fudcon-planning October 2009

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Reminder
by Paul W. Frields 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

Just a quick reminder -- make sure when you send email to the list, you're using the email From: address that the list expects. If you really need another one added to the whitelist, I can take care of that. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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RE: Reminder
by Steven M. Parrish 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

I always send the mail from my gmail account, but for some reason never see my own mails to the list. Steven -----Original Message----- From: Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 1:32 AM To: FUDCon Planning list <fudcon-planning(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> Subject: Reminder Just a quick reminder -- make sure when you send email to the list, you're using the email From: address that the list expects. If you really need another one added to the whitelist, I can take care of that. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug _______________________________________________ fudcon-planning mailing list fudcon-planning(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning

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D&B Deposit
by Paul W. Frields 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

I got word from Jacqueline Scott at Dave & Buster's that our deposit has been applied -- thanks to Chris and Max picking up a ball that I accidentally dropped on my way to UTOSC. Next week will be a little less frenetic where I'm sitting -- well, maybe after Tuesday at least. ;-) -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Planning meetings between now + FUDCon
by Mel Chua 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

Paul and I both have a Travel Schedule of AWESOME between now and FUDCon. (Or Travel Schedule of DOOM, as some have phrased it; I'm still in the "Oh boy, oh boy, TRAVEL!!!" phase of my life, so I stand by my choice of adjective.) Our schedules match in such a way that one or both of us will be around to stay atop stuff on any given week, *except* for 11/12, when Paul will be in Australia and I will be in Singapore. Chris, would you be able to chair that one and drive the FUDBus for the week? For reference/transparency-fu, our remaining regular meetings: 10/15: Paul and I will be hanging out with Max + Greg + Karsten in Raleigh this week, so FUDCon planning should solidify considerably (though I think we're already doing very well). 10/22: life as normal. (Note that Mel will be in Toronto starting 10/23, if local stuff is needed.) 10/29: Mel at our lovely host site of Seneca, with Chris for FSOSS; Chris, want to sit next to each other for that week's FUDCon IRC meeting? I'll come find you wherever you are on campus then. 11/5: life as normal. 11/12: Aforementioned Week of Traveleage, with Paul in Australia and Mel in Singapore. Need someone else to drive this week. 11/19: life as normal. 11/26: life as normal. 12/3: life as normal. or as close to normal as it gets the week before a FUDCon, anyway. Just a fyi, --Mel

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FUDCon Sunday Lunch
by Chris Tyler 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Ok, looks like the lunch decision just got a tiny bit harder. Apparently in-building food is not available on Sunday -- they've been staying closed on the weekend due to lack of demand. They're willing to open for a group our size, but I doubt they'll run their full selection. Monday is no problem. This means that the nearest food on Sunday is in a foodcourt a short walk away -- not as convenient (and more disruptive to hacking) than if the food was available in the same building. Maybe we should plan a cheap lunch on the Sunday and let people do their own on Monday? Looks like we could do 2 slices of pizza and a pop for under $4/head ( http://www.pizzapizza.ca/PPLWeb/CommandServlet?command=screenscmd&screenID=… ). -Chris

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Meeting minutes 2009-10-08
by Mel Chua 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Minutes are up at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:FUDCon_Toronto_2009_Planning_meetings…. Meeting summary 1. 1. ACTION: stickster_afk can we pay D&B the deposit - urgent, b/c someone else wants our slot otherwise (mchua, 20:10:26) 2. solicit lug proposals on fudcon events (mchua, 20:22:24) 1. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/18 (mchua, 20:22:27) 2. ACTION: mchua send form letter to LUGs, cc LUG liasons (mchua, 20:23:02) 3. compile list of funded community attendees (mchua, 20:23:15) 1. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/64 (mchua, 20:23:19) 2. ACTION: mchua send http://fpaste.org/xEMt/ to funding requesters after making sure extra names on that ticket are also on the preregistration page table (mchua, 20:23:58) 4. book FUDBus (mchua, 20:24:08) 1. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/68 (mchua, 20:24:12) 2. ACTION: stickster_afk to update list on FUDBus progress (mchua, 20:24:29) 5. FUDCon budgeting (mchua, 20:24:50) 1. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/69 (mchua, 20:24:59) 2. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2009-October/00014… (mchua, 20:25:32) 3. ACTION: mchua update http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:FUDCon_Toronto_2009_budget (mchua, 20:26:23) 4. ACTION: budget update: no monday lunch (mchua, 20:26:45) 6. FUDPub vegetarian food (mchua, 20:34:50) 1. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/70 (mchua, 20:34:54) 2. ACTION: ctyler to send spevack D&B deposit contract, spevack to whip out RH credit card (mchua, 20:35:37) 3. ACTION: ctyler apply magical powers to make FUDPub have veggie options (mchua, 20:36:04) 4. AGREED: Sunday lunch will be catered pizza; estimated cost $4*130 mouths = $520 (mchua, 20:37:02) 5. ACTION: stickster_afk to figure out whether catered pizza will be paid for by attendees, RH, or some other kind and benevolent sponsor (mchua, 20:37:19) 7. FUDCon daily schedule (mchua, 20:37:34) 1. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/71 (mchua, 20:37:36) 2. https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/71 (mchua, 20:38:37) 8. hackfest planning (mchua, 20:39:20) 1. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/76 (mchua, 20:39:22) 2. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Template:FAD (mchua, 20:39:46) 3. ACTION: mchua ping hackfest leaders again (mchua, 20:40:10) 9. get fudcon toronto ad into onlinux swagpacks (mchua, 20:41:15) 1. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/79 (mchua, 20:41:18) 2. ACTION: get JFSaucier to do https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/79 (mchua, 20:43:01) 3. make sure onlinux fudcon ad printing is in quantity <1k; if it isn't, reassess. (mchua, 20:44:00) 10. anything else? (mchua, 20:44:11) 1. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2009-October/threa… (mchua, 20:44:31) 2. http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/mchua (mchua, 20:50:52) Meeting ended at 20:53:19 UTC (full logs). Action items 1. (taken care of, refer to action item #7) 2. mchua send form letter to LUGs, cc LUG liasons 3. mchua send http://fpaste.org/xEMt/ to funding requesters after making sure extra names on that ticket are also on the preregistration page table 4. stickster_afk to update list on FUDBus progress 5. mchua update http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:FUDCon_Toronto_2009_budget 6. budget update: no monday lunch 7. ctyler to send spevack D&B deposit contract, spevack to whip out RH credit card 8. ctyler apply magical powers to make FUDPub have veggie options 9. stickster_afk to figure out whether catered pizza will be paid for by attendees, RH, or some other kind and benevolent sponsor 10. mchua ping hackfest leaders again 11. get JFSaucier to do https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/79

