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FUDCon Brno 2008

Brno, Czech Republic :: September 5 - 7, 2008

For questions, please contact MaxSpevack, RadekVokal, and MarekMahut

General Information

Location

Friday, September 5

Hackfest day 1.

BREAKFAST: 9:30 AM

START: 10:00 AM

END: 6:00 PM

Saturday, September 6

BarCamp with sessions, talks, and presentations. Social Event in the evening! This is the most important day of the FUDCon!

BREAKFAST: 9:30 AM

OPENING REMARKS: 10:00 AM

SESSION PITCHING: 10:30 AM

SESSION #1: 11:15 AM - 12:05 PM

SESSION #2: 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM

LUNCH: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

SESSION #3: 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

SESSION #4: 2:55 PM - 3:45 PM

SESSION #5: 3:50 PM - 4:40 PM

SESSION #6: 4:45 PM - 5:35 PM

CLOSING REMARKS: 5:40 PM - 6:00 PM

SOCIAL EVENT: 7:30 PM - ???

Sunday, September 7

Hackfest day 2.

BREAKFAST: 9:30 AM

START: 10:00 AM

END: 4:00 PM

Sessions

If you will pitch a session at the BarCamp on Saturday, give your name and brief description here.

  • Max Spevack - Fedora Websites team, and how you can help.
  • Dimitris Glezos - Transifex: Upstream-friendly cross-community translations -- Towards v1.0
  • Martin Sivak - FirstAidKit: how to simplify boring diagnose and repair tasks
  • Peter Vrabec - SecurityAudit: what is it about, sectool and plugin development
  • Luca Foppiano - Func: fedora unified network controller
  • Marco Mornati - Symbolic: easy large scale environments control
  • Jeroen van Meeuwen - Configuration Management with puppet, puppetmanaged.org
  • Jeroen van Meeuwen - Custom spins and compose tools
  • Jeroen van Meeuwen - Community Services Infrastructure
  • Francesco Ugolini - Ambassadors Project and its localization (or, How to improve community interaction)
  • Jaroslav Řezník, Lukáš Tinkl - KDE 4 & developers
  • Jonathan Roberts - Fedora Marketing, where to go next
  • Alan Pevec - oVirt - Virtualization Management for Fedora
  • Any topic that is interesting to you!

Hackfest topics

Information for attendees

Lodging

  • Approximately 50 beds are booked in Hotel Imos (google maps) - studios (2+2) - two double bed rooms with shared kitchen and bathroom. Direction from the hotel to University (Approximately 10 to 15 minutes by public transport, tram #1, ticket for 15CZK)

Travel

There are several ways to get to Brno.

  1. Fly directly to Brno's airport (BRQ) (Check SmartWings and Ryanair for direct flights)
  2. Fly to Prague (PRG) and travel to Brno (BRQ)
  3. Fly to Vienna (VIE) and travel to Brno (BRQ)
  4. Fly to Bratislava (BTS) and take a bus (130km, about 2 hours) or a train (141 km, about hour and a half, group discount for 6+ group)

This page appears to have some good information.

Pre-Registration (Deadline: Friday August 15)

No. Name Which nights do you need hotel? Comments
1 MaxSpevack Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
2 JeroenVanMeeuwen yes
3 GianlucaVarisco yes -
4 JensKuehnel yes -
5 DimitrisGlezos Thu, Fri, Wed 10/9, Thu 11/9 Need to be in Brussels Sun-Tue
6 LucaFoppiano yes -
7 SandroMathys yes -
8 JonathanRoberts Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun -
9 RadekVokal no -
10 AdamTkac no -
11 MarcelaMaslanova no -
12 IvanaVarekova no -
13 FabianAffolter Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun -
14 LubomirRintel no -
15 MartinSivak no -
16 DanHorak no -
17 MartinKoci no -
18 MarekMahut no will help with organization
19 MatejCepl no will help with organization, living in Prague
20 AlexanderTodorov yes -
21 OndrejVasik no -
22 AdamPribyl no -
23 JoergSimon yes -
24 OliverFalk yes Can only attend on Friday
25 FrancescoUgolini fri and sat -
26 AntonArapov no -
27 AndreaModestoRossi yes 80% sure to attend
28 FrancescoCrippa yes -
29 ThomasWoerner yes -
30 DominikMierzejewski yes planning to attend
31 MartinNagy no -
32 HaraldHoyer yes -
33 AdrianPilchowiec no 90% sure to attend
34 MichalSchmidt no -
35 VitFoukal no -
36 Ivan Stojmirov no -
37 JaroslavReznik no -
38 JiriMoskovcak no -
39 MarcoMornati yes -
40 ChristosBacharakis Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun -
41 JanPazdziora no -
42 David Kovalsky no -
43 Chris Ward no -
44 MichalNowak no -
45 Lukas Petrovicky no -
46 Jakub Hrozek no can attend from Fri afternoon onwards
47 MilosJakubicek no -
48 JanBusta no -
49 TomasSmetana no -
50 Eduard Benes no -
51 Phil Knirsch yes Depends on travel budget
52 Hans de Goede Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun? Planning to attend
53 Jhutar no -
54 Marek Kasik no -
55 Zbysek Mraz no -
56 Michal Marciniszyn no -
57 Oldrich Plchot no -
58 Simone Pucci yes -
59 JanKratochvil no -
60 ZdenekPrikryl no -
61 Petr Muller no -
62 Vadim Grinco no -
63 Karel Volny no -
64 Lukáš Tinkl no -
65 KarolTrzcionka Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun? planning to attend
66 Alan Pevec Fri,Sat -
67 PatrikCevela Yes -

Information for Organizors

Meetings

There is a weekly organization/planning meeting in #fedora-meeting on Freenode every Tuesday at 13:00 UTC (15:00 CEST).

Current action items

  • Update travel information on wiki (MarkeMahut)
  • Internet access -- we'll use university network (RadekVokal)
  • Fedora Live DVDs (MarekMahut)
  • Publicity on Fedora Planet & mailing lists (MaxSpevack)
  • Email/invitation to europe (europe-list) offices (MaxSpevack)
  • Talk to Denise Dumas about RH travel budget(MaxSpevack)
  • Check out rooms at the University (RadekVokal & MarekMahut)
  • Figure out how much of hotel bill can be paid from FUDCon budget (MaxSpevack)
  • Food for Friday, Saturday, Sunday
    • Detailed list of needs for each day (MaxSpevack)
    • Get price quotes based on list (RadekVokal)
  • Social Event for Saturday night
    • Determine budget for event (MaxSpevack)
    • Figure out location (RadekVokal)
  • Projectors from the RH office (MarekMahut)
  • Tshirts (MaxSpevack & NicuBuculei)
  • Advertisement flyer
    • English text (MaxSpevack)
    • Czech text (RadekVokal)
    • Ask Art Team to make it look good (MaxSpevack)
  • Publicity at universities or other places in Brno & Prague
    • sci.muni.cz (MarekMahut)
    • fi.muni.cz (MarekMahut)
  • Travel subsidies and sponsorships (MaxSpevack)
  • Confirm number of rooms with hotel (MaxSpevack & RadekVokal)
  • Banner ad for FUDCon on RH Europe website

Budget

  • 20k USD = 12.5k EUR = 290k CZK
    • Travel estimate 4,000 EUR
    • Hotel estimate 4,000 EUR
    • Food estimate 3,000 EUR
    • Tshirts estimate 1,500 EUR