Flock: Full Schedule

08:45 CEST

Opening: Fedora Project Leader

Opening remarks from Fedora Project Leader.

Speakers

Matthew Miller

Fedora Project Leader, Red Hat

Wednesday August 6, 2014 08:45 - 09:00 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Keynote

09:00 CEST

Keynote: Free And Open Source Software In Europe: Policies And Implementations

This keynote will give an overview of the use of free and open source software solutions by public administrations in the European Union. It will outline the major trends and give plenty of examples of public administrations that jointly develop, share and re-use such software solutions.

Speakers

Gijs Hillenius

Gijs Hillenius is news editor for the European Commission's Open Source Observatory & Repository (OSOR.eu), part of Joinup.ec.europa.eu OSOR & Joinup are projects by the European Commission on the sharing and reuse of software, by public administrations across Europe.

Wednesday August 6, 2014 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Keynote

10:00 CEST

Better Presentation of fonts in Fedora

Over the years Fedora has got an excellent collection of open source fonts with 428 fonts packaged covering almost all script of Unicode BMP. Out of these 428 packages we are installing 42 packaged by default during installation. With the activities in libre fonts community it is expected that Fonts in Fedora will increase further in coming years. In this talk i will talk regarding how we can better manage fonts in Fedora. It will include gathering fonts at one place, better presentation of fonts, more visibility to fonts developer and better way to get feedback from users. In long term all these task will also help to grow community around fonts and better quality fonts in Fedora.

Speakers

Pravin Satpute

Manager, Software Engineering, Red Hat

Pravin Satpute has completed his executive MBA from IIM Kozhikode and BE(I.T) from Mumbai University. He is presently product owner of Pbencha and also managing pbench engineering and perf&scale engineering of MBU products. In the past he was managing the globalization qe team working... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2014 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
C215 (100 person)

Talk

10:00 CEST

Contributing to Fedora SELinux policy

One of the salient point of Fedora and derived systems is the default usage of SELinux to confine and prevent some security problems. However, few people know how it work, how to contribute or how to look at it and where people can help. This talk aim at giving the basis of SELinux, with a focus on the contribution to the current Fedora policy ( ie, how to diagnose basic issue, how to fix them, how to report them and even how to write a basic policy for inclusion ).

Speakers

Michael Scherer

sitting on a chair right now, but I stand from time to time, Red Hat

Later

Wednesday August 6, 2014 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

10:00 CEST

Fedora QA - You are important

Agenda ::
1. Why Fedora QA is important
2. Fedora QA can contribute in many ways - (Ways to contribute as Fedora QA - Release Validation Testing, Bodhi Testing, Create Test Cases)
3. Oh! it's Buggy, time to raise it - (All about Triage and managing bugs in Bugzilla)
4. Come, join the party @ test day - (Introduction to Test Days)
5. Play with tools - (Testing tools like Beaker, Bugzilla)
6. Need some help? - (IRC channels, mailing lists, useful links)

Speakers

Amita Sharma

Manager, Red Hat

Fedora Diversity & Inclusion Team member

Wednesday August 6, 2014 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Talk

11:00 CEST

Fedora Magazine

What is Fedora Magazine, How to contribute, The backend and how it works. Why its awesome. How can you help

Speakers

Chris Roberts

Wednesday August 6, 2014 11:00 - 11:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Talk

11:00 CEST

State of Copr Build Service

Current status of Copr: new architectures, intergration (DNF, SCL, Jenkins), playground for other ideas, signing of packages. Funny stories from implementation.

Speakers

Miroslav Suchý

Manager, Red Hat

Manager at Red Hat

Wednesday August 6, 2014 11:00 - 11:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Talk

11:00 CEST

Taskotron and Me

Taskotron is a new automation system, designed to replace and extend our existing AutoQA system. How is Taskotron different? How do I use it? How can I write tasks that could then be run in Taskotron? All of these questions will be answered.

Speakers

Tim Flink

Wednesday August 6, 2014 11:00 - 11:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

11:00 CEST

Where's Wayland?

A status update on porting GNOME to Wayland. What works, what doesn't yet, and how long till we can switch to Wayland by default ? Related topics like systemd user sessions, kdbus, etc, may also be mentioned.

Speakers

Matthias Clasen

Wednesday August 6, 2014 11:00 - 11:45 CEST
C215 (100 person)

Talk

14:00 CEST

Fedora Workstation - Goals, Philosophy, and Future

Fedora Workstation - Goals and Philosophy
With the switch to the new 3 products model Fedora has entered a new chapter in its existence. This talk will cover some of the goals and thoughts behind the Fedora Workstation product and lay out a roadmap for how the product will evolve in the future.

Speakers

Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller

Senior Manager, Desktop, Graphics, Fedora & i18n, Red Hat

Christian F.K. Schaller has been an active member of the open source community since 1999. He currently works as a manager for the group inside Red Hat focused on the Desktop and Fedora.

Wednesday August 6, 2014 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

14:00 CEST

Procrastination makes you better: Life of a remotee

Nowadays, more and more companies are moving towards "being remote". Likewise, more and more people want to work remotely. I get asked quite often what it is like to work remotely, how I manage to respect deadlines and actually do some work. Many people think that working remotely is hard and that just a small set of folks can actually do it. This is not true! Working remotely is not just about getting things done. It's more about getting yourself to the point where you're able to get things done. Going remote forces people to deal with things like having a good place to work from, being comfortable, managing their own time, defining priorities themselves and having time for themselves as well. Unfortunately, it doesn't matter how hard people try not to procrastinate, one way or another, procrastination manages to fill a huge part of the time and you know what, THAT'S FINE! In this talk, I'll share my experience as a remote developer, the things that have changed in my life since I stopped commuting every day and decided to be a prisoner of my own house. I'll go through the things I struggled with, the things I learned to deal with and how I embrace procrastination. This talk is a great opportunity for everyone to learn and share from real life experiences about this work arrangement.

