hi,im kinda new to the FUDcon thing... how do you know if you participate in the event?? sorry, im still only a user .. not much of a developer etc.. regards, --- On Mon, 7/7/08, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: From: "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: That 'FUDCon' thing To: "The Fedora Project Community in India" <fedora-india(a)redhat.com&gt; Date: Monday, 7 July, 2008, 7:44 AM Refer to the page put up by mether at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConIndia2008 Here's an attempt to collate the dominant thoughts on this thread so far and, come up with a list of stuff that we could attempt to do. This isn't a complete list and the items are indicative. For a significant number of the items, we need to prep up the audience well before foss.in with sessions on IRC and we need to come up with a plan for that too. Underlying theme: increase the quality and quantity of contributions to the Fedora project by pitching FUDCon(a)foss.in as a barcamp style hackfest rather than talkathons. Intended audience: Existing contributors to the Fedora Project, potential contributors to the Fedora Project, users of Fedora and any other person who walks into FUDCon(a)foss.in ThingsToHappen: A list of stuff we can do if we put our minds to it. The list should be a clear and concise answer to the question "I am at FUDCon now what ?" Below is a summary of what has been discussed. These are just topics, there are no names attached yet. Additionally, we haven't talked about which developers would like to attend from outside of India. TheList: + CLA Stations: recruitment as Fedora Ambassadors to be followed up with sessions on what Ambassadors can expect, and what is expected out of them + LiveUSB Stations: this is mandatory. Bring your own USB and get a LiveMedia installed. Can take this further to compose custom spins too, but that is open to discussion. + Packaging: this is mandatory. Hands-on sessions around packaging applications from the 'wish list' and guiding potential packagers about what to do. Can (and should) be extended to packaging Java applications for Fedora. Need to figure how to involve ISVs into the game as well. mether has mentioned the Decorative Fonts packaging as a live example. + Debugging using Systemtap: with Systemtap being a GSoC entry this year, we need to plan a session to push more scripts into the War Stories. Very hands-on and immediate pushes into upstream wiki. + Desktop Test Cases: Testopia provides a good base to start building up a repository of desktop test cases. Coupled with 'special Spins' this can help in the item below. Hands-on and continuous session. + Fedora Desktop QA: Cooking up test cases and using ones from above towards coming up addition to the QA process and team. + The KDE Desktop and Fedora: Testing and other related things. <PARTIAL FIXME> + Bug Triage: <FIXME> + Merge Review: <FIXME> + K12LTSP: <FIXME> + Spin Doctor: Session on spinning your own Fedora + L10n + i18n Sprint: QA and hands-on sessions on getting started with these -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india Bring your gang together. Do your thing. Find your favourite Yahoo! group at http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/

ive already been here.. Im currently a "people person" associated with the ambassadors, free-media and local contacts..thats all my current knowledge can permit.. basically why i asked you all how i could contribute.. how do you begin learning development etc?? I started with C as advised on fedoraforum.org.. what else do i need to start with??regards, --- On Mon, 7/7/08, Debarshi Ray <debarshi.ray(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: From: Debarshi Ray <debarshi.ray(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: That 'FUDCon' thing To: sanjay_ankur(a)yahoo.co.in Cc: fedora-india(a)redhat.com Date: Monday, 7 July, 2008, 11:42 AM For a very top level view of the opportunities and the associated skills have a look at: http://fedoraproject.org/en/join-fedora After that its a mix of reading the manual, asking questions, and late nights. :-) Cheers, Debarshi Get an email ID as yourname(a)ymail.com or yourname(a)rocketmail.com. Click here http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address

okay..ill do that... thank you.. --- On Mon, 7/7/08, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: From: "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: That 'FUDCon' thing To: sanjay_ankur(a)yahoo.co.in Cc: debarshi.ray(a)gmail.com, fedora-india(a)redhat.com Date: Monday, 7 July, 2008, 11:57 AM ankur sinha wrote: associated with If IRC is an option for you, you might want to join #fedora-india on Freenode and talk this through with Debarshi and others. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work Messenger blocked? Want to chat? Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php

