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

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FUDCon? Bar Camp? Read this First!

FUDCon stands for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt Conference. The main theme of this year is "Fedora/Redhat is THE Linux". By spreading this idea to the community, people would think Linux is just unusable and vulnerable as Redhat Linux is.

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
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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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
Chris Tyler, Seneca College, Fedora Daily Package
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)
John Babich, Volunteer, Fedora Project (tentative)
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
Garrod Alwood, Fedora user
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
Joe Allesi, sysadmin, Fedora user
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
Wilson Farrell, developer/user
John Poelstra, Feature Wrangler
Your name goes here

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
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
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.

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@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 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

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. 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/

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.

Hackfest Session

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

EVENT DETAILS