[Event Report] Fedora Activity Day I @ Red Hat, Pune: September 24, 2011
by Shakthi Kannan
Hi,
In preparation to FUDCon, Pune 2011 [1], we had organized a Fedora
Activity Day (FAD) I [2] at Red Hat, Pune, India on Saturday,
September 24, 2011.
Rahul Sundaram started the proceedings with a session on how to
contribute to Fedora [3], and how people can get involved with the
community. I showed the various communication channels that people
need to use to connect with the large Fedora community.
We then proceeded to do a hands-on session on RPM packaging. We used
the GNU Hello RPM packaging [4] example from the fedoraproject.org
wiki. Rahul and I explained each section of the .spec file, and showed
them how to use rpmbuild. The participants learnt to write the .spec
file, and also built, installed, and tested the hello package.
We then took a break for lunch following which I presented a hands-on
session on git using the di-git-ally managing love letters [5]
presentation. Siddhesh Poyarekar then took an introductory hands-on
session on autotools [6].
All the presentations are available in the FAD wiki page [7]. Thanks
to Red Hat for letting us use their facility, and for sponsoring the
pizza! They were able to arrange for ten laptops with Fedora 15
installed for participants who didn't have laptops.
Thanks also to Kashyap Chamarthy, Kushal Das, Siddhesh Poyarekar for
their help to the participants during the workshop sessions.
Few pictures that I took at the workshop are available [8].
SK
[1] FUDCon, Pune, 2011. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:India_2011
[2] FAD I @ Red Hat, Pune. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Pune_2011_Sep_24
[3] Rahul Sundaram's presentation on how to contribute to Fedora.
http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/presentations/fedora-how-to-contribute.pdf
[4] GNU Hello RPM package.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_GNU_Hello_RPM_package
[5] di-git-ally managing love letters.
http://shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#di-git-ally-managing-love-letters
[6] Introduction to autotools.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-classroom/2010-05-03/autotools_wo...
[7] FAD Agenda. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Pune_2011_Sep_24#Agenda
[8] Few photos. http://shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/2011/fad-1-rh-pune-2011/
--
Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com
11 years, 6 months
EMEA ambassadors meeting 2011-09-21 minutes
by Christoph Wickert
Not many people attended today and guess this is partly my fault as my
reminder was dated wrong. Our meetings are on Wednesdays, so it was
October 20th and not 21st. Nevertheless we had quite a productive
meeting.
Note: We did not yet decide about F16 media production. This will happen
in a dedicated meeting later and we will announce it in time.
Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-09-21/emea_ambassado...
Minutes (text):
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-09-21/emea_ambassado...
Log:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2011-09-21/emea_ambassado...
Meet you again on
Wednesday, October 5th (two weeks from now)
at 20:00 UTC
in #fedora-meeting!
Regards,
Christoph
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#fedora-meeting: EMEA ambassadors meeting 2011-09-21
====================================================
Meeting summary
---------------
* role call (cwickert, 20:02:31)
* Announcements (cwickert, 20:10:10)
* If you need media, contact cwickert or jsimon, they still have some
(cwickert, 20:12:03)
* If you *have* media, please update the inventory. as we are planning
for F16, it is crucial for us to know how many media we actually
spent (cwickert, 20:12:53)
* Events (cwickert, 20:13:13)
* ACTION: cwickert to send sesivany sone swag for LinuxCon (cwickert,
20:21:25)
* ACTION: cwickert to send sesivany also some more media (cwickert,
20:23:49)
* ACTION: cwickert to send wonderer some media for Linuxinfotag Landau
(cwickert, 20:25:03)
* cwickert still has 2 ambassadors polos left, one XL and one L.
