fudcon-planning October 2010

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FUDCon Tempe - Southwest Airlines sale...
by Robyn Bergeron 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Hi Folks, Just thought I'd drop a note re: the southwest airfare sale, on now through Oct. 28 (tomorrow) at 11:59PM, pacific time. http://www.southwest.com/landing/halloweenoffer_routelist.html Note that fares from Boston to Phoenix on our dates are $120 each way (I actually went in and checked online), for people travelling from that area. If you have a fare that looks substantially cheaper than what you had originally predicted, now may be the time to buy it. Jared, are we still planning on buying plane tickets for folks this week? If so, we should try to prioritize at least getting in the people who would benefit from this sale (since it ends tomorrow night). Thanks, Robyn

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Hotel rooms
by Paul W. Frields 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Marriott has given us 5 extra rooms for our block. However, they are out of queen+queen rooms, so these are all king+sofabed rooms (still support double occupancy) at the given rate. They've given us these on a "bonus" basis, but if we want any more, we'll have to guarantee to fill them. -- 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/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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FUDCon organization duties
by Paul W. Frields 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

As many of you know, I've moved into a different position in Red Hat. One of my responsibilities over the last few months has been to assist new FPL Jared Smith in ramping up on his many new responsibilities. Since I've been involved in planning several FUDCons, assisting with FUDCon Tempe was a natural place for me to pitch in. After Fedora 14 is released, though, my available cycles for Fedora will change substantially. Last week while we were in Westford, Jared and I talked about transitioning these duties, with him taking over the lead in planning and executing FUDCon. Seeing as how I've only been one person out of a substantial team, I don't think this will have any big impact on FUDCon Tempe. We have a great crew in AZ who can get things done for FUDCon on the ground. Jared's biggest duty will be making sure all the details remain properly organized and accounted for, that there are specific people responsible for carrying out tasks, and that each of those tasks is tracked transparently. I look at FUDCon Tempe as being not just about organizing a North American event, but hopefully (if we do things well) providing a template for other major Fedora events in terms of transparent planning. One of the observations made to Jared and me about events is that transparent planning makes them more likely to be fully successful, and embraced by the community. By providing this template, I hope we'll enable more of our participants worldwide to feel they're capable of staging a major event with the full support and enthusiasm of a great community behind and alongside them. So, the upshot is that Jared will take over both accountability for FUDCons and the specific responsibility of running FUDCon Tempe planning meetings starting on November 8. I'll stay on the list to advise if needed, but I'll mostly remain out of the way while the team Gets Awesome Stuff Done. FUDCon Tempe is not the only FUDCon activity taking place, of course. Jared will also be working with the community to decide the location and schedule for future events. He'll also ensure the planning of those events happens transparently through this list, the wiki, and our fudcon-planning Trac. Of course, I'm fully committed to helping with FUDCon through the 8th and will continue striving to get things done for and with you guys. I'm sure I'll get the chance again in Tempe, but a big thank you to each and every one of you who've helped with FUDCon tasks, planning, ideas, and discussions. You rock! -- 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/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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Reminder: Tempe planning meeting today @1900 UTC (3pm US EDT)
by Paul W. Frields 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

We'll meet today at our usual place and time: IRC Freenode #fudcon-planning, at 1900 UTC (3:00pm US Eastern, 12:00pm US Pacific). By then I should have the minutes from last week reviewed so I can figure out where we can best concentrate this week! :-) -- 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/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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FUDCon Tempe planning recap 2010-10-25
by Paul W. Frields 25 Oct '10

