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Accepted talk list is here

1-5 December, Bangalore, India

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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
4	Kedar Sovani	M	Fedora-ARM: Past, Present and Future	I'll take care myself

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

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

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
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 talk about the tools involved from the end user perspective (PackageKit, yum and RPM) and developer perspective (Koji build system, Bodhi update system etc) and walk you through the review and update process as a Fedora developer and package maintainer	Practical hands on talk and demo	One hour	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
Fedora-ARM: Past, Present and Future	A discussion on Fedora-ARM, the current status, challenges faced, and the path ahead.	Talk	30-45min	Users, Potential contributors	Kedar Sovani

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

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
Software packages review session	We have hundreds of packages waiting on th review queue. Let's review them!	Workout	3 hours	Primarily for existing Fedora package maintainers	RahulSundaram
Hacking Boog	http://fedorahosted.org/boog is a bug reporting tool. We will fix all bugs reported and add some new features	Workout	2 hours	Python developers	KushalDas

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

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