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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.
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
- Max Spevack, Fedora Project Leader
- Greg De Koenigsberg, FUDCon organizer, Fedora Board member
- Chris Blizzard, Fedora Board member
- Jeremy Katz, Fedora Board member
- Bill Nottingham, Fedora Board member
- Rahul Sundaram, Fedora Board member
- Matt Domsch, Fedora Board member, Linux Software Architect, Dell
- Seth Vidal, Fedora Board member
- Paul W. Frields, Fedora Board member
- Rex Dieter, Fedora Board member
- Dave Jones, Fedora kernel monkey.
- Peter Jones, Fedora hacker
- Robin Norwood, Red Hat
- Jesse Keating, Fedora Release Engineer
- Jack Aboutboul, All you base are belong to me
- Bob Jensen, Fedora Unity Founder
- Jonathan Steffan, Fedora Unity Founder
- Nalin Dahyabhai, Fedora Developer
- Will Woods, Fedora Test Lead
- Luke Macken, Fedora infrastructure hacker
- Toshio Kuratomi, Fedora infrastructure hacker
- Chris Ball, OLPC
- Mike McGrath, Fedora infrastructure
- Paul Stauffer, Boston University Computer Science
- Jarod Wilson, Red Hat kernel lackey and Fedora contributor
- Christopher Aillon, Getaway Driver
- Tom \"spot\" Callaway, Ninja Master and SPARC advocate
- Tomas Mraz, Fedora developer
- Radek Vokal, Fedora developer
- Dennis Gilmore, FESCo, infrastructure, and SPARC
- Adam Dutko, Fedora Docs Contributor/Fedora Unity Member
- Clay Guthrie, Fedora Enthusiast
- Jonathan M. Prigot, One of the bozo's on the PCI bus
- Justin Seiferth, UMASS Dept of Continuing Education and Odyssey Systems Consulting Group
- Bob Gorman, Red Hat Solutions Provider - Fedora Enthusiast
- Bob Herrmann, snake-dancing simpleton
- Bruce Patterson, Count Choculitis sufferer
- Derek Libby, Fedora grasshopper seeking wisdom
- Michael O'Donnell, my mom is making me do this
- Allan Hall, I like Penguin schwag
- Chris Skaryd - Fedora Enthusiast
- Warren Togami - Fedora developer
- Ed Hill - Fedora contributor
- Ted Roche - Greater New Hampshire LUG Activist
- Kevin Fenzi - Fedora Sponsor/Reviewer, Xfce maintainer, sysadmin and Greyhound advocate.
- Donald Fischer - Red Hat, Mugshot
- Matthew Miller, Boston University Linux Project
- Jim Sullivan, Boston University AME, User
- Jon Masters, Red Hat weenie.
- John Boland, I want my MythTV!
- Shawn K. O'Shea, Sysadmin, Akibia
- David Lutterkort, Red Hat
- Bill Perilli, Fedora User. Independant Software Engineer.
- Thorsten Leemhuis (thl), FESCo Member
- James Buchanan, Fedora enthusiast.
- Brian Bowlby, BU sysadmin.
- Andre Devitt, xen initiate
- Aaron Bowman, Fedora User, Lurker
- Mike McLean, Red Hat Release Engineer
- Richard Hogaboom, Lincoln/Solidus
- Dr. Jef Spaleta, Fairbanks Curling Club
- James Bowes, Red Hat
- Dan Kamalic, BU Biomedical Engineering
- James Goebel, BU Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)
- James Bardin, BU ECE
- Dan Berkovitch, BU ECE
- Omri Schwarz MIT Kavli Institute
- Aaron Caine, BU Tech/Sys Mgr
- Carlos Moreira, BU Engineering
- Kathryn Shakun, BU Engineering
- John Kim, BU Engineering
- Carlos R. Estevez Northeastern Uni. I am intersted in the Fedora Unix Os. I am an old Unix Solaris user.
- Karsten Wade, Fedora Documentation
- Mary Ellen Fitzpatrick BU Bioinformatics
- Esther Epstein, Sysadmin BMERC
- Ari Trachtenberg, BU ECE
- Aaron Seigo, KDE
- Adam Jackson, Fedora X ninja
- Eric Jacobsen, Packet Inspector
- Michael Sullivan, BU InfoSec
- Tammy Pruneau, BU InfoSec
- Tobias Drewry, BU CCG's interdepartmental communications specialist
- Wesley Harrell, Boston University Linux Project groupie
- Milton Masud, BU Chemistry Department Computer Resources Director/System Admin
- Brendan Madness, Fedora Lovah
- William Stearns, SURBL and SANS
- Chris Negus, author Fedora 6 Bible and Live Linux CDs
- Andy Grimm, free software evangelist and longtime RH/FC user, Ingres Corporation
- Fred Hyder CEO GRASS ROOTS COMPUTER SVS
- Richard Wachsman GRASS ROOTS COMPUTER SVS
- James Kelley, BU CS Student
- Jeroen van Meeuwen, Fedora Unity Team Member
- Dennis Gregorovic, Red Hat release engineer
- Alan Reamer, Longtime RH/FC user
- Billie Mulcahy, Fedora user seeking clarity
- Jim Meyering, Red Hat, upstream coreutils
- Caspian Design, 4 Hues, Product Development & Design
- Scott Macomber, BU OIT
- George Gaudette, BU OIT
- Tracy Pilcher, BU OIT
- John Price, L-3 Communications, Security and Detection Systems
- Chris Lumens, Red Hat, big time anaconda guy
- David Cantrell, Red Hat, anaconda, dhcp, GNU parted!
