DevConf.CZ 2012

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Fedora Events: Developer Conference, Brno, Czech Republic

About

• an Open conference for all Linux and JBoss Developers, Admins and Linux users organized by Red Hat Czech Republic
• Presentations will be held by Red Hat, Fedora and JBoss users and developers
• The conference has free entrance, no registration needed
• For questions, please contact RadekVokal, MarekMahut or Jiri Eischmann
• Check out DeveloperConference2011 and photos for last year event

Please register

• Please register to get a free t-shirt and entrance to after party

When and Where

• February 17 - February 18, 2012 (Friday, Saturday)
• Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University (google maps) (openstreetmap.org)
• Botanická 68a, Brno
• Brno, Czech Republic
• Main entrance to the building
• Lecture rooms location

Schedule

• Full schedule will be available during the first week of January 2012

Proposed talks

• Talks (in a lecture rooms for apx 80ppl) - 45 minutes each, topics should be highly technical, don't hesitate to get into details

presenter and subject	group	short description
Marek Poláček & Jan Kratochvíl - prelink/ELF	Tools	relro/execinstr/pi[ec]/LD_*/...& Introduction to DWARF, ELF, GDB/binutils, build-id etc.
Jakub Jelinek - ???	Tools
Jakub Hrozek & Jan Zeleny - FreeIPA/SSSD + intro to MIT kerberos	Security	introduction to MIT Kerberos, its concepts, and basic configuration/usage
Alexander Bokovoy/Andreas Schneider - Cross-realm trusts in FreeIPA v3.0	Security
Peter Vrabec - security compliance check in Fedora	Security	How sectool became obsolte by scap-workbench? Motivation, status, pros and cons.
Eduard Beneš&Miroslav Grepl - SELinux news in Fedora16	Security	faster boot, file name transition, more strict SELinux
Miloslav Trmac - Concise overview of security -	Security	what it is, how to design programs, common programming bugs
Dmitri Pal - Identity Management Roadmap + MIT and kerberos	Security
Steve Grubb - Security Logging Initiative	Security
Jan Hutar - Software robot competitions around the world and our way	Others	Overview of various software robot competitions and announce of our own
Stanislav Kozina - What can Linux learn from the others	Others	introducing interesting features of Solaris
Jared Smith - Swimming Upstream & Creating technical documentation with DocBook and Publican	Others	How Fedora helps software development communities
Bryn Reeves - Supporting the Open Source enterprise	Others
Vojtěch Juránek - Continuous integration with Jenkins CI	Others	either general talk how to use it with java, python, php ... project or focused on some specific topic like running Jenkins in cloud
University talks	Others	Presentaion about university projects, cooperation (various people, 3 projects)
Jaroslav Kysela - ALSA - High Definition Audio (HDA) driver	Kernel	Overview and Current Status
Bryn Reeves - How to lose data and implicate people	Kernel
Milan Brož - Disk encryption (not only) in Linux	Kernel
Edward "Joe" Thornber&Zdeněk Kabeláč - Thin provisioning and snapshots in device-mapper	Kernel
Edward Shishkin - Modular approaches in file system development	Kernel
Tom Coughlan - Enterprise storage: is a SAN necessary?	Kernel
Lukas Czerner - btrfs	Kernel
Chrissie - Bad things to do with clusters, and why	Kernel
Jirka Pirko - perhaps something about soft net devices like bridge, vlan, bonding, team with great focus on team devices and its userspace counterpart libteam	Kernel
Ondřej Žižka - Web apps develoeper's dream	JBoss	AS 7 + Wicket 1.5 + JPA 2.0/Hibernate 4 + CDI/Weld 1.1.2 + JMS/$#@%
Lukáš Vlček -Searching in JBoss.org content	JBoss	At that time there will be a new application running under jboss.org webpage. How to use it, how we did it, roadmap.
Vojtech Juranek - Continuous integration with Jenkins CI	JBoss	either general talk how to use it with java, python, php ... project or focused on some specific topic like running Jenkins in cloud
Christian Sadilek - JBoss Errai Framework	JBoss	offers a concise programming model to build next generation web applications. It enables powerful client-server communication and brings Java Enterprise standards to the browser by leveraging the GWT compiler.
Karel Piwko - Arquillian Drone Helping Ike Get Rid of the Bugs	JBoss	Functional testing of Java EE applications with Arquillian
Pavol Pitoňák - RichFaces - Testing on Mobile Devices	JBoss
Jiri Pechane - SwitchYard - next generation ESB	JBoss
Marek Baluch - RiftSaw 2 or RiftSaw 3	JBoss
Michal Linhard - Hibernate OGM	JBoss
Peter Skopek - PicketBox in AS7	JBoss
Martin Kouba - Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform	JBoss
Pavel Tisnovsky - New Features in JDK8	JBoss
Jirka Vanek - JSR 223: Scripting for the Java Platform	JBoss
Miroslav Novak - HornetQ - fastest JMS (Jave Message Service) provider	JBoss
Lukáš Krejčí - RHQ 4 - what's new	JBoss
Martin Malina - What's new in JBDS 5.0	JBoss
Mladen Turk - Tomcat 7 and Tomcat 8	JBoss
Marek Cernocky - Tips & Tricks on Internationalizing Your Open Source Software	Hackfest	Software I18n & L10n issues and common problems in a typical Open Source community project.
Jonathan Blandford - Spice + Gnome 3.x	Desktop
Matthias Clasen - GTK+ 3 and beyond (arriving Fri morning in Prague, so may not be able to present before middle afternoon)	Desktop	whats new in GTK+ 3 compared to GTK+ 2, and what is brewing for GTK+ 4
Tomeu Vizoso - GNOME application development with Python and GObject Introspection	Desktop	Since GNOME 3.0, PyGTK+ is unsupported and applications must be ported to GObject Introspection in order to use Gtk+ 3. The talk will explain the benefits, how all the pieces fit together, what's the porting process and what are the opportunities for the future.
Shaun McCance - The GNOME Help System	Desktop	GNOME has always faced unique challenges in documentation because it has been customized and extended by distributions and vendors. This led to the development of several help tools which build the core GNOME's help system.
Jaroslav Reznik - Qt 5 GUI hereafter	Desktop	Introduction to Qt Quick and QML
Hans de Goede - SPICE	Desktop	SPICE "Open remote computing" introduction and presentation of the new USB redirection support
František Řezníček - Towards Unified Messaging	Core	AMQP protocol, Qpid project and derived MRG/M, examples)
Adam Tkáč - DNSSEC in Fedora 17	Core	How DNSSEC works, what can it do for you, why should I care?
Lennart Poettering & Kay Sievers - Do's and Don'ts when Writing System Services	Core	starting, stopping, updates, monitoring, recovery, config, limits, logging, ...
Kamil Dudka&Ondřej Vašík - Common C/C++ error patterns & Static analysis	Core	Common C/C++ code defects with examples
Thomas Graf - libnl, network config tools for rhel7 or kernel QoS	Core
Rainer Gerhards - rsyslog future	Core	rsyslog vs. journald - myths and facts. Where is rsyslog going?
Marcela Maslanova & Jindrich Novy - Dynamic Software Collections	Core	More version of the same software packaged in rpm
Jaroslav Škarvada - Power management SIG	Core	user space tools enhancements, internal testsuite introduction, future plans...
Harald Hoeyer - A streamlined and fully compatible Linux Filesystem Hierarchy	Core	This talk will show how to support minimal directory layouts, which can be extended up to a fully backwards compatible Linux distribution layout. It provides a cleaner definition of shareability and read-only settings, which gives the options to better support stateless systems, boot and virtualization.some lose definition, but we want to be much more specific. We will show the most minimal hierarchy and the hierarchy of a backwards compatible, typical Fedora installation, and explain the purpose of every directory
Phil Knirsch - The future of yum and rpm	Core
Michal Fojtík&Fracesco Vollero - Cloud in the wild	Cloud	Examples about how to use Deltacloud API to speak with many different clouds.
Mladen Turk - Apache httpd 2.4: The Web Server for the Cloud	Cloud
Niels de Vos - Gluster	Cloud	Data distribution in Gluster
TBD - oVirt	Cloud