25 Oct '10

Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2010-10-25/fudcon_tempe_pl… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2010-10-25/fudcon_tempe_pl… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2010-10-25/fudcon_tempe_pl… Meeting summary --------------- * Roll call! (stickster, 19:00:46) * Move meeting time? (stickster, 19:04:59) * IDEA: Board meeting may have a regular collision with this meeting if the Board mtg goes overtime. (stickster, 19:05:17) * ACTION: stickster Raise topic on fudcon-planning list and ask jsmith to reset time that works for participants (stickster, 19:06:07) * jsmith will be taking over this meeting in November (stickster, 19:06:41) * need to make sure we can accommmodate rrix as well (rbergeron, 19:07:11) * Review last week's action items (stickster, 19:08:33) * LINK: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2010-10-18/fudcon_tempe_pl… <-- last week's minutes (stickster, 19:08:39) * Thanks to rbergeron for running the meeting last week! (stickster, 19:08:52) * rbergeron followed up wtih design list, albeit by talking to mizmo - i think they're going to do a bounty on it (rbergeron, 19:09:47) * On jsmith's action item -- his friend Carlos did an on-site survey and is now talking to the hotel facilities manager to figure out optimal way to do line-of-sight (stickster, 19:09:58) * ACTION: rbergeron Ensure Design team does a bounty or other solicitation as appropriate for ticket #69, FUDCon shirt design (stickster, 19:13:16) * ACTION: stickster Poke jsmith to get status on internet pipe to fudcon-planning list (stickster, 19:13:30) * ACTION: rbergeron and herlo Get prospectus into PDF form this week (stickster, 19:13:47) * Legal sessions at FUDCon (stickster, 19:14:33) * Ryan has been in contact with Pamela and Richard re: fudcon legal sessions (rbergeron, 19:14:56) * Fontana wants to do a talk on the Legal relationship of RHT <-> Fedora (rbergeron, 19:16:07) * also have proposed a session on Fedora & Trademark stuff (technical session) (rbergeron, 19:16:56) * and are also proposing at least an hour but preferably 2 hour join session with Pam & Richard together talking about fundamentals of IP law in teh context of open source. (rbergeron, 19:17:39) * We have plenty of space in the schedule for legal stuff. (rbergeron, 19:22:29) * AGREED: having Red Hat Legal contributions at FUDCon is simply fantastic! (stickster, 19:24:25) * Travel fares for NA contributors (stickster, 19:28:08) * ACTION: jsmith Order tickets for pending NA subsidies before next meeting (stickster, 19:28:58) * ACTION: stickster Fill in actual costs on the online spreadsheet for travel subsidies (stickster, 19:33:40) * Food and other expenditures (stickster, 19:35:29) * rbergeron will have new ASU menu by NLT 11/1, that will allow us to do our food ordering (stickster, 19:35:46) * Broadband cost estimate will be needed in the near future, jsmith and rrix to get their contacts to complete requested quotes so we can make decision on what to pay for (stickster, 19:36:28) * All other business (AOB) (stickster, 19:47:44) * ACTION: rbergeron and inode0 to discuss ambassador swag for FUDCon on list and get some thoughts about what's needed so we can let the NA ambassadors know, since they're ordering stuff. (rbergeron, 19:54:00) Meeting ended at 19:56:53 UTC. Action Items ------------ * stickster Raise topic on fudcon-planning list and ask jsmith to reset time that works for participants * rbergeron Ensure Design team does a bounty or other solicitation as appropriate for ticket #69, FUDCon shirt design * stickster Poke jsmith to get status on internet pipe to fudcon-planning list * rbergeron and herlo Get prospectus into PDF form this week * jsmith Order tickets for pending NA subsidies before next meeting * stickster Fill in actual costs on the online spreadsheet for travel subsidies * rbergeron and inode0 to discuss ambassador swag for FUDCon on list and get some thoughts about what's needed so we can let the NA ambassadors know, since they're ordering stuff. Action Items, by person ----------------------- * inode0 * rbergeron and inode0 to discuss ambassador swag for FUDCon on list and get some thoughts about what's needed so we can let the NA ambassadors know, since they're ordering stuff. * jsmith * stickster Raise topic on fudcon-planning list and ask jsmith to reset time that works for participants * stickster Poke jsmith to get status on internet pipe to fudcon-planning list * jsmith Order tickets for pending NA subsidies before next meeting * rbergeron * rbergeron Ensure Design team does a bounty or other solicitation as appropriate for ticket #69, FUDCon shirt design * rbergeron and herlo Get prospectus into PDF form this week * rbergeron and inode0 to discuss ambassador swag for FUDCon on list and get some thoughts about what's needed so we can let the NA ambassadors know, since they're ordering stuff. * stickster * stickster Raise topic on fudcon-planning list and ask jsmith to reset time that works for participants * stickster Poke jsmith to get status on internet pipe to fudcon-planning list * stickster Fill in actual costs on the online spreadsheet for travel subsidies * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * stickster (108) * rbergeron (75) * inode0 (15) * zodbot (6) * jsmith (3) * smooge (2) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- 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/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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FUDCon Tempe Planning Meeting Recap: 2010/10/18
by Robyn Bergeron 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

