news 28 Posted September 11, 2009 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Howdy Fedora friends and neighbors, Here's an update on the upcoming FUDCon in Toronto, being held December 5-7. Before the details, I want to give some special thanks and recognition to Chris Tyler of Seneca College in Toronto for his continued, invaluable assistance in setting up FUDCon. His help made it possible to establish a lot of these logistics while we were also preparing for Fedora presence at the Red Hat Summit last week. Thanks Chris! You'll find a lot of the details up at the FUDCon wiki page here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 FUDCon is free and open to *everyone* to attend. The wiki page is chock full of details, but if you'd rather see the highlights now, just read on... * * * HELP US PLAN! - ------------- In the spirit of transparency and openness, we're trying to make the planning process of FUDCon as easy to participate in as possible. Edit the wiki pages and let us know what you would like to see, join the discussion list at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning, and join us every Thursday at 2000 UTC (4:00pm US Eastern) in IRC Freenode at #fudcon-planning for FUDCon planning meetings. GENERAL SCHEDULE - ---------------- We are holding FUDCon from Saturday through Monday, December 5-7. The first day, Saturday, will be the day of technical sessions. The second and third days will be hackfest days where people can gather to work on some of the projects they've seen on Saturday, or anything near and dear to their heart. We'll maintain a wiki listing of everything going on, updated throughout the event to provide timely information on what's happening where, when, and with whom. At any time you'll be able to visit the page at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009 to see all the details. PRE-REGISTRATION - ---------------- Pre-registration is now open on the main FUDCon wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Pre-registration Remember that although you're not required to pre-register, when you do pre-register for the event you're eligible to receive a special gift at the sign-in desk at FUDCon. There will probably be a limit to the number of people we can pre-register, so sign up today! But don't worry -- if you miss pre-registration, remember that FUDCon as always is *free and open* for anyone to attend. We are happy to have anyone attend, learn, participate, and contribute. LODGING - ------- We've secured rooms at the very comfortable Hilton Garden Inn Toronto/Vaughan, with a single/double occupancy rate of CDN $105/night (currently about USD $98). We've also secured discount vouchers for the daily breakfast buffet to further help contain attendees' costs. Visit this pre-set URL to register at the hotel: http://bit.ly/fudcon-hgi-toronto-2009 ** NOTE: Our name is misspelled as "FEDCon" at the registration page, a simple snafu with the hotel. We're working on getting it fixed ASAP! You don't have to wait for FUDCon pre-registration to register at the hotel. If you are looking to room-share and don't have a roommate, you'll be able to mark that on the pre-registration and we'll do an assignment for you. TECHNICAL SESSIONS - ------------------ Not all of the technical sessions will be in the BarCamp format at FUDCon this year. That's a change from previous formats. Some will be pre-selected so that we can make sure to cover a wide variety of audience interests, since we frequently have more talks proposed than available space. *NOW* is the time to start adding content! Go to this URL and add your talk now: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Technical_sessions FUDPUB - ------ Ah, the world-(in)famous FUDPub! We are reserving a large party space at Dave & Busters (http://daveandbusters.com) which happens to be walking distance from the hotel. Yes, even in December in Toronto! We'll gather there for billiards, snooker, general merriment, and of course access to their midway full of entertainment. We'll provide dinner and non-alcoholic beverages for pre-registrants. The venue also has a wide variety of additional libations available for those so inclined. Ah, but don't party *too* hard, because starting the next day we'll have... HACKFESTS - --------- As always, we will feature plenty of hacking -- design work, coding, documentation, general brainstorming, planning -- going on throughout the hackfest days Sunday and Monday. If you hear about something you like on the technical session day, chances are you'll be able to sit down with people on Sunday and Monday, learn more, and hack on it! If you're presenting a technical session, give some serious consideration to how you can make your subject matter hackable. Then invite people to get together with you the next day to work on it! You can start by adding information about your hackfest in advance. Visit this URL and add what you'll be working on: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Hackfests More information will be forthcoming as it develops! - -- 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 ( -at -) #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKqpnlrNvJN70RNxcRApVuAKDWq7S4kFEcUagLywpnexpUJG8zlACgg6Kl TulrYZytVEODthDvKelaSuk= =w/XB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Share this post Link to post
