Fedora Day Buenos Aires 2014
About
Fedora Day Buenos Aires 2014 is an event to promote Fedora and it's related projects like oVirt, Openshift, Openstack, Gluster among others which will take place in Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Also, the plan is to use this event as a kickstart to promote Buenos Aires as candidate to host FUDCon 2015.
Date
- Dec 13, 2014
Venue
The conference will take place at UTN - Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Avenida Medrano, 951 - Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Organization
Team
| Name | Tasks |
|---|---|
| Leonardo Vaz | Conference general organization, Budget and Program |
| Matias Kreder | Conference general organization, Budget and Program |
| Rino Rondan | Conference general organization, Venue e Local support |
| Eduardo Echeverria | Conference Website |
| Mariela Gigante | Conference Swag Material |
| Iván Weinberg | Conference Promoting |
Tasks
| Task | Responsible | Comments | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Find a place for the conference | Everyone | Rino did it! | Done!! |
| Conference Website | Eduardo Echeverria | Let's ask Echeverria to help here | Static version posted on http://fedoraday.com |
| Organize conference program | Leonardo Vaz | We need it to announce in conference website!! | Program finished, Edu will publish it on Dec 4th |
| Raise tickets to request travel budget | Leonardo Vaz | Raised and approved | Done! |
| Conference swag material | Mariela Gigante | Prices for Stickers, buttons and DVDs confirmed | On going |
| Promote the conference | Mariela Gigante , Ivan Weinberg | On going |
Fedora contributors attending the event
| Name | City | Tasks at conference | Travel budget USD | Lodging? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leonardo Vaz | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Organization, talks, etc | - | No |
| Rino Rondan | Campana , Argentina | Organization, talks, workshops, etc | - | No |
| Matias Kreder | Buenos Aires , Argentina | Organization, talks, workshops, etc | - | No |
| Matias Maceira | Cordoba, Argentina | Talks, workshops, etc | 200 USD | No |
| Valentin Basel | Cordoga, Argentina | Talks, workshops, etc | 200 USD | No |
| Julio Sanchez | Tierra del Fuego , Argentina | Talks, workshops, etc | 400 USD | No |
| Adrian Soliard | Entre Rios, Argentina | Talks, workshops, etc | 80 USD | No |
| Fabio Leite | Chapecó, Brazil | Talks, workshops, etc | - | No |
Activities at Fedora Day Buenos Aires
Activities
- Fedora 21 release party
- Talks on Fedora and related projects (40 minutes slot)
- Workshops (90 min slot)
Conference Program
Bellow the work-in-progress version of conference program, the order of talks may be changed.
| Time | Auditorio - (50 places) | Room #1 - (30 places) | Room #2 - (30 places) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Openning Session - Making things Happen, how to get involved with Fedora Project - Matias, Rino, Leo and Fabio | ||
| 11:00 | Getting involved with Fedora QA - Fabio Olive | Becoming a Fedora Packager - Rino Rondan | Spread the word: Becoming a Fedora Ambassador - Matias Kreder |
| 12:00 | Lunch Interval | Lunch Interval | Lunch Interval |
| 13:30 | oVirt Project - Rino Rondan | Business Model - Matias Maceira | Fedora ARM and Pidora - Matias Kreder |
| 14:30 | Gluster joining to the super colony - Leo | Fedora Robotics and Education - Valentin Basel | Some security tips - Adrian Soliard |
| 15:30 | Fedora Virtualization and Cloud - Matias Kreder | Fedora y GNU/Linux en ambitos empresariales - Julio Sanchez | Firewall and QOS on Fedora - Matias Maceira |
| 16:30 | Fedora, Docker and Atomic IO - Rino | To be defined | SELinux Introduction - Adrian Soliard |
| 17:30 | Closing Session - FUDCon LATAM 2015 proposal |
Talks and Workshops
| Activity | Speaker(s) | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Making things happen: How to contribute to Fedora | Matias Kreder, Rino Rondan, Fabio Olive Leonardo Vaz | Understanding how Fedora project works you can find a way to get involved |
