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This is the main page for the FAD Delhi,IN 2017, which is a FAD (a mini-conference) focused on recruiting (and enabling the recruitment of) new contributors to Fedora via the Fedora and various other DevOps projects like Ansible.
- Location: DELHI,IN
- Dates: Aug XX, 2017
- Timings: HH:MM - HH:MM
Infrastructure by college
1. Classroom with Projector and internet with capacity of ~80 people. 2. Lab with systems and internet.
Purpose
- To introduce participants to Pagure , Fedora QA , Fedora infra .
- To help them find the paths to their first contributions
Primary Goals
- Mentoring students to understand how they can start contributing and developing application on Fedora.
- Community Outreach: Reach out to students who might be interested to get involved or consume pagure and other FOSS technologies in their projects.
- Onboard New Fedora Contributors: Have new contributors work on issues listed in [1](https://pagure.io/pagure/issues) [2](https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/issues)
- Hands on on how to solve issues marked as wishful in Pagure
- Engage New Contributors: Engage more contributors in Fedora testing (manual and automated)
Impact
The completion of these goals will create the following positive change within the project:
- New contributions to QA and Bug Squash-ers and upstream projects
- Establishing outreach within an academic institution to plan for a calendar of events
- Explore the possibility of a SIG like structure to continue the work on Fedora
Attendees
| Name | Core Tasks | Confirmed avail? |
|---|---|---|
| Saurabh | Planning, Speaking | Y |
Planning Prerequisites
- Work out with college to provide basic infra
- Write up wiki page with all the data
- Creation of a signup sheet for the students
- Opening CFP and announcing on mailing list Mail thread
- Finalize the speakers
- Formalize Talks and workshops
- Banners and Posters
- Re-announcing on FedoraComm Blog and social channels [XYZ Event Created on Facebook and Event Brite]
- Report back with the data post event
- Ask the storyteller for a final report on the event ( to be published on relevant channels like Fedora Planet , commblog and G+ group)
Plan & Sessions
- Location:
- Date:
- Schedule
- Room 1 (Classroom)
- TOPIC - Speaker [HH:MM]
- Rest of the session depends on the CFP and local speakers interest.
Budget
Note that this event doesn't have any budget. If speakers are willing to pay for their own travel and accommodation, they are welcome.