FUDCon:India 2011 Talks

This is the list of talks submitted before we introduced the web-based talk scheduling software. You should submit all talks via the interface at http://fudcon.in/node/add/session

This list is old, and may not be accurate any more.

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Talk description	Speaker
Introducing to SCM systems	Ramakrishna Reddy Y

BarCamp Sessions Needing Owners

Session Name	Description

Talks

#	Session Name	Description	Owner	Audience Level
1	What it takes to make a perfect website	-websites stuff to find more contributors	Hiemanshu Sharma	IDK
2	Fedora Security Lab and the OSSTMM	This talk introduces how Information Security work can be done with the Fedora Security Lab and how you can contribute to it. It demonstrates the development state of the Fedora Security Lab and how the Fedora Security Lab implements and aids the OSSTMM.	JoergSimon	this is for anyone who want to learn about FSL, or can/want to help me to improve it
3	Fedora Ambassadors a global/regional challenge	Different cultures, different groups - one conduct and so many challenges. This is about how the Ambassadors group evolved over the years, what work was necessary to maintain the group in an healthy state and how we work torwards to face new challenges - and of course it will be a ground for discussions around this topic.	JoergSimon	Intermediate
4	Introduction to RPM packaging in Fedora	Tools, process and a basic walk through of a hello world package	Ankur Sinha	Beginner
5	Writing desktop applications using Vala	Will go though various benefits of using Vala to develop applications and some demo apps	KushalDas	Beginner
6	Qt Application Development on Embedded Devices	Will cover building embedded devices based on Qt framework from ground up. Then move on to developing custom applications, cross-compiling and porting to the device. Examples and demo devices are ready. Must for embedded enthusiasts.	Suchakra	Beginner/Intermediate
7	Creating web apps using Django and packaging its add-ons	This talk will introduce Django and enlighten the users on how to package/test its addons for Fedora project	Arun S A G	Beginner/Intermediate
8	From RDBMS to BigData	Structure your data to make your services more scalable	Saleem Ansari	Beginner/Intermediate
9	Fedora on Rails	Ruby on Rails for the Fedora User	Shreyank Gupta	Beginner/Intermediate
10	gEDA: A Love Story	Learning electrical circuit theory with gEDA using Fedora Electronic Lab	Shakthi Kannan	Beginner/Intermediate
11	Recreational Mathematics using Open Source tools	A small tutorial on how to use GNU/Linux for Mathematical recreations and fun	Naveen Kumar	Beginner/Intermediate
12	Security : (More details later)	A talk on Software Security	Huzaifa Sidhpurwala and Eugene Teo	Beginner/Intermediate
13	Introduction to n-djbdns	Introduction to n-djbdns & it's deployment.	Prasad J Pandit	Beginner/Intermediate
14	Indic Typing Booster	Next Generation input method for Indian Languages.	Pravin Satpute	Beginner/Intermediate
15	Fedora Virtualization for power admins	configure/manage/tune guests via shell using libvirt and friends. And brief intro to svirt(secure virt.). More details later.	Kashyap Chamarthy	Beginner/Intermediate
16	Fedora India Community	Past, present and future of Fedora India community	RahulSundaram	Beginner
17	Python For Django	Take advantage of features of Python to write better Django Apps	Ramakrishna Reddy Yekulla	Advanced, Must Be a *Lazy* Python Programmer, Meta Classes, Duck Typing, Decorators
18	Debugging code you have never seen before	A brief look at approaches one could take to analyse code that you have never seen before in your life and how they could be used in bugzapping	Siddhesh Poyarekar	Beginner
19	The introduction to "How to write shared libraries"	A talk attempting to simplify and present Ulrich Drepper's paper How to write shared libraries	Siddhesh Poyarekar	Beginner/Intermediate
20	Python's Data Structure	Categorising the Data Structure Use Cases	Ramakrishna Reddy Yekulla	Beginner
21	Introduction to System Security Services Daemon	Brief introduction of how one can manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms via SSSD	Kaushik Banerjee	Beginner/Intermediate/Admin
22	The latest in Linux Virtualization	I'll cover the Fedora virt stack: KVM, Linux, libvirt, SPICE, etc.	Amit Shah	Beginner
23	Working with GNOME community	About gnome-love, working with upstream/desktop., code contribution	Ritesh Khadgaray	Intermediate
24	ABRT	Automatic Bug Reporting Tool - how it works	Yogesh Chavan	Beginner
25	The Cleaner Web	Haml, Sass and CoffeeScript	Shreyank Gupta	Web Developers
26	How not to reinvent the wheel	Programming using KDE libraries	Tirtha Chatterjee	Some knowledge of Qt
27	Tracing on Linux	Insight of tracing and profiling on Linux systems (Kernel & User space)	Soumya Kanti Chakraborty	Beginner
28	Fedora Medical	Introducing people to Fedora Medical, getting more folks involved	Ankur Sinha	Novice
29	Getting started with Haskell on Fedora	A brief introduction about Haskell and func. programming. An overview of Haskell packages and tools available for development. Getting started with packaging Haskell libraries for Fedora	Lakshmi Narasimhan T V	Beginner - some knowledge about rpm packaging will help
30	Tracing (TBC)	TBC? Maybe	Eugene Teo	Beginner/Intermediate
31	An introduction to testing your Django app	Will go through the basics of testing Django apps and code coverage	Ratnadeep Debnath	Beginner and Intermediate
32	Debugging Kernel OOPs	How to debug when kernel panics?	Neependra Khare	Beginner and Intermediate
33	FUEL Project : Content Collaboration Consistency	A description of project and its efforts of creating linguistic resources for standardization and consistency through community collaboration	Rajesh Ranjan	l10n, i18n and Language Computing People
34	Introduction to Spacewalk	Overview of Spacewalk which is an open source Linux and Solaris systems management solution	Paresh Mutha	Beginner and Intermediate/Sys Admins
35	Btrfs	Introduction to Btrfs, the next generation filesystem	Neependra Khare	Beginner and Intermediate
36	USB an Introduction	Introduction USB Stack & Protocol	Gopal krishna Tiwari	Beginner and Intermediate
37	An introduction to Transifex	Transifex is an open service allowing people to collaboratively translate software, documentation and other types of projects. Designed as a hub for translations of open source projects, Transifex supports translations straight from the project's source.	Ratnadeep Debnath	Beginner, Intermediate, l10n and i18n people
38	Fedora & APAC	Insight of FOSS communities and get support towards the Fedora Project - An insight of FOSS communities focusing the contributors behavior and how their contribution can be obtained towards the Fedora project, specially focusing APAC region.	Buddhika Kurera	Anyone interested in Fedora Project.
39	Fedora APAC: Well Oiled Machine	The goal of this session is to explore avenues to make Fedora APAC work where "everybody knows what to do, when to do it and get things done without any help or assistance". It is my hope to lessen the burden on local ambassadors by getting resources on the ground more efficiently.	Heherson Pagcaliwagan	Anyone interested
40	Access Control for Git	Introduction to Gitolite	Sitaram Chamarty	Intermediate/System Admin
41	Zarafa in Fedora	This talk introduces the Zarafa Open Source Collaboration Platform at Fedora, its features and how users and developers can contribute to it. Aside of the official upstream roadmap, it would be interesting to have also a discussion about wanted or interesting features.	Robert Scheck	Beginner to Expert
42	Fedora Support	Where to get help when something breaks?!?	Ankur Sinha	Everyone
43	Why QML?	A talk on Qt, QML and why it rocks	Hiemanshu Sharma	Everyone
44	Approaching the community	A talk on spreading FOSS with a Fedora remix	Danishka Navin	Everyone
45	Cute hacks with PyGoocanvas	A talk on python bindings for Goocanvas, a canvas widget for GTK+ for drawing	Srishti Sethi	Beginner
46	389	The enterprise-class Open Source LDAP server for Linux	Amita Sharma	Everyone
47	Python workshop	A workshop on python programming for beginners	Kushal Das	Beginner

