vFUDCon: virtual FUDCon

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

Hello everyone,

We have launched the vFUDCon Project, a FUDCon that is virtual, of
course, but will be accesible with multimedia medium only.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/vFUDCon?

> From this sub project of Fedora Marketing we hope, that local
ambassadors can extends their marketing perspective through any
multimedia medium.

The French ambassadors have scheduled one this thursday, on IRC.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/vFUDCon/01France

Announcements will be done these following days.
(already started on linuxfr)

Any suggestions are welcome.

Regards,
Chitlesh Goorah
--
http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

REPORT:

The presentation started at 2100 Local time (France/Paris) yesterday,
it gathered fairly enough public :)

#38 on #fedora-fr-meeting
#35 on #fedora-fr-qa

Our special guest was RahulSundaram. He stayed for two hours with us,
though he was reading french posts on those channels.

Yes, the duration was twice as expected., more than 3 hours :)

As expected, the scheduled topics was  :
    *  1) Overview of the Fedora Project - ChitleshGoorah
    *  2) The Fedora Projects - DamienDurand
    *  3) SELinux - AurelienBompard
    *  4) Fedora Core 6 - AurelienBompard
    *  5) (Réflexion sur l'aide francophone) - ThomasCanniot
    *  6) Questions and Answers with our Secret Guess.

Concerning the report of this event, we (those who participated) have
agreed that each of us will write a small report on his presentation.

Globally, all those topics could bearly be covered in 1h30 . :)  ,
besides some (from the public) were a bit too excited.

Otherwise, everyone got enough priviledge to ask questions.

*  1) Overview of the Fedora Project - ChitleshGoorah

Briefly, I've introduced the Fedora Project, the Fedora Core and the
Fedora Board and RedHat's participation.

We tried to keep this vFUDCon interactive as far as I can, (yes, some
(from debian) abused it too) .

The main questions were about:
 * aiglx in rawhide.
 * no packages of xgl in Extras
 * mono, OIN

Afterwards, DamienDurand continued with The Fedora Projects. (He will
talk briefly about it later.)

Then it was AurelienBompard's turn with SELinux (He will talk briefly
about it later.).

Before AurelienBompard continued with FC6, ThomasCanniot talked about
some new ideas for the French participation to the Fedora Project He
will talk briefly about it later.).

At that time it was too late for RahulSundaram, we continued Questions
and Answers without him.

In the end, I've described the status of Kadischi and an eventual
Official Fedora Livecd in the near future.

Best thing in the end, was :
[23:59:21] <pti-seb> c'est quand la prochain fudcon ?

When will be the next FUDCon ? its vFUDCon :)

The logs files are uploaded to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/fr_FR/FedoraEvents/vFUDCon/01France

Cheers,
Chitlesh Goorah
--
http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

[Thomas Canniot]

Hello, here is the report for my presentation, Chitlesh Goorah has
almost said everything about the organization of the event.

5) How to help the Fedora Project as a non-English speaker?

This short presentation was a mean to introduce a new section in the
Forum, which will allows member to post bug reports directly on our
Forum, in French. Then an ambassador will translate the bug report and
add it to the official Bugzilla.

Moreover, another section will be opened soon to allow user to post
their packages, which will be verified and submitted to Extras.

We had many questions during the vFUDCon before my presentation asking
about such features for our forum. We had good feedbacks about this
little revolution, people welcome it. We have now to help them reporting
bugs *properly*.

I would like to thank all the other involved ambassadors for their help
and very good work. Yesterday evening was a great day for the French
Community in France. We can be proud of us. :)

-- 
Thomas Canniot
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasCanniot

[Aurelien Bompard]

Hello,

I covered two topics : SELinux and Fedora Core 6.

SELinux
-------
I explained quickly what SELinux is about, how it is an additional security
layer to the kernel. I talked about strict vs targeted, and how to switch
to enforcing/permissive/disabled. I told about setenforce to test if
SELinux can be the cause of a malfunction.
Concerning the workings of SELinux, I only explained the use of the "type"
property (file_contexts), and I used an example of a compromised FTP server
to show that is will only do what it supposed to do, even compromised.
Apparently people liked the example, some event said it was the first time
they understood SELinux (which is quite gratifying :) )
I had questions about how to make changes to the policy : one user didn't
know about the SELinux tab in system-config-securitylevel, and another
wanted to let apache listed to other ports than 80.
Someone asked if it is possible to manage SELinux policies according to
groups, which forced me to talk about MLS/MCS :)
So in the end, people were interested, and looked like they understood.

Fedora Core 6
-------------
I basically took the points in http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC6Future and
explained what was said at FUDCon Boston.
I had questions about the future Yum applet, about a potentially new init
system, and about hardware support (for suspend/resume)
There were requests for a 1 or 2 CD install (yet again)

I think it went pretty good, except in the end when people used the
questions channel for trolling and commenting the main channel.

People started asking generic questions right after the start, so for future
vFudCons, it may be a good idea to collect generic questions 1 or 2 days
before the event, and to answer them at the beginning.

Also, maybe it's just us frenchmen who don't understand the word discipline,
but we need to prevent the questions channel from becoming a troll nest.
People (especially on IRC) need to comment what's going on and screem
"bullsh!t" from time to time, so we can open (yet) another channel for free
comments. And the non-presenting ambassadors can redirect trolls to this
channel. And the main channel can be made read-only except for the
ambassadors. That could work, we'll see next time :)

In the end, we're all pretty satisfied with how things went, especially
since it's our first.

Aurélien
-- 
http://aurelien.bompard.org  ~~~~  Jabber : abompard(a)jabber.fr
If one keeps trying, one successes eventually. Therefore, the more one
fails, the closer one is to success. -- Shadok moto.

[Thomas Chung]

On 4/28/06, Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  REPORT:
>
>  The presentation started at 2100 Local time (France/Paris) yesterday,
>  it gathered fairly enough public :)
>
>  #38 on #fedora-fr-meeting
>  #35 on #fedora-fr-qa
>
>  Our special guest was RahulSundaram. He stayed for two hours with us,
>  though he was reading french posts on those channels.
>
>  Yes, the duration was twice as expected., more than 3 hours :)
>
>  As expected, the scheduled topics was  :
>      *  1) Overview of the Fedora Project - ChitleshGoorah
>      *  2) The Fedora Projects - DamienDurand
>      *  3) SELinux - AurelienBompard
>      *  4) Fedora Core 6 - AurelienBompard
>      *  5) (Réflexion sur l'aide francophone) - ThomasCanniot
>      *  6) Questions and Answers with our Secret Guess.
>
>  Concerning the report of this event, we (those who participated) have
>  agreed that each of us will write a small report on his presentation. 
Great report!
Please add a link of the report to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/vFUDCon/01France
Regards,
--
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

On 4/28/06, Thomas Chung <tchung(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  Great report!
>  Please add a link of the report to
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/vFUDCon/01France
>  Regards, 
Once DamienDurand had his report sent, ill paste the full report on the wiki.
By the way, William too was with us, but unfortunately not till the end. :(



--
http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

The Report can be found here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents/vFUDCon/01France

along with a feedback :)