Fedora Day Buenos Aires 2014

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Fedora Day Buenos Aires 2014

About

Event to promote the Fedora and related projects (Gluster, oVirt, Openshift, Openstack etc) in Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Kickstart event to promote the city as candidate to host FUDCon 2015.

Date

• Dec 13, 2014

Venue

Universidad John F. Kennedy// Bartolomé Mitre, 1411// Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina//

Organization Team

Name	Tasks
Leonardo Vaz	Conference organization, Lodging and Budget
Rino Rondan	Conference organization, Local support
Matias Kreder	Conference organization, Local support

Fedora contributors attending the event

Name	City	Tasks at conference
Leonardo Vaz	Sao Paulo, Brazil	Organization, talks, etc
Rino Rondan	Campana , Argentina	Organization, talks, workshops, etc
Matias Kreder	Buenos Aires , Argentina	Organization, talks, workshops, etc
Matias Maceira	Buenos Aires , Argentina	Talks, workshops, etc
Julio Sanchez	Buenos Aires , Argentina	Talks, workshops, etc
Valentin Basel	Buenos Aires , Argentina	Talks, workshops, etc
Emanuel Nazzeta	Cordoba, Argentina	Talks, workshops, etc
Adrian Soliard	Entre Rios, Argentina	Talks, workshops, etc
Fabio Leite	Chapecó, Brazil	Talks, workshops, etc
Douglas Landgraf	Porto Alegre, Brazil	Talks, workshops, etc

Activities at Fedora Day Buenos Aires

Activities

• Fedora 21 release party
• Talks on Fedora and related projects (40 minutes slot)
• Workshops (90 min slot)

Talks and Workshops

Activity	Speaker(s)	Details
KVM Workshop on Fedora	Rino Rondan	KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.k. I will invite to talk about kvm and their uses in Desktop/Server enviroments in order to create a Labs enviroment for Student and more examples for use it on a server enviroments.
Fedora Robotics and Education	Valentin Basel and Eduardo Echeverria	icaro is a hardware and software development, part of the official FEDORA packages designed for teaching robotics in schools using free software and hardware. I want to give a workshop on robotics classroom FISL, for teachers and students. Last year a robot to carry demonstrations in the booth installed FEDORA and had very good results with the general public
oVirt Project	Douglas Landgraf	Talk on oVirt Project.
Building an inexpensive and scalable storage system powered by ARM and GlusterFS	Leonardo Vaz	How build an inexpensive and scalable storage system powered by ARM, commodity hard drivers powered by Linux and GlusterFS.
Local filesystem in Linux Kernel	Leonardo Vaz	The current status of local filesystem in Linux Kernel, focusing in ext4, XFS and Btrfs.

Material

• Printed conference program
• Badges for participants
• Fedora and other projects stickers

Travel information

Getting in Buenos Aires

• From Ministro Pistarini International Airport
• From Bus Station of Buenos Aires

Lodging

[PENDING]

Budget

At the moment we're looking for local sponsors, and we're probably going to request budget to the project to fund travel expenses for the volunteers going to Buenos Aires the conference and requests must be done through |LATAM ticket tracker.

Travel costs

Name	Departure City	Transportation?	Lodging?
Leonardo Vaz	Porto Alegre, Brazil	200 USD (Flight)	No
Matias Maceira	Córdoba, Argentina	200 USD (car)(shared)	No
Valentin Basel	Córdoba, Argentina	200 USD (car)(shared)	Yes
Emanuel Nazzeta	Cordoba, Argentina	200 USD (car)(shared)	No
Julio Sanchez	Tierra del Fuego, Argentina	400 USD(Flight)	Yes
Adrian Soliard	Entre Rios, Argentina	80 USD(Bus)	No

Costs

Description	Cost in BRL	Cost in USD	People Sponsored
Airfare subsidy	Todo	Todo
Lodging subsidy	Todo	Todo
Total

• Considering 1.00 USD = 8.50 ARS in Oct 2013

Event Reports

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