FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developer's Conference, an opportunity for all who contribute to or use Fedora to meet, learn, plan, and hack. This event is free and is open to everyone. To learn about what a FUDCon is like, you can view a video from the North American FUDCon 2009. Please read https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_organization_process and understand it thoroughly if you are a event organizing volunteer. If you are responsible for finding a good place, refer to the requirements listed in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/Organization
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Event Details
* Venue: COEP (College of Engineering, Pune). * Date: 4th, 5th and 6th of November 2011. Friday and Saturday are talks and Sunday is the hackfest * Time: 9 AM
Bidding info
Pune is the second largest city in the Indian state of Maharashtra and is located about 75 miles from Mumbai.
Pune has an airport; however international travellers, especially from US and Europe, might consider flying in to Mumbai and getting a flight/taxi from Mumbai to Pune for a more economical plan. Flight takes about an hour and taxi takes about 3 to 4 hours. Getting a taxi is naturally cheaper and we can arrange taxi locally. The cost for a taxi should be less than $100. Sharing a taxi will be preferred for people coming in around similar times, bringing down that cost.
Approximate Round Trip Air Fares from Some Major Cities
| # | City | Cost in USD (To Pune) | Cost in USD (To Mumbai) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | 1327 | 1145 |
| 2 | Boston | 1428 | 1200 |
| 3 | Washington | 1428 | 1360 |
| 4 | Los Angeles | 1530 | 1407 |
| 5 | Frankfurt | 1018 | 650 |
| 6 | Munich | 1159 | 634 |
| 7 | Berlin | 1222 | 677 |
| 8 | Amsterdam | 1214 | 607 |
| 9 | Brusells | 1231 | 607 |
| 10 | Vienna | 1194 | 698 |
| 11 | Paris | 967 | 622 |
| 12 | Madrid | 1172 | 605 |
| 13 | Moscow | 3927 | 604 |
| 14 | London | 1039 | 612 |
| 15 | Tokyo | 1354 | 1008 |
| 16 | Beijing | 1031 | 827 |
| 17 | Hong Kong | 1037 | 727 |
| 18 | Singapore | 649 | 497 |
| 19 | Sydney | 1802 | 1473 |
| 20 | Brisbane | 1616 | 1489 |
| 21 | Colombo | 362 | 182 |
| 22 | Malaysia | ||
| 23 | Dhaka | 505 | 311 |
| 24 | Islamabad | 983 |
Round Trip Fares from Cities within India
| # | City | Cost in INR |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Delhi | 5522 |
| 2 | Mumbai | 4675 |
| 3 | Bangalore | 4422 |
| 4 | Hyderabad | 4765 |
| 5 | Chennai | 5070 |
| 6 | Calcutta | 7570 |
Tourism
[The official Indian Tourism website]
[The website for Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation]
Why Pune?
Red Hat has a large office in Pune with many members from Engineering, L10N, I18N and support services who are Fedora community members and active in various roles. Would help the budget quite a bit since we don't have to fly about 40 Red Hat members from various teams who have proposed talks and hackfests to another city and also on logistics to have FUDCon be hosted in Pune. We have run a FAD in May 2010 and sponsored Fedora community volunteers in India to participate so they are already familiar with the place.
Con:
Bangalore is a more well known IT hub and is more accessible for international contributors flying in. To come to Pune, some of them will have to fly to Mumbai and travel to Pune by taxi which takes about 3 to 4 hours in addition to the flight time. Pune has a airport and catching a flight from Mumbai to Pune is possible if one wishes to save time. It is more expensive than catching a taxi so there is a trade off.
Detailed budget estimates: Current total estimate: USD 15707
Proposed sponsorship criteria
- FUDCon team will sponsor local travel, food and accommodation for everyone who is a speaker or hackfest participant
- Red Hat speakers travelling internationally, talk to your manager for covering the flight expenses. FUDCon team can cover other expenses if needed.
- Community volunteers (international participants), we have limited budget for covering flight cost. FUDCon team will be choosy about this. FUDCon team will cover other expenses.
