fudcon-planning October 2010

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[fudcon-planning] #14: Funding request for Neville Cross
by fudcon-planning 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

#14: Funding request for Neville Cross -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: yn1v | Owner: somebody Type: Funding request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Tempe 2011: Travel subisides complete Component: FUDCon Tempe 2011 | Keywords: -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- I wish to have subsidy for accommodation and air fare Looking on Yahoo! Travel I find out ... Jan 28 Continental Flight 1073 from Managua (MGA) to Huston (IAH) and then Continental Fligth 520 from Huston (IAH) to Phoenix (PHX). Feb 01 Continental Flight 461 from Phoenix (PHX) to Houston (IAH) and then Continental Fligth 1774 from Huston (IAH) to Managua (MGA) This air fare will be about $978.24 Including travel protection plan Regarding accommodation, I am willingly to share room. I also can be helped with a partial subsidy. I can travel on my own budget to Miami, and from there I will use subside to travel to fudcon. Jan 28 American Airlines Flight 1007 from Miami (MIA) to Phoenix (PHX) Feb 01 American Airlines Flight 1051 from Phoenix (PHX) to Miami (MIA) This air fare is $326.34 including travel protection plan (I have not invoked any discount code on this fare) My objectives for attending fudcon are: # To experience fudcon to grasp it fully so I can work on planning a better fudcon in LATAM, more specifically in Central America. # To learn new topics that I can later reproduce at local small events # To catch up with members of the marketing team. # To explore new ways in which I can contribute to the project. # To renew energy and motivation If I can be useful for arrange last minute items or after party clean up, I can arrange more vacation days and travel before, leave later or both. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/14> fudcon-planning <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon> FUDCon event planning

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[fudcon-planning] #30: Funding request for Susmit.
by fudcon-planning 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

#30: Funding request for Susmit. -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: susmit | Owner: jsmith, rbergero, rrix Type: Funding request | Status: new Priority: blocker | Milestone: Component: FUDCon Tempe 2011 | Keywords: -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Tell us the following: * What do you need covered? (Please estimate the costs in USD: hotel $X, travel $Y) Travel and lodging. * If we cannot provide a full subsidy, will a partial subsidy be helpful? (Yes/No) Yes. * What will you accomplish by being at FUDCon? (Please be as specific as possible, since this is the most important factor in granting requests.) I want to meet all the people those I have been working with. Right now, it is too early to set a goal, but I guess I shall talk and work on something. May be the spins, or ambassadors or something else. * If you are requesting airfare, include complete flight information such as flight numbers, desired departure and arrival airports, and times. Also let us know if you have specific time restrictions. I shall be travelling from DEN. The whole trip amount is ~250 USD. May be a bit more or less. * Include any additional, relevant information. Yes, I can share rooms. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/30> fudcon-planning <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon> FUDCon event planning

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[fudcon-planning] #10: Air ticket Caracas/Temple, RPMDEV LATAM initiative from Gomix
by fudcon-planning 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

#10: Air ticket Caracas/Temple, RPMDEV LATAM initiative from Gomix -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: gomix | Owner: somebody Type: Funding request | Status: new Priority: blocker | Milestone: Tempe 2011: Travel subisides complete Component: FUDCon Tempe 2011 | Keywords: -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- * Air ticket ~750 US$ Caracas,Venezuela/Phoenix AZ * Will a partial subsidy be helpful? No * What will you accomplish by being at FUDCon? Most important goal, join developers and engineering team to improve Fedora Latam Devel initiative (rpmdev , packaging and developing). I would like to become a mentor in packagers group in 2011 to be able to recruit and promote more packagers from our region and getting direct contact with major developers and engineering at Temple is really important to achieve this goal. Also i would like to get closer to global Fedora community and present our efforts to improve Fedora from our point of view. Possible speaches at tech sessions (ruby/rails driven) and/or latam community presentation, or both. * Include any additional, relevant information. My sister lives in Surprise AZ, so i can save the hotel and transportation expenses. I would like to (if possible) flight one or two days before the event, i flight back home, a week later (i'll stay visitng my sister and niece) -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/10> fudcon-planning <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon> FUDCon event planning

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[fudcon-planning] #36: Funding request for David Nalley
by fudcon-planning 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