Speakers

Flavio

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc

Prior to Red Hat, Flavio worked on Big Data oriented applications, search engines and message systems. He was also an active member of Gnome's a11y team where he contributed to Orca and created MouseTrap, a head-tracker application. Outside Red Hat Flavio likes to take run, travel... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2014 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Talk

14:00 CEST

Python 3 as Default

This session will consist of two parts. In the first one, I'll talk about Python 3 in general and why Fedora will benefit from switching to it, then I'll discuss the system wide Change "Python 3 as Default" proposed for Fedora 22 (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default) and its current state. The second part will be dedicated to a discussion and Q&A about porting from Python 2 to Python 3 and impact of the system wide Change. This presentation isn't targeted only at Fedora Python packagers and developers. It also aims at people who don't know much about Python, but want to find out where Fedora is going with this language.

Speakers

Slavek Kabrda

Software Engineer, Red Hat Czech

Wednesday August 6, 2014 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Talk

14:00 CEST

Wayland Input Status

When talking about replacing X with Wayland people tend to focus on the graphics side of things. But we need a first class input stack too. Where are we wrt supporting not just keyboards and mice but also multi-touch touch-pads, touch-screens and (wacom) tablets ?

Speakers

Hans de Goede

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Hans has been a Linux developer since 1996, working for Red Hat since 2008. He primarily works on Linux webcam support, USB redirection for virtual machines and has recently joined Red Hat's Graphics team. In his spare time Hans works on Linux support for Allwinner ARM SoCs. Hans... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2014 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
C215 (100 person)

Talk

15:00 CEST

Evolving the Fedora updates process

The process of getting package updates out to our users is extremely complex, requiring effort from packagers, testers, release engineers, and at least a dozen tools. As you can imagine, there is much room for improvement, optimization, and automation within this process. This talk will go over the past, present, and future of Fedora updates. We'll dive into the current architecture and discuss potential improvements and new features that we need for the next generation of Fedora.

Speakers

Luke Macken

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

I write code. https://github.com/lmacken

Wednesday August 6, 2014 15:00 - 15:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Talk

15:00 CEST

Fedora Future Devices

The future of smart devices interaction will be recognition of interaction by touch, voice or gestures. Are we prepared to handle with all new devices? Is it possible to have a single platform? How would be the visual approach? And most importantly what our users expect from us?

Speakers

Wolnei Tomazelli Junior

Computer Technician, ISSEM

Computer engineering student, soccer player and downhill biker.

Wednesday August 6, 2014 15:00 - 15:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

15:00 CEST

Outreach Program for Women: Lessons in Collaboration

Since 2010, the GNOME Foundation’s Outreach Program for Women has provided 130 women with an opportunity to participate in remote internships with 23 Free Software organizations. 7 interns worked with Fedora. This talk will cover the history of the program, what makes it successful, how the same strategies can be used for engaging all new contributors, accomplishments of Fedora interns, what other initiatives help increase diversity in Free Software, and future plans.

Speakers

Marina Zhurakhinskaya

Senior Outreach Specialist, Red Hat

Marina Zhurakhinskaya is a Senior Outreach Specialist focused on open source community diversity and inclusion at Red Hat. She co-organizes Outreachy, a mentorship and internships program that helps people from groups underrepresented in free and open source software get involved... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2014 15:00 - 15:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Talk

15:00 CEST

Predictive Input Methods

Input methods are an important part of a desktop because writing text is one of the most important daily activities of any user. Especially when typing in a language which is not ones native language, typing can be very arduous and error prone. Having a good predictive input method then helps to input text correctly much faster. Even when typing in ones native language it can increase input speed a lot for all users who are not very fast touch typists. It also helps a lot on small keyboards which are not suitable to touch typing. This talk will focus on why such input methods are required and the magic underneath it. We have started the following projects for predictive input methods which were accepted as features of Fedora: https://fedorahosted.org/ibus-typing-booster/ http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/yokan

Speakers

Anish Patel

Wednesday August 6, 2014 15:00 - 15:45 CEST
C215 (100 person)

Talk

16:00 CEST

Open Communication and Collaboration Tools for humans

Waartaa (https://www.waartaa.com) is an open source communication and collaboration tool for teams and communities. Our mission is to build the next gen open communication and collaboration tools for teams and communities on top of existing open source communication frameworks: IRC, webRTC, etc., a one stop solution for text, audio, video communication and collaboration. In this presentation, we want to show case what is Waartaa, how it can make communication easy and fun, our roadmap. We'd happy to get feedback and contributions from the community so that we can make Waartaa useful for the community. Waartaa will prove useful not only for the Fedora community, but for the other Open Source communities as well. As part of the Fedora community, we take pride in taking the lead in solving these challenges for the entire Open Source ecosystem. You can try Waartaa at https://try.waartaa.com

Speakers

Sayan Chowdhury

Ratnadeep Debnath

Senior Software Engineer, Goibibo

Ratnadeep Debnath, also known as, rtnpro is a FOSS developer and evangelist. He works as a Python/Django developer at www.goibibo.com. He is the creator and maintainer of Waartaaa (https://www.waartaa.com), an open source communication and collaboration tool. He also contributes to... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2014 16:00 - 16:45 CEST
C215 (100 person)

Talk

16:00 CEST

State of the Fedora Kernel

State of the Fedora Kernel The annual update on what is going on in the Fedora kernel. This covers recent upstream developments and features, as well as where we're headed with the kernel for upcoming Fedora releases. We'll also discuss some of the impacts of the Fedora.next efforts on the kernel, and what we're doing to help there.

