FUDCon Boston 2007 :: 02-04 February 2007 :: Boston University

FUDCon? Bar Camp? Read this First!

FUDCon stands for Fedora User and Developer Conference.

FUDCon Boston 2007 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. wino kredyt mieszkaniowy sprzedam mieszkanie sprzedam bilet

As the camp goes on, follow cool stuff on the mugshot group or look at hot hacker pics using the fudconboston2007 flickr tag.

ONLINE SCHEDULE

There is an online schedule located at: FUDCON 2007 Schedule.

  1. FUDCon Boston 2007 :: 02-04 February 2007 :: Boston University
  2. REQUESTS
  3. ATTENDEES
  4. SESSIONS
  5. HACKFEST, 03-04 FEBRUARY
  6. EVENT DETAILS
  7. GPG key signing Friday late afternoon
  8. Important Information
  9. Organizers
  10. Schedule
  11. Hackfest Schedule for Day 2 and Day 3
  12. Other Fun FUDCon Things
  13. After-Hours
  14. Travel
  15. Contact Info

REQUESTS

Videographers Needed

We are looking for volunteers to tape the sessions. If you are interested and/or have video equipment to lend, please contact Jonathan Steffan. Jonathan has volunteered to bring a drive to transfer your video to and will organize editing the sessions.

ATTENDEES

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.

Update: Badges are now already printed. You will need a badge to get free food and other loot. If you weren't on the list Thursday morning or so, you probably won't have a badge. You're welcome to come anyway, though. There may be leftovers, and we will not be bouncing people from actually participating, because that would be silly.