- Community volunteers (within India). FUDCon team will cover flight costs for you if you are a speaker or hackfest participant
Distance from Venue to hotel: We have dozens of hotels in the vicinity between 3 to 7 miles. We have a choice of several hotels (including Restaurants) which have internet access. Indian, Chinese, Italian and other cuisines are available. Fast food joints like McDonalds and KFC and places for coffee like Coffee day and Barista are available nearby.
Some hotel info:
Why COEP?
Map of venue
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=coep+pune&hl=en&cid=2150857724025808625
- Has a history of hosting and supporting Free and open source activities within the college and hosting conferences like DebConf
- Enthusiastic professors and college administration support
- COEP won't charge anything to host us and provides wireless access as well for free
- Has a budding Free software users group within the college run by the student body
- Spacious auditorium that can host 1000 people and smaller rooms that can host between 150 to 50 people
- Guest house can host six people (we intend to host the organizing team volunteers here)
- Bandwidth and wireless access provided by college
- Since COEP will cancel regular classes, we will have large number of students participating
- Potential to be the biggest FUDCon in the world in terms of number of talks and people attending!
Local mass transit: Public transportation system is weak but we will arrange vans and taxis.
Experience of the team: All of the members of the organizing team are long standing Fedora community members and have participated and organized Fedora talks in several FOSS events, FAD's and Fedora release events. Rahul Sundaram (event owner) has a attended and participated in FUDCon Delhi in 2006 and FUDCon Boston on a couple of occasions and is a member of the Fedora community for the last seven years after joining the project, a couple of months after it was originally announced.
FUDCon Planning meetings
June 4th 2011: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-June/002399.html
Budget Details
FUDCon APAC has been provided a tentative budget of 15000 US Dollars as per
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2011-May/002350.html
Rahul Sundaram will talk to teams within Red Hat and others on complimenting the budget but for the bidding process, our planning must be limited within this amount. Note that if a Red Hat person comes from some other country, his or her manager will generally fund that travel and that's what we will encourage. Max Spevack has additional discretionary budget in special cases. Community volunteers need funds to be taken out of the FUDCon allotted budget typically.
We are also tracking this at https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/48. This ticket is private to event organizers.
Pre-registration
Add your name to the list if you will attend. FUDCon is free and open for everyone to attend.
| # | Name | $$$ | Veg | T-shirt size | Roomshare? | Country | Hotel booked | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shakthi Kannan | - | L | India | N | |||
| 2 | Rahul Sundaram | - | L | India | N | |||
| 3 | Ankur Sinha | - | M | India | N | |||
| 4 | Hiemanshu Sharma | - | XL | India | N | |||
| 5 | JoergSimon | X | XXL | Germany | N | |||
| 6 | Aditya Patawari | - | M | India | N | |||
| 7 | Harsh Verma | - | L | India | N | |||
| 8 | Lakshmi Narasimhan T V | - | Y | XL | India | N | ||
| 9 | Chetan Patil | - | L | India | N/A | |||
| 10 | Ranjan Joishi | - | L | India | N/A | |||
| 11 | Buland Kumar Singh | - | M | India | N | |||
| 12 | Ashish Jaiswal | - | L | India | N/A | |||
| 13 | Amit Upadhye | - | Veg | L | India | N/A | ||
| 14 | Pratik Bandarkar | - | M | India | N/A | |||
