FUDCon Raleigh 2008

= FUDCon Raleigh 2008 = ["FUDCon"] stands for Fedora User and Developer Conference.

FUDCon Raleigh 2008 will be held as a Bar Camp. A Bar Camp is an "un-conference" where people interested in a wide range of issues come together to teach and learn. Unfamiliar with the un-conference format? Here's the idea in a nutshell. Rather than having scheduled speakers, everyone pitches sessions the morning of the Bar Camp. Those sessions are put on a schedule, and lots of little groups form for intense group learning. Everyone is expected to teach, to talk, to participate. Yeah, it's different from a regular conference - but it works![[FootNote(http://barcamp.org/FUDConRaleigh2008)]

Where
FUDCon:: ["Red Hat"] Headquarters on ["NC State University"]  Centennial Campus FUDPub:: TBD

FUDCon Sessions
All of the sessions should run on Saturday January 12th. There are quite a number of the sessions I'm pretty excited about.

OLPC/XO (or maybe other ultramobiles like the Eee PC) owner meetup?
Lead by: ["Adrian Likins"]

I really want my new ["XO"] (when I get it) to have friends...

Fedora Infrastructure: What we're about and why you can't have a pony
Lead by: ["Mike McGrath"]

I want to implement many of the ["Fedora Infrastructure"] tools internally. This may be a good time to learn more about them and make the case to generalize them a bit.

Anaconda updates during release cycles
Lead by: ["Jeroen van Meeuwen"]

I keep finding myself in the position to need to do this. The session may be more geared towards handling releasing updated ["Anaconda"] packages in the middle of a Fedora release cycle though. Might not be geared to what I'm looking for.

Mass-Deploying Fedora with Cobbler
Lead by: ["Michael DeHaan"]

I'm excited to see ["Cobbler"] in action. I think it might be a better solution for us at ["Cisco"] so I'd like to find out more about it.

Customizing Fedora Installation Media
Lead by: Jeroen van Meeuwen

Again something I could use at work.

Func, the Fedora Unified Network Controller
Lead by: ["Michael DeHaan"], ["Adrian Likins"] (and others?)

["Func"] is a new tool that sounds very interesting. I'm not exactly sure what its capabilities are yet though.

From code to an RPM -- simple packaging tutorial for dummies
Lead by: Tom "spot" Callaway

I can both learn alot here and get material for my own course.

Running Fedora from a USB key
Lead by: ["Max Spevack"]

This is one I actually know something about. The Fedora Live CD Tools make creating["Live CD"] s extremely easy. I'd love to find out any tips or tricks I'm missing.

PackageKit
Lead by: ["Robin Norwood"]

Its would be nice to have a single package management GUI. PackageKit seems to have the best shot at providing that right now.

Firmware-Tools: Updating your BIOS and Firmware in Fedora
Lead by: ["Matt Domsch"]

This is something I'm constantly questioning about. I bet this will be ["Dell"] specific but it will at least be ammo I can use to hit the other vendors over the head with.

Inaugural meeting of the Fedora Mirror Wranglers
Lead by: ["Matt Domsch"]

I need to get off my butt and find out what it would take to have a ["Cisco"] hosted external ["Fedora"]  mirror.

Open Source Development Courses
Lead by: ["Will Cohen"]

I'd like to know more about what the direction of this session would be. Could be interesting.

You Too Can Write a Book in XML: An Introduction to Docbook
Lead by: ["Paul W. Frields"] and ["Jared Smith"]

I'd like to know more about DocBook but I don't know how much of it I'll ever get to do.

Before the Keysigning
Meet Fedora people face-to-face. Taunt each other over their passport/driver's license photos. Add yourself to the Web of Trust or increase your ranking.
 * Mandatory: Create a GPG keypair for yourself (if you haven't already)
 * Optional: add your user@fedoraproject.org uid to your keypair
 * Mandatory: Print or write down your key fingerprint and bring it with you. You'll have to confirm at the signing that the list is correct for your key.
 * Mandatory: Send your key before the event to the subkeys.pgp.net keyserver. Get your KEYID from your keyring as the part following the 1024D/ as follows:

For Matt, this is 92F0FC09. Yours will be different.

Then send your key to the keyserver with:


 * Mandatory: Send your key before the event to fudcon-keys at domsch.com as follows:


 * Mandatory: Bring a government-issued picture ID of yourself

After the Keysigning
Following the keysigning, you'll need to actually sign people's keys. The easiest way to do this is to use caff which is conveniently packaged in the Fedora pgp-tools package. caff lets you sign a number of keys at once, and will then email each recepient their signed key, encrypted with their key (actually, it sends one email per UID on the target key, so those people with 10 UIDs on their key will get 10 emails from caff, but that's OK - it makes sure they control that email address too). They must know their own passphrase to retrieve their signed key, which they can then import into their gpg keyring and upload to the keyserver subkeys.pgp.net.