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Accepted talk list is here
Talk No:20/33/38/43/44/64/65/66/76/78/83
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
- 18-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
http://foss.in/register/delegate-registration
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 | if possible |
| 5 | Steven Fernandez | L | Attending as a delegate and helper at the hackfest | with friends |
| 6 | Ankur Sinha | M | Attending as a delegate, please ping me if I can be of assistance | no idea yet |
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 |
POTD Sessions
| Session Name | Description | Type (Talk/Workshop/Sprint) | Duration | Audience Level | Owner |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Not accepted
| Session Name | Description | Type (Talk/Workshop/Sprint) | Duration | Audience Level | Owner |
| 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 |
Main conf, not part of POTD
| Session Name | Description | Type (Talk/Workshop/Sprint) | Duration | Audience Level | Owner |
| 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.
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 |
| 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 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)