i meant how do you know if you CAN participate.. --- On Mon, 7/7/08, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: From: "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: That 'FUDCon' thing To: "The Fedora Project Community in India" <fedora-india(a)redhat.com&gt; Date: Monday, 7 July, 2008, 7:44 AM Refer to the page put up by mether at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConIndia2008 Here's an attempt to collate the dominant thoughts on this thread so far and, come up with a list of stuff that we could attempt to do. This isn't a complete list and the items are indicative. For a significant number of the items, we need to prep up the audience well before foss.in with sessions on IRC and we need to come up with a plan for that too. Underlying theme: increase the quality and quantity of contributions to the Fedora project by pitching FUDCon(a)foss.in as a barcamp style hackfest rather than talkathons. Intended audience: Existing contributors to the Fedora Project, potential contributors to the Fedora Project, users of Fedora and any other person who walks into FUDCon(a)foss.in ThingsToHappen: A list of stuff we can do if we put our minds to it. The list should be a clear and concise answer to the question "I am at FUDCon now what ?" Below is a summary of what has been discussed. These are just topics, there are no names attached yet. Additionally, we haven't talked about which developers would like to attend from outside of India. TheList: + CLA Stations: recruitment as Fedora Ambassadors to be followed up with sessions on what Ambassadors can expect, and what is expected out of them + LiveUSB Stations: this is mandatory. Bring your own USB and get a LiveMedia installed. Can take this further to compose custom spins too, but that is open to discussion. + Packaging: this is mandatory. Hands-on sessions around packaging applications from the 'wish list' and guiding potential packagers about what to do. Can (and should) be extended to packaging Java applications for Fedora. Need to figure how to involve ISVs into the game as well. mether has mentioned the Decorative Fonts packaging as a live example. + Debugging using Systemtap: with Systemtap being a GSoC entry this year, we need to plan a session to push more scripts into the War Stories. Very hands-on and immediate pushes into upstream wiki. + Desktop Test Cases: Testopia provides a good base to start building up a repository of desktop test cases. Coupled with 'special Spins' this can help in the item below. Hands-on and continuous session. + Fedora Desktop QA: Cooking up test cases and using ones from above towards coming up addition to the QA process and team. + The KDE Desktop and Fedora: Testing and other related things. <PARTIAL FIXME> + Bug Triage: <FIXME> + Merge Review: <FIXME> + K12LTSP: <FIXME> + Spin Doctor: Session on spinning your own Fedora + L10n + i18n Sprint: QA and hands-on sessions on getting started with these -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list Fedora-india(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india Get an email ID as yourname(a)ymail.com or yourname(a)rocketmail.com. Click here http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address

uhm.. what i mean is what talents n capacities do you have to possess? Im  more a user and hardly have any knowledge  on the development etc side.. Would love to learn,but that's a different thing. can newbies like me participate in the event at this stage?? --- On Mon, 7/7/08, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: From: "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: That 'FUDCon' thing To: sanjay_ankur(a)yahoo.co.in Cc: "The Fedora Project Community in India" <fedora-india(a)redhat.com&gt; Date: Monday, 7 July, 2008, 10:55 AM ankur sinha wrote: I am not sure I comprehend your question. However, if you meant to ask 'who can participate' I'd say the response would be everyone who uses Fedora and wishes to contribute according to whatever capacity and talent they possess. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work Get an email ID as yourname(a)ymail.com or yourname(a)rocketmail.com. Click here http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address

can you please direct me .. to a link or something where i can  gain more info on what i could do etc..??  thanks for the help.. :-) --- On Mon, 7/7/08, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: From: "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: That 'FUDCon' thing To: sanjay_ankur(a)yahoo.co.in Cc: "The Fedora Project Community in India" <fedora-india(a)redhat.com&gt; Date: Monday, 7 July, 2008, 11:23 AM ankur sinha wrote: Sure they can. There's a lot that people who are 'more a user' can do :) -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work Get an email ID as yourname(a)ymail.com or yourname(a)rocketmail.com. Click here http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address

okay, ill go through the pages and see what i can come up with..  thankyou all for your  help.regards,, Ankur --- On Mon, 7/7/08, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: From: "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com&gt; Subject: Re: That 'FUDCon' thing To: sanjay_ankur(a)yahoo.co.in Cc: "The Fedora Project Community in India" <fedora-india(a)redhat.com&gt; Date: Monday, 7 July, 2008, 11:45 AM ankur sinha wrote: Ankur, I think I just posted a tentative draft of what can be done at FUDCon and linked to it a page put up on the Fedora Wiki (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConIndia2008) As regards what you can do, I guess that would be a question best answered by you. You know what you can do, and wish to do given the opportunity. It isn't fitting for me to task out how you wish to participate. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work Get an email ID as yourname(a)ymail.com or yourname(a)rocketmail.com. Click here http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address

Will we literally target anyone walking into FUDCon(a)foss.in? If we do, we may have to indulge in a significant amount of bootstrapping to tune them into the Fedora scheme of things. Or do we want to lay more stress on the pre-FUDCon build-up events? What about having non-IRC build-up events organized by the various user groups, etc.. ? This is important because of all the reasons why we don't want this to be another talkathon. Cheers, Debarshi

Debarshi Ray wrote: There are two items: * Someone gives a introductory 10 min intro explaining the barcamp style, followed by pitches and notes on the board. * We put up a event board in the front of the main conference room (and other rooms) explaining the agenda There are people who would need time and interest to be build up before they can start contributing. We need to accommodate them in some way. Whether that is by giving talks or some other means, we need to figure that out. Ideas, welcome. Rahul