Speakers

Josh Boyer

Platform Engineering, Red Hat

Josh works in the Red Hat Platform Engineering group. He has been a Fedora user since the project's creation, and an active contributor since Fedora Core 4. He has served on FESCo for several years and the Fedora Board. He enjoys hockey and taunting Spot when his team loses... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2014 16:00 - 16:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Talk

16:00 CEST

The curious case of Fedora Freshmen (aka Issue #101)

Why do newbie contributors find it difficult to get started with involving in the Fedora project? What are other organizations getting right about welcoming newcomers? In this talk, I will try to put forward my views on attracting contributors. I'll present my study on various organization's contribution strategies, and we'll try to derive lessons from them. At the end of the talk, I'll produce a roadmap we can take about improving the student community's retention, based on my observations being a student from India.

Speakers

Sarup Banskota

Design, GlitterGallery

20 year old, co-author of GlitterGallery

Wednesday August 6, 2014 16:00 - 16:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Talk

16:00 CEST

UX 101: Practical usability methods that everyone can use

In this talk, I'll describe common usability issues, provide examples of how important usability is to a project, and present a toolbox of practical UX methods that can be used to help address usability concerns. These methods will be accessible to any project, but I'll give specific examples of how some of these UX methods were applied in the redesign process of the Hyperkitty's front-end. I'll also briefly discuss various ways that UX decisions can be evaluated. Hopefully, this talk will provide actionable ideas for how UX can be incorporated into everyone's projects.

Speakers

Karen T

Wednesday August 6, 2014 16:00 - 16:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

17:00 CEST

Fedora Ambassadors: State of the Union

The state of ambassadors program in 2014. What has happened since the last Flock and what FAmSCo has been working on and what our plans are. Discussion about the current state of the ambassadors program and which direction it should be taking in the future, how the Fedora.NEXT initiative influences ambassadors.

Speakers

Jiri Eischmann

Ambassador, Fedora Project

See www.eischmann.cz

Wednesday August 6, 2014 17:00 - 17:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Talk

17:00 CEST

Hyperkitty: Past, Present, and Future

At Flock 2013 I was introducing HyperKitty, the next-generation interface to Mailman3, that we plan to use in the Fedora Infrastructure. This talk will present where we're at, how far we are to actually using it in Fedora, and what we plan after that.

Speakers

Aurelien Bompard

Engineer, Red Hat

Member of the Fedora Engineering team, main developer of HyperKitty, the next-gen Mailman 3 archiver.

Wednesday August 6, 2014 17:00 - 17:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Talk

17:00 CEST

Kernel Tuning

Basic kernel tuning for various loads, such as db, nfs, java application, or for use as a hypervisor

Speakers

John H Dulaney

Wednesday August 6, 2014 17:00 - 17:45 CEST
C215 (100 person)

Talk

17:00 CEST

Release Engineering and You

Fedora Release Engineering is a constantly changing and evolving process. This Talk will go over some of the changes and roadmap and show where you can contribute.

Speakers

Dennis Gilmore

Manager, Multiple Architectures, Red Hat

Dennis has been involved in Fedora since its inception. He Leads the Fedora Release Engineering Team, and is responsible for maintaining the Fedora Buildsystem. He is a Former Member of the Fedora Project Board and FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) and has been involved... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2014 17:00 - 17:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

18:00 CEST

Advocating Fedora.next

With the release of Fedora 21, Fedora.next is just around the corner. Still, there is a lot of confusion what Fedora.next really is, how it impacts Fedora in general and the Ambassadors in particular. This presentation will give ambassadors important talking points and everything else they need to advocate Fedora.next.

Wednesday August 6, 2014 18:00 - 18:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Talk

18:00 CEST

Documenting Software with Mallard

Mallard is an XML-based markup language that is extensively used by the GNOME Documentation Project. In this talk, we would like to show you how to use this language and the corresponding yelp, yelp-tools, and itstool packages to create professional, topic-based documentation for your software project.

Speakers

Jaromir Hradilek

Supervisor, Content Services, Red Hat

Petr Kovar

Documentation Program Manager, Red Hat

Petr Kovar is a documentation program manager at Red Hat. Among other things, he leads documentation teams for RHV, upstream OpenStack and GNOME, and translates open source software into Czech.

Wednesday August 6, 2014 18:00 - 18:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

18:00 CEST

Fedora Badges & Badge Design

What are Fedora Badges, How do you get them, How do you submit an idea for a badge, how can I show off my badges, and how does this badge stuff tie into all the different Fedora applications.
Additionally, we will discuss how to design Fedora Badges, where to find design resources and how to use them. Marie will also give an overview of her Fedora Badges internship through the Outreach Program for Women.

Speakers

Marie Nordin

Fedora contributor and user since 2013. Fedora's FCAIC. Also a designer, artist, and craftswoman. Inkscape, brush markers, and marble paper enthusiast. Living and working remotely from Rochester, NY, with kitties Miko & Bubba!

Chris Roberts

Wednesday August 6, 2014 18:00 - 18:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Talk

18:00 CEST

How Is the Fedora Kernel Different?