- Dave Malcolm, Red Hat Desktop & QA
- Nicholas Parker, BU CS
- Máirín Duffy, Red Hat (RHN)
- Chuck Ebbert, Fedora kernel minion
- Brad Smith, Red Hat Technical Instructor, fedoratracker.org maintainer
- Matthew Galgoci, Calm like a bomb.
- Sean Sosik-Hamor, Engineer, Pepper Computer, Inc.
- Jason Powers, Linux Systems Engineer, FUN Technologies, Inc.
- Kristian Høgsberg, Fedora something something.
- Federico Lucifredi
- Jeff Baez, Fedora newbie, conference lurker.
- Douglas McClendon, Engineer, CX1E
- Ingo Donasch, L-3 Communications, Security and Detection Systems
- Steve Magoun, Engineer, Pepper Computer, Inc.
- George Skuse, Watertown Public Schools
- Jim Dishaw, Fedora user
- Joseph Gaffney, Consultant, Shen, Milsom, & Wilke, Inc.
- Pace Willisson
- Patrick Ester, Fedora newbie and BU Student
- David Kleinschmidt, Program Director, Funutation Camps
- Matthias Clasen, Red Hat Desktop
- Paul Gampe, Red Hat Engineering Services
- Dawid Zamirski, Fedora User
- Richard Solis, Fedora User
- Brian Pepple, FESCo member
- Thomas Vander Stichele, conspirator
- Diana Fong, Fedora and Red Hat Desktop Visual Designer
- Ray Strode, Red Hat Desktop
- Jonathan Blandford, Red Hat Desktop
- Tony Espy, Engineer, Pepper Computer, Inc.
- Behdad Esfahbod, Red Hat Desktop (arrives Friday night)
- Tim Burke, Red Hat Engineering Mgr
- Robert Haynes, L-3 Communications, Security and Detection Systems
- Scott Fitchet, figital
- Kevin Baker, Red Hat, Engineering Operations
- Charlie Farinella, Appropriate Solutions, Inc., IT
- Remy DeCausemaker, Legislative Associate NYPIRG
- John Flanagan, Red Hat, RCM
- John (J5) Palmieri, Red Hat OLPC
- Mike Bonnet, Red Hat Release Engineering
- Joe Winter, BU OIT
- Marina Zhurakhinskaya, Red Hat, Mugshot
- Richard Tucker, Fedora User
- Harry Sutton, RHCA, Hewlett-Packard Company
- Dan Walsh, Red Hat Engineering
- 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. :)
- B to the W, Red Hat's Frog and Monkey Inspector General (who will be arriving up on mid-day Super Bowl XLI Sunday)
- Ralf Urbach, UniGraphic, Inc.
- Jim Burrell, BU
- Ansley Barnes, Interested Guy
- Owen Williams, olpc volunteer
- Dennis Byron, II industry analyst specializing on open source
- Sharath Muppala, Systems Administrator, CDM, Cambridge
- David Freedman, Computer Engineer, Boston University
- 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)
- Session Leaders: Paul W. Frields, Fedora Docs project member
- Contact: (stickster) at (gmail) dot (com)
- 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.
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Schedule
Preliminary Schedule for FUDCon Friday
8:00-8:30 | Pre-registration | 8:30-9:00 | Registration and Breakfast, Coffee | 9:00-9:15 | Opening talk | 9:15-10:00 | Session pitches, social time | 10:00-10:50 | Session 1 | 11:00-11:50 | Session 2 | 12:00-1:30 | Lunch | 1:30-2:20 | Session 3 | 2:30-3:20 | Session 4 | 3:30-4:20 | Session 5 | 4:30-5:20 | Session 6 | 5:30-5:45 | Wrap-up | 5:45-6:00 | Clean 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 202 | PHO 203 | AME 245 | AME 202 | AME 410 | PHO 404 | PHO 442 | PHO 536 | | capacity 180 | cap 50 | cap 50 | cap 50 | cap 50 | cap 25 | cap 25 | cap 10 | cap 10 | cap 10 | | projector | projector | | | projector | projector | | | | | 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)
Omaha odds calculating - Omaha odds calculating, omaha strategy
Omaha poker outs - Omaha poker outs, odds of omaha
Online Texas Holdem Poker Rules - Online Texas Holdem Poker Rules and winning strategies
Online Texas Holdem poker tips - Online Texas Holdem poker tips and rules
Hi Lo Poker sites - Hi Lo Poker sites reviews
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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