Fedora Flock Recap: Day 1

The fact that I’m able to post a recap of the first day of Flock is really due to the excellent organization of the many staff and volunteers who are doing an amazing job making Flock accessible to remotees. I’m not actually in South Carolina, folks!
Okay, so here’s a quick rundown of the day 1 talks that have transcripts and / or video recordings:

The Highly Esteemed Fedora Project Leader’s World-Famous State of Fedora Address

Keynote from the Fedora Project Lead.
Robyn gave a keynote talk about Fedora and love. The video camera battery died maybe 10 minutes in, so I almost missed it, but nirik saved the day with his mobile phone! 🙂

• Speaker: Robyn Bergeron
• Slides: Slides link
• Transcript: Transcript (by mizmo)
• Video: Not available yet, but I think it will be at some future point. Volunteer in charge was Spot.

Fedmsg – Fedora Infrastructure’s Realtime Messaging System

In this presentation, I’ll give an overview of fedmsg, what it is, how it works, and why some design decisions were made the way they were. The second half of the presentation will cover new projects integrating with fedmsg.

• Speaker: Ralph Bean
• Slides: Slides link
• Transcript: Transcript (by ianweller)
• Video: Not available yet 🙁 Volunteer was Haikel Guemar.

Why Fedora Sucks!

We all know Fedora sucks. Sometimes harder and sometimes it doesn’t hurt that much. This talk will highlight where we suck most, what we can do about it and why it’s sometimes not necessarily a bad thing to suck.

• Speaker: Christoph Wickert
• Slides: No link available 🙁
• Transcript: Transcript by Iwan Gabovitch
• Video: Not available yet 🙁 Volunteer was Iwan Gabovitch.

ARM Architecture 101

Jon Masters will present on the ARM Architecture, providing background information for those moving from other architectures. Assembly programming examples, package porting, and other topics will be covered.

• Speaker: Jon Masters
• Slides: No link available 🙁
• Transcript: Transcript by Jared Smith
• Video: I can’t find it 🙁 Volunteer was Jared Smith

Creating an RPM from scratch

In this presentation I will show you how to create a rpm package starting from scratch.
We will create a single file hello world program in C, add gnu autoconf /automake support to that program and when complete, create a spec file and build it to generate binary and source RPMs.
A mixture of software development and packaging, this presentation is targeted at people interested in software development and packaging.

• Speaker: Itamar Reis Peixoto
• Slides: No link available 🙁
• Transcript: Transcript by Some Kind Soul Who Hasn’t Taken Credit
• Video: I can’t find it 🙁 Volunteer was Joe Brockmeier

Agility and FOSS

Agility and FOSS have a lot in common. They share many values: transparency, knowledge sharing, a people-centric approach, and so on. This session will present agility and its most popular methodologies, then expose the similarities and differences between FOSS and Agility. Finally, we will discuss how to associate them as well as which practices to reuse in your FOSS project to improve quality and your whole process.

• Speaker: Haïkel Guémar
• Slides: Slides link
• Transcript: Not available 🙁
• Video: YouTube link Volunteer was Pierre-Yves Chibon.

Ask Fedora Update

Ask Fedora was originally announced in sync with Fedora 16. This talk will provide a brief look at the major changes since then and what is in the pipeline.

• Speaker: Rahul Sundaram
• Slides: Slides link
• Transcript: Not available 🙁
• Video: YouTube link Volunteer was Benedikt Schäfer.

Hyperkitty: The new mailing list UI

Mailman 3 is released / will be released “Real Soon Now”. HyperKitty is the web interface to view the archives, but also to post from the web, just like a web forum.
This presentation will detail the status of HyperKitty, what has changed since the last FUDCon in Lawrence, and where we are going now.

• Speaker: Aurélien Bompard
• Slides: Slides link
• Transcript: Transcript (by ianweller)
• Video: YouTube link Volunteer was Ian Weller.

Bugzilla

A talk on how to use Bugzilla to better organize your development time and communicate more with less effort.

• Speaker: Emmanuel Seyman
• Slides: Slides link
• Transcript: Not available 🙁
• Video: YouTube link Volunteer was Benedikt Schäfer.

Evolution of a Linux Distribution and its Ecosystem

Over the last 20 years, Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core, Fedora were/are built to some common assumptions, expectations, and desires. Over that same period, the open source ecosystem has seen exponential growth number and variety of technologies and applications. The scope and breadth of the ecosystem and immense variety of deployment targets raises fundamental questions on the role of distribution and its capabilities. A single deployment target is no longer enough, neither is a single web programming language or a single database. Evolution of the content of Fedora as well as the processes and tools used to build Fedora can propel its significance for the next 20 years.