#36: Funding request for David Nalley -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: ke4qqq | Owner: jsmith, rbergero, rrix Type: Funding request | Status: new Priority: blocker | Milestone: Tempe 2011: Travel subisides complete Component: FUDCon Tempe 2011 | Keywords: -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Tell us the following: * What do you need covered? (Please estimate the costs in USD: hotel 4 * daily rate/2 (assuming room sharing), travel ~356 exclusive of taxes and fees.) * If we cannot provide a full subsidy, will a partial subsidy be helpful? Of course, but a full subsidy would be more helpful :) * What will you accomplish by being at FUDCon? (Please be as specific as possible, since this is the most important factor in granting requests.) As an outgoing FAmSCo member, I plan on spending time with the many FAmSCo members who are going to be present. Participate in conversations about the future of the Fedora Project which seem inevitable. Build new relationships and strengthen existing ones with other Fedora contributors. Meet with others interested in Fedora's cloud SIG and determine how we get other upstreams (Sheepdog, openstack, deltacloud, et al) involved in Fedora * If you are requesting airfare, include complete flight information such as flight numbers, desired departure and arrival airports, and times. Also let us know if you have specific time restrictions. I'll be happy to add this - I am happy to show up early/stay late to help with logistics/planning/cleanup if desired, and if so - disregard the below and we'll work other dates Continental 2143 - to houston (departs 6:05am) Continental 220 to PHX (arrives 11:05am) (Friday 28th) return: Continental 1561 to Houston (departs 8am) 2629 to GSP (arrives 3:52 pm) (Tuesday Feb 1st) * Do you need a visa or other official processing before you can attend FUDCon? If so, approximately how long does that processing take? No * Include any additional, relevant information. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/36> fudcon-planning <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon> FUDCon event planning

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[fudcon-planning] #33: Funding request for Jean-Francois Saucier (djf_jeff)
by fudcon-planning 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

#33: Funding request for Jean-Francois Saucier (djf_jeff) -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: jfsaucier | Owner: jsmith, rbergero, rrix Type: Funding request | Status: new Priority: blocker | Milestone: Component: FUDCon Tempe 2011 | Keywords: -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Tell us the following: * What do you need covered? (Please estimate the costs in USD: hotel $X, travel $Y) Hotel + Plane tickets. I welcome room sharing and I can take care of my others expenses. For hotel, I plan on arriving January 28 and leave on February 1. Plane ticket should be at around 750$ with Delta Airlines for the round trip (Departure from Quebec, YQB). * If we cannot provide a full subsidy, will a partial subsidy be helpful? (Yes/No) Yes, of course! * What will you accomplish by being at FUDCon? (Please be as specific as possible, since this is the most important factor in granting requests.) After attending my first FUDCon last year in Toronto, it's easier to see how this sort of event flow now. One thing that I would like to organize at the FUDCon is to do a cleanup of the Review Requests that are in Bugzilla. Many good packages are there and just wait for a review. I think that it could be extended to an IRC effort too at the same time, so, people unable to attend could help too. I plan on meeting other Fedora Ambassadors to see how we can speed the grow of the Fedora Project in Quebec and Canada. We have already completed many steps on this but some remains. Meeting with other Ambassadors (and some from other regions than USA) will be really helpful. I also plan on working with others on packaging efforts that will be present at the FUDCon. Apart from that, I plan to have fun meeting people that share the same goal as me! * If you are requesting airfare, include complete flight information such as flight numbers, desired departure and arrival airports, and times. Also let us know if you have specific time restrictions. I plan to leave from YQB on January 28 to PHX and make the trip back on February 1. I have no special needs and I don't mind the departure/arrival time. Many flights leave from Quebec for this date so I will choose the less expensive one when I book the final travel details. * Do you need a visa or other official processing before you can attend FUDCon? If so, approximately how long does that processing take? No, everything is fine here. * Include any additional, relevant information. Thanks for considering my application. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/33> fudcon-planning <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon> FUDCon event planning

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[fudcon-planning] #42: Funding request for Garrett Holmstrom
by fudcon-planning 24 Nov '10

24 Nov '10

#42: Funding request for Garrett Holmstrom -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: gholms | Owner: jsmith, rbergero, rrix Type: Funding request | Status: new Priority: blocker | Milestone: Component: FUDCon Tempe 2011 | Keywords: -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Tell us the following: What do you need covered? (Please estimate the costs in USD.) Hotel (4 nights) / Airfare from MN (~300 USD) Will a partial subsidy be helpful? (Yes/No) Yes. Coverage for lodging coverage is more crucial to my attendance. What will you accomplish by being at FUDCon? (Please be as specific as possible.) Will allow me to meet with fellow Fedora Cloud SIG folks to work on a package mirror system for Amazon EC2 and come up with a SOP for building images for Fedora on EC2. I will take care of my travel expenses just need the hotel covered. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/42> fudcon-planning <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon> FUDCon event planning

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[fudcon-planning] #12: Funding request for Igor Soares
by fudcon-planning 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