Contact him if you want one (cwickert, 20:26:54)
* if you are willing to come to OpenRheinRuhr, please add yourself
in the wiki at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenRheinRuhr_2011
(cwickert, 20:30:33)
* if you come to FUDCon Milan and want a room in the primary hotel,
contact jsmith ASAP. he needs the final list by Monday 26th
(cwickert, 20:35:20)
* ACTION: cwickert to investigate how fast we can get F16 media
(cwickert, 20:43:21)
* ACTION: Affix to send rsc English cheatcubes (cwickert, 20:45:57)
* ACTION: gnokii, cwickert and kital to investigate the possibility to
have a FAD or Mini-FUDCon at CLT 2012 (cwickert, 20:53:28)
* Ambassadors Schedule (cwickert, 20:56:03)
* LINK:
http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-16/f-16-ambassadors-tasks.html
(cwickert, 20:56:15)
* ACTION: cwickert to write a mail about release events to ambassadors
list (cwickert, 21:00:31)
* ACTION: cwickert, sesivany and kital to hold a meeting about media
(cwickert, 21:05:14)
* Open Floor (cwickert, 21:14:30)
Meeting ended at 21:21:47 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* cwickert to send sesivany sone swag for LinuxCon
* cwickert to send sesivany also some more media
* cwickert to send wonderer some media for Linuxinfotag Landau
* cwickert to investigate how fast we can get F16 media
* Affix to send rsc English cheatcubes
* gnokii, cwickert and kital to investigate the possibility to have a
FAD or Mini-FUDCon at CLT 2012
* cwickert to write a mail about release events to ambassadors list
* cwickert, sesivany and kital to hold a meeting about media
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* Affix
* Affix to send rsc English cheatcubes
* cwickert
* cwickert to send sesivany sone swag for LinuxCon
* cwickert to send sesivany also some more media
* cwickert to send wonderer some media for Linuxinfotag Landau
* cwickert to investigate how fast we can get F16 media
* gnokii, cwickert and kital to investigate the possibility to have a
FAD or Mini-FUDCon at CLT 2012
* cwickert to write a mail about release events to ambassadors list
* cwickert, sesivany and kital to hold a meeting about media
* gnokii
* gnokii, cwickert and kital to investigate the possibility to have a
FAD or Mini-FUDCon at CLT 2012
* rsc
* Affix to send rsc English cheatcubes
* sesivany
* cwickert to send sesivany sone swag for LinuxCon
* cwickert to send sesivany also some more media
* cwickert, sesivany and kital to hold a meeting about media
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* cwickert (184)
* sesivany (25)
* Affix (13)
* rsc (13)
* gnokii (12)
* jsmith (9)
* zodbot (7)
* ib54003 (2)
* rbergeron (2)
* abadger1999 (1)
* shaiton_ (1)
11 years, 6 months
[Event Report] "From Python to Silicon" - PyCon India, September 16-18, 2011
by Shakthi Kannan
Hi,
I had presented "From Python to Silicon: python-myhdl" talk at PyCon
India 2011, September 16-18, 2011 at Symbiosis, Pune, India.
The first day of the (un)conference was filled with tutorials. I
attended the "Functional Programming with Python" talk by Anand
Chitipothu [1]. He had illustrated list comprehensions, recursions,
higher-order functions, iterators and generators in Python with
numerous examples.
On the second day, I attended the keynote by Raymond Hettinger on
"What Makes Python Awesome" [2]. It was a very informative talk
illustrating the key characteristics of Python, and the community that
surrounds it.
I also attended the "Python on Android" [3] talk by Sajjad Anwar, who
gave simple examples using android-scripting [4]. The "Emacs as a
Python IDE" [5] talk by Noufal Ibrahim had useful tips and tricks on
using Emacs for development work, and issue tracking using org-mode
[6]. I also attended the "Decorators as Composable Abstractions" [7]
by Sidhant Godiwala which was an introduction to using decorators in
Python.
On the final day of the event, I attended "Network Programming with
Umit Project" [8] by Narendran Thangaranjan who gave demos on network
protocol implementation, and testing in Python using the Umit project
[9]. Jivitesh Singh Dhaliwal gave a demo of using PySerial to control
robots in the "Python in the Real World: From Blinking LEDs to
Advanced Robotics" [10] talk.
My presentation slides are available [11]. Thanks to Christopher
Felton for his valuable feedback.
Few photos taken during the event are available at my /gallery [12].
SK
[1] Functional programming with Python.
http://in.pycon.org/2011/talks/4-functional-programming-with-python
[2] What makes Python awesome.
http://ep2011.europython.eu/conference/talks/what-makes-python-so-awesome
[3] Python on Android. http://in.pycon.org/2011/talks/13-python-on-android
[4] android-scripting. http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/
[5] Emacs as a Python IDE.
http://in.pycon.org/2011/talks/7-emacs-as-a-python-ide
[6] Org-mode. http://orgmode.org/
[7] Decorators as Composable Abstractions.
http://in.pycon.org/2011/talks/43-decorators-as-composable-abstractions
[8] Network Programming with Umit Project.
http://in.pycon.org/2011/talks/35-network-programming-with-umit-project
[9] Umit project. http://www.umitproject.org/
[10] Python in the Real World: From Blinking LEDs to Advanced
Robotics. http://in.pycon.org/2011/talks/30-python-in-the-real-world-from-everyday-...
[11] From Python to Silicon: python-myhdl.
http://shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#from-python-to-silicon
[12] Photos. http://www.shakthimaan.com/Mambo/gallery/album70
--
Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com
11 years, 6 months
