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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 |
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 |
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| Contact/Update tentative participants | # fedora-india list # fedora-ambassadors list # lug lists # blog posts |
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| Get in touch with organisers for | # Venue for Fudcon/Devcon # Booth # Participation/setup fees/charges |
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| Swags | # DVD # T-shirts # Stickers # Buttons # USB Sticks # Posters # Leaflets/brochures |
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 | user:Susmit |
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 |
| 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 | A workout/demo | 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 | user:Susmit |