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FUDConRaleigh2008

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FUDCon Raleigh 2008 :: 11-13 January 2008 :: Raleigh, NC (NC State University Campus and Red Hat Headquarters)

FUDCon? Bar Camp? Read this First!

FUDCon stands for Fedora User and Developer Conference. FUDCon Raleigh 2008 will be held as a Bar Camp. A Bar Camp is an "un-conference" where people interested in a wide range of issues come together to teach and learn. Unfamiliar with the un-conference format? Here's the idea in a nutshell. Rather than having scheduled speakers, everyone pitches sessions the morning of the Bar Camp. Those sessions are put on a schedule, and lots of little groups form for intense group learning. Everyone is expected to teach, to talk, to participate. Yeah, it's different from a regular conference - but it works!

The idea of an un-conference came together when people realized the best times they were having at conferences were the times between sessions - where people with like interests could meet ad hoc. The goal of Bar Camp is to facilitate this type of interaction for an entire day. We supply the food, the space, the wireless, the projectors - you show up to teach and learn.

For reference, here is last year's FUDCon Bar Camp page -- http://barcamp.org/FudconBoston2007

FUDCon Raleigh 2008 :: 11-13 January 2008 :: Raleigh, NC (NC State University Campus and Red Hat Headquarters)
BAR CAMP -- SATURDAY 12 JANUARY
SESSIONS -- SATURDAY 12 JANUARY
HACKFEST, FRIDAY 11 JANUARY & SUNDAY 13 JANUARY
EVENT DETAILS
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BAR CAMP -- SATURDAY 12 JANUARY

Planning on attending? PLEASE edit this page and add your name/title/affiliation as you'd like to see it on your badge.

We will get final confirmation as we approach the event itself. Note: we have a limit of 150 participants, but we will create a wait list if necessary.