| Getting involved with Fedora QA | Fabio Olive | How to contribute to make Fedora better by testing software |
| Becoming a Fedora Packager | Rino Rondan | First steps to know what we need to package on Fedora, Sponsoring new packagers . |
| Spreading the word: Becoming a Fedora Ambassador | Matias Kreder | Requirements and tasks for to be a Fedora Ambassador |
| oVirt Project | Rino Rondan | Talk on oVirt Project. |
| Business Models | Matias Maceira | |
| Fedora ARM and Pidora | Matias Kreder | Summary of supported ARM devices and architectures and how to run Fedora on some ARM devices like the HummingBoard and Raspberry Pi (Pidora) |
| Gluster project - Joining the supercolony | Leonardo Vaz | Gluster is a powerful distributed filesystem running entirely in userspace and capable to scale beyond petabytes. In this talk we'll see the architecture of GlusterFS, the features, use cases and how to use it on Fedora. |
| 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. Last year a robot to carry demonstrations in the booth installed FEDORA and had very good results with the general public |
| Some security tips | Adrian Soliard | This presentations shows that linux have all the tools and ways to be secure, but it must be configurated to that. (It requires live demostrations) |
| Fedora Virtualization and Cloud | Matias Kreder, Rino Rondan | Review of most of the virtualization and cloud technologies and tools shipped with the Fedora distribution |
| Fedora y GNU/Linux en ambitos empresariales | Julio Sanchez | |
| Firewall and QOS on Fedora | Matias Maceira | |
| Fedora, Docker and Atomic IO - Rino | Rino Rondan | What is docker? How i can use it? First steps to use this kind of virtualization. |
| SELinux introduction | Adrian Soliard | Introduction to SELinux |
Material
- Printed conference program
- Badges for participants
- Fedora and other projects stickers
Buttons
The idea is to make some buttons to give for free. Some designs found in | Fedora Marketing Collateral :
And some others modified by me:
Stickers
The idea is to give for free stickers as well...
- To promote Fedora:
- To promote Fedora 4 Fs:
- To welcome Fedora 21:
- Fedora Day Buenos Aires Stickers
Travel information
Getting in conference place from Ministro Pistarini International Airport
Exact location is:
Ezeiza International Airport
Autopista Tte Gral. Ricchieri Km 33,5
1802 Ezeiza
Buenos Aires
Exact location of conference place is: Avenida Medrano 951, C1179AAQ Capital Federal, Buenos Aires
Airport information according to their official website[1].
Car parking[2].
Car rental[3].
Private transportation (limo and cab services) offered by the airport[4].
Public transportation and long distance buses[5].
Be advised that there's a link on the upper right corner to change the site you're viewing to English.
Also, it is better for travellers to go to the official stands and refuse any car services not offered there. According to the site, it is for security reasons.
[To be continued...]
Getting in conference place from Buenos Aires Bus Station
[PENDING]
Hotels close the venue
[PENDING]
Public transportation in CABA
[PENDING]
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.
Costs
| Description | Cost in USD | People Sponsored |
|---|---|---|
| Airfare subsidy | 500 | Julio Sanchez |
| Bus subsidy | 80 | Adrian Soliard |
| Car subsidy | 200 | Matias Maceira, Valentin Basel, Emanuel Nazzeta |
| Lodging subsidy | Pending | Julio Sanchez, Adrian Soliard, Valentin Basel |
| Total | 780 |
- Considering 1.00 USD = 8.50 ARS in Oct 2014
We are planning to provide swag material for free (Live DVDs, stickers, buttons) so we will like to count on your support for this.
| Description | Cost in USD | Cost in Argentinean Pesos (AR $) |
|---|---|---|
| 200 Live DVDs | US$ 177 | AR$1500 |
| 100 10x10cm stickers | US$ 24 | AR$200 |
| 50 10x15cm stickers | US$ 18 | AR$150 |
| 100 buttons | US$ 16 | AR $130 |
| 100 copies of "Fedora Libro de Trucos" | US$ 17 | AR$140 |
| Total | US$ 252 | AR$2120 |
- Considering 1.00 USD = 8.50 ARS in Oct 2014
Event Reports
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