Current Attendees

  1. Max Spevack, Fedora Project Leader
  2. Greg De Koenigsberg, FUDCon organizer, Fedora Board member
  3. Chris Blizzard, Fedora Board member
  4. Jeremy Katz, Fedora Board member
  5. Bill Nottingham, Fedora Board member
  6. Rahul Sundaram, Fedora Board member
  7. Matt Domsch, Fedora Board member, Linux Software Architect, Dell
  8. Seth Vidal, Fedora Board member
  9. Paul W. Frields, Fedora Board member
  10. Rex Dieter, Fedora Board member
  11. Dave Jones, Fedora kernel monkey.
  12. Peter Jones, Fedora hacker
  13. Robin Norwood, Red Hat
  14. Jesse Keating, Fedora Release Engineer
  15. Jack Aboutboul, All you base are belong to me
  16. Bob Jensen, Fedora Unity Founder
  17. Jonathan Steffan, Fedora Unity Founder
  18. Nalin Dahyabhai, Fedora Developer
  19. Will Woods, Fedora Test Lead
  20. Luke Macken, Fedora infrastructure hacker
  21. Toshio Kuratomi, Fedora infrastructure hacker
  22. Chris Ball, OLPC
  23. Mike McGrath, Fedora infrastructure
  24. Paul Stauffer, Boston University Computer Science
  25. Jarod Wilson, Red Hat kernel lackey and Fedora contributor
  26. Christopher Aillon, Getaway Driver
  27. Tom \"spot\" Callaway, Ninja Master and SPARC advocate
  28. Tomas Mraz, Fedora developer
  29. Radek Vokal, Fedora developer
  30. Dennis Gilmore, FESCo, infrastructure, and SPARC
  31. Adam Dutko, Fedora Docs Contributor/Fedora Unity Member
  32. Clay Guthrie, Fedora Enthusiast
  33. Jonathan M. Prigot, One of the bozo's on the PCI bus
  34. Justin Seiferth, UMASS Dept of Continuing Education and Odyssey Systems Consulting Group
  35. Bob Gorman, Red Hat Solutions Provider - Fedora Enthusiast
  36. Bob Herrmann, snake-dancing simpleton
  37. Bruce Patterson, Count Choculitis sufferer
  38. Derek Libby, Fedora grasshopper seeking wisdom
  39. Michael O'Donnell, my mom is making me do this
  40. Allan Hall, I like Penguin schwag
  41. Chris Skaryd - Fedora Enthusiast
  42. Warren Togami - Fedora developer
  43. Ed Hill - Fedora contributor
  44. Ted Roche - Greater New Hampshire LUG Activist
  45. Kevin Fenzi - Fedora Sponsor/Reviewer, Xfce maintainer, sysadmin and Greyhound advocate.
  46. Donald Fischer - Red Hat, Mugshot
  47. Matthew Miller, Boston University Linux Project
  48. Jim Sullivan, Boston University AME, User
  49. Jon Masters, Red Hat weenie.
  50. John Boland, I want my MythTV!
  51. Shawn K. O'Shea, Sysadmin, Akibia
  52. David Lutterkort, Red Hat
  53. Bill Perilli, Fedora User. Independant Software Engineer.
  54. Thorsten Leemhuis (thl), FESCo Member
  55. James Buchanan, Fedora enthusiast.
  56. Brian Bowlby, BU sysadmin.
  57. Andre Devitt, xen initiate
  58. Aaron Bowman, Fedora User, Lurker
  59. Mike McLean, Red Hat Release Engineer
  60. Richard Hogaboom, Lincoln/Solidus
  61. Dr. Jef Spaleta, Fairbanks Curling Club
  62. James Bowes, Red Hat
  63. Dan Kamalic, BU Biomedical Engineering
  64. James Goebel, BU Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)
  65. James Bardin, BU ECE
  66. Dan Berkovitch, BU ECE
  67. Omri Schwarz MIT Kavli Institute
  68. Aaron Caine, BU Tech/Sys Mgr
  69. Carlos Moreira, BU Engineering
  70. Kathryn Shakun, BU Engineering
  71. John Kim, BU Engineering
  72. Carlos R. Estevez Northeastern Uni. I am intersted in the Fedora Unix Os. I am an old Unix Solaris user.
  73. Karsten Wade, Fedora Documentation
  74. Mary Ellen Fitzpatrick BU Bioinformatics
  75. Esther Epstein, Sysadmin BMERC
  76. Ari Trachtenberg, BU ECE
  77. Aaron Seigo, KDE
  78. Adam Jackson, Fedora X ninja
  79. Eric Jacobsen, Packet Inspector
  80. Michael Sullivan, BU InfoSec
  81. Tammy Pruneau, BU InfoSec
  82. Tobias Drewry, BU CCG's interdepartmental communications specialist
  83. Wesley Harrell, Boston University Linux Project groupie
  84. Milton Masud, BU Chemistry Department Computer Resources Director/System Admin
  85. Brendan Madness, Fedora Lovah
  86. William Stearns, SURBL and SANS
  87. Chris Negus, author Fedora 6 Bible and Live Linux CDs
  88. Andy Grimm, free software evangelist and longtime RH/FC user, Ingres Corporation
  89. Fred Hyder CEO GRASS ROOTS COMPUTER SVS
  90. Richard Wachsman GRASS ROOTS COMPUTER SVS
  91. James Kelley, BU CS Student
  92. Jeroen van Meeuwen, Fedora Unity Team Member
  93. Dennis Gregorovic, Red Hat release engineer
  94. Alan Reamer, Longtime RH/FC user
  95. Billie Mulcahy, Fedora user seeking clarity
  96. Jim Meyering, Red Hat, upstream coreutils
  97. Caspian Design, 4 Hues, Product Development & Design
  98. Scott Macomber, BU OIT
  99. George Gaudette, BU OIT
  100. Tracy Pilcher, BU OIT
  101. John Price, L-3 Communications, Security and Detection Systems
  102. Chris Lumens, Red Hat, big time anaconda guy
  103. David Cantrell, Red Hat, anaconda, dhcp, GNU parted!
  104. Dave Malcolm, Red Hat Desktop & QA
  105. Nicholas Parker, BU CS
  106. Máirín Duffy, Red Hat (RHN)
  107. Chuck Ebbert, Fedora kernel minion
  108. Brad Smith, Red Hat Technical Instructor, fedoratracker.org maintainer
  109. Matthew Galgoci, Calm like a bomb.
  110. Sean Sosik-Hamor, Engineer, Pepper Computer, Inc.
  111. Jason Powers, Linux Systems Engineer, FUN Technologies, Inc.
  112. Kristian Høgsberg, Fedora something something.
  113. Federico Lucifredi
  114. Jeff Baez, Fedora newbie, conference lurker.
  115. Douglas McClendon, Engineer, CX1E
  116. Ingo Donasch, L-3 Communications, Security and Detection Systems
  117. Steve Magoun, Engineer, Pepper Computer, Inc.
  118. George Skuse, Watertown Public Schools
  119. Jim Dishaw, Fedora user
  120. Joseph Gaffney, Consultant, Shen, Milsom, & Wilke, Inc.
  121. Pace Willisson
  122. Patrick Ester, Fedora newbie and BU Student
  123. David Kleinschmidt, Program Director, Funutation Camps
  124. Matthias Clasen, Red Hat Desktop
  125. Paul Gampe, Red Hat Engineering Services
  126. Dawid Zamirski, Fedora User
  127. Richard Solis, Fedora User
  128. Brian Pepple, FESCo member
  129. Thomas Vander Stichele, conspirator
  130. Diana Fong, Fedora and Red Hat Desktop Visual Designer
  131. Ray Strode, Red Hat Desktop
  132. Jonathan Blandford, Red Hat Desktop
  133. Tony Espy, Engineer, Pepper Computer, Inc.
  134. Behdad Esfahbod, Red Hat Desktop (arrives Friday night)
  135. Tim Burke, Red Hat Engineering Mgr
  136. Robert Haynes, L-3 Communications, Security and Detection Systems
  137. Scott Fitchet, figital
  138. Kevin Baker, Red Hat, Engineering Operations
  139. Charlie Farinella, Appropriate Solutions, Inc., IT
  140. Remy DeCausemaker, Legislative Associate NYPIRG
  141. John Flanagan, Red Hat, RCM
  142. John (J5) Palmieri, Red Hat OLPC
  143. Mike Bonnet, Red Hat Release Engineering
  144. Joe Winter, BU OIT
  145. Marina Zhurakhinskaya, Red Hat, Mugshot
  146. Richard Tucker, Fedora User
  147. Harry Sutton, RHCA, Hewlett-Packard Company
  148. Dan Walsh, Red Hat Engineering
  149. Jarod Wen, CCIS, Northeastern University. Fans on Linux and old user of FC.

