All-Flock Special Edition of 5 Things in Fedora This Week (5tFTW 2014-08-05)

Wed Aug 6 06:31:49 UTC 2014

Reposted from <http://fedoramagazine.org/5tftw-2014-08-05/>

Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to follow it all. This series
highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week.
It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links
to each. Here are the five things for August 5th, 2014:

Late? Flock re-registration is not required
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This week, is Flock our annual conference for Fedora contributors.
We alternate between Europe and North America, and this year, we’re in
Prague in the Czech Republic.

While we asked for pre-registration, that registration is *not
necessary* to attend. You won’t get a t-shirt, lunches, or a conference
badge, but you’re still welcome to attend. Just show up at the Czech
Technical University in Prague tomorrow, August 6th, or any day
through Saturday.

  * http://flocktofedora.org/
  * http://flocktofedora.org/location/venue/

Don’t take a taxi — take the bus
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If you’re coming from the airport in Prague, we recommended you take
the bus] — see transportation details on the Flock page. It’s simple
and costs just 32 CZK — about $1.50 US.

  * http://flocktofedora.org/location/transportation/

Flock keynotes: free and open software, from governments to laptops
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We have two exciting keynote talks at Flock. The first will be from
Gijs Hillenius of European Commission’s Open Source Observatory &
Repository, giving an overview of FOSS in public administrations in
Europe. The second is from Sean “xobs” Cross, on the Novena
laptop project — an entirely open hardware system built around a
quad-core ARM processor (and available for preorder from
Crowdsupply).

  * https://twitter.com/Sjig (Gijs Hillenius)
  * http://osor.eu/
  * https://twitter.com/xobs (Sean “xobs” Cross)
  * http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page
  * https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop

A sampling of sessions
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Many sessions at Flock focus on practical, technical aspects, like Josh
Boyer’s State of the Fedora Kernel or Aditya Patawari’s
Orchestration with Ansible at Fedora Project. Others focus on
important social and community issues, like Jiří Eischmann’s Fedora
Ambassadors: State of the Union, Marina Zhurakhinskaya’s Outreach
Program for Women, or Sarup Banskota’s The curious case of Fedora
Freshmen (aka Issue #101).

Flock is also about planning for the our future, and there are two of
these in particular I’d like to highlight.

First, on Thursday, Stephen Gallagher is running Fedora.next.next:
Planning for Fedora 22. Fedora 21 is now approaching alpha, but
Rawhide, our development branch, is already the first inklings of Fedora
22. We already have some approved features targetted for that release
next year (for example, the DNF command-line package manager), and
many of the ideas we’re starting with F21′s Fedora Cloud, Fedora Server,
and Fedora Workstation will really come into realization in F22. Come
and help us decide what we’ll aim to accomplish.

Second, on Saturday, Toshio Kuratomi and Haïkel Guémar are moderating a
discussion on the future of Fedora governance. This will be much
more broad than just the Fedora.next product working groups, and will
probably focus on a proposal to restructure the Fedora Project Board to
be a representative council with membership drawn from various Fedora
subprojects. Of course we won’t make any decisions at a conference which
not everyone can attend, but we do hope to come out of this with a solid
plan — so, again, come join us if you’d like to help.

  * State of the Fedora Kernel: http://sched.co/Sc0wuX
  * Orchestration with Ansible at Fedora Project: http://sched.co/SbYwmu
  * Fedora Ambassadors: State of the Union: http://sched.co/SbU3Ab
  * Outreach Program for Women: http://sched.co/SbUkDi
  * The curious case of Fedora Freshmen (aka Issue #101): http://sched.co/SbRuOy
  * Fedora.next.next: Planning for Fedora 22: http://sched.co/1kI1hXj
  * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceYumWithDNF
  * The future of Fedora governance: http://sched.co/Sc6Oux

Can’t be in Prague? There will be video!
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Live video will be available from at least the bigger session rooms at
Flock, and available online after the conference as well. Take a look at
the Flock Conference 2014 Prague YouTube Channel, starting at
(approximately) 06:45 UTC Wednesday morning. (That’s 8:45 here in
Prague.) **Note the last-minute channel change!**

  * https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQIXiF6fxPCtHw_XwHFq6nA

Bonus call for help!
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If you *will* be here, we could use help writing up summaries of the
talks for Fedora Magazine. Just a few paragraphs on any talk that you
find interesting would be great — you can contact Chris Roberts or
Ryan Lerch for access. (Ryan’s at home in the U.S., but Chris will
be at the conference, and in fact has a session *about* Fedora
Magazine on Wednesday morning, so if you come to that we can hook you
up.)

  * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chrisroberts
  * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ryanlerch
  * Fedora Magazine: http://sched.co/SbRL3X

-- 
Matthew Miller            mattdm at mattdm.org             <http://mattdm.org/>
Fedora Project Leader  mattdm at fedoraproject.org  <http://fedoraproject.org/> 