Labs & Hackfests

• labs are apx 1:30 long, focused on certain expertise, minimal knowledge of given subject required

presenter and subject	group	short description
Develop, debug and deploy Java EE application -	Lab	JBDS, Forge and OpenShift (4 hours)
Eduard Beneš&Miroslav Grepl - SELinux is your friend	Lab	daily use SELinux + more strict SELinux
Daniel Mach - Framework wars	Lab	I can do one or more workshops (labs) about Python, Django, etc. (rmarko willing to help)
Vít Ondruch - Framework wars	Lab	Ruby on Rails workshop
Michal Fojtík - Framework wars	Lab	Sinatra workshop
Dan Horák - Fedora Secondary Architectures	Lab	installation, development, ... (bez pocitacu, 1:30)
Pavel Tisnovsky - Eclipse effective -	Lab	how to use Eclipse for developing Java applications (4 hours max)
Miroslav Cupak - Portlet Bridge Workshop	Lab	From JSF to Richfaces to Portlets
Tomas Radej & Stano Ochotnicky - Fedora Package Review	Lab
Doc Sprint at the Developer Conference 2012 in Brno	Hackfest
GTK+ Hackfest at Developer Conference 2012	Hackfest
KDE SIG Fedora Activity Day	Hackfest

Social Events

• FRIDAY: A party that will be based in the University building. Dinner and drinks on the house!
• SATURDAY: Free Movies Session

Lodging

• Hotel Avanti **** - closest hotel, a 5-10 minute walk to the venue. Free wifi.
• Avanti has given us a special rate - CZK 1337 (€52) inc. VAT for a double-bed room with breakfast and parking lot. If you want to use this rate, please contact Jiri Eischmann (eischmann@redhat.com) and make a binding booking by January 12th. If you're going to attend GTK+ and GNOME Docs hackfests, KDE SIG FAD, or oVirt meetup, you don't have to book your room this way.

