FUDCon Brno 2008
Brno, Czech Republic :: September 5 - 7, 2008
For questions, please contact MaxSpevack, RadekVokal, and MarekMahut
General Information
Location
Friday, September 5
Hackfest day 1.
BREAKFAST: 9:30 AM
START: 10:00 AM
END: 6:00 PM
Saturday, September 6
BarCamp with sessions, talks, and presentations. Social Event in the evening! This is the most important day of the FUDCon!
BREAKFAST: 9:30 AM
OPENING REMARKS: 10:00 AM
SESSION PITCHING: 10:30 AM
SESSION #1: 11:15 AM - 12:05 PM
SESSION #2: 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM
LUNCH: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
SESSION #3: 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
SESSION #4: 2:55 PM - 3:45 PM
SESSION #5: 3:50 PM - 4:40 PM
SESSION #6: 4:45 PM - 5:35 PM
CLOSING REMARKS: 5:40 PM - 6:00 PM
SOCIAL EVENT: 7:30 PM - ???
Sunday, September 7
Hackfest day 2.
BREAKFAST: 9:30 AM
START: 10:00 AM
END: 4:00 PM
Sessions
If you will pitch a session at the BarCamp on Saturday, give your name and brief description here.
- Max Spevack - Fedora Websites team, and how you can help.
- Dimitris Glezos - Transifex: Upstream-friendly cross-community translations -- Towards v1.0
- Martin Sivak - FirstAidKit: how to simplify boring diagnose and repair tasks
- Peter Vrabec - SecurityAudit: what is it about, sectool and plugin development
- Luca Foppiano - Func: fedora unified network controller
- Marco Mornati - Symbolic: easy large scale environments control
- Jeroen van Meeuwen - Configuration Management with puppet, puppetmanaged.org
- Jeroen van Meeuwen - Custom spins and compose tools
- Jeroen van Meeuwen - Community Services Infrastructure
- Francesco Ugolini - Ambassadors Project and its localization (or, How to improve community interaction)
- Jaroslav Řezník, Lukáš Tinkl - KDE 4 & developers
- Jonathan Roberts - Fedora Marketing, where to go next
- Alan Pevec - oVirt - Virtualization Management for Fedora
- Phil Knirsch - Fedora and zSeries
- Miroslav Suchý - Spacewalk heading to Fedora
- Any topic that is interesting to you!
Hackfest topics
- Becoming a Fedora Package Maintainer (needs a leader)
- Fedora Astronomy hacking - MarekMahut
- Transifex hacking - DimitrisGlezos
- SecurityAudit hacking plugins - PeterVrabec
- FirstAidKit plugin development - MartinSivak
- Symbolic how to extend symbolic: scripts & plugins development! - MarcoMornati
- Func hacking - LucaFoppiano
- Any project you are working on!
Information for attendees
Lodging
- Approximately 50 beds are booked in Hotel Imos (google maps) - studios (2+2) - two double bed rooms with shared kitchen and bathroom. Direction from the hotel to University (Approximately 10 to 15 minutes by public transport, tram #1, ticket for 15CZK)
Travel
There are several airports around Brno; whichbudget.com can be used to see which budget airlines operate flightes to a destination; for your convenience, the airport names below are linked there; http://skyscanner.net can help you finding non-direct connections. For information about booking the train or bus tickets, follow the links in the rightmost column.
| Airport (code, people transported/year) | Distance from Brno | By bus (time, price one way) | By train (time, price/price back | Detailed instructions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Brno] (BRQ, 0.5 mil.) | 0 km | |||
| [Bratislava] (BTS, 2 mil.) | 130 km | 2:00 (2 hours) EUR 9 (CZK 220) | 1:25, EUR 7.70 (CZK 185) | Bratislava -> Brno |
| [Wien, Vienna] (VIE, 18 mil.) | 150 km | 2:40, CZK 310 (EUR 13) | 1:25, EUR 27/EUR 9 | Vienna -> Brno |
| [Prague] (PRG, 13 mil.) | 210 km | 2:30, CZK 200 (EUR 8.50) | 2:40, CZK 314/175 (EUR 13.20/7.30) | Prague -> Brno |
There are no relevant return discounts for trains, and the budget airlines often offer no return discount as well, so there is little incentive to use the same airport for both direction.
Tip: with some magic, the train ticket Brno->Vienna can be bought cheaply.
Pre-Registration (Deadline: Friday August 15)
Please specify the exact nights you need hotel accomodation for by August 15. The organizers need to know the exact dates for booking purposes.