This talk will show you the configuration differences between the kernels of mainstream Linux distributions (e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Gentoo and Arch) and their effect on various aspects of your everyday computing. We'll also discuss how these configurations affect other areas, i.e. Cloud, Server, etc.

Speakers

Levente Kurusa

Software Engineering Intern, Red Hat

Levente Kurusa is a Linux enthusiast focusing mostly on kernel development. He is also a frequent speaker at various Linux events, where he talks about the various way an individual can join the kernel development community. He has participated in an annual open source competition... Read More →

Wednesday August 6, 2014 18:00 - 18:45 CEST
C215 (100 person)

Talk

09:00 CEST

Fedora Server Role-ing Along

Get an early preview of the new Fedora Server Product and its flagship features: Server Roles and the Cockpit Management Console.

Speakers

Stephen Gallagher

Software Engineer and Open-Source Advocate, Red Hat

Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. I have spent the last ten years working on various security and platform-enablement software for Fedora Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Thursday August 7, 2014 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
C215 (100 person)

Talk

09:00 CEST

From Schedule to (awesome) Release

There's a lot of stuff happening prior the Fedora release and sometimes it's hard to follow everything for many folks. This talk should give you overview how the schedule is created, will go through Changes Process to the release (testing, blockers, Go/No-Go etc). All to make contributors aware and know what to do to make release process as easy as possible!

Speakers

Jaroslav Řezník

Program Manager, Red Hat

Fedora Program Manager and long time Linux enthusiast.

Thursday August 7, 2014 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

09:00 CEST

Review Server: Package Reviews without Bugzilla

Bugzilla is a bug tracking tool and we have been using it as a communication medium while performing package reviews. Package reviews are mostly about verifying packages adhere to packaging guidelines and spec file is sane. In some cases there is a lot of back and forth between would be maintainer and reviewer and bugzilla is slowing down this process. Alternative tool could be used to go through the process of package review while integrating with other tooling and infrastructure we have in Fedora. Integration with FAS, fedora-review, copr, koji, automatic imports of git repositories with review history into dist-git, commenting within the context of spec files and more would be possible. Hopefully this will help the communication between packager and reviewer as well as providing a welcoming environment for new packager. This talk will present you this review server and if you are good kids, there may be a surprise!

Speakers

Pierre-Yves Chibon

Stanislav Ochotnicky

Thursday August 7, 2014 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Talk

09:00 CEST

Yubikeys

Yubikeys: What they can be used for and how to use them. This will cover using them for authentication both for web based applications, SSH, sudo, etc.

Speakers

Nick Bebout

Thursday August 7, 2014 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Talk

10:00 CEST

Fedora Secondary Architectures

Interested in what happens on other architectures in Fedora apart from Intel and ARM? In this talk we'll go over the two major secondary architectures currently in Fedora: Power and System Z from IBM. Presenting some of highlights and lowlight as well as the specialities in there, the challenges we face and the interesting new developments that happen in that space. And last but not least the benefits that the primary architectures actually get from our work.

Speakers

Phil Knirsch

Manager, Red Hat

Thursday August 7, 2014 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Talk

10:00 CEST

Improving Ambassadors Mentor Program

The history of Ambassadors Mentor Program, current stage, recent changes and improvements for the future.

Speakers

Tuan Anh Truong

Thursday August 7, 2014 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

10:00 CEST

Orchestration with Ansible at Fedora Project

Ansible is a an agentless orchestration tool which relies on OpenSSH for transport and YAML for creating playbooks. Playbook is essentially a list of rules which are applied to a (set of) server to put them in desired configuration. We have started using Ansible and are trying to replace current Puppet setup with it. In this talk, I will show how to execute ad hoc commands on one or more servers as well as create simple playbooks. I will talk about how we use it at Fedora project to manage different kinds of servers across different data centers and the way we are using it.

Speakers

Aditya Patawari

Lead Systems Engineer, BrowserStack.com

Thursday August 7, 2014 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Talk

10:00 CEST

UEFI: The Great Satan and you

Heard of UEFI? Secure Boot, maybe? Wondering whether you should be wrapping your cat in tin foil and only leaving the house under a false name? Never fear: I'm here to explain all entertainingly, colorfully and possibly even accurately. I'll be trying to explain at a level understandable by 'regular folks' roughly what the implications of UEFI and Secure Boot are for regular Fedora users at a practical level (if you want an advanced technical deconstruction, apply elsewhere!)

Speakers

Adam Williamson

Senior Principal Software Quality Engineer, Red Hat

Fedora QA engineer

Thursday August 7, 2014 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
C215 (100 person)

Talk

11:00 CEST

Keynote: Novena: Building a laptop from scratch

What does it take to build your own laptop, and why would anyone do such a thing? Sean will talk about the rationale behind the Novena project, some of the pitfalls they've run up against along the way, and plans for future projects.

Speakers

Sean Cross

Sean "xobs" Cross lives in Singapore. He can usually be found improving the Novena laptop project, digging into SD card firmware, or trying to better understand how strange embedded systems work.

Thursday August 7, 2014 11:00 - 11:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Keynote

14:00 CEST

Meet your FESCo

An informal panel discussion with members of the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, our community-elected technical oversight body. Put faces to email addresses and IRC nicks, and ask anything you want.

Speakers

Matthew Miller

Fedora Project Leader, Red Hat

Thursday August 7, 2014 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
C215 (100 person)

Talk

14:00 CEST

NoSQL in Fedora Infra

How Fedora can apply NoSQL technology in some projects.