• Speaker: Subhendu Ghosh
• Slides: None.
• Transcript: Transcript (by mizmo)
• Video: YouTube link Volunteer was Iwan Gabovitch.

Fedora Ambassadors – State of the Union

The current state of Fedora Ambassadors. What has been happening in the last months, what FAmSCo is working on and how we can move Fedora Ambassadors forward.

• Speaker: Jiří Eischmann
• Slides: Not available 🙁
• Transcript: Not available 🙁
• Video: YouTube link Volunteer was An Unknown Kind Person.

Fedora ARM – State of the Union

In the last 3 years Fedora on ARM has come a long way but we’ve still got a massively long way to go. This talk will cover briefly where we’ve come from and what we still need to do.

• Speaker: Peter Robinson
• Slides: Not available 🙁
• Transcript: Transcript (by A Mysterious Helpful Human)
• Video: YouTube link Volunteer was An Unknown But Not Forgotten Nice Person.

Porting Fedora to 64-bit ARM

I will walk through the Fedora 64-bit ARM bootstrap, provide some background upon the kinds of development work that we are doing toward 64-bit ARM server technology, and give a live demo (on real hardware).

• Speaker: Jon Masters
• Slides: Not available 🙁
• Transcript: Transcript (by Jared Smith)
• Video: YouTube link Volunteer was John Dulaney.

Future of the Data Center

A look at what is in the near future for use in the data center, what you would use it for and why.

• Speaker: Dennis Gilmore
• Slides: Not available 🙁
• Transcript: Not available 🙁
• Video: YouTube link Volunteer was Quite A Nice But Unidentified Person Indeed.

State of Security in Fedora

General talk of new Security features added to Fedora in the last year.

• Speaker: Dan Walsh
• Slides: Not available 🙁
• Transcript: Not available 🙁
• Video: YouTube link Volunteer was Someone Pretty Great.

FreeIPA Two Factor Authentication

Fedora 19 gained support for two factor authentication using FreeIPA. This is the world’s first OTP implementation using FreeIPA. Come learn the latest state of this project and how you can use FreeIPA to secure your networks with open standards.

• Speaker:Nathaniel McCallum
• Slides: Not available 🙁
• Transcript: Not available 🙁
• Video: YouTube link Volunteer was A Shadowy But Helpful Fedoran.

P***** – Product Naming in Global Communities

Pidora is an optimized Fedora Remix for the Raspberry Pi. Although it has been well received worldwide, the name doesn’t work well in Russian. This talk reviews lessons learned from the launch, fallout from the name choice, and steps taken to manage and resolve the issue.

• Speaker: Chris Tyler
• Slides: Not available 🙁
• Transcript: Transcript (by Iwan Gabovitch)
• Video: YouTube link Volunteer was Iwan Gabovitch.

A Tour of Linux portability

Linux has grown from an extremely 386 specific assembly mess into arguably the most ported kernel in the world, scaling from miniature devices to supercomputers. This talk will be a who/what/where/when/why of how Linux has gone from there to here, and tours issues faced porting code between platforms.

• Speaker:Kyle McMartin
• Slides:Not available 🙁
• Transcript:Not available 🙁
• Video: YouTube link Volunteer was Nice But Forgot To Introduce Themselves.

State of the Fedora Kernel

The traditional state of the Fedora Kernel. We’ll cover an overview, where things are headed, and things we need help on.

• Speaker:Josh Boyer
• Slides: Slides link
• Transcript:Not available 🙁
• Video: YouTube link Volunteer was Kashyap Chamarthy.

KERNEL BUG TRIAGE LIVE!

The only thing more awesome than spending an hour staring at bugzilla is watching someone else staring at bugzilla for an hour. In this session the kernel team explains some of the tricks and tips they have for remaining sane while triaging the never-ending flow of kernel bugs.

• Speaker:Dave Jones
• Slides: None.
• Transcript:Not available 🙁
• Video: YouTube link Volunteer was Ian Weller.

The Fedora Crystal Ball: Where are we going for the next five years?

Fedora is a lot of things to a lot of people. Help us narrow down a clear path to community growth and success for the next five years. Bring your best ideas!

• Speaker: Stephen Gallagher
• Slides: None.
• Transcript: Notes from Etherpad
• Video: None 🙁

ZOMGwhut?

If a talk that happened today isn’t in the list above, it doesn’t have a transcript or a video link. Oh nos! Want a talk to be featured in tomorrow’s blog post? Volunteer to make it available to remotees! 🙂