Wait List

The theoretical limit of 150 attendees has been reached. You can add yourself to the "wait list" here, in the event of no-shows Friday morning. Come anyway. Worst case, you don't get a shirt and you go buy your own lunch. :)

  1. B to the W, Red Hat's Frog and Monkey Inspector General (who will be arriving up on mid-day Super Bowl XLI Sunday)
  2. Ralf Urbach, UniGraphic, Inc.
  3. Jim Burrell, BU
  4. Ansley Barnes, Interested Guy
  5. Owen Williams, olpc volunteer
  6. Dennis Byron, II industry analyst specializing on open source
  7. Sharath Muppala, Systems Administrator, CDM, Cambridge
  8. David Freedman, Computer Engineer, Boston University
  9. Havoc Pennington, Red Hat

SESSIONS

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

  • Fedora Release Engineering: Present and Future - Jesse Keating
  • Fedora and the One Laptop Per Child Project
  • Write Once, Read Many: Fedora Documentation
  • Lower the barrier to participate without sacrificing quality or Infrastructure
  • Fedora KDE spin: Nitty gritty, Directions, Goals.
  • Fedora Directory Server ?
  • MythTV install-fest (I'll bring the network install server, you bring the hardware)
  • sipXpbx - running a SIP PBX on Fedora - sorry, I've got a conflict and will not be able to make it this time
  • Max Spevack gives a talk on his goals/vision for Fedora in 2007
  • Rahul Sundaram on defining the success of Fedora (and where we need to improve)
  • Fedora Mirror System - Matt Domsch
  • VCS choice/future
  • How is this merge thing supposed to work, anyways?
  • Other contexts for Fedora - MythTV, One Laptop per Child, Pepper Pad
  • Mugshot: what's it do, what's next? What can it do for and with Fedora?
  • Future de-coupling of Anaconda versions from specific fedora releases
  • Spinning Custom Live CD's
  • Fedora Embedded
  • Fedora clustering workshop: Ghetto supercomputing (bring your lappy)
  • Fedora and Active Directory: If you can't beat 'em...
  • Dance-Dance-Revolution dance off to decide which of us really speaks for the community
  • GPG Keysigning: see below for details
  • EPEL, Q&A what is it and how do you help - Mike Mcrath & Dennis Gilmore
  • Creating SELinux Modules - Dan Walsh
  • Fedora Server: can we make sysadmins smile ? Goals, directions etc. for the server spin - David Lutterkort
  • Fedora and other OSS software in children's education
  • Keeping Fedora secure and up-to-date on consumer devices (specifically, Pepper Pad 3, could be part of above-mentioned Fedora Embedded)
  • Kernel Module Packages, DKMS, Fedora Extras, RHEL & SuSE KMP packaging formats
  • KVM - it's the new cool kid of virtualization
  • Others? Don't be shy -- put them here.