| 15 | Ashwinikumar Ladke | - | XL | India | N/A | |||
| 16 | Rahul Walunj | - | L | India | N/A | |||
| 17 | Deepanshu Bhalerao | - | M | India | N/A | |||
| 18 | Pushpendra Chavan | - | M | India | N/A | |||
| 19 | Kashyap Chamarthy | - | XL | India | N | |||
| 20 | Saleem Ansari | - | L | India | N | |||
| 21 | Kushal Das | - | XL | India | N | |||
| 22 | Imran Ahmed | - | M | India | N | |||
| 23 | Arun S A G | - | M | India | N | |||
| 24 | Praveen Kumar | - | S | India | N | |||
| 25 | Naveen Kumar | - | XXL | India | N | |||
| 26 | Huzaifa Sidhpurwala | - | M | India | N/A | |||
| 27 | Prasad J Pandit | - | Y | M | India | N/A | ||
| 28 | Pravin Satpute | - | L | India | N | |||
| 29 | Ramakrishna Reddy Y | - | M | India | N | |||
| 30 | Rakesh Pandit | - | XL | India | N/A | |||
| 31 | Gowrishankar Rajaiyan | - | XXXL | India | N/A | |||
| 32 | Siddhesh Poyarekar | - | XL | India | N/A | |||
| 33 | Kaushik Banerjee | - | XL | India | N/A | |||
| 34 | Amit Shah | - | Veg | L | India | NA | ||
| 35 | M.R.Niranjan | - | Veg | S | India | NA | ||
| 36 | Yogesh Chavan | - | M | India | NA | |||
| 37 | Nikhil AR | - | XL | India | NA | |||
| 38 | Prashant Ingale | - | M | India | NA | |||
| 39 | Siddharth A. Waikar | - | M | India | NA | |||
| 40 | Siddharth Mankad | - | L | India | NA | |||
| 41 | M.K.Pai | - | XXL | India | N/A | |||
| 42 | Shreyank Gupta | - | M | India | N | |||
| 43 | Minto Joseph | - | M | India | N | |||
| 44 | Nilesh Patil | - | M | India | N | |||
| 45 | Tirtha Chatterjee | - | S | India | N | |||
| 46 | Charles Rose | - | M | India | N | |||
| 47 | ashwin moily | - | XL | India | NA | |||
| 48 | Soumya Kanti Chakraborty | - | M | India | NA | |||
| 49 | Balaji Damodaran | - | XL | India | N | |||
| 50 | Pranay Agarwal | - | M | India | N | |||
| 51 | Samikshan Bairagya | - | M | India | N | |||
| 52 | Gireesh Sreekantan | - | M | India | N | |||
| 53 | Buddhika Kurera | - | L | India | N | |||
| 54 | Anuj More | - | M | India | N | |||
| 55 | Satyaakam Goswami | - | XXL | Y | India | N | ||
| 56 | Satya Komaragiri | - | Veg | S | N | India | N | |
| 57 | Biraj Karmakar | - | XL | India | N | |||
| 58 | Suchakra | - | L | India | N | |||
| 59 | pnemade | - | XL | India | N | |||
| 60 | Eugene Teo | X | N | XXL | N | Singapore | Not yet | Not sure, hopefully |
| 61 | Ratnadeep Debnath | - | Veg | XL | India | N | ||
| 62 | Jay Patel | - | Veg. | M | - | India | - | - |
| 63 | Yusuf wagh | - | N | L | - | India | - | - |
| 64 | Oindrila Gupta | - | N | M | India | N | ||
| 65 | Parshwa Nemi | - | Veg. | XL | India | - | ||
| 66 | Kartik Kohli | - | Veg. | L | India | - | ||
| 67 | Sayan Chowdhury | - | L | India | N | |||
| 68 | Chandan Kumar | - | L | India | N | |||
| 69 | Neependra Khare | - | L | India | NA | |||
| 70 | Susmit Shannigrahi | - | M | Y | India | NA | ||
| 71 | Danishka Navin | - | L | Srilanka | Not yet | |||
| 72 | Mahay Alam Khan | - | L | Bangladesh | N | |||
| 73 | Koustava Goswami | - | L | India | NA | |||
| 74 | Didar Hossain | - | M | India | NA | |||
| 75 | AbdulKarim Memon | - | XL | India | NA | |||
| 76 | Mohd Muneeb Shaikh | - | XL | India | NA | |||
| 77 | Bijay Dhitakl | - | M | Y | India | NA | ||
| 78 | Vivek Kumar Gupta | - | S | India | N | |||
| 79 | Tej Narayan Kunwar | - | Y | M | India | NA | ||
| 80 | Nihar Godbole | - | XL | India | NA | |||
| 81 | Sudhir Dharanendraiah | - | M | India | NA | |||
| 82 | Tejas Bubane | - | M | India | NA | |||
| 83 | Sachitanand Pandey | - | Y | M | India | NA | ||
| 84 | Saurabh Mukharjee (Rob) | - | XXL | India | NA | |||
| 85 | Steve Fernandez | - | XL | India | NA | |||
| 86 | Shubhmay Potdar | - | XL | India | NA | |||
| 87 | Nikhil Gupta | - | Veg | L | India | NA | ||
| 88 | Anand Nande | - | Veg | L | India | NA | ||
