien	Paris <=> PRG	~$120
Round Trip Prague to Brno for 8 attendees	PRG <=> BRQ	$400

1. Travel: ~$8145 USD (anticipated)
2. Accommodation (10 attendees): ~$2500 USD
3. Location: $0
   • Red Hat Czech s.r.o.
4. Meals: ~$1500 USD (food for 10 for 3.5 days, inc. one social dinner)c

Total budget: ~$12,145 USD

External links

• Fedora Badges Hackfest planning (shared notes document)
• First announcement of Badges Hackfest planning
• Badges Hackfest 2020 schedule planning

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