HACKFEST, 03-04 FEBRUARY

Hackfest sessions

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

Fedora Packaging

Fedora QA

  • Session Leader: Will Woods, QA lead for Fedora
  • Contact: (wwoods) at (redhat) dot (com)

Fedora Infrastructure

  • Session Leader: Mike Mc Grath, Fedora Infrastructure project leader
  • Contact: (imlinux) at (gmail) dot (com)

Fedora Live CD

  • Session Leader: David Zeuthen, maintainer of Pilgrim
  • Contact: (davidz) at (redhat) dot (com)

Fedora Docs + Doc Tools

  • Session Leaders: Paul W. Frields, Fedora Docs project member
  • Contact: (stickster) at (gmail) dot (com)

Yum/Createrepo/yum-utils

  • Session Leader: Seth Vidal, yum maintainer
  • Contact: (skvidal) @ (fedoraproject) dot (org)

OLPC Performance

  • Session Leaders: Chris Ball (Don't hate him because he uses Ubuntu!) and Chris Blizzard of Red Hat
  • Contact (blizzard) (at) (red) (hat) dot (com)

Death To RHGB

  • Session Leaders: Adam Jackson, Kristian Høgsberg
  • Contact: ajax at redhat dot com, krh at redhat dot com
  • See this post for more details.

EVENT DETAILS

FUDCon Boston 2007

  • Date and time, FUDCon: Friday 02 February, 8:30 AM-6PM, Hackfest: Sat 03 (8:30AM- 8PM)- Sun 04 8:30AM -2PM.
  • Location: Boston University Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering housed in the Photonics Building, 8 Saint Mary's Street, Boston MA, USA.
  • Food: Breakfast and box lunches provided on Friday.
  • Hint: Doors will open at 8AM. Arrive early to avoid the rush and guarantee that we have schwag for you.
  • Directions to Boston University Photonics Building
  • Take the T if at all possible - parking can be a pain! Take the Green line Westbound B train and exit at BU Central (beyond Kenmore Square stop). Walk up St. Mary’s street away from Marsh Plaza one half block. The Photonics Building will be on your left. Or, check the map. Here are some other maps of the Photonics Building and the BU Campus.

February 2nd: FUDPub Boston 2007

  • Please join us for drinks and/or dinner after the final session on Friday. An Tua Nua has graciously agreed to host FUDPub again this year, and they have assured us that extra staff will be on hand for the evening. Please be aware that the legal drinking age in Massachusetts is 21; Everyone will be admitted to the pub, but you should expect to show your ID if you plan to order alcohol. An Tua Nua is located at 835 Beacon Street, which is about a five minute walk from the BU Photonics Building. Some maps will be available at the FUDCon check-in table for the independent-minded, but Paul Stauffer will also lead a mass migration after the end of the last session.

GPG key signing Friday late afternoon

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.

  • Mandatory: Create a GPG keypair for yourself (if you haven't already)
  • Optional: add your user@fedoraproject.org uid to your keypair
  • Mandatory: Print or write down your key fingerprint and bring it with you. You'll have to confirm at the signing that the list is correct for your key.
  • 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: Send your key before the event to fudcon-keys at domsch.com as follows:
gpg --fingerprint foo@bar.com | mail -s "foo@bar.com key" fudcon-keys at domsch.com

  • Mandatory: Bring a government-issued picture ID of yourself

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 Extras 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.

Interesting files

Important Information

What We Need

  • Power strips and extension cords. If you have them, bring them.
  • Projectors. If you have them, bring them. (We have 4 for 6-7 rooms on Friday, 3 for Saturday, 1 for Sunday)
  • Video recording equipment. We'd like lots of footage, and we'd like to see it on YouTube.

Wireless Network Information

  • This will be configured to be open and generally completely unsecured for the areas we'll be in for the duration of the event. SSID is "Fedora". (mattdm)

Fedora Mirror

  • There is a Fedora mirror (including i386/x86_64 development and extras; no iso images) at ftp://fedora.bu.edu/ . Please use this, as it's fast and local. Any problems with it please contact Matthew Miller (mattdm).