Speakers

Yohan Graterol

Software Developer, Mejorando.la INC

Thursday August 7, 2014 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Talk

14:00 CEST

Rise of the Fedora desktop: Gaming

Fedora desktop evolving fast, and unstoppable. A small part of desktop topic is gaming. Crytek on linux, yes, Ubisoft on linux, maybe, Steam on linux, and Wine games. All of these on Fedora.

Speakers

Gergely Rákosi

IT, Info & Press Bt.

Games,games,games.....

Thursday August 7, 2014 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

14:00 CEST

The Problem with Unit Testing

This presentation will talk about the problems with the testing practices widely used by software shops today. We'll talk about QuickCheck (and ports of it to other languages) as an alternative, and also about how modern type systems eliminate a lot of the need for tests.

Speakers

Rick Elrod

Software Engineer - Community Platform Engineering, Red Hat, Inc.

I work on the Community Platform Engineering team at Red Hat. I work primarily with the Fedora Infrastructure team and do a mix of sysadmin and development.

Thursday August 7, 2014 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Talk

15:00 CEST

Introduction to Docker

This workshop will help beginners to get started with Docker on Fedora. I'll discuss why Docker can be a better choice than Linux containers and virtual machines in many scenarios. As a part of workshop I would cover very basics from installing Docker to advanced things like creating a custom Docker image (example: webserver or redis) from bare Fedora image which can be shipped anywhere. I can also show how to setup a private docker registry, should the time permits. A 64 bit Fedora installation is required for this workshop.

Speakers

Aditya Patawari

Lead Systems Engineer, BrowserStack.com

Thursday August 7, 2014 15:00 - 16:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

17:00 CEST

Fedora.next.next: Planning for Fedora 22

Fedora 21 is now in Alpha phase, with Beta right around the corner. No time to slow down, let's get together and plan the next big set of Fedora Product features! This should be a two-part workshop: the first hour should be a retrospective on what progress and changes we've made for Fedora 21 and the initial Product launches, and then the rest of the time should be spent brainstorming the big enhancements for Fedora 22.

Speakers

Stephen Gallagher

Software Engineer and Open-Source Advocate, Red Hat

Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. I have spent the last ten years working on various security and platform-enablement software for Fedora Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Thursday August 7, 2014 17:00 - 18:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

09:00 CEST

Docker and Fedora

This presentation explores how docker and other container technologies can improve developer productivity and adoption of fedora in an enterprise.

Speakers

Arun S A G

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:sagarun

Friday August 8, 2014 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Talk

09:00 CEST

Fedora i18n: Past, Present, Future

This talk presents a brief history of i18n (Internationalization) in Fedora, current progress, and future plans. Topics discussed will include input methods and fonts (desktop i18n), locales, encodings, and localization.

Speakers

Jens Petersen

Engineering Manager, Red Hat

Jens works on development of Fedora i18n and Haskell, and RHEL.http://github.com/juhp/

Friday August 8, 2014 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
C215 (100 person)

Talk

09:00 CEST

How I Built a Github clone in 2 weeks

Github is probably the leading forge for open-source projects at the moment. However, it is not FOSS which for core FOSS developers is always a hurting point. In two weeks, I developed a light-weight, python and git based forge allowing anyone to create their project. The forge includes a small, git-based, documentation browser as well as a light-weight issue tracker. The project can be forged and pull-requests created and merged. This project may remain forever a proof of concept but it shows that it is possible to compete with github from a technical point of view, the harder part being the social-web aspect that github offers.

Speakers

Pierre-Yves Chibon

Friday August 8, 2014 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

09:00 CEST

Where is DevAssistant Going?

DevAssistant (github.com/bkabrda/devassistant) is a tool that targets both development beginners and seasoned coders. It can set up development environment, kickstart new projects in various languages and frameworks and install dependencies. This presentation will explain how DevAssistant works, what the future plans are and what it can do for you.

Speakers

Slavek Kabrda

Software Engineer, Red Hat Czech

Friday August 8, 2014 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Talk

10:00 CEST

Documentation with Publican

I would like to give a talk on using Publican to produce high-quality technical documentation for Fedora.

Speakers

Jared Smith

Vice President of Cloud Services, Sangoma

I'm a geek who loves helping out with open source projects....

Friday August 8, 2014 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Talk

10:00 CEST

Fedora Infrastructure present to future

Fedora Infratructure folks will talk about current applications and future plans. Come and learn whats in the pipeline, how to contribute and influence our applications for your needs.

Speakers

Kevin Fenzi

Infrastructure Lead, Red Hat

Fedora user and developer. Greyhound lover.

Friday August 8, 2014 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Talk

10:00 CEST

GNOME: a content application update

In the new GNOME 3.x series we have been working on a new set of core applications for finding and selecting the user's content. Each application is generically named, tailored to the kind of content that it is meant to handle, and integrates tightly with the cloud and network services. Files and Videos (earlier known as nautilus and totem respectively) are the oldest of these. Then we have Documents, Photos and Music. We will present the current status of these applications, the high-level design and thoughts behind having them, and shiny plans for the future.

Speakers

Debarshi Ray

"Blog: http://debarshiray.wordpress.com/Ohloh: http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/debarshirayMember of the GNOME Foundation and the Red Hat Desktop Team."

Friday August 8, 2014 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

10:00 CEST

Systemd daemon integration, next step to world domination

Systemd is now adopted by several distributions, but some of the most interesting features ( socket activation, watchdog support, journal integration ) requires code change to daemons. This talk will cover the different way and API to integrate systemd and a regular daemon, along with the various pitfall I stumbled upon ( so you don't have to ), like "what version of systemd support what feature", "how do we make the support optional" and the various tradeoff you have to keep in mind.

