FOSSin 2010

Event Owner

Rahul Sundaram

Event ticket for keeping track of details at https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/105 (Only event owner can access the ticket)

When and Where

December 15, 16 and 17 in Bangalore, India. More details at http://foss.in

Registration

No.	Name	T-Shirt Size	Comments	Accommodation	Booth Duty	Sponsored? (link to ticket)
1	Aditya Patawari	M	Sharing room with Arun	Required	Yes	https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/107
2	Saleem Ansari	L	foss.in will sponsor stay	No	'	https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/113
3	Arun SAG	M	Sharing room with Aditya.	Required	No	https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/111
4	Suchakra	L	Local Contact	No	Yes	https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/109
5	Neependra Khare	L	Local Contact	No	No	https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/110
6	Amit Shah	L	Sharing room with Shreyank Gupta.	Required	No	https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/106
7	Rahul Sundaram	XL	foss.in will sponsor stay	No	No	Yes. Will reimburse directly
8	Siddhesh Poyarekar	XL	Local Contact	No	No	https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/112
9	Shreyank gupta	M	Sharing room with Amit Shah	Required	Yes	https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/115
10	Harish Pillay	XL	arriving into Bangalore on Dec 14	taken care of	If needed	Red Hat funded

Sponsorship

Travel and accommodation are sponsored by Red HatCommunity Architecture team to enable Fedora contributors in India to get together as part of the foss.in event. The following is a list of contributors we are sponsoring for this event. It is a overall estimate and helps provides transparency.

Name	Amount	Comments
Aditya Patawari	7826 INR
Amit Shah	INR	Amit Shah has booked 2 rooms for 4 mini conf speakers and will reimburse directly
Arun Sag	6700 INR
Saleem Ansari	5935 INR
Rahul Sundaram	5299 INR
Neependra Khare	6300 INR
Shreyank Gupta	5711 INR
Suchakra	5181 INR
Siddesh Poyarekar	6213 INR

Main Conf Sessions

Session Name	Description	Duration	Audience Level	Owner	Slides
Getting started with Fedora Embedded and QEMU/ARM hands-on	This talk is focussed from a beginner's perspective about Embedded/Linux development and utilizing the maximum from the environment provided by Fedora Embedded. A hands-on with QEMU/ARM for setting up a boot-loader, kernel image, root file system and thereafter on how to customize it further. Finally summarizing the talk with various tools which can be used for development, testing and deployment, and how to contribute back to Fedora Embedded	30-45 min	Beginner/Intermediate	Saleem Ansari	https://github.com/tuxdna/arm-experiments/tree/master/docs
Failures of Fedora and what we learned from it	Experiences from Fedora for 7 years and 14 releases and what we learned from our mistakes	1 hour	Beginner/Intermediate	Rahul Sundaram	presentation

Mini Conf Sessions

Session Name	Time	Description	Duration	Audience Level	Owner	Slides
Fedora Virtualisation: How it Stacks Up	14:00	I'll talk on the various components that make the Fedora virt system and also on the Fedora Cloud efforts. There will be sufficient hints for volunteers looking for areas to contribute.	30-40 minutes	Intermediate/Advanced	Amit Shah	File:Fedora-virt.odp
Fedora Summer Coding and Fedora KDE Netbook Remix	14:45	The talk will help students to know more about Fedora Summer Coding, how to participate and do's and don'ts for FSC and similar events. Also the building of KDE Netbook remix will be discussed.	30 min	Beginner/Students	Aditya Patawari	Presentation
Exploring Emacs in Fedora - tips and tricks, packaging extensions	15:30	This talk is about various Emacs extensions i maintain for Fedora and how you can use them to enhance your emacs experience	30 mi	Beginner/Student	Arun SAG	presentation-pdf
Four Seasons of Code	16:10	Talk on FSoC Student Project Management System	30 min	Students/Organisations	Shreyank Gupta	pdf
Using tracing tools to debug kernel issues	16:40	Talk on ftrace, trace-cmd to debug kernel	45 min	Intermediate/Advance	Neependra Khare	File:Fedora Ftrace.pdf
Linux-on-a-Box, Straight Through a Web Browser	17:30	This talk is about accessing Linux on embedded devices remotely using a simple web-browser and its use for educational, administrative and development purposes. This has been made possible by the use of FOSS such as Ajaxterm and setting up a web-server. Some scripts are written for queuing users trying to access the actual hardware at remote end.	20 min	Beginner/Intermediate	Suchakra	PDFs

Workouts

Session Name	Description	Duration	Audience Level	Owner
Bugzapping in Fedora	A workout on bugzapping in Fedora	Day long parallel activity	Beginner/Intermediate	Siddhesh Poyarekar
FedoraForKids	A workshop kind of event where we'll talk about how to create a remix, what all packages should be included for a "Fedora For Kids" Spin and what all apps needs to be packaged for the same. We'll try to roll out the remix, if possible, by the end of FOSS.in. This idea can be refined a lot, needs a lot of community input.	A Couple of hours or Day Long depending upon what we target.	Beginner/Intermediate	Aditya Patawari

Travel

Fedora Project is sponsoring travel for all speakers. Local travel from bus stand to airport can be either via the terminal bus (costs Rs 150) or by local approved taxis (Easy Cabs, Meru Cabs or KSTDC Cabs).

Accommodation

Fedora Project is sponsoring accommodation for four mini conf speakers at:

Hotel Pai Viceroy Hotel. No.6 / J.C Road 1st Cross, Near Minerva circle / Bangalore 2, Bangalore, 560011 Tel: 918026701494,918026535400,918026533701, 2 rooms, shared by four people. Booked under the name of Amit Shah from December 14th to December 18th 2010. 12 PM to 12 PM is counted as one day. Complimentary/free breakfast and free internet wi-fi access.

foss.in is sponsoring accommodation for the two main conference speakers at:

Tranquille Apartments No 22/5 8th Cross, Chikkadugodi, Tavarekere Main Road Bangalore 560 029 India

Contact numbers are

080 - 41214959 +91 99455 64916 +91 98807 02992