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USENIX’s LISA conference

Date and time

Full Conference: December 4-9, 2016

Expo: Dec 8-9, 2016 (Fedora is only attending expo)

Fedora will be co-hosting the table with Red Hat like last year. Red Hat has also made a Full Conference attendee pass available for Fedora Contributor, which nb is using.

Location

https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa16#venue

Sheraton Boston. Located at: 39 Dalton Street Boston, MA 02199


Schedule

Team members show up throughout the evening of the 7th early morning of the 8th.

Man the booth for both expo days rotating demos for audiences.

Registration

Redhat has taken care of sponsorship and all members will receive expo / exhibitor badges / creds on arrival, likely from mattdm.

For non ambassador attendees a expo only ticket is $50, Early bird pricing ends Nov 10, 2016.

Activities

  • Showing Cockpit
  • Showing Fedora Spins

BoF

Possible Topics


  • Using Cockpit
  • What Spin is right for me ?
  • Securing your Home Server or Infrastructure like the pros
  • Automating with Ansible / Ansible Tower
  • Using Python to work in a Fedora Developer / Tester Environment

Event volunteers

  • Corey Sheldon
  • Matthew Miller
  • Mike DePaulo

Table

  • At least 2 demo laptops planned, one from RH and the usual Fedora laptop.
  • Tech write papers, ambassador info possibly

Budget

Item Details Budget Actual
Travel for Corey Bus Fare $75
Travel for Mike Amtrak Fare $100
Shipping Banners / Event Box / Swag $200
Lodging for Mike / Corey Conference rate ($210+tax) x2 nights $500 (estimates $470)
Totals: $875

Transportation to and from the event

Arrivals and Departures

Chart for knowing when folks are arriving or departing, by plane, train, car, roller skates, or otherwise.

Who Arrive (Flight-Time) Departure (Flight-Time) Comments
linuxmodder 7th (late evening -bus) 9th (likely last to leave) Sharing room with mikedep333
mikedep33 Sharing room with linuxmodder
mattdm Local / commuting from home?
Local Contributor? Put down a contact method times you are free to help out




  • Room reservations: linuxmodder / mikedep33 to share room at venue

If you are local (cover travel / lodging) and wanna help us staff booth / showcase Fedora, please reach out to Corey or Matt: linuxmodder@fedoraproject.org or mattdm@redhat.com

Status

Local contribs welcome to join us. Swag and event box tickets #429 (swag) / #430 (Banners /Event Box) Pending approval at Nov 1 mtg.

Blogs and reports

Corey will do the main event report on his blog: https://linuxmodder.wordpress.com Additional report from mikedep33 on his blog: http://mikedep333.blogspot.com/