Foss in 2009

When and Where

1-5 December, Bangalore, India

Important Dates

• 16-Oct-2009 Call for Participation and start of submissions
• 26-Oct-2009 End of submissions proposals (23:59 GMT+0530)
• 31-Oct-2009 List of accepted submissions published
• 15-Nov-2009 Due date for final slides & talk materials (23:59 GMT+0530)
• 01-Dec-2009 Conference begins

CfP

http://foss.in/news/fossincfp-2009.html

Registration

Not open yet.

Add yourself if you are coming.

No.	Name	T-Shirt Size	Comments	Accommodation
1	RahulSundaram	L	Proposing to do presentations/workshops as part of Fedora Project day and otherwise	Not yet determined
2	SusmitShannigrahi	M	Proposing to do workout/talks as per Project Day	Nothing yet.
3	JoergSimon	XL	Proposing to do presentations as a Fedora Contributor	i take care for myself together with max

FOSS.IN PLANS

Keep in mind, the theme this year is for engineering students. So propose things that are relevant to it and Fedora in general.

Tasks

Please take up any item that you can. Also add if you want anything.

Tasks	Sub tasks	Owner	Comments
Planning meeting	# Initial meeting between owners #General meetings	SusmitShannigrahi
Contact/Update tentative participants	# fedora-india list # fedora-ambassadors list # lug lists # blog posts	RahulSundaram
Get in touch with organisers for	# Venue for Fudcon/Devcon # Booth # Participation/setup fees/charges	SusmitShannigrahi
Swags	# DVD # T-shirts # Stickers # Buttons # USB Sticks # Posters # Leaflets/brochures	SusmitShannigrahi

Propose technical Sessions

Session Name	Description	Type (Talk/Workshop/Sprint)	Duration	Audience Level	Owner
Communication and Collaboration in the Fedora Project	How the Fedora Project works together	Talk+HandOnDemonstration	30 min	potential contributors and beginners	JoergSimon
Exploring Software Management in Fedora	In-depth look at Fedora's work on PackageKit, yum and RPM and the future of software management	Talk + Demo	30 min	Developers, Administrators and users	RahulSundaram
The Fedora Security Spin and the OSSTMM	How the Fedora-Security-Spin support's the only Security Testing Open Source Standard	Talk+HandOnDemonstration	45min	IT Security People	JoergSimon
Fedora Success Stories	The 4 f's and Stories around Fedora and Contributors	Exploratory talk	30-45min	potential contributors	I hope really that MaxSpevack can give this talk!
Integrating a Free and open source software project into Fedora	If you are wondering how upstream software projects gets integrated and kept updated in Fedora, now is your chance to find out. I will walk you through the review and update process as a Fedora developer and package maintainer	Practical hands on talk and demo	45 mins	Potential contributors	RahulSundaram
Fedora in Indian (Engg) Colleges, what are we lacking?	We have made considerable progress, but not as much as we should have. What should we focus on?	Discussion	30-45min	Existing contributors	SusmitShannigrahi

We are planning run a hackfest in parallel to the talks depending on the number of participants.

Hackfest

Session Name	Description	Type (Talk/Workshop/Sprint)	Duration	Audience Level	Owner
OLPC Sugar Fedora workout	Integrating the missing bits from XO into Fedora	Workout	2hours	developers, package maintainers of Fedora and Sugar	KushalDas Sayamindu Dasgupta
How to create your own Fedora Remix	Creating your own distribution can be fun and easy. Come, get involved and see how it is done	Workout	1 hour	Beginner	RahulSundaram
Redrawing and rewriting Fedora Distribution process	It is a long pending task, getting a web app for optimizing offline fedora distribution	Workout	2hours	Webapp/Turbogear people, may be parallel with other sessions	SusmitShannigrahi
Dorrie	Get involved and pour in ideas into the webapp for creating Fedora Spins and Remixes	Workout	2hours	Python/Django hackers, Web Designers	Shreyank Gupta

Event Owners

RahulSundaram, SusmitShannigrahi, KushalDas

Event ticket for keeping track of details at https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-india/ticket/25 (only event owners would have access)