A very quick meeting today. Thanks to all who came. Minutes follow below. Meeting Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2010-10-18/fudcon_tempe_pl… Meeting Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2010-10-18/fudcon_tempe_pl… -Robyn ======================================= #fudcon-planning: fudcon tempe planning ======================================= Meeting started by rbergeron at 19:00:20 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2010-10-18/fudcon_tempe_pl… . Meeting summary --------------- * Roll call ;) (rbergeron, 19:00:42) * Agenda (rbergeron, 19:03:47) * LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/report/9 (rbergeron, 19:04:26) * FUDCon Tempe Shirt Design request - https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/69 (rbergeron, 19:04:58) * LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/163 (rbergeron, 19:05:43) * ACTION: rbergeron follow up on ticket #69, shirt design, with design list (rbergeron, 19:06:41) * Godaddy sponsorship progress, https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/49 (rbergeron, 19:07:07) * inode0 hasn't heard anything from godaddy yet. (rbergeron, 19:08:39) * Internet pipe at hotel, https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/19 (rbergeron, 19:09:26) * ACTION: rrix to poke zgiles (rrix, 19:10:14) * ACTION: rrix to poke zgiles (rrix, 19:10:26) * ACTION: rbergeron to poke jsmith on fudcon-planning list to see what he's heard. (rbergeron, 19:10:49) * Create FUDCon tempe tee shirt, https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/70 (rbergeron, 19:11:46) * this ticket is owned by jsmith - waiting on getting a shirt design. (rbergeron, 19:12:04) * FUDCon Tempe Prospectus, https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/47 (rbergeron, 19:13:06) * ACTION: rbergeron and herlo to try and get together to transform prospetus into pdf-able lovin' (rbergeron, 19:15:25) * Any other business? (rbergeron, 19:15:47) * rrix is in contact with the RH legal folks about doing presentations so he can coordinate with the ASU IP law folks; will have more when he hears back (rbergeron, 19:17:44) * lanyards have been shipped to rrix (rbergeron, 19:18:10) Meeting ended at 19:20:35 UTC. Action Items ------------ * rbergeron follow up on ticket #69, shirt design, with design list * rrix to poke zgiles * rrix to poke zgiles * rbergeron to poke jsmith on fudcon-planning list to see what he's heard. * rbergeron and herlo to try and get together to transform prospetus into pdf-able lovin' Action Items, by person ----------------------- * herlo * rbergeron and herlo to try and get together to transform prospetus into pdf-able lovin' * rbergeron * rbergeron follow up on ticket #69, shirt design, with design list * rbergeron to poke jsmith on fudcon-planning list to see what he's heard. * rbergeron and herlo to try and get together to transform prospetus into pdf-able lovin' * rrix * rrix to poke zgiles * rrix to poke zgiles * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * rbergeron (54) * rrix (22) * herlo (5) * zodbot (5) * inode0 (3) * smooge (1)

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FUDCon Tempe planning meeting tomorrow! 1900 UTC/3pm EDT/12pm PDT
by Robyn Bergeron 17 Oct '10

17 Oct '10

Howdy all, We will be having the regularly scheduled FUDCon: Tempe planning meeting on Monday, October 18 at UTC 1900 (3pm US-eastern, 12pm US-pacific). As always, we'll be meeting in #fudcon-planning on irc.freenode.net. One departure from the norm: Stickster will be on a plane, and I'll be running the meeting. Meeting agenda can be seen here: https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/report/9 Please check up on your outstanding tickets and add any information you have to them as necessary - this helps us save time in the meeting :) If you have a ticket that needs to be added to the meeting agenda, please add "na-meeting" to the ticket keywords. Assigned tickets: https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/report/4 All FUDCon tickets: https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/report/1 See you there! -Robyn

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[Fwd: Update on FUDCon conference]
by Paul W. Frields 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