| No. | Name | Which nights do you need hotel? | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MaxSpevack | Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun | |
| 2 | JeroenVanMeeuwen | yes | |
| 3 | GianlucaVarisco | yes | - |
| 4 | JensKuehnel | yes | - |
| 5 | DimitrisGlezos | Thu, Fri, Wed 10/9, Thu 11/9 | Need to be in Brussels Sun-Tue |
| 6 | LucaFoppiano | yes | - |
| 7 | SandroMathys | yes | - |
| 8 | JonathanRoberts | Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun | - |
| 9 | RadekVokal | no | - |
| 10 | AdamTkac | no | - |
| 11 | MarcelaMaslanova | no | - |
| 12 | IvanaVarekova | no | - |
| 13 | FabianAffolter | Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun | - |
| 14 | LubomirRintel | no | - |
| 15 | MartinSivak | no | - |
| 16 | DanHorak | no | - |
| 17 | MartinKoci | no | - |
| 18 | MarekMahut | no | will help with organization |
| 19 | MatejCepl | no | will help with organization, living in Prague |
| 20 | AlexanderTodorov | yes | - |
| 21 | OndrejVasik | no | - |
| 22 | AdamPribyl | Fri-Sat, Sat-Sun (2 nights) | - |
| 23 | JoergSimon | yes | - |
| 24 | OliverFalk | yes | Can only attend on Friday |
| 25 | FrancescoUgolini | fri and sat | - |
| 26 | AntonArapov | no | - |
| 27 | AndreaModestoRossi | yes | 80% sure to attend |
| 28 | FrancescoCrippa | yes | - |
| 29 | ThomasWoerner | yes | - |
| 30 | DominikMierzejewski | yes | planning to attend |
| 31 | MartinNagy | no | - |
| 32 | HaraldHoyer | yes | - |
| 33 | AdrianPilchowiec | no | 90% sure to attend |
| 34 | MichalSchmidt | no | - |
| 35 | VitFoukal | no | - |
| 36 | Ivan Stojmirov | no | - |
| 37 | JaroslavReznik | no | - |
| 38 | JiriMoskovcak | no | - |
| 39 | MarcoMornati | yes | - |
| 40 | ChristosBacharakis | Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun | - |
| 41 | JanPazdziora | no | - |
| 42 | David Kovalsky | no | - |
| 43 | Chris Ward | no | - |
| 44 | MichalNowak | no | - |
| 45 | Lukas Petrovicky | no | - |
| 46 | Jakub Hrozek | no | can attend from Fri afternoon onwards |
| 47 | MilosJakubicek | no | - |
| 48 | JanBusta | no | - |
| 49 | TomasSmetana | no | - |
| 50 | Eduard Benes | no | - |
| 51 | Phil Knirsch | yes | Depends on travel budget |
| 52 | Hans de Goede | Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun? | Planning to attend |
| 53 | Jhutar | no | - |
| 54 | Marek Kasik | no | - |
| 55 | Zbysek Mraz | no | - |
| 56 | Michal Marciniszyn | no | - |
| 57 | Oldrich Plchot | no | - |
| 58 | Simone Pucci | yes | - |
| 59 | JanKratochvil | no | - |
| 60 | ZdenekPrikryl | no | - |
| 61 | Petr Muller | no | - |
| 62 | Vadim Grinco | no | - |
| 63 | Karel Volny | no | - |
| 64 | Lukáš Tinkl | no | - |
| 65 | KarolTrzcionka | Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun? | planning to attend |
| 66 | Alan Pevec | Fri,Sat | - |
| 67 | PatrikCevela | Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun | - |
| 68 | DiegoZacarao | yes | depends on travel budget |
| 69 | Milos Malik | no | - |
| 70 | Miroslav Suchý | no | - |
| 71 | Kevin Kofler | none | planning to attend Sat only (early morning train in, late evening train out) |
| 72 | Miloslav Trmač | none | - |
| 73 | Jindřich Nový | none | - |
Information for Organizors
Meetings
There is a weekly organization/planning meeting in #fedora-meeting on Freenode every Tuesday at 13:00 UTC (15:00 CEST).
- Log from 2008-07-29 planning meeting
- Log from 2008-07-22 planning meeting
- Log from 2008-07-15 planning meeting
Current action items
Update travel information on wiki (MarkeMahut)Internet access -- we'll use university network (RadekVokal)Fedora Live DVDs (MarekMahut)Publicity on Fedora Planet & mailing lists (MaxSpevack)Email/invitation to europe (europe-list) offices (MaxSpevack)Talk to Denise Dumas about RH travel budget(MaxSpevack)Check out rooms at the University (RadekVokal & MarekMahut)Figure out how much of hotel bill can be paid from FUDCon budget (MaxSpevack)- Food for Friday, Saturday, Sunday
- Detailed list of needs for each day (MaxSpevack)
- Get price quotes based on list (RadekVokal)
- Social Event for Saturday night
- Determine budget for event (MaxSpevack)
- Figure out location (RadekVokal)
- Projectors from the RH office (MarekMahut)
- Tshirts (MaxSpevack & NicuBuculei)
- Advertisement flyer
- English text (MaxSpevack)
- Czech text (RadekVokal)
- Ask Art Team to make it look good (MaxSpevack)
- Publicity at universities or other places in Brno & Prague
- sci.muni.cz (MarekMahut)
- fi.muni.cz (MarekMahut)
- Travel subsidies and sponsorships (MaxSpevack)
- Confirm number of rooms with hotel (MaxSpevack & RadekVokal)
- Banner ad for FUDCon on RH Europe website
Budget
- 20k USD = 12.5k EUR = 290k CZK
- Travel estimate 4,000 EUR
- Hotel estimate 4,000 EUR
- Food estimate 3,000 EUR
- Tshirts estimate 1,500 EUR