Speakers

Michael Scherer

sitting on a chair right now, but I stand from time to time, Red Hat

Later

Friday August 8, 2014 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
C215 (100 person)

Talk

11:00 CEST

Fedora.Next Joint Session

A flock-wide session discussing the status and future of Fedora.next.

Speakers

Matthew Miller

Fedora Project Leader, Red Hat

Friday August 8, 2014 11:00 - 11:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Keynote

14:00 CEST

AutheNtication at Fedora evolved

Almost every Fedora contributor is using Fedora AuthN, but not everyone aware is of it. This authentication system used at Fedora is becoming more and more useful to users. Here I will summarize some of the new features which might be interesting for Fedora Account holders and how they work.

Speakers

Patrick Uiterwijk

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Software Engineer/System Administrator at Red Hat for Fedora Engineering. I have been the identity infrastructure robot for the Fedora Infrastructure for over three years, and a main contributor to the Ipsilon Identity Provider. Fedora Infrastructure Security Officer.

Friday August 8, 2014 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

14:00 CEST

Building an application installer from the ground up

In this talk I will explain the different layers in our application installer architecture, right from guessing values from .desktop files, to adding extra data from AppData files, to the AppStream XML format, and then up to the application layer. I'm aiming to keep the talk light-hearted and hopefully entertaining, but at the same time explaining the nitty-gitty details and explaining any compromises we've made. I'll show lots of screenshots of the Fedora application installer (gnome-software) and explain how we're using the new data to fulfil high level UI and UX goals. I'll talk about what's left to fully integrate the architecture with the Fedora infrastructure. The intended audience of this talk will be moderately technical, although no prior knowledge of the installer stack is required.

Speakers

Richard Hughes

Developer, Red Hat

Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, fwupd, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards... Read More →

Friday August 8, 2014 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
C215 (100 person)

Talk

14:00 CEST

Env and Stack WG - plans

Environment and Stacks Working Group has a lot of plans what to do. I plan to speak about what was done and how it is working. Feel free to discuss what to do next or how do you like ideas of our Working Group. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Env_and_Stacks/Product_Requirements_Document

Speakers

Marcela Maslanova

Agile Practitioner, Red Hat

A member of Agile Practitioners group.

Friday August 8, 2014 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Talk

14:00 CEST

Fast deployment of OS images on bare metal with Anaconda: Fedora

Large scale internet companies have an unique problem - getting their applications and operating system up and running very quick based on sudden spike in traffic. This presentation talks techniques and features used fast operating system deployment with anaconda.

Speakers

Arun S A G

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:sagarun

Friday August 8, 2014 14:00 - 14:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Talk

15:00 CEST

3D printing is easy

In the local 3D print lab I will teach you how to 3D print with Fedora.

Speakers

Miro Hrončok

Friday August 8, 2014 15:00 - 16:45 CEST
A1051

Workshop/Hackfest

15:00 CEST

Documentation Hackfest

A session for the Fedora documentation team get together with any other interested individuals to work on Fedora Documentation for F21, including the Fedora.next items.

Additionally, people will be introduced to reStructuredText & sphinx. Starting from quick-start of a project to document organization, code and topic cross-referencing, indexing. We will also go through running tests from your documentation, initial ideas on themes and deployment in readthedocs.

Speakers

Kushal Das

Fedora Cloud Engineer

Jared Smith

Vice President of Cloud Services, Sangoma

I'm a geek who loves helping out with open source projects....

Friday August 8, 2014 15:00 - 16:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

15:00 CEST

EPEL.next

Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux was started long ago in a different landscape of packaging and programs. As Fedora ponders its next incarnation, it is time for EPEL to do so also. The goals of this workshop will be to work over what changes we will make towards EL7 and beyond, how we will handle software collections and other changes.

Speakers

Stephen J Smoogen

System Administrator, Red Hat Inc

I have worked with Linux since 1992 and have worked for Red Hat twice. Once from 1997 to 2001 and then from 2009 until my talk this week.

Friday August 8, 2014 15:00 - 16:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

15:00 CEST

GPG Keysigning

Come get your GPG key signed, and sign other people's key.

Speakers

Nick Bebout

Friday August 8, 2014 15:00 - 16:45 CEST
T9:347 (24 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

15:00 CEST

Make tools with fedmsg

In this workshop, we'll go through how to write programs that make use of fedmsg, Fedora Infrastructure's realtime message bus. I will bring a few canned projects that we can walk through and implement from start to finish, but do bring your own ideas; we can use it as an opportunity to make neat real time tools that in turn help make the Fedora developer ecosystem more responsive and flexible. Programmers of **all experience levels** are welcome.

Speakers

Ralph Bean

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc

Ralph Bean works as a Senior Software Engineer on the Fedora Engineering team at Red Hat. Most of what he does goes on in #fedora-apps on freenode: the application-development side of Fedora Infrastructure.

Friday August 8, 2014 15:00 - 16:45 CEST
C215 (100 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

15:00 CEST

Systemd Hackfest

Friday August 8, 2014 15:00 - 18:45 CEST
OPEN HACKING ROOM T9:301 (24 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

17:00 CEST

Building an inexpensive and scalable storage system with ARM and GlusterFS

Inexpensive ARM boards, commodity drives and Open Source Software are all you need to assemble a scalable storage solution, supporting distributed and replicated volumes. In this presentation, we walk through the process of assembling the hardware, installing Fedora and GlusterFS, and finally configuring the volumes. Then we will access this storage via native Gluster client (FUSE), NFS and CIFS to provide performance benchmarks, showing what it is possible to accomplish with Open Source software, a little thinking and about a thousand dollars.