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Apologies
by Paul W. Frields 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

There was a FUDCon planning meeting scheduled ~45 minutes ago, and I apologize for completely missing it. Internet connectivity at UTOSC is good when you can get it. But a particular problem with the way the Cisco wifi routers onsite interpret unknown ESSIDs (think: "Army of flying monkeys -- ATTACK! FLOOD! BWHAHAHAHA!") means it can be difficult to get a connection at times. Let's agree to round up next week, and again, sorry everyone. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug

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Want to hold a panel session
by Toshio Kuratomi 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi all, I would like to hold a panel session at the Toronto FUDCon. The session would be: """ Developers and sys admins: How to working together Unlike most IT shops, Fedora Infrastructure has as many programmers as system administrators. Find out what the differences are in each sides' needs. Learn how we work together even when we have conflicting needs. Prod us with your burning questions and watch us squirm to figure out better ways to deal with our conflicts in the future. """ I've started talking to people and I should have no trouble getting enough interested panelists but there are some logistics questions that I realized I should raise. * Can we have multiple microphones for this? We would need several mics for the panelists and at least one that the moderator can move around the room with as he takes questions. * Can we have a place on the pre-set schedule? I'd hate to get the panelists excited and prepared to do this and then not be able to once we get to FudCon. * Any other equipment or logistics needs I haven't thought of? Thanks, -Toshio

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FudPub & the budget
by Steven M. Parrish 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Paul, Noticed you had scratched the lunches on Sun & Mon, what about FUDPub did we get a sponsor? Steven ===================================================== Steven M. Parrish ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- gpg fingerprint: 4B6C 8357 059E B7ED 8095 0FD6 1F4B EDA0 A9A6 13C0 http://tuxbrewr.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: SMParrish @ #fedora-kde, #fedora-devel, #fedora-olpc, #sugar

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Status: telling LUGs about FUDCon
by Mel Chua 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

1. mchua to report status of spreading information to LUGs about FUDCon The short: we have LUG liasons who we can ping to poke said LUGs about proposals but no proposals per se yet. Relevant ticket is https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/18. Copying the wonderful folks who've been doing the LUG Liasoning on this email. Karlie, Charley, Jon - I grabbed Paul's FUDCon announcement and re-spun it into a "hey LUGs, please send your ideas" form letter, which is at https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/18#comment:7 and also posted below. Could you copy-paste that into an email and forward it (with any modifications you want) to the LUGs you are in contact with, and Cc fudcon-planning(a)lists.fedoraproject.org so we know who's got the letter? Thanks! --Mel --- FUDCon Toronto 2009, the upcoming Fedora Users and Developers Conference in Toronto from December 5-7, needs your help, o wonderful local LUGs! https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 Fedora is a popular Linux distribution; our mission is about the rapid progress of Free and Open Source software. FUDCon is where our community gets together and simultaneously celebrates and sprints towards the future - and we'd love it if you could join us and help us figure out what that future should look like. Namely, we'd love to have participation from local LUGs, particularly with turning FUDCon into an opportunity to introduce folks from and near Toronto to open source - and we need ideas on how to do just that. We will have some special “getting-started” user sessions on Saturday, December 5, as well as our always-popular developer tracks and hackfests throughout the length fo the conference. We’re also planning some sort of refereed or pre-sorted content, in addition to BarCamp? format talks, so everyone will be able to find something they like. Some of our ideas are at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Technical_sessions_-_Satu…, but we would love to hear yours - how would you shape the schedule? Please give us ideas for sessions and hackfests you’d like to see! Outreach for kids? A gaming corner? An artists' studio with Inkscape tutorials running? A keysigning party? A session on marketing for open source projects? Invite a local high school newspaper to cover a "how did you get started with open source?" storytelling circle? A helpdesk where we can pool together and tackle the weirdest setups, questions, and bugs you've always wanted to work out? A lunch gathering on education? An installfest? A test day? A kernel hacking party? We need your ideas! Email the fudcon-planning (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning) list with your thoughts on what would make this FUDCon *really* cool, and how we could use it to help you build your presence and momentum here in Ontario - we're looking forward to hearing your brainstorms and seeing you all in December! Thanks muchly, --Mel Chua on behalf of the FUDCon Planning Crew PS: If you can come, pre-registration is already open on the wiki (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Pre-registration) where you can find loads of other information and maps as well. Pre-registering gets you a couple extras, like lunch each day, a bit of schwag, and a pass to FUDPub. But FUDCon is absolutely free to attend, whether you pre-register or not, and FUDCon is open to everyone, since time immemorial. (Or at least since we started having them years ago.)

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