Event Owner
Event ticket for keeping track of details at https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/105 (Only event owner can access the ticket)
When and Where
December 15, 16 and 17 in Bangalore, India. More details at http://foss.in
Registration
| No. | Name | T-Shirt Size | Comments | Accommodation | Booth Duty | Sponsored? (link to ticket) | |
| 1 | Hiemanshu Sharma | XL | Local | No | Yes | No | |
| 2 | Aditya Patawari | M | Sharing room with Arun | Required | Yes | https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/107 | |
| 3 | Saleem Ansari | L | foss.in will sponsor stay | No | ' | https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/113 | |
| 4 | Arun SAG | M | Sharing room with Aditya. | Required | No | https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/111 | |
| 5 | Dinesh Kumar | M | Local | N/A | Yes | No | |
| 6 | Suchakra | L | Local Contact | No | Yes | https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/109 | |
| 7 | Neependra Khare | L | Local Contact | No | No | https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/110 | |
| 8 | Amit Shah | L | Sharing room with Shreyank Gupta. | Required | No | https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/106 | |
| 9 | Rahul Sundaram | XL | foss.in will sponsor stay | No | No | Yes. Will reimburse directly | |
| 10 | Siddhesh Poyarekar | XL | Local Contact | No | No | https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/112 | |
| 11 | Shreyank gupta | M | Sharing room with Amit Shah | Required | Yes | https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/115 | |
| 12 | Harish Pillay | XL | arriving into Bangalore on Dec 14 | taken care of | If needed | Red Hat funded |
Sponsorship
Travel and accommodation are sponsored by Red HatCommunity Architecture team to enable Fedora contributors in India to get together as part of the foss.in event. The following is a list of contributors we are sponsoring for this event. It is a overall estimate and helps provides transparency.
| Name | Amount | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Aditya Patawari | 7826 INR | |
| Amit Shah | INR | Amit Shah has booked 2 rooms for 4 mini conf speakers and will reimburse directly |
| Arun Sag | 6700 INR | |
| Saleem Ansari | 5935 INR | |
| Rahul Sundaram | 5299 INR | |
| Neependra Khare | 6300 INR | |
| Shreyank Gupta | 5711 INR | |
| Suchakra | 5181 INR | |
| Siddesh Poyarekar | 6213 INR |
Main Conf Sessions
| Session Name | Description | Duration | Audience Level | Owner | Slides |
| Getting started with Fedora Embedded and QEMU/ARM hands-on | This talk is focussed from a beginner's perspective about Embedded/Linux development and utilizing the maximum from the environment provided by Fedora Embedded. A hands-on with QEMU/ARM for setting up a boot-loader, kernel image, root file system and thereafter on how to customize it further. Finally summarizing the talk with various tools which can be used for development, testing and deployment, and how to contribute back to Fedora Embedded | 30-45 min | Beginner/Intermediate | Saleem Ansari | https://github.com/tuxdna/arm-experiments/tree/master/docs |
| Failures of Fedora and what we learned from it | Experiences from Fedora for 7 years and 14 releases and what we learned from our mistakes | 1 hour | Beginner/Intermediate | Rahul Sundaram |
Mini Conf Sessions
| Session Name | Time | Description | Duration | Audience Level | Owner | Slides |
| Fedora Virtualisation: How it Stacks Up | 14:00 | I'll talk on the various components that make the Fedora virt system and also on the Fedora Cloud efforts. There will be sufficient hints for volunteers looking for areas to contribute. | 30-40 minutes | Intermediate/Advanced | Amit Shah | File:Fedora-virt.odp |
| Fedora Summer Coding and Fedora KDE Netbook Remix | 14:45 | The talk will help students to know more about Fedora Summer Coding, how to participate and do's and don'ts for FSC and similar events. Also the building of KDE Netbook remix will be discussed. | 30 min | Beginner/Students | Aditya Patawari | |
| Exploring Emacs in Fedora - tips and tricks, packaging extensions | 15:30 | This talk is about various Emacs extensions i maintain for Fedora and how you can use them to enhance your emacs experience | 30 mins | Beginner/Student | Arun SAG | presentation-pdf |
| Four Seasons of Code | 16:10 | Talk on FSoC Student Project Management System | 30 min | Students/Organisations | Shreyank Gupta | |
| Using tracing tools to debug kernel issues | 16:40 | Talk on ftrace, trace-cmd to debug kernel | 45 min | Intermediate/Advance | Neependra Khare | File:Fedora Ftrace.pdf |
| Linux-on-a-Box, Straight Through a Web Browser | 17:30 | This talk is about accessing Linux on embedded devices remotely using a simple web-browser and its use for educational, administrative and development purposes. This has been made possible by the use of FOSS such as Ajaxterm and setting up a web-server. Some scripts are written for queuing users trying to access the actual hardware at remote end. | 20 min | Beginner/Intermediate | Suchakra | PDFs
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Workouts
| Session Name | Description | Duration | Audience Level | Owner |
| Bugzapping in Fedora | A workout on bugzapping in Fedora | Day long parallel activity | Beginner/Intermediate | Siddhesh Poyarekar |
| FedoraForKids | A workshop kind of event where we'll talk about how to create a remix, what all packages should be included for a "Fedora For Kids" Spin and what all apps needs to be packaged for the same. We'll try to roll out the remix, if possible, by the end of FOSS.in. This idea can be refined a lot, needs a lot of community input. | A Couple of hours or Day Long depending upon what we target. | Beginner/Intermediate | Aditya Patawari |
Travel
Fedora Project is sponsoring travel for all speakers. Local travel from bus stand to airport can be either via the terminal bus (costs Rs 150) or by local approved taxis (Easy Cabs, Meru Cabs or KSTDC Cabs).
Accommodation
Fedora Project is sponsoring accommodation for four mini conf speakers at:
Hotel Pai Viceroy Hotel. No.6 / J.C Road 1st Cross, Near Minerva circle / Bangalore 2, Bangalore, 560011 Tel: 918026701494,918026535400,918026533701, 2 rooms, shared by four people. Booked under the name of Amit Shah from December 14th to December 18th 2010. 12 PM to 12 PM is counted as one day. Complimentary/free breakfast and free internet wi-fi access.
foss.in is sponsoring accommodation for the two main conference speakers at:
Tranquille Apartments No 22/5 8th Cross, Chikkadugodi, Tavarekere Main Road Bangalore 560 029 India
Contact numbers are
080 - 41214959 +91 99455 64916 +91 98807 02992
Food
foss.in will provide you food and coffee/tea as part of your ticket cost. Fedora Project will reimburse the expense for the mini conf speakers.
Tasks
| Tasks | Sub tasks | Owner | Comments |
| Planning meeting | # Initial meeting between owners #General meetings |
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| Contact/Update tentative participants | # fedora-india list # fedora-ambassadors list # lug lists # blog posts |
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| Get in touch with organisers for | # Venue for Fudcon/Devcon # Booth # Participation/setup fees/charges |
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| Swags | # DVD # T-shirts # Stickers # Buttons # USB Sticks # Posters # Leaflets/brochures |
GPG Keysigning Party
- HarishPillay is running a GPG Keysigning party at FOSS.in. The details on what to do is detailed in http://harishpillay.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/gpg-keysigning-at-foss-in-2010/. The date, time and location of the actual GPG Keysigning party will be announced at the start of FOSS.in and updated here as well as at http://harishpillay.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/gpg-keysigning-at-foss-in-2010/.