Speakers

Leonardo Vaz

Ceph Community Manager, Red Hat

A carbon-based life form.

Friday August 8, 2014 17:00 - 18:45 CEST
C215 (100 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

17:00 CEST

DevAssistant Workshop

Come learn about DevAssistant and help hack on it to improve it for future releases.

Speakers

Slavek Kabrda

Software Engineer, Red Hat Czech

Friday August 8, 2014 17:00 - 18:45 CEST
T9:347 (24 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

17:00 CEST

Fedora Security Lab

The Fedora Security Lab (aka Fedora Security Spin) is around for a while now. Time to think about the future of the FSL...what would be a way go for the post Fedora 21 era, ideas for the menu structure, how can we be more unique, should we shift our focus, etc.

Speakers

Fabian Affolter

Fedora Project / Affolter Engineering

Just an engineer...

Friday August 8, 2014 17:00 - 18:45 CEST
B286 (231 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

17:00 CEST

Hyperkitty Workshop

In this workshop I'll introduce you to Mailman3 and HyperKitty's architecture. We'll discuss interaction design, low hanging fruits, small features, and maybe even larger feature if you feel up to it. Technologies: Python, Django, Javascript.

Speakers

Aurelien Bompard

Engineer, Red Hat

Member of the Fedora Engineering team, main developer of HyperKitty, the next-gen Mailman 3 archiver.

Friday August 8, 2014 17:00 - 18:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

17:00 CEST

Packages Review Hackfest

Reviews are piling up, packagers and sponsors are welcome to come and do get things done. Prospective packagers who'd like to be sponsored may come :) http://fedoraproject.org/PackageReviewStatus/

Speakers

Haikel Guemar

RDO release wrangler, Fedora Project

CentOS Cloud SIG developerRDO Engineering at Red HatStacker

Parag Nemade

Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat

Fedora Packaging, Internationalization, Desktop engineering

Friday August 8, 2014 17:00 - 18:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

09:00 CEST

ARM Server Update

Jon Masters will summarize the latest developments in 64-bit ARM Server development, both in terms of standardization, and in terms of technical direction. A summary of Red Hat's "Server for ARM Development Preview" will be given, and thoughts on where we go in supporting a Fedora Server release for 64-bit ARM.

Speakers

Jon Masters

Chief Arm Architect, Red Hat

Jon Masters is a Computer Architect specializing in high performance microarchitecture at Red Hat, where he is Chief Arm Architect, and works on cache coherent shared virtual memory workload acceleration, among many other topics. He also co-created the technical mitigation team for... Read More →

Saturday August 9, 2014 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
T9:346 (24 person)

Talk

09:00 CEST

Improving Bug Reporting Workflow

An overview of ABRT project and related stack, its current state and future plans. Open discussion with users and admins, withstanding the criticism and collecting ideas for improvement.

Speakers

Michal Toman

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Saturday August 9, 2014 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
T9:347 (24 person)

Talk

09:00 CEST

New features of rpm and dnf

This talk will cover some new rpm-related features that we are either planning to deliver or we already delivered into Fedora. The three main topics will be a) new dependency model in rpm, b) large file support in rpms and c) dnf and the plan to replace yum in Fedora 22.

Speakers

Jan Zelený

Senior Manager, Software Engineering_Global, Red Hat

Jan is a long time Red Hatter and team builder, having built three teams almost from scratch. He is passionate about communication between engineers and their stakeholder and about giving structure to unstructured things.

Saturday August 9, 2014 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Talk

09:00 CEST

Secure Programming Practices

Every year hundreds of vulnerabilities are discovered in programs because developers did not pay attention to standard secure programming practices. This presentation aims to address some of the issues.

Speakers

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala

Senior Principal Product Security Engineer, Red Hat

Huzaifa Sidhpurwala is the lead security architect working for Secure Development team of Product Security. He is responsible for secure development practices and tasks across the Red Hat portfolio. A Fedora contributor for over a decade, he speaks at open source conferences mainly... Read More →

Saturday August 9, 2014 09:00 - 09:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

10:00 CEST

Fedora for Developers

Presenting a talk and a discussion about the developer experience in Fedora. The talk will begin with an identification of developer types, move to a review of the "competition," identify some development paradigm shifts (containers, vms, cloud), present some progress that has been made, and, finally, discuss the future as a group.

Speakers

Langdon White

Clinical Assistant Professor, Boston University

Langdon White is a professor & Spark! Technical Director at Boston University. He helps to provide industry-affiliated experiential learning to students and teaches with the goal of making computing & data sciences more accessible. Joining BU after 9 years at Red Hat, where he re-architected... Read More →

Saturday August 9, 2014 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Talk

10:00 CEST

Security Code Audit 101

A huge part of the appeal of free software is the security offered by the openess of the code, but this only work if people actually look at code to find security issues. In this talk, we will take a look at the most common patterns of security issues, how can they be spotted using specific tools or just by looking and where should you look in priority to find something exploitable. We will then show how you should react if you found a bug, how to get a CVE and what happen after.

Speakers

Michael Scherer

sitting on a chair right now, but I stand from time to time, Red Hat

Later

Saturday August 9, 2014 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

10:00 CEST

State of ARM and aarch64 in Fedora

With ARMv7 progressing to Primary arch status for Fedora 20 and aarch64 progressing at a rapid rate towards both usability and HW availability this is an overview of where we're at and where we're going

Speakers

Peter Robinson

Principal IoT Architect, Red Hat

Principal IoT Architect

Saturday August 9, 2014 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
T9:346 (24 person)

Talk

10:00 CEST

Why can't I have the package that I need?

