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The Fedora Project leader has announce yesterday, July 7th that FUDCon will happen in Pune in November 4th to 6th in COEP college http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-July/002981.html More details about the event is at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:India_2011 We would like this event to be the largest FUDCon ever, in terms of breadth and quality of the talks as well as participation and a great audience. I need help and if you are interested in participating as a speaker or hackfest contributor or organizing the event or helping find co-sponsors and anything else, do get in touch with me. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to ask me as well. A bit of background for the curious (warning: long read): FUDCon is in a typical and a long held hacker tradition, a play of words and a dual acronym FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt or Fedora Users and Developers) and Con (Against or Conference). So you can read it as either Fedora Users and Developers Conference or against FUD. FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference, a major free software event originally envisioned in US as a means of putting together contributors and planning for the next release of Fedora and then later extended in a more elaborate conference, that happens globally and each major region (APAC, EMEA, LATAM and NA) gets to host one event per year. FUDCon in APAC has only happened once before in Delhi in 2006 as part of the Linux Asia conference http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Archive:FUDCon:FUDConDelhi2006 Over the years, FUDCon has transitioned from a simple conference like the one in 2006 with a list of talks to a international event with three things: * A barcamp-style conference (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_barcamp) * A hackfest (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_hackfest) * A FUDPub social evening (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDPub) Each year, the regional ambassadors and contributors in a particular region can put together a proposal and bid for the venue to selected according to the process outlined at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_bid_process This year, we put up a proposal and had a competing bid from China and we have won the bidding process based on the more mature community here in India that we have grown over the years as well as the detailed proposal we put together in a short period. There have been many many people who have shown interest in participating and put up their names as participants and several others who have helped me with this proposal (names in the event wiki above) and I wanted to thank everyone for that. In particular, Shreyank Gupta for helping out with COEP contact, Amit Shah for the detailed budget estimates and discussions, Satya Komaragiri for the travel information etc and Narayan Murty for agreeing to help with the logistics. Special thanks to COEP itself for agreeing to host the conference. The venue dates are on 4th to 6th of November, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and we are planning on talks for Friday and Saturday with several parallel tracks and a hackfest on Sunday, ending with the FUDPub to wrap up the event and have some fun! As of now, we have 97 people pre-registered to attend the event, 36 talks and 14 hackfests and we expect the numbers to increase quite a bit as we get closer to the event. Thank you for your interest, Rahul _______________________________________________ india mailing list india@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