Hackfests/Demos

Hackfest info
Refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_hackfest on what is expected from a hackfest

#	Session Name	Description	Owner	Pre-requisites
1	FEL tickets	Working on Fedora Electronic Lab packaging	Shakthi Kannan	Packaging RPM
2	FSL tickets	Working on Fedora Security Lab packaging	JoergSimon & RobertScheck	Packaging RPM
3	FreeIPA integrated security management system on Fedora	A working demo of a FreeIPA instance which involves several technologies like an ldap server(389-ds), kerberos, CA(dogtag), DNS, and client side technolgoies like SSSD, Certmonger.	Gowrishankar Rajaiyan & Kashyap Chamarthy	Intermediate Linux admin skills
4	Autotools	A walkthrough explaining how one could autotoolize a project	Siddhesh Poyarekar	Beginner/Intermediate programming
5	HTSQL	URI-based high-level query language for relational databases	Ramakrishna Reddy Yekulla	Intermediate RDBMS Understanding
6	vsevm	Very simple enterprise virtualisation management	M.K.Pai	Basic/Intermediate Understanding of Virtualization
7		Using an RDBMS as a task queue	M.K.Pai	Basic understanding of workflows
8	QPID	A demo on using qpid to quickly hack up distributed applications	Siddhesh Poyarekar	Beginner/Intermediate programming
9	System automation using Puppet	A walk through on how to create a puppet server and using it to maintain large infrastructures	Aditya Patawari	Beginner/Intermediate Newbie/Aspiring System Admins
10	KDE-fy	Create KDE frontend to some Fedora utility that does not have one yet	Anuvrat Parashar	Intermediate
11	LaTeX	A quick start up on using LaTeX to create documents.	Ankur Sinha	Beginner
12	Shell scripting	A quick introduction to basic shell commands, and how to use these in shell scripts	Ankur Sinha	Beginner
13	Packaging	Bring your favourite software into Fedora. Creating your own RPM package and getting it reviewed	Parag Nemade	Packaging RPM and Fedora review process
14	Beacon	[CODE SPRINT] A WYSIWYG DocBook Editor for Fedora Documentation	Satya Komaragiri	Beginner/Intermediate Programmers/Web Developers/UI Designers
15	Wiki cleanup	Spend sometime cleaning up and updating pages on the wiki	Ankur Sinha	You need to know how to read and write ;)
16	Django testing with Transifex	Transifex is a great Django product. Let's do some testing on it.	Ratnadeep Debnath	You need to know the basics of Django testing. Hope you have attended my talk on Django testing and Transifex ;)
17	Beamer	A beginners' session on using Beamer to make presentations.	Ankur Sinha	Beginner
18	Introduction to Qt,QML ,Sqlite	Insight of Qt , How to develop rapid applications using QML & C++ , Creating Database based Applications with Qt which are portable to multiple formats for Mobile as well as Desktop Computers .	Gaurang Aggarwal	Who used to adore Visual C++/Basic or Rapid App Dev.
19	Complete FedoraForKids	FedoraForKids is a Fedora spin targeted towards schools and kids	Arun SAG	Knowledge on how to create spins/remixes and packaging
20	Understanding VCS and Getting Git	Introduction to Version Control Systems, the concept and demonstration of how to manage your source-code/projects with Git (one of the most popular distributed VCS)	Vaidik Kapoor	Beginner/Intermediate