Current Attendees

Max Spevack, Fedora Project Leader, FUDCon organizer.
Greg De Koenigsberg, Red Hat Community Manager, FUDCon organizer, former Fedora Board member.
Bill Nottingham, Fedora Board member
Seth Vidal, Fedora Board member
Jesse Keating, Fedora Release Engineer, package ninja
Mike McGrath, Fedora Infrastructure Leader
Warren Togami, Fedora Founder, FESCo Member, Rel-Eng, LTSP
Kevin Fenzi, FESCo member, cvsadmin, package-maintainer
Robert 'Bob' Jensen, Fedora Unity founder
Matthew Miller, Boston University Linux Project, random package maintainer, mailing-list whiner, etc.
Ricky Zhou, Fedora Infrastructure/Websites
Michael DeHaan, Cobbler, Func, RH Emerging Technologies Group
Dave Jones, kernel hacker, eater of cheetos.
Tom \"spot\" Callaway, FESCo member, FPC member, Fedora Board candidate, cvsadmin, package maintainer, ninja, ninja rap, go ninja, go ninja, go ninja, go!
Dennis Gilmore, FESCo, Infrastructure, Board, OLPC, and SPARC
Kyle McMartin, kernel hacker, international hacker of mystery
Phillip Rhodes, AggroNinja, Chief Architect - OpenQabal
G.Wolfe Woodbury, tester, enthusiast
Nalin Dahyabhai, developer
Nitin Dahyabhai, developer
Paul W. Frields, Fedora Documentation paratrooper, ninja wannabe, and general gadabout
Jeroen van Meeuwen, Fedora
Jesus M. Rodriguez, developer/user
Ben Williams, Fedora Unity Contributor
Matt Domsch, Fedora Board member, Mirror Wrangler, troublemaker
Will Woods, Fedora QA Lead, bug herder, ne'er-do-well
Paul Wouters, Package Maintainer of crypto and dns related packages, DNSSEC/IPsec/OTR advocate
Mark Hamrick, tester, user
Brenton Leanhardt, developer/user
Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner, developer, package maintainer, user
Karsten Wade, Board bizi, Docs dude, shootin' that trouble
Jef Spaleta, Fedora Board member
Russell Harrison, tester, user
Clint Savage, Fedora-Tutorials.com, Utah Open Source Foundation
Chris Tyler, Seneca College, Fedora Daily Package, 'Fedora Linux' author
Will Cohen, developer
Luke Macken, Fedora developer
Jared Smith author, trainer, Asterisk evangelist, IT commando
Andy Gospodarek, kernel developer
Josef Bacik, kernel developer
Karl Abbott, developer/user
Mike McLean, Koji developer
Scott Henson, package maintainer, user
Tim Kiernan, digital media designer
Robin Norwood, Fedora developer
Chris Church, Fedora user, Python lover
Adrian Likins, developer
Molly Tamarkin, Fedora user, outgoing IT dean (Duke), incoming CTO (Univ. Puget Sound)
Jason Tibbitts, FESCo member, FPC member, cvsadmin, package reviewer
David Woodhouse, FESCo, PowerPC, OLPC, Promoter of Violence.
Adam Dutko, package maintainer, writer, developer/user
Bascha Harris editor-type geek, Red Hat Magazine
Kevin Sonney programmer/visionary, Percolate
Scott Zekanis sysadmin/head honcho, Percolate
Joe Komenda QA Engineer/Cartoonist, Percolate
Matt Frye business dude, Percolate
John Eckersberg, user and fledgling developer
Chris Negus, Linux author
David Both Fedora user and evangelist
Steve Dickson, Fedora Board Member, Linux Kernel developer
Dimitris Glezos, Localization ninja, Fedora Websites wrangler
Rodney Radford, Tekelec, SDE
Steve Burnett Steve Burnett
John (J5) Palmieri Software Engineer, GNOME Foundation Board Member
Peter Jones some guy
Rob West, FUD
Doug Newcomb, Open Source Geographic Information Systems user
Chris Murphy, Desktop Administrator, Castle Branch Inc
Yaakov Nemoy, Smolt, University of Pittsburgh
John Poelstra, Feature Wrangler
Jeff Layton, kernel developer
Tyler Owen, package maintainer, user, tester
Steve Salevan, Local Music Director @ WKNC, Intern QA Engineer
Satyajit Malugu, user and recent graduate from NCSU
Douglas Warner developer/user
Bob McWhirter, Fedora board member; JBoss.org
David Aquilina, user
Casey Dahlin, user/developer
Jon Stanley, Bug triage/Ambassador
Gavin Romig-Koch, user, developer
Mark Hinkle Community Manager[Zenoss Core]
Grant Gainey, geek
James Laska, Quality Assurance Engineer, installation test
Greg Wallace, Open Source Marketing Guy
Evan McNabb, user / lurker
Dave Wysochanski, developer/user
Jonathan Steffan Fedora
Lee Lorentz, Fedora Infrastructure, Group 3 Marketing
Michael Teal, lurker
Robin 'Roblimo' Miller, press
Matthew Yates, user / lurker
Robin Price, Fedora User / RH Employee
Jack Neely, NCSU Linux Architect
Justin Sherrill, user/closet developer
Will Foster, sysadmin / user
Brad Hinson, zLinux support
Benjamin Kreuter, random developer #3.1415926535897932384626433832
Eric Christensen Fedora User
Tim Kramer, user
Steve Berry, user
Lisa Berry, user
Todd Zullinger, packager, user, pedant, gpg enthusiast
Mike Kolbas, lurker
Zach Cox, Aspiring XO Developer, [http://www.henscratch.org]
Rex Dieter, FPC, KDE-SIG dude. Fri/Sat only.
Chris Lumens, anaconda developer, Red Hat
John W. Linville, kernel wireless networking maintainer
Jeff Ellis, User
Colin Devine, user / observer / doubt eliminator
Maria DiMaio, User, Socialite
Eric Paris, SELinux Nerd / Kernel Hacker
Robert Frank, Fedora User / Developer
James Brown III, Godfather of FOSS
Keith Shaw, user
Sarat Sreepathi, Doctoral Student, North Carolina State University
Pablo Destefanis, FOSS for Development
Nick Goldwater, user
Bill Baroniunas, newbie / user
John Holder, Zimbra Developer Relations
Vamsi Sripathi, MS Student, North Carolina State University
Matthew Opoka, Systems Analyst
Sarah Bacik, user
Scott Dodson, user / SA
Lee Joseph User / Ambassador / KDE-SIG / Fedora-Store-SIG
Scott Lambdin, user / SA
Arjun Roy, Fedora user, CS Student, aspiring developer
Christopher Blizzard Lame Duck Fedora Board Member
Michael Tiemann Open Source Initiator
David Huff, Fedora user, RHX
Clifford Perry, Linux Geek, and long time Red Hat Linux and Fedora user
Michael Spurlock, Linux, UNIX, Mac geek (Admin/Architect)
Ian Hands, Linux Enthusiast / IBM lab lackey
Mary Rozas, Linux Enthusiast
Jeff Johnson, Reverse Engineer
Robert Jackson, Fedora user / RH Employee
Doug Ledford, Red Hat Antique / InfiniBand Monkey
Chris Woodbury, Linux Enthusiast, Open Voting enthusiast
Mark Yarborough, Open source groupie, former coder
Alex Maier Fedora Ambassador
Ruth Suehle editor-type geek, Red Hat Magazine
~~Bryan J Smith, Senior Consultant, Red Hat GPS US Vertical/Financial~~ (bumped by Continental Airlines, would not make it before Saturday 5pm)
Jonathan Opp, writer, enthusiast
T. Colin Dodd, Truth Happens, writer, enthusiast
Luke Meyer, Gigolo
Owen JH, Linux Geek, blogger, developer.
Russ Dayan, Software Engineer and Fedora Enthusiast
Cristóbal Palmer, student
Ade Lee, user/developer
Matthew S. Wilson, Fedora co-creator, past developer, Anaconda hacker
Cristian Gafton, Past Fedora Leader
Og Maciel, Foresight Linux Developer, GNOME Member
Jitendra Kumar, Student, NCSU.