• Hotel Vista (formerly known as hotel Imos) - cheaper option, apx 20minutes by public transport far from University

Travel

to Brno, Czech Republic

By Plane

Brno is located within two hours by car from three European capitals (Prague, Vienna, and Bratislava), but you can fly directly to Brno as well:

• Brno (BRQ, 0.5 million passengers transported a year) - connections to London-Stansted (Ryanair), London-Luton (Wizz Air), Bergamo, Italy (Ryanair), Rome (Wizz Air), Prague (Czech Airlines/SkyTeam), Moscow-Domodedovo, St. Petersburg (CCA), Moscow-Vnukovo (Yakutia Airlines, UTair Aviation). Smart Wings provide seasonal flights to various destinations in Greece and Spain.
• Prague (PRG, 13 mil.) - 210 km from Brno, 50 airlines serve flights to over 120 destinations. Student Agency buses go from the airport to Brno every hour (2.5 hours, CZK 250/€10). Flight pricing examples (roundtrips 2 months in advance, for the summer 2011):
  • New York (JFK) - (direct flight with Delta) € 826,
  • London (LHR) – (via Frankfurt with Lufthansa) € 150,
  • Madrid (MAD) – (via Dusseldorf with Lufthansa) € 150.
• Vienna (VIE, 18 mil.) - 150 km from Brno, about 70 airlines serve flights to many destinations all over the world. Student Agency buses go from the airport to Brno every other hour (2.5 hours, CZK 310/€ 13). Flight pricing examples (roundtrips 2 months in advance, for the summer 2011):
  • New York (JFK) – (via Moscow with Aeroflot) € 843,
  • London (LHR) – (direct flight with Austrian Airlines) € 126,
  • Mandrid (MAD) – (direct flight with Air Berlin) € 144.
• Bratislava (BTS, 2 mil.) - 130 km from Brno, 7 airlines serve regular flights to over 30 destinations, there is a hub of Ryanair (cheap flights to many European cities). There is no direct connection between the airport and Brno. Trains (€ 7, 1.5 hour) and buses (€ 9, 2 hours) go to Brno from the city center every hour.

By Train

Brno has good train connections to several European cities and train is the fastest and most convenient means of transportation between big cities in the region. All intercity trains arrive and depart at the main stations which is a hub of public transport in the city. Train timetables

• Prague – trains between Prague and Brno go hourly, 2.5 hours, € 6.5-13,
• Vienna – trains between Vienna Meidling and Brno go every other hour, 2 hours, € 9,
• Bratislava – from Bratislava Hlavna Stanica hourly, 1.5 hour, € 7,
• Budapest – from Budapest-Keleti pu several trains every day, 5 hours, € 19,
• Warsaw – from Warszawa Centralna several times every day (usually one connection), 7 hours, € 29
• Berlin – from Berlin Hauptbahnhof several trains every day, 7.5 hours, € 39.

By Bus

Brno is part of the European bus network and all connections and their prices are similar to trains. Most buses arrive to Brno-Zvonarka, only Student Agency buses arrive to Grand Hotel. Student Agency (http://www.studentagency.eu/) and Eurolines (http://www.eurolines.com/) provide buses to many European cities. Bus timetables

By Car

Brno is well-connected to other cities by highways. You can get easily to neighboring countries by car. Travel time examples:

• Prague – 210 km, 2 hours,
• Bratislava – 130 km, 1.3 hour,
• Vienna – 143 km, 1.8 hour,
• Budapest – 326 km, 3 hours,
• Munich – 587 km, 5.3 hours,
• Berlin – 555 km, 5.2 hours.

Parking lots are available right in the university campus where the conference would take place.

In Brno

From Main railway station take tram #1 (towards Řečkovice). Get off the tram on 5th stop - Hrnčířská (after apx 10minutes). Take the street on the left - Hrnčířská - up and after apx 300 meters the building on your right hand is the University.

From Main bus station (Zvonařka) take bus number 60, get off on second stop - Nové Sady (apx 2minutes). Take tram #1 towards Řečkovice. After two stops you are on the Main railway station, follow instructions above.

From Česká street (City center) take trolley 32 (towards Královo pole) for 4 stops and get off on stop Botanická right in front of the main University building.

Artwork

English poster by jimmac Other posters - png, pdf, official invitation