[Ambassadors] Fedora Activity Day - Pune, India: Summary

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi,

We had organized a Fedora Activity Day last weekend in the Red Hat
office in Pune, India. It was a two day event. You might have seen the
blog posts on that over this week in Planet Fedora and we have a roundup
of all that at

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Pune_2010#Reports

We had a variety of projects and tasks that was tackled during the
event. Here is a quick summary:

* OLPC/Sugar:  Sayamindu who works for OLPC joined hands with Kushal Das
to package up a accessibility tool of interest to OLPC and a Sugar
activity called Pathagar which is a book server
(http://github.com/sayamindu/pathagar).  Sayamindu also gave a talk on
life as downstream of Fedora.

* Fedora Tour - A clutter based app with whiz bang effects that aims to
provide a friendly welcome screen for new users on first login.  Ankur
Sinha is leading this effort.  Ankur Sinha has also helped out in
packaging reviews and submitted a few new review requests.  The latest
being a dependency of Shotwell.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2010-June/006339.html

* Fedora Medical Spin:  Susmit is a leading an effort to create a
medical spin for the next release. Many of us are helping out.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/india/2010-May/003497.html

Harsh Varma participated in some packaging tasks and is helping with
this spin as well.

* Systemd, WebM support etc:  I reviewed a few packages, approved one
and worked on packaging up systemd, updating webkitgtk in Fedora 12 for
WebM support, fixing a E-V-R issue that broke Deluge, qbittorrent etc
for users upgrading to Fedora 13 from Fedora 12.

* Package Reviews:  A number of us including Rangeen Basu, Ankur Sinha,
Kushal Das and me participated in doing package reviews.

* Autootools workshop:  Siddesh who works for GSS gave a introductory
workshop on autotoolizing a project.

* Repository wide fixes -  Rakesh Pandit working on fixing several
security bugs and Imran who couldn't make it to the event due to some
last minute disruption came up on IRC and filed patches that fixed all
of the pending E-V-R issues between Fedora 12 and Fedora 13

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599492

Rakesh will be committing and doing the builds to resolve them today.
We hope to be tackling source url issues, desktop file fixes, FTBFS and
other similar issues via a online FAD sometime later.

* gFotoStat:  Kishan and Meejan worked on a tool for statistics of
photos for professionals. This tool can run against a set of pics and
provide all sorts of interesting info based on the metadata.  They fixed
a number of bugs and added some new features in a new release.

* wordGroupz:  Ratnadeep worked on a new project which is a vocabulary
builder and he also took on some packaging tasks.

* Shreyank Gupta worked on packaging Sup, a popular gmailish mail client
written in Ruby and several of the Ruby module dependencies. He has just
been sponsored yesterday.

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/india/2010-June/003542.html

* Salim Ansari hacked on Anjuta including a symbol browser and some new
search capabilities and Satya continued her work on Beacon, a web based
docbook xml editor

* Runa ported the help in the new mallard format from Tomboy to Gnote
for GNOME 3 readiness.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620557

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At the end of the event, we had a discussion about what went well and
what we could improve and about organizing a FUDCon next year in India.

Rahul

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