Archive:FUDCon:Toronto 2009



Toronto, Ontario :: December 5-7, 2009 &mdash; General event owners: Paul W. Frields, Mel Chua

Quick reference

 * Looking for the Sunday schedule? See FUDCon:Toronto 2009 Sunday schedule.
 * Looking for the BarCamp schedule?|See FUDCon:Toronto 2009 BarCamp Schedule.
 * Live streaming!|OGG streams of rooms 1 and 2 at FUDCon: Room 1 Room 2

FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developer's Conference, an opportunity for all who contribute to or use Fedora to meet, learn, plan, and hack. This event is free and is open to everyone. To learn about what a FUDCon is like, you can view a video from the last North American FUDCon.

Event Details
FUDCon Toronto 2009 will be held at Seneca College, Seneca@York campus (map), from December 5-7, 2009 (Saturday-Monday). Saturday's activities start at 09:30 a.m. sharp. The hackfest activities on Sunday and Monday start at 10:00 a.m. sharp.  For best results, arrive around 9:30-9:45 so you have time to get situated, find out where you want to go, and so on.

Pre-registration
Please add your name to the list if you will attend. Registration is free and open to everyone.

Also, please indicate the following: Use the Comments section for anything else you think organizers need to know, or to offer or ask for space or rides.
 * Put an X in the $$$ column if you need funding to attend, and follow the instructions at . We'll use these answers to help figure out budgeting for the event. We are no longer accepting funding requests
 * Put a V in the Veg column if you would like vegetarian fare for any meals that we provide during the event. If you prefer vegan fare, please mark that column VV.  We will do our best to make sure everyone is accommodated!
 * Put your T-shirt size in the Size column, so we can have an idea about what sizes to have available.
 * If you are looking to share a room, mark an X in the "Roomshare?" column.

The Hotel Booked column values are: Y for Yes (booked); NA for Not applicable (local, or staying with friends); or blank for pending.

Requesting funding (Closed)
Requests for funding are now closed.

Bus Travel
A bus has been arranged for attendees from the Boston and Westford MA areas. In order to make sure we'll be all set at the border, passports will be required to board the bus.

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 * Credit card (VISA or MasterCard) or small amount of Canadian cash. (ATMs are common, ones operated by banks generally have lower service fees).
 * Your presentation slides or anything needed for the hackfest.
 * Casual clothes for the event.
 * Warm clothes for outdoors.
 * Temperatures are currently a few degrees above the historic average, just above freezing. No significant snow yet but it could come anytime.
 * Warm coat, mits, scarf/tuque recommended, especially for Skating.
 * Optional: Skates (or rent them at Nathan Phillips Square).

If staying at the hotel:
 * Optional: swimsuit, gym clothes.

Cell Phones
If you live outside of Canada, call your cell phone service provider and add their International or Canada-specific rate plan add-on - it may save you a lot of money. For Sprint, the call rate drops from $0.59/min to $0.20/min for voice calls. Sprint drops from $0.03/KB to $0.002/KB for data. For AT&T the rate is $20/MB if you don't have a pre-paid data plan.

Tracks

 * Track #1 - For those new to Fedora
 * Session #1 - How to install Fedora - Bert Desmet
 * Session #2 - How to add & remove software in Fedora - Bert Desmet
 * Session #3 - How The Fedora Project Works - Ian Weller
 * Session #4 - Everything you could want to know about LVM - Chris Tyler
 * Session #5 - Running Rawhide - Clint Savage


 * Track #2 - For those looking to contribute to the Fedora Project
 * Session #1 - Effective Bug reporting - Steven M. Parrish
 * Session #2 - Fedora QA: What we do, and how you can help - Adam Williamson
 * Session #3 - Getting Started in the Fedora Community - Yaakov Nemoy & Bert Desmet
 * Session #4 - Introduction to Packaging - Yaakov Nemoy & Rex Dieter
 * Session #5 - Designing UI Mockups in Inkscape - Máírín Duffy

Technical sessions - Saturday
For Audience Level, indicate whether your talk is appropriate for a beginner, intermediate (current skilled contributor), or expert level.

Documentation
Logging everything at FAD EMEA via IRC was a complete success. It enabled us to integrate people better in the conversation flow without being present. I (Yaakov Nemoy) want to do this again for FUDCon on a larger scale. If we include the streaming audio and video solution we had in Boston last winter, we can cover as many bases as possible. In order to cover as many sessions as possible, we need a few things:


 * Volunteers - Yes, You. If you're not planning on doing too many sessions, volunteer to show up with your laptop and fingers ready for typing
 * A/V Equipment - Let that inner nerd shine
 * Bandwidth - Can we make sure we can get the QoS guarantees we need to keep the a/v flowing smoothly?

The planned structure at the moment is to provide one irc channel per room. We can name them after the actual rooms, so it's easy to see the traffic based on the posted schedule. This has the added advantage of enabling people to participate in more than one session at a time.


 * How to transcribe a session

If you are willing to volunteer, please put your name on the list below


 * FUDCon:Toronto 2009 Live

FUDPub
Following the day of technical sessions, we'll be moving the fun to Dave and Buster's. We'll provide food, pool and snooker tables, and non-alcoholic beverages for the first 130 registrants (up to the "130 mark" in the pre-registration table). There's also a full bar available for those so inclined, and a midway full of other entertainment options!

Skating
On Sunday 6 December after the day's hackfest sessions, we will be taking a group down to Nathan Phillips Square (in front of Toronto City Hall) where there's an outdoor skating rink. Skate rentals are available for something less than $10. We will take the TTC (bus -> subway) and it will cost $2.75 each way. Exact change or over payment is required for the TTC.

After skating, we will head to The 3 Brewers pub/restaurant which is about a 10 minute walk from Nathan Phillips Square. Everyone is responsible for covering their own costs. In case anyone is hungry before/during skaing, there are trucks adjacent to the rink which serve fries, hot dogs, burgers, etc. The trucks will only accept cash.

In order to enable travel directly downtown from campus, arrangements have been made for laptops to be securely stored at Seneca (with options for delivery to the hotel hack room Sunday night or pickup at campus Monday morning).

Hack 'n' Snack
On Monday 7 December, there will be appetizers in the hack room/hospitality suite at the hotel from 8-9 pm, courtesy of the Hilton Garden Inn. This will include a selection of bruchetta, melon and prosciutto, cheese platter, crudite platter, and finger sandwiches.