I just sent this update to ASU staff. Thanks to everyone for your continued help. Sending an update like this is a joy, because you guys have helped make so much happen over the last few months. Hopefully the ASU folks will be motivated to spread the word about the conference! Paul ----- Forwarded message from Paul W. Frields ----- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:34:24 -0400 From: Paul W. Frields To: Jon Delany, Yann-Hang Lee, Duane Woerman.edu Cc: Ryan Rix, Robyn Bergeron, Jared Smith Subject: Update on FUDCon conference Hello ASU friends, I hope this note finds all of you well as you are deep into the Fall semester's activities. I'm writing to give you a general news update on plans for our Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) coming in January 2011. I apologize for the length and hope you'll bear with me to the end. In short, the conference is poised to be a major success. At the end of this update, there are a few specific areas where I'd like to request your assistance in raising awareness of this conference at CIDSE and ASU. HIGHLIGHTS OF INTEREST: * There are over 120 pre-registrants at this point, with attendees from points across the nation and the globe including India, Latin America, and Europe. This does not count students, local Linux User Group members, and others expected to attend. Travel fares have been secured for many of them. * We already have instructors signed up to run technical sessions that include: ** "coding dojo" sessions where attendees develop Python and Ruby skills ** Extending Fedora support for ARM architectures ** Security testing and investigation in accordance with the OSSTMM, using the Fedora Security Lab ** Storage cloud implementation and configuration ** Security-enhanced Linux (SELinux) framework, policies, and tools * Two attorneys from Red Hat's legal department, Pamela Chestek and Richard Fontana, will attend and give instruction on intellectual property matters as they pertain to software developers and open source. We believe your faculty and students will find this material very helpful. * We've secured a hotel block at the Courtyard Tempe Downtown for lodging travelers at a special rate, and have almost filled that block. Details are on our web page, shown below. * We've reserved Sparky's Den in the ASU Memorial Union for a Saturday night social event during the conference where the ASU and Fedora communities can intermingle and have fun after the first day of the event. * We're actively researching broadband options for the hotel to support after-hours work at the conference. (Our attendees keep very late hours at our annual conferences to take full advantage of the opportunity.) * We're discussing final menu choices with ASU Catering for points throughout our event. * Ryan Rix has started his undergraduate studies at ASU, and is assisting Adam McCullough, and our other friends at the ASU LUG, with footwork in the Tempe area. Robyn Bergeron, our other FUDCon planning coordinator, and I are both in touch with Ryan often. Feel free to reach out to any of us with questions or concerns. REQUESTED ACTION: I'd like your assistance in publicizing this event with your faculty and staff. For instance, one of our local contacts can hang notices in your lecture halls and bulletin areas frequented by students and faculty. I'd appreciate if the faculty can help get the word out, even before the holiday break. We encourage pre-registration because it improves our ability to plan the event logistics. The web page with full details is found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011 Note that it's even simpler to tell students, "Google for FUDCon Tempe," and ask them to pre-register if they want to attend. Pre-registration is not required, but it is helpful. In the near future we'll need to finalize plans for classroom space, which Jon Delany indicated we should do in December. That's the last outstanding, major logistics issue for us to wrap up, so I'm looking forward to dicussing that soon. Finally, I would like to introduce all of you to Jared Smith, who is the new Fedora project leader. Jared joined Red Hat in July to take over that position from me, and I continue to assist him with FUDCon to make his transition as smooth as possible. Over the next few months, you can expect to hear more from Jared, as we coordinate with ASU in preparation for January's event. Thank you for your continued support. You're welcome to share this email with colleagues if it's helpful, and if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Can't run Monday's FUDCon Tempe meeting
by Paul W. Frields 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

I'm going to be getting on board a plane around the time of our normal FUDCon Tempe planning meeting next Monday, 2010-10-18 at 3:00pm US Eastern time. Is anyone willing to run that meeting in my absence? -- 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/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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[fudcon-planning] #16: Funding request for YOUR_NAME_HERE
by fudcon-planning 12 Oct '10

12 Oct '10

#16: Funding request for YOUR_NAME_HERE -------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: pbrobinson | Owner: somebody 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.) Air travel and hotel * Will a partial subsidy be helpful? Yes * What will you accomplish by being at FUDCon? (Please be as specific as possible.) I'm the maintainer of MeeGo on Fedora, co-maintainer of Sugar within Fedora. I'm also the lead on the Fedora Mini SIG as well as participating in all sorts of other areas within Fedora. * If your request is for an airfare, please include complete flight information -- either flight numbers, or desired departure and arrival locations, dates, and times. United Airlines LHR - ORD - Flight 929 - Friday Jan 28th 10:05 ORD - PHX - Flight 702 - Friday Jan 28th 17:00 Return PHX - IAD - Flight 952 - Tues Feb 1st 08:50 IAD - LHR - Flight 918 - Tues Feb 1st 17:46 * Include any additional, relevant information. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/16> fudcon-planning <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon> FUDCon event planning

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