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Fedora Day Buenos Aires 2014

About

Fedora Day Paraná is an event to promote Fedora and it's related projects like oVirt, Openshift, Openstack, Gluster among others which will take place in Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina.

Date

  • June **, 2014

Venue

The conference can take place at

Organization

Team

Name Tasks
Adrian Soliard Conference general organization, Budget and Program
Matias Kreder Conference general organization, Budget and Program
Rino Rondan Conference general organization, Venue e Local support

Tasks

Task Responsible Comments Status

Fedora contributors attending the event

Name City Tasks at conference Travel budget USD Lodging?
Adrian Soliard Paraná, Entre Ríos Organization, talks, etc - No

Activities at Fedora Day Buenos Aires

Activities

  • Fedora 22 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 Fedora apps - Adrian Soliard and Emanuel Nazetta
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 SELinux in Fedora - 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
Fedora apps Adrian Soliard , Emanuel Nazetta A presentation and description of the infrastructure and tools beside the community
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 in Fedora Adrian Soliard An introduction to SELinux, and why Fedora use it as default

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
 Argentina
  • Exact location of conference place is:
 Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, sede Medrano
 Avenida Medrano 951
 Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (formerly known as Capital Federal)
 Argentina
 C1179AAQ


  • 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 switch their site 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.

  • In case you are travelling by car to the conference place, try to stick to this route[6] as it is one of the safest and most direct ones. It has tolls and its prices vary from 6 to 20 ARS.

Getting in conference place from Buenos Aires Bus Station

  • Retiro bus station location:
 Av. Antártida Argentina y Calle 10
 Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
 Buenos Aires
 Argentina
 C1104AJQ
  • Some sites of interest:
 Official website (it is in Spanish).[7]
 Wikipedia's Article in English.[8]
  • How to get from Retiro bus station to Conference place
 - Considering Subway B Line has new schedules (6 to 14 on Saturdays), I'd recommend the following routes in case you're planning to show up a bit late:
      FromTerminal de Ómnibus de Retiro To Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN)
       Bus 106 - Estimated Trip Time 31' 
         Walk from 1250 ANTARTIDA ARGENTINA AV. up to intersection of ANTARTIDA ARGENTINA AV. and LUISONI, ARTURO, Mayor.
         Take the Bus 106 get off at CORDOBA AV. and MEDRANO.
         Walk from intersection of CORDOBA AV. and MEDRANO until reach your destination.
       Bus 26 - Estimated Trip Time 35' 
         Walk from 1250 ANTARTIDA ARGENTINA AV. up to intersection of ANTARTIDA ARGENTINA AV. and Dr. Ramos Mejía, José María AV. (bus stop is not exactly there, it's accross the street in harbour direction).
         Take the Bus 26 get off at LAVALLE and MEDRANO AV..
         Walk from intersection of LAVALLE and MEDRANO AV. until reach your destination.

      If you don't have SUBE card, trip needs to be paid with coins and it's more expensive.
      In case you do, It might cost between 3,50ARS and 4,00ARS.

Hotels close to the venue

 * Near conference place.
   - Hotels. [9]
   - Nearby hostels. [10]

 * Near Casa Rosada.
   - Hotels. [11]
   - Hostels. [12]

 * San Telmo.
   - Hotels. [13]
   - Hostels. [14]

Public transportation in CABA

 * Websites of interest:
   Underground's official website[15]
     It's in Spanish, but on the lower right corner of the main site you can check the service status.
   CómoLlego[16]
     Buenos Aires' official site to get travel information and some places of interest.
     You can change the language (Currently only Spanish or English) by going here[17].

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

TODO

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