FOSSin 2007

= Project Day at FOSS.in =

http://foss.in is a yearly conference on Free and Open Source software in Bangalore, India

Dates
December 04-08, 2007 (Tuesday-Saturday) - these are dates for foss.in 2007

Fedora Project Day is 5th.

Proposers
1.  Debarshi Ray 1.  Kushal Das 1.  Rahul Sundaram

What Is Fedora ?
An operating system, a set of projects, and a mindset.

The operating system is Fedora. It comes out twice a year. It's completely Free, and we're committed to keeping it that way. It's the best combination of robust and latest software that exists in the Free software world.

The mindset is Doing the Right Thing. To us, that means providing Free, open software and content, at no cost, freely usable, modifiable, redistributable, and unencumbered by software patents. Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute.

For more information visit http://fedoraproject.org

Conference Collaboration
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/FOSSin has all the details including the proposed agenda and workshops, potential speakers and a place for brainstorming and ongoing collaboration.

Pre-requisites to participate
Interest in learning, getting involved and contributing to the Fedora Project. The project day is proposed to achieve the getting together of existing Indian contributors (particularly perhaps the GSoC participants) in order to allow them to discuss their work and help in building new contributors. Base level understanding of Fedora roadmap and familiarity with some of the various Fedora subprojects eg. Translation and L10N, Documentation, LiveCD, Packaging would be good to have.

Audience
Application developers and packagers, extension developers, open-source evangelists & enthusiasts, localizers, security experts.

Theme of the day
Increasing the quantum of contributions to Free software via the Fedora Project from India.

Talks

 * Fedora - Freedom is a feature 10 - 10: 45


 * How to theme Fedora: The Fedora Art Team 10 45 - 11:30


 * Transifex: Upstream-friendly, community-centric translations 11:30 - 12: 15


 * RPM Packaging 12:15 - 1


 * Opyum: offline package management with Yum 2 - 2:45


 * Fonts in Fedora 2:45 - 3:30


 * Fedora - Secondary Architectures 3:30 - 4:15


 * Spin your own Fedora - Custom spins, software appliances and derivative distributions 4:15 - 5:00


 * Fedora - ARM : A work-in-progress update 5:00 to 5: 45


 * Fedora Panel - General discussion, Q&A - 15 minutes

If fonts workshop can be moved to hackers room, we will use that slot for mirroring talk or give more time for other talks.

Speakers
1. AmeyInamdar 1.  Tom Callaway 1.  Debarshi Ray 1.  Rahul Bhalerao 1.  Rahul Sundaram 1.  Dimitris Glezos 1.  Máirín Duffy

Delegates
List yourself here if you are not a speaker but coming to FOSS.in

1.  Sudheera Satyanarayana 1. Ashish Karkare 1.  Kedar Sovani