SESSIONS -- SATURDAY 12 JANUARY

Got an idea for a session? Don't be shy... add it here.

(If you are interested in leading a session add your name afterwards).

Session Proposals with Owners

Annual Fedora State of the Union talk -- Max Spevack
Running Fedora from a USB key -- Max Spevack
Mass-Deploying Fedora with Cobbler -- Michael DeHaan
Func, the Fedora Unified Network Controller -- Michael DeHaan, Adrian Likins (&others?)
From code to an RPM -- simple packaging tutorial for dummies -- Tom "spot" Callaway
Perl direction (5.10 and beyond) -- Tom "spot" Callaway and Robin Norwood (and others (add your name here)?)
Secondary Architectures in F-9 -- Tom "spot" Callaway and Dennis Gilmore (and others(add your name here)?)
Developer Guide Reboot -- Paul W. Frields
MirrorManager: Getting the bits out -- Matt Domsch
Inaugural meeting of the Fedora Mirror Wranglers -- Matt Domsch
Integrating DNSSEC -- Proposal and Demonstration of DNSSEC aware software -- Paul Wouters
Customizing Fedora Installation Media -- Jeroen van Meeuwen
Jigdo/pyJigdo releases -- Jeroen van Meeuwen
Anaconda updates during release cycles -- Jeroen van Meeuwen
Expiring Updates, Distributing Sources -- Jeroen van Meeuwen
Planning Fedora's Summer Coding Projects - Karsten Wade
Open Source Development Courses -- Will Cohen
Asterisk: What is it, and what can it do for me -- Jared Smith
You Too Can Write a Book in XML: An Introduction to Docbook -- Paul W. Frields and Jared Smith
GPG Keysigning - see below -- Matt Domsch
PackageKit -- Robin Norwood
Vaniv -- Kevin Sonney, GDK, and James McDermott
Plugging Students into Open Source Communities -- Chris Tyler
Fedora Account System 2 -- Mike McGrath and Ricky Zhou

K12Linux:Thin Client Support in Fedora -- Warren Togami and Eric Harrison
Firmware-Tools: Updating your BIOS and Firmware in Fedora -- Matt Domsch
Fedora Infrastructure: What we're about and why you can't have a pony -- Mike McGrath
Dr. Transifex: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Translators -- Dimitris Glezos
Open Source Legal Q&A -- Mark Webbink
OLPC/XO (or maybe other ultramobiles like the Eee PC) owner meetup? - Adrian Likins
Making Fedora Developers More Productive: Step 1, Fedora Infrastructure Unification...Step n, world domination -- John (J5) Palmieri
Maintainer Karma: Using karma points to promote maintainers -- Jesse Keating
Open Source Geographic Information Systems -- Doug Newcomb
Bodhi: The Fedora update system -- Luke Macken
TurboGears -- Luke Macken, Toshio Kuratomi, anyone who wants to share TG knowledge
Something handwavy about the current state of the Fedora kernel -- Dave Jones
Catalyzing the Creative Commons with Sessions@KNC -- Steve Salevan
Designing An Open Package Management Solution For Fedora -- Michael DeHaan
Fedora Bug Triage/Burried in Bugs - what's wrong and how to fix it (VERY interactive) -- Jon Stanley and John Poelstra
Writing simple utilities using the yum python modules -- Seth Vidal
Init system town hall: The final word -- Casey Dahlin
AJAX Offline: Zimbra Desktop -- John Holder
Should companies adopt Fedora as their own home for corp development projects? -- Michael Tiemann
State of Linux wireless -- John W. Linville

Others? Don't be shy -- put them here.