| 89 | Amit Jadhav | - | Veg | M | India | NA | ||
| 90 | Arpit Tolani | - | Non-Veg | L | India | NA | ||
| 91 | Sagar Gulati | - | Veg | XL | India | NA | ||
| 92 | Sunny Nihalani | - | Veg | L | India | NA | ||
| 93 | Pravin Mali | - | Veg | L | India | NA | ||
| 94 | Venkat Krishna | - | L | India | NA | |||
| 95 | Sunil Kondkar | - | Veg | M | India | NA | ||
| 96 | Soham Chakraborty | - | Non-Veg | XL | India | NA | ||
| 97 | Shambo Bose | X | Veg | XXL | India | N | ||
| 98 | Rajesh Ranjan | - | Veg | L | India | NA | ||
| 99 | Amita Sharma | - | L | India | N | |||
| 100 | Sachin Ghai | - | L | India | N | |||
| 101 | Narayan Murty Gundala | India | N | |||||
| 102 | Rejy M Cyriac | - | N | XXL | India | NA | ||
| 103 | Vipul A M | M | India | N | ||||
| 104 | Ritesh Khadgaray | - | N | XL | India | NA | ||
| 105 | Satish Mohan | - | N | XXL | India | NA | ||
| 106 | Shijoe George | - | N | M | India | N | ||
| 107 | Jayant Nandurkar | - | N | s | India | NA | ||
| 108 | Inder Punj | - | Veg | L | India | NA | ||
| 109 | Anil Vettathu | - | N | L | India | N | ||
| 110 | Jaikiran Pai | M | India | |||||
| 111 | Ankit Patel | M | India | NA | ||||
| 112 | Ladu Dash | - | Veg | S | India | NA | ||
| 113 | Milind Chidrawar | - | Veg | S | India | NA | ||
| 114 | Ravi Dave | - | Veg | L | India | NA | ||
| 115 | Arnab Dey | - | Non-Veg | XL | India | NA | ||
| 116 | Biswajit Banerjee | - | Non-Veg | M | India | NA | ||
| 117 | Sayanatan Sengupta | - | Non-Veg | XXL | India | NA | ||
| 118 | Vimal Kumar | - | N | L | India | N | ||
| 119 | Musharraf Hussain | - | Non-Veg | M | India | NA | ||
| 120 | Rahul M | - | Non-Veg | L | India | NA | ||
| 121 | Kevin Verma | - | Non-Veg | XL | India | NA | ||
| 122 | Krishnababu | - | Veg | M | India | NA | ||
| 123 | Anurag Daware | - | M | India | NA | |||
| 124 | Devang Parikh | - | XL | India | NA |
Sessions
We are following barcamp format for the talks. If you want more details, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_barcamp
Lightning talks signup
| Talk description | Speaker |
|---|---|
| Introducing to SCM systems | Ramakrishna Reddy Y |
BarCamp Sessions Needing Owners
| Session Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Btrfs | Introduction to Btrfs, the next generation filesystem |
Talks
| # | Session Name | Description | Owner | Audience Level | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What it takes to make a perfect website | -websites stuff to find more contributors | Hiemanshu Sharma | IDK | |
| 2 | Fedora Security Lab and the OSSTMM | This talk introduces how Information Security work can be done with the Fedora Security Lab and how you can contribute to it. It demonstrates the development state of the Fedora Security Lab and how the Fedora Security Lab implements and aids the OSSTMM. | JoergSimon | this is for anyone who want to learn about FSL, or can/want to help me to improve it | |
| 3 | Fedora Ambassadors a global/regional challenge | Different cultures, different groups - one conduct and so many challenges. This is about how the Ambassadors group evolved over the years, what work was necessary to maintain the group in an healthy state and how we work torwards to face new challenges - and of course it will be a ground for discussions around this topic. | JoergSimon | Intermediate | |
| 4 | Introduction to RPM packaging in Fedora | Tools, process and a basic walk through of a hello world package | RahulSundaram | Beginner | |
| 5 | Writing desktop applications using Vala | Will go though various benefits of using Vala to develop applications and some demo apps | KushalDas | Beginner | |
| 6 | Qt Application Development on Embedded Devices | Will cover building embedded devices based on Qt framework from ground up. Then move on to developing custom applications, cross-compiling and porting to the device. Examples and demo devices are ready. Must for embedded enthusiasts. | Suchakra | Beginner/Intermediate | |
