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Fedora Events: Fedora 10 Install Fest - Paris, France

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When and Where

  • 6 and 7 December 2008
  • Paris, France
  • Cité des Sciences et de l'industrie, La Villette


Responsible Ambassadors

Attendees

  • Contact as soon as the dates are official : Franz Maier, Max Spevack, Gerold Kassube, Yaakov Nemoy...

Layout

  • ...

  • Contacting local press to spread information (tbd)

Accommodation

  • Hotels
  • At some ambassador's home

Status

  • Contacting local LUG for dates with the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie (done)
  • Discussing the agenda of the 2 days (sessions, booths organization)

Reports

  • no report... yet !

Pictures

  • no pictures... yet !


TODO

Task Owner Status Observations
Completed task Somebody
Uncomplete task Somebody else
Unstarted task Somebody else
Contact Thierry Stœhr Quentin Dumont First contact OK, needs to be confirmed
Contact Tristant Nitot Emmanuel Seyman (Parinux)
Get USB Station Artwork MathieuBridon
CarlosVassalo
I'm in contact with Luca Foppiano. I have a beta version available. Need to find how to print it.
Make Fedora live fr_FR ks NicolasChauvet
Find hosting MathieuBridon
Find restaurants MathieuBridon
Ask for a USB stick price estimation CarlosVassalo
Write an agenda to coordinate blogging ThomasCanniot
Contact news sites, press, ... ThomasCanniot
Print flyers CarlosVassalo Translate / adapt the Solar one ?
Print a banner CarlosVassalo Print the one from MatthieuRondeau ?
Create a template for presentations MohamedElmorabity / ArmelKermorvant LaTeX or ODP ?
Get Ambassadors / contributors poloshirts MathieuBridon Once we have a consequent number, contact Fabian Affolter (fab-at-fedoraproject-dot-org)

Current discussions

Bochecha 14:51, 5 October 2008 (UTC) : Im putting here a summary of what we currently discussed by mail. We'll have to clean it up and sort it in the correct place (is this page for public display of the program or for us to organize the IP ?)


  • different stuff for each day ? (saturday for newbies and sunday for the hard geeks ?)


Conferences

SATURDAY (general audience)
Subject Depends on Attendee Time Slides URL Obs.
FOSS organization MatthieuGautier Not specific to Fedora. How FOSS is organized, who do what and how.
Not a FS philosophy explanation.
Maybe we will see new contributors appear :-)
FP introduction ThomasCanniot
What's new in Cambridge ?
Fedora-Fr presentation FP introduction ThomasCanniot
Open Formats Thierry Stœhr (Formats-Ouverts.org) QuentinDumont contacted him. NEEDS CONFIRMATION
The web Tristan Nitot (Mozilla Europe)
  • Emmanuel Seyman contacted him. NO RESPONSE YET
  • bochecha 13:01, 16 October 2008 (UTC): I'd like the presentation to focus more on the web in general (standards, accessibility and why opening all that matters for the web) than on Firefox. NEEDS DISCUSSION
OLPC FP introduction MathieuBridon I'll bring a XO.
SUNDAY (more technical audience)
Subject Depends on Attendee Time Slides URL Obs.
RPMs creation Couldn't it be a workshop ? NEEDS DISCUSSION
Virtualisation
Alternative repositories Blessed by FP ? NEEDS CONFIRMATION
Bugzilla Emmanuel Seyman (Parinux) bochecha 13:01, 16 October 2008 (UTC): I'd like the presentation to focus more on bug contribution through bug reporting/triaging than on Bugzilla. NEEDS DISCUSSION
System Security SouleymanDouar