Sessions that Would Be Nice, but need owners. Claim one, and move it up!

Making it Easier to Join the Fedora Project - proposed by John Babich
Others? Don't be shy -- put them here.

GPG Keysigning

Meet Fedora people face-to-face. Taunt each other over their passport/driver's license photos. Add yourself to the Web of Trust or increase your ranking.

Pre-registration for the keysigning is now over. However, you can still participate.

Mandatory: Create a GPG keypair for yourself (if you haven't already)
Optional: add your user@fedoraproject.org uid to your keypair
Mandatory: Send your key before the event to the subkeys.pgp.net keyserver. Get your KEYID from your keyring as the part following the 1024D/ as follows:

gpg --list-secret-keys | grep ^sec

For Matt, this is 92F0FC09. Yours will be different.

Then send your key to the keyserver with:

gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --send-keys KEYID

Mandatory: If you pre-registered for the keysigning, print out your key fingerprint once and bring it. If you didn't pre-register, print out your key fingerprint 20-50 times, and bring it with you. You'll hand one of these out to each other person at the keysigning, so bring enough. The program 'gpg-key2ps' in the pgp-tools RPM can do this for you quite nicely.
Mandatory: run md5sum and sha1sum on the fudcon-keysigning-fingerprints.txt file, print at the results, and bring them to the meeting. It should match the corresponding files on the web site.
Mandatory: Bring a government-issued picture ID of yourself

Note: this means you will have at least 2 pieces of paper (your key fingerprint and the sha1sum and md5sum results) that you bring.

At the Keysigning

For those who pre-registered, you can find the keyring, the fingerprint file we'll use, and the md5sum and sha1sum hash of the fingerprint file, all at http://domsch.com/linux/fedora/fudcon2008/. We will read these values, for everyone to confirm they all match.

After the Keysigning

Following the keysigning, you'll need to actually sign people's keys. The easiest way to do this is to use caff which is conveniently packaged in the Fedora pgp-tools package. caff lets you sign a number of keys at once, and will then email each recepient their signed key, encrypted with their key (actually, it sends one email per UID on the target key, so those people with 10 UIDs on their key will get 10 emails from caff, but that's OK - it makes sure they control that email address too). They must know their own passphrase to retrieve their signed key, which they can then import into their gpg keyring and upload to the keyserver subkeys.pgp.net.

HACKFEST, FRIDAY 11 JANUARY & SUNDAY 13 JANUARY

We are meeting at the Alumni Club on NCSU Centennial Campus at 9:30 on Friday morning. Map

Hackfest sessions

WE CURRENTLY NEED PEOPLE TO PLAN HACKFEST SESSIONS. Last year we had sessions on packaging, infrastructure, yum, OLPC, QA, and Live CD.

For those who are able to stay over the weekend, we will be running hackfest sessions on Friday and Sunday. Please, if you intend to participate, contact the leader of each session for more information about how you can help.

Core/Extras Merge Package Review

Session Leader: TBD
General Plan: finish the package review from all packages previously in Core

Package review process brainstorm

Session Leader: Jason Tibbitts
General Plan: try to come up with ideas for streamlining the package review process. What we put together quickly with the onset of the merge review tide has worked but to many is excessively baroque. Please bring your ideas.

Vaniv hackfest

Session Leader: Greg DeKoenigsberg
General Plan: Work out remaining details with newly-open-sourced Vaniv (formerly vidpress) codebase before presentation on FUDCon Saturday. Know the wordpress codebase? You are more than welcome to attend and help us out!

Fedora Infrastructure Unification

Session Leader: John (J5) Palmieri
General Plan: Get a basic framework in place for integrating package views and other infrastructure bits into one place. This includes defining common API's, guidelines and technologies to be used.

Automated MIA Detection

Session Leader: Jesse Keating
General Plan: Work out methods to auto file bugs so that they can be found later, avoiding duplicate filings, and determine maintainer responsiveness. See where we get to from there.

Func modules

Session Leader: Michael DeHaan
General Plan: Hammer out a lot of killer Func modules and/or scripts for controlling your favorite apps and admin tools, and then blog the heck out of it. Work on the Func core is fair game too. Bring your ideas! See https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/func/ .