| 7 | Creating web apps using Django and packaging its add-ons | This talk will introduce Django and enlighten the users on how to package/test its addons for Fedora project | Arun S A G | Beginner/Intermediate | |
| 8 | From RDBMS to BigData | Structure your data to make your services more scalable | Saleem Ansari | Beginner/Intermediate | |
| 9 | Fedora on Rails | Ruby on Rails for the Fedora User | Shreyank Gupta | Beginner/Intermediate | |
| 10 | gEDA: A Love Story | Learning electrical circuit theory with gEDA using Fedora Electronic Lab | Shakthi Kannan | Beginner/Intermediate | |
| 11 | Recreational Mathematics using Open Source tools | A small tutorial on how to use GNU/Linux for Mathematical recreations and fun | Naveen Kumar | Beginner/Intermediate | |
| 12 | Security : (More details later) | A talk on Software Security | Huzaifa Sidhpurwala and Eugene Teo | Beginner/Intermediate | |
| 13 | Introduction to n-djbdns | Introduction to n-djbdns & it's deployment. | Prasad J Pandit | Beginner/Intermediate | |
| 14 | Indic Typing Booster | Next Generation input method for Indian Languages. | Pravin Satpute | Beginner/Intermediate | |
| 15 | Fedora Virtualization for power admins | configure/manage/tune guests via shell using libvirt and friends. And brief intro to svirt(secure virt.). More details later. | Kashyap Chamarthy | Beginner/Intermediate | |
| 16 | Writing better python | Talk about using Python in pythonic way | Rakesh Pandit | Beginner/Intermediate Python programmers | |
| 17 | How to be a Fedora contributor ? | Introduction for beginners about how one can contribute in Fedora project | Rakesh Pandit | Beginner | |
| 18 | Fedora India Community | Past, present and future of Fedora India community | RahulSundaram | Beginner | |
| 19 | Python For Django | Take advantage of features of Python to write better Django Apps | Ramakrishna Reddy Yekulla | Advanced, Must Be a *Lazy* Python Programmer, Meta Classes, Duck Typing, Decorators | |
| 20 | Debugging code you have never seen before | A brief look at approaches one could take to analyse code that you have never seen before in your life and how they could be used in bugzapping | Siddhesh Poyarekar | Beginner | |
| 21 | The introduction to "How to write shared libraries" | A talk attempting to simplify and present Ulrich Drepper's paper How to write shared libraries | Siddhesh Poyarekar | Beginner/Intermediate | |
| 22 | Python's Data Structure | Categorising the Data Structure Use Cases | Ramakrishna Reddy Yekulla | Beginner | |
| 23 | Introduction to System Security Services Daemon | Brief introduction of how one can manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms via SSSD | Kaushik Banerjee | Beginner/Intermediate/Admin | |
| 24 | The latest in Linux Virtualization | I'll cover the Fedora virt stack: KVM, Linux, libvirt, SPICE, etc. | Amit Shah | Beginner | |
| 25 | Working with GNOME community | About gnome-love, working with upstream/desktop., code contribution | Ritesh Khadgaray | Intermediate | |
| 26 | ABRT | Automatic Bug Reporting Tool - how it works | Yogesh Chavan | Basic | |
| 27 | The Cleaner Web | Haml, Sass and CoffeeScript | Shreyank Gupta | Web Developers | |
| 28 | How not to reinvent the wheel | Programming using KDE libraries | Tirtha Chatterjee | Some knowledge of Qt | |
| 29 | From rags to riches using Qt and Fedora | Build a simple file monitoring program using Qt and package it | Tirtha Chatterjee | Beginner | |
| 30 | Tracing on Linux | Insight of tracing and profiling on Linux systems (Kernel & User space) | Soumya Kanti Chakraborty | Beginner | |