Organizers

Host

Boston University's Office of Information Technology and the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

Sponsors

  • Boston University - Thanks again to BU for providing the venue (B&G, security, rooms, extra staff, network, banner, food, badges, etc.)
  • Red Hat - Thanks to Red Hat for organizing and providing speakers and cash and alcohol at FUDPub.
  • Google - Thanks to Google for funding the awesome FUDCon T-shirts.
  • KDE e.V. - Thanks to KDE e.V. for sponsoring the attendance of some members
  • Dell - Thanks to Dell for funding food and travel.
  • Wiley - Thanks to Wiley for sending along some books for giveaways.

Organizing Committee and Volunteers

Volunteers should be present at 8am to help with set-up. All volunteers should also be willing to take one shift at the Front Desk during the sessions.


Schedule

Preliminary Schedule for FUDCon Friday

8:00-8:30Pre-registration
8:30-9:00Registration and Breakfast, Coffee
9:00-9:15Opening talk
9:15-10:00Session pitches, social time
10:00-10:50Session 1
11:00-11:50Session 2
12:00-1:30Lunch
1:30-2:20Session 3
2:30-3:20Session 4
3:30-4:20Session 5
4:30-5:20Session 6
5:30-5:45Wrap-up
5:45-6:00Clean up

Friday Sessions

This is what The Big Wall will look like. We'll fill rooms with sessions on the morning of FUDCon!

Update: now filled-out online at an external site. If someone is bored and wants to transfer that here, go for it.

Session PHO 206 PHO 307 PHO 202PHO 203AME 245 AME 202 AME 410PHO 404PHO 442PHO 536
capacity 180 cap 50 cap 50 cap 50 cap 50 cap 25 cap 25 cap 10 cap 10 cap 10
projectorprojector projectorprojector
09:00-10:00 Kick-off, session pitches
10:00-10:50 xxx xxx xxx
11:00-11:55 xxx xxx xxx
13:30-14:20 xxx
14:30-15:20
15:30-16:20
16:30-17:45 Fedora State of the Union and Fedora Board Q&A
18:00-late FUDPub at An Tua Nua


Hackfest Schedule for Day 2 and Day 3

The facility will be open for hackers during the following hours:

  • Saturday: 8:30 am - 8 pm
  • Sunday: 8:30 am - 2 pm
For more information, be sure to coordinate with your track leader.

Other Fun FUDCon Things

  • How about a resume swap?
    • ChrisBall: The first time I read "resume swap" I thought "Oh, helping each other to get suspend to RAM working, that'd be cool". Then I realised my mistake, but now I think maybe my idea was better than the original one.
  • Any other ideas?

After-Hours

  • Saturday
    • Dinner and show at Club Passim, 47 Palmer St., Cambridge - Edie Carey is the headliner. Order tickets online at Passim site - $18.00 w/fees, choose "Dinner" seating. (Organizer: Paul W. Frields)

Travel

Air Travel

Hotel Accommodations

  • Suggestions?
    • WE HAVE AN OFFICIAL RATE AT THE FAIRMONT COPLEY PLAZA. Call them directly (1-617-267-5300) and ask for the FUDCon rate. The discounted rates are: $105/night ("moderate" room), $135/night ("basic" room"), and $235/night (business).
    • Courtyard Boston Tremont - from $129/night, distance: 2.1 miles. Near Green line - can take T (Green Line) to BU.
    • Courtyard Boston Brookline - from $169/night, distance: 0.9 miles. On Green line - can take T to Kenmore, walk ~0.5 miles to BU, or then take T again from Kenmore
    • Hyatt Regency Cambridge - from $119/night, distance: 0.4 miles (walk is longer.) Requires walking across bridge or bus/cab to BU, and train + bus to reach from Logan.
    • Hotel Commonwealth - from $235/night, distance: 0.5 miles. On Green Line, can T/walk to BU. (A rate of $199 per night should be available by asking a member of the BU staff ... and it's only a 5 minute walk, and extra plush, and made of some sort of ugly composite plastic material, so you know it's quality).
    • Holiday Inn Brookline - from $135/night, distance 0.5 mi. Near Green line - can take T to Kenmore or walk.
Also see: BU hotel list.

Contact Info

  • Questions? Email Greg De Koenigsberg at (gdk) at (fedoraproject) dot (org)
  • Join the Fedora marketing mailing list
  • Chat about FUDCon Boston 2007 on IRC: irc.freenode.net, #fedora-mktg
  • Use the tag "fudconboston2007" when blogging, uploading to flickr, slideshare, youtube, etc ...


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