Smolt and Smoon

Session Leaders: Mike Mcgrath and Yaakov Nemoy [anyone else?]
General Plan: Hack some of the features into Smolt we've been talking about, optimize the database, do peer coding, help write unit tests, any others? See https://fedorahosted.org/smolt/
Fill in the wiki with useful information. Does not require any turbogears experience.

PackageKit

Session Leaders: Luke Macken & Robin Norwood
General Plan: Get PackageKit polished up, integrated, and optimized for Fedora 9. This will most likely entail hacking on the Yum backend (Python) the Gtk frontend (C). Usability / design people needed as well, along with documentation writers.

Wiki Gardening

Session Leader: Karsten Wade
General Plan: As detailed here, this session is to prune, feed, shred, compost, and replant the wiki. Goals include creating a lightweight information architecture for the Fedora Project to adopt for (in)formal content, define a method to steward and watch pages for sub-projects, and get our hands dirty re-organizing the wiki.

Random kernel hacking.

Session Leader: Dave Jones
General plan: Myself and Kyle and whoever else is dumb enough to join us will be hacking on 'stuff'. I'm going to bring a bunch of toys, we'll see what happens.

Making F9 on the Eee rock.

Session Leader: Dave Jones
General plan: F9 should install on this 'out of the box' effortlessly. Lets make it happen.

Designing An Open Package Management Solution

Session Leader: Michael DeHaan
Contact info: mdehaan AT redhat DOT com , actual mailing list pending
General plan: an in-depth group discussion of what needs to go into a general purpose Web based package management tools, what sucks about package management for large install bases today (like, say, colleges, datacenters), and discussion about Pulp (new project on Fedora Hosted Projects), and possibly the start of hacking on a backend for it. Let's design/create something really nice for managing a lot of Fedora machines, all the way up to data center level environments. See also: https://fedorahosted.org/pulp

OLPC/XO exploring/hacking

Session Leader: Gavin Romig-Koch
Contact info: gavin AT redhat DOT com
General Plan: I've just gotten two of these cuties for my kids (and two deserving kids elsewhere in the world), and have I've just started exploring/hacking the software. If there are others who would be interested hacking/exploring with me that would be very cool. If there is interest, I can provide two actual machines, and some "getting started hacking" help. Where we go from there will depend on the who shows and what they want to do. If you want to get some experience, or have some experience with the XO's software that you are willing to share, please contact me as soon as you can.
note from Dennis Gilmore I will bring with me my XO's as I work for OLPC i have some insight. I would love to see a fedora 9 XFCE spin for the XO :)

Preupgrade/yum/createrepo hacking

Session Leader: Seth Vidal, Will Woods, others
Contact Info: skvidal AT fedoraproject.org
General Plan: Work on reimplementing preupgrade and writing the gtk interface to it for fedora9. Working on outstanding yum/yum-util features and cleaning up the recent yum-based createrepo.

Info on preupgrade here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PreUpgrade

rrn: Parallel init system

Session Leader: Casey Dahlin
Contact info: cdahlin@redhat.com
General Plan: I've been working on a Prcsys replacement for Fedora that will allow LSB-compliant init scripts to be launched in parallel, with dependency solving and DBus integration. The code is in need of some peer review and a little love, so let's get together and polish it off.

Secondary Archs

Session Leader: Dennis Gilmore
Contact info: ausil@fedoraproject.org
General Plan: finalise writing code and have the first secondary arch deployed

Bug Triage

Session Leader: Jon Stanley and John Poelstra
Contact info: jstanley@fedoraproject.org
General Plan: Begin triaging bugs using the process that we come up with on Saturday
Notes: This has to be a Sunday session as policy will not be decided until Saturday.

Fedora 9: Installation Testing

Session Leader: James Laska
Contact info: jlaska AT fedoraproject DOT org
General Plan: Interested in contributing to the stability of the fedora installation process? Come by and discuss your thoughts/concerns about a Fedora 9 Installation test plan. A related topic will be SNAKE, a python based installation tool we're exploring to aid in testing anaconda.

Developer Guide Essentials

Session Leader: Paul W. Frields
Contact info: stickster AT gmail DOT com
General Plan: We want to create a better resource for developers getting started in FOSS using Fedora. These people are the next generation of contributors to our community and they need a centralized, thorough, and informative guide to getting started in our project. What material is stable enough to be moved to an official doc? Please stop by and lend us your thoughts. You need not commit to actually writing anything, but we would LOVE developers to think about the general things they know that need to be passed on.

Hackfest Session

Session Leader: YOUR NAME
Contact info: YOUR INFO
General Plan: link to a page somewhere with the hackfest plan

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