| 31 | Fedora Medical | Introducing people to Fedora Medical, getting more folks involved | Ankur Sinha | Novice | |
| 32 | Getting started with Haskell on Fedora | A brief introduction about Haskell and func. programming. An overview of Haskell packages and tools available for development. Getting started with packaging Haskell libraries for Fedora | Lakshmi Narasimhan T V | Beginner - some knowledge about rpm packaging will help | |
| 33 | Security (TBC) | A talk on software security, maybe combine with huzaifas? or about kernel? | Eugene Teo | Beginner/Intermediate | |
| 34 | An introduction to testing your Django app | Will go through the basics of testing Django apps and code coverage | Ratnadeep Debnath | Beginner and Intermediate | |
| 35 | Debugging Kernel OOPs | How to debug when kernel panics? | Neependra Khare | Beginner and Intermediate | |
| 36 | FUEL Project : Content Collaboration Consistency | A description of project and its efforts of creating linguistic resources for standardization and consistency through community collaboration | Rajesh Ranjan | l10n, i18n and Language Computing People |
Hackfests/Demos
Refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_hackfest on what is expected from a hackfest
| # | Session Name | Description | Owner | Pre-requisites | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FEL tickets | Working on Fedora Electronic Lab packaging | Shakthi Kannan | Packaging RPM | |
| 2 | FSL tickets | Working on Fedora Security Lab packaging | JoergSimon & RobertScheck | Packaging RPM | |
| 3 | FreeIPA integrated security management system on Fedora | A working demo of a FreeIPA instance which involves several technologies like an ldap server(389-ds), kerberos, CA(dogtag), DNS, and client side technolgoies like SSSD, Certmonger. | Gowrishankar Rajaiyan & Kashyap Chamarthy | Intermediate Linux admin skills | |
| 4 | Autotools | A walkthrough explaining how one could autotoolize a project | Siddhesh Poyarekar | Beginner/Intermediate programming | |
| 5 | HTSQL | URI-based high-level query language for relational databases | Ramakrishna Reddy Yekulla | Intermediate RDBMS Understanding | |
| 6 | vsevm | Very simple enterprise virtualisation management | M.K.Pai | Basic/Intermediate Understanding of Virtualization | |
| 7 | Using an RDBMS as a task queue | M.K.Pai | Basic understanding of workflows | ||
| 8 | QPID | A demo on using qpid to quickly hack up distributed applications | Siddhesh Poyarekar | Beginner/Intermediate programming | |
| 9 | System automation using Puppet | A walk through on how to create a puppet server and using it to maintain large infrastructures | Aditya Patawari | Beginner/Intermediate Newbie/Aspiring System Admins | |
| 10 | KDE-fy | Create KDE frontend to some Fedora utility that does not have one yet | Anuvrat Parashar | Intermediate | |
| 11 | LaTeX | A quick start up on using LaTeX to create documents and presentations. | Ankur Sinha | Beginner | |
| 12 | Shell scripting | A quick introduction to basic shell commands, and how to use these in shell scripts | Ankur Sinha | Beginner | |
| 13 | Packaging | Creating and reviewing your own RPM package | Parag Nemade | Packaging RPM | |
| 14 | Beacon | [CODE SPRINT] A WYSIWYG DocBook Editor for Fedora Documentation | Satya Komaragiri | Beginner/Intermediate Programmers/Web Developers/UI Designers |
Organizers
| # | Responsibility | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | - | Aditya Patawari |
| 2 | Volunteer Team/Photography | Suchakra |
| 3 | Budget | Amit Shah |
| 4 | - | Harsh Verma |
| 5 | Goodies/Photography | Kushal Das |
| 6 | Hospitality | Satya Komaragiri |
| 7 | Catering | Prasad J. Pandit |
| 8 | Logistics | Narayan Murty Gundala |
| 9 | Registration (venue welcome team) | |
| 10 | Speakers lounge | |
| 11 | FUDPub | |
| 12 | - | Hiemanshu Sharma |