Workshops

Subject Depends on Attendee Obs.
My workshop Another workshop Me blabla blabla
LiveUSB creation kwizart (?) Each one can make his own key or create for other (teaching to contribute)
Installing Fedora alone LiveUSB creation ? CarlosVassalo
Matthieu Gautier
Shows how easy it can be, might make people promote Fedora and install it for their friends. Removes the need for one people for each install.
RPMs creation bochecha (?) Workshop or conference ?
Using Fedora Installing Fedora alone ? bochecha (?)
Guillaume Kulakowski
Administrating Fedora Installing Fedora alone ?
Using Fedora ?
bochecha (?)
Guillaume Kulakowski
Depending on the audience, it can be very basic or go much further in details.
Internet 3G in Fedora Twentyfour-fr Install and use 3G usb key in Fedora (Workshop and support current user)
Mutt EmmanuelSeyman The greatest MTA ever
LaTeX: Office in a different way Installing Fedora alone ? bochecha (?) Showing the world why LaTeX is much better than other Office solutions

Bochecha 08:07, 6 October 2008 (UTC): I wrote my name on a lot of workshops as I am interested to run any of those. If you have a preferency for one of them, just pick it, I'll take what remains.

Living in Paris

Bochecha 14:55, 5 October 2008 (UTC): Come and stop by in #fedora-paris in Freenode to discuss with the people in Paris. We can host several people, we know some restaurants,...


  • Friday night:
+ People coming in Paris
Needs a place to sleep Hosted by Obs. (cat allergy and such...)
Twentyfour-fr ? Will better than last time (need confirmation)


+ People living in Paris
Parisian How much room? Obs. (I have a cat, bring your sleeping bag, ...)
bochecha 1
Milanito 1 I have a cat
Pikachu_2014 1 need confirmation
Souley 1 I live in the suburbs, a little far from Paris


  • Saturday night:
+ People coming in Paris
Needs a place to sleep Hosted by Obs. (cat allergy and such...)
Twentyfour-fr ? Will better than last time (need confirmation)
llaumgui ?


+ People living in Paris
Parisian How much room? Obs. (I have a cat, bring your sleeping bag, ...)
bochecha 1
Milanito 1 I have a cat
Pikachu_2014 1 need confirmation
Souley 1 I live in the suburbs, a little far from Paris


  • Restaurants:
Meal Where ? How much people Obs.
Friday diner
Saturday diner

USB keys

  • Remember to tell people to bring their own key so we can install Fedora on it
  • Buy keys for distributing to people who don't have
    • Carlos has a contact in his company marketing
    • 2GB ?
  • Nicolas has a preview Kickstart
  • Design for customization should not be F10-specific


Communicating on the event

  • Blogs / planets
    • coordinate everyone so that articles are publicated not in the same time
  • News paper / sites. Emphasys should be set on press that is not specialized in FOSS
  • Distributing flyers
    • universities / schools
    • ???
  • Invite some reporters to the event, so that they can write news about it (which will lead to more publicity for next event)


Artwork

Item Who ? URLs
LiveUSBs creation station bochecha / Luca Foppiano / CarlosVassalo Old IP Cambridge design
Logos CarlosVassalo / Thierry ? Fedora Paris
Web art Thierry / CarlosVassalo Latest message with all and sources
Flyers CarlosVassalo Solar Flyer
Slides template A template so that all slides for conferences have the same look'n'feel would be really nice. Some LaTeX gourou / graphist in here ?
Banner MatthieuRondeau
CarlosVassalo
http://mattr.fedorapeople.org/banner.zip

Installing Fedora

Could be a workshop

  • only one or two installers required instead of one by machine
  • makes it more "community oriented"
  • Bochecha 14:51, 5 October 2008 (UTC): seen in a Ubuntu IP, was really nice


TShirts

  • ThomasCanniot has some
    • Do we need more ?
  • Polos for attendees:
Name Size Quantity Category Need to be sent by mail
CarlosVassalo XL 2 Ambassador
GuillaumeKulakowski L 1 Ambassador
MathieuBridon M 1 Ambassador
MatthieuGautier M 1 Ambassador
PatriceKadionik XL 1 Ambassador
SouleymanDouar L 1 Ambassador
SylvainBourdouleix XXL 1 Ambassador
XavierLamien
M 1 Ambassador