Fedora Activity Day I, Pune, September 24, 2011
The goal of this FAD is to get any beginner involved in Fedora ahead of FUDCon Pune to enable them to get a head start and be more productive during and after FUDCon. We will cover the basics of getting started via a series of talks and workshops. The material presented should be accessible to everyone even completely new to free and open source software.
Event Owners
When and Where
Venue: Red Hat, Pune
Red Hat Software Services Pvt Ltd Tower X, Level-1, Cybercity, Magarpatta City, Hadapsar, Pune-411 013
Date : Saturday, September 24th 2011.
Time : 1000 IST onwards.
Attendees
- Suneet Bendre
- Rahul Sundaram
- Shakthi Kannan
- Siddhesh
- Kushal
- Gowrishankar Rajaiyan
- Kaushik Banerjee
- Kashyap Chamarthy
- Raghu Udiyar
- Muneeb Shaikh
- Akshay Mankar
- Kaleemullah Siddiqui
- Rejy M Cyriac
- Nikita Gupta
Laptops
Are you planning to get your Laptops? Please do the following on your laptops before bringing it to the FAD:
# yum install @development-tools fedora-packager
Please answer below
| Attendee name | Yes/No |
|---|---|
| Suneet Bendre | Yes |
| Rahul Sundaram | Yes |
| Shakthi Kannan | Yes |
| Prasad Pandit | Yes |
| Kashyap Chamarthy | Yes |
| Amita Sharma | Yes |
| Sachin Ghai | Yes |
| Ranjith Rajaram | Yes |
| Siddhesh Poyarekar | Yes |
| Kushal Das | Yes |
| Shreyank Gupta | Yes |
| Kaushik Banerjee | Yes |
| Akshay Mankar | Yes |
| Nikita Gupta | Yes |
Agenda
Note: If you haven't created a presentation yet, you can use the templates from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Presentations#General_Templates
| Owner | Topic | Time | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rahul Sundaram | Fedora - How to contribute | 45 minutes + 15 minutes questions time | Understanding Fedora, Where to start and Tools of the trade | |
| Shakthi Kannan | Packaging and reviews | 1 hour | Introduction to Fedora packaging (hands-on) | |
| Shakthi Kannan | di-git-ally-managing-love-letters | 1 hour | Introduction to Git (hands-on) | |
| Shakthi Kannan | Communication Guidelines | 30 minutes | Talk on how to use IRC, wiki, mailing lists etc. | |
| Prasad Pandit | Introduction to Python | 1 hour | Introduction to programming with Python. | |
| Shreyank Gupta | Introduction to Django | 1 hour | Talk on how to get started with web development using Django. | |
| Siddhesh | Introduction to Autotools | 1 hour | A hands-on session on autotoolizing C projects | |
| Kashyap Chamarthy | Introduction to Fedora Virtualization | 30 min | A quick demo of virtualization in Fedora. |
Reports
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