#12: Funding request for Igor Soares -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: igor | Owner: somebody Type: Funding request | Status: new Priority: blocker | Milestone: Tempe 2011: Travel subisides complete Component: FUDCon Tempe 2011 | Keywords: -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- * What do you need covered? (Please estimate the costs in USD.) * Air ticket from Belo Horizonte, Brazil to Phoenix (Round-Trip). Cost: ~$1,570.00 from Continental Airlines. * Lodging. * Will a partial subsidy be helpful? (Yes/No) * No. I am a college student therefore I will need full subsidy, but I can afford my daily expenses such as taxi and meals. * What will you accomplish by being at FUDCon? (Please be as specific as possible.) * I intend to participate specially for learning how a FUDCon in NA is held and organized. I intend to use this experience to help organizing the next FUDCon in LATAM. I want to learn how barcamps and hackfests are organized. I have been working on internationalization and localization quality assurance so it will be a great opportunity to get together with other folks and create value for Fedora. I intend to run an i18n/l10n testing hackfest in order to experience how it happens in the NA context. I attended to both FUDCons in LATAM and I will be able to exchange positive and negative experiences with other attendees and organizers. * If your request is for an airfare, please include complete flight information -- either flight numbers, or desired departure and arrival locations, dates, and times. * This can be quite flexible for me. But probable flight information is here: * From Belo Horizonte (CNF) to Phoenix (PHX) - depart: Jan. 27, 2011 6:55 p.m. - arrive: Jan. 28, 2011 9:50 a.m. * From Phoenix (PHX) to Belo Horizonte (CNF) - depart: Feb. 1, 2011 4:00 p.m. - arrive: Feb. 2, 2011 2:27 p.m. * Include any additional, relevant information. * Getting a visa might take 60-90 days and I will need a letter of recommendation. * Wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Igor -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/12> fudcon-planning <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon> FUDCon event planning

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[fudcon-planning] #66: Request for Invitation Letter to attend FUDcon Tempe
by fudcon-planning 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

#66: Request for Invitation Letter to attend FUDcon Tempe -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: aacosta | Owner: jsmith Type: Task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: FUDCon Tempe 2011 | Keywords: -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Hello guys, Getting into the States in the past has not been a problem for me, but experience dictates that a invitation letter improves a lot the chances in obtaining the permit. I've been told also that an original printed and signed letter is better than an electronic one, so -if possible- I'd like to request the second. Best Regards P.S. Full name and postal address Cesar Alejandro Acosta Acosta Calle de los Alamos 9724 Fracc. Los Alamos C.P. 31125 Chihuahua, Chih. MEXICO -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/66> fudcon-planning <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon> FUDCon event planning

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Thoughts from UDS
by Matt Domsch 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

I had a chance to attend two days of the currently ongoing Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando this week. I must say, Canonical has some good practices when it comes to organizing a large, mutli-day event with lots of different tracks. I'd like to take a moment to describe what they do, in hopes Fedora event planning can glean some useful ideas. * 14 separate tracks, running in parallel. You can't hope to make it to everything, either at UDS or FUDCon, but I thought this was a lot. * In each room, they have 2 projectors running: 1 for the discussion leader (though I saw very few slides projected; almost none); 1 for the IRC room dedicated to that physical room. * In each room, they have a set of stereo microphones (4 mics it looked like) at the front of the room. These are connected to an icecast server, such that there is a separate icecast stream running all the time for each physical room. The sound is very clear with a 56kbps stereo vorbis stream. * One IRC channel for each physical room. ** The combination of IRC and icecast lets people participate remotely. * For each session, an assigned note-taking person would keep notes in gobby. Often times these notes were displayed on the discussion leader's projector. In most sessions, others in the room with laptops would also connect to gobby and help take notes. They had a "newer" version of gobby, gobby-infinote, but the gobby server was overloaded much of the time and kept dropping connections. I heard people comment that last year they had gobby problems too - they had it working by Thursday that week, but it was pretty broken at the start of the week this time too. * in each room, there are power strips taped to the floors on each 2 rows of chairs That's all for now... Thanks, Matt

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FUDCon LATAM 2011 Decision
by Dennis Gilmore 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

So Bids for FUDCon LATAM closed September 30 according to http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2010-September/001… We have 4 bids http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2011_Bid_Panama http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2011_Bid_Foz https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2011_Bid_Chile https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:LATAM_2011_Bid_Porto_Alegre And according to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_organization_process the decision should be at the end of this week. however we have had no discussion on the proposals i fear we are behind schedule already but i think we should extend the decision a week and make sure that the proposals are reviewed and that we get any feedback on questions that crop up. this will not be an easy decision with so many good proposals. Dennis

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