1st Fedora Day Buenos Aires
About
This is going to be the first Fedora Day in Buenos Aires, to promote Fedora and our plan is to make it in a regular basis. We also
Candidate Dates
- Dec 6 -or- 13, 2014
Candidate Venues
- Venue: To be defined
- City/State: Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
- Country: Argentina
Organization Team
| Name | Tasks |
|---|---|
| Leonardo Vaz | Conference organization, Lodging and Budget |
| Rino Rondan | Conference organization, Local support |
Attendees
| Name | City | Arrival | Departure | Hotel | Need travel subsidy? | T-Shirt size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leonardo Vaz | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Dec 5th | May 14th | TBD | No | XXXG |
| Rino Rondan | Campana , Argentina | - | - | - | No | XL |
Fedora Activities at FISL 15
Activities
- Fedora 21 release party
- Talks on Fedora and related projects (40 minutes slot)
- Workshops (90 min slot)
Talks at Fedora Day
| Activity | Speaker(s) | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Fedora Robotics and Education | Valentin Basel |
icaro is a hardware and software development, part of the official FEDORA packages designed for teaching robotics in schools using free software and hardware. I want to give a workshop on robotics classroom FISL, for teachers and students. Last year a robot to carry demonstrations in the booth installed FEDORA and had very good results with the general public |
| Building an inexpensive and scalable storage system powered by ARM and GlusterFS | Leonardo Vaz | How build an inexpensive and scalable storage system powered by ARM, commodity hard drivers powered by Linux and GlusterFS. |
Workshops at Fedora Day
| Activity | Speaker(s) | Details |
|---|---|---|
| KVM Workshop on Fedora | Rino Rondan |
KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.k. I will invite to talk about kvm and their uses in Desktop/Server enviroments in order to create a Labs enviroment for Student and more examples for use it on a server enviroments. |
Travel information
Getting in Buenos Aires
- From Ministro Pistarini International Airport
- From Bus Station of Buenos Aires
Lodging
TODO
Budget
At the moment we're looking for local sponsors, and we're probably going to request budget to the project to fund travel expenses for the volunteers going to Buenos Aires the conference and requests must be done through |LATAM ticket tracker.
| Description | Cost in BRL | Cost in USD | People Sponsored |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airfare subsidy | Todo | Todo | |
| Lodging subsidy | Todo | Todo | |
| Total |
- Considering 1.00 USD = 8.40 BRL in Sep 2013
Event Reports
TODO