As voluntary driven project there are some software that is not developed or is not given much attention. For instance the poor development of desktop user oriented database management and report tools. I will point some gaps, may we find some ideas?

Speakers

Neville A. Cross

Fedora Ambassador

Nicaraguan, Business manager, Amateur radio, Fedora Project Ambassador, Advanced Linux user. Not a programmer and not a sysadmin. At some point or other I was member of FAmSCo and Fedora Board. Helped for a time with Fedora Weekly Newsleter, Free Media and Marketing. Now I am pursuing... Read More →

Saturday August 9, 2014 10:00 - 10:45 CEST
T9:347 (24 person)

Talk

11:00 CEST

Fully Automated Static Analysis of Fedora Packages

There are static analysis tools in Fedora (such as Clang or Cppcheck) that allow you to automatically detect bugs in your packages before they are noticed by users or even Security Response Team. We are announcing a push-the-button tool (csmock) that runs static analysis tools on RPM packages. Using this tool, you do not need to care how the static analysis tools actually work and how they are supposed to be used. You just give it an SRPM and a list of analyzers and it returns you a list of defects in a unified format. We will also briefly introduce a tool (csdiff) for processing such lists of defects, like e.g. filtering out defects that are newly introduced in a new version of your package.

Speakers

Kamil Dudka

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kdudka

Saturday August 9, 2014 11:00 - 11:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Talk

11:00 CEST

Through a Wire Fence: Fedora and RHEL

One of the important functions of Fedora is that it's the upstream for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and its various downstreams). This talk will cover observations gathered during almost 4 years of development of RHEL 7, as well as some aspirations for the future and how Fedora can continue to be a rich and vibrant upstream.

Speakers

Paul Frields

Engineering manager, Red Hat

Bassist. Music lover. Geek wrangler. Linux aficionado. Hubby. Dad. All-around super guy.

Saturday August 9, 2014 11:00 - 11:45 CEST
T9:346 (24 person)

Talk

11:00 CEST

Virtualization for Fedora Packagers and Developers

An overview of various ways virtualization can improve your life as a Fedora packager/developer/tester, as well as tips and tricks to simplify the process.

Speakers

Cole Robinson

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Cole is an engineer on the QEMU/KVM team at Red Hat, overseeing all their Fedora needs. He's the primary author of virt-manager and a major libvirt contributor.

Saturday August 9, 2014 11:00 - 11:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Talk

11:00 CEST

You can write kernel tests too!

The kernel regression test framework helps us find kernel bugs before they get to users. But it is only as good as the test coverage it has. Writing kernel tests doesn't necessarily require in depth kernel knowledge or even advanced programming skills. Come see how you can write your own tests

Speakers

Justin Forbes

Fedora Kernel Maintainer, Red Hat

Fedora Kernel maintainer

Saturday August 9, 2014 11:00 - 11:45 CEST
T9:347 (24 person)

Talk

15:00 CEST

ARM Hackfest

Hackfest focused on ARM efforts in Fedora.

Speakers

Dennis Gilmore

Manager, Multiple Architectures, Red Hat

Jared Smith

Vice President of Cloud Services, Sangoma

I'm a geek who loves helping out with open source projects....

Saturday August 9, 2014 15:00 - 16:45 CEST
T9:346 (24 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

15:00 CEST

Governance of Fedora under Fedora.next

As Fedora has grown, the number of governance bodies has grown as well. This workshop is intended to figure out how those bodies should fit together under Fedora.next, what duties and responsibilities belong to each, and whether it makes sense to reduce the number. Agenda items will be listed on: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/Flock2014_Governance_discussion toshio and hguemar to lead the discussion.

Speakers

Haikel Guemar

RDO release wrangler, Fedora Project

CentOS Cloud SIG developerRDO Engineering at Red HatStacker

Toshio Kuratomi

Red Hat

Saturday August 9, 2014 15:00 - 16:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

15:00 CEST

Taskotron Planning and Hacking

Discussion on Taskotron's roadmap going forward, plans for sub-components and hacking!

Speakers

Tim Flink

Saturday August 9, 2014 15:00 - 16:45 CEST
T9:347 (24 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

17:00 CEST

Configuring a minimal, 2-node KVM-based OpenStack setup using virtual machines

In this session, we'll set up a minimal KVM-based deployment of OpenStack in a virtualized (Fedora 20) environment using nested virtualization. We'll also attempt to understand and configure various aspects of OpenStack Networking (Neutron): multitenant networks, Open vSwitch bridges, routers, etc. We will also discuss some debugging techniques to use if you run into problems. The audience for this workshop would include Linux/Virtualization/Cloud (OpenStack) administrators or anyone with an interest in KVM-based virtualization. Bonus: If you're willing, we could also do live bug triage!

Speakers

Jakub Ružička

Software Engineer, Red Hat

I package OpenStack for Red Hat for 3rd year now. Packaging might look easy but it isn't and I try to provide appropriate tools that make the hard job doable AND enjoyable.

Saturday August 9, 2014 17:00 - 18:45 CEST
T9:343 (24 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

17:00 CEST

Continuous Delivery using Jenkins and Ansible

This workshop will talk about Jenkins CI tool and ansible module and demonstrate how we can implement Continuous Delivery using those tools. We will demonstrate about jenkinsapi module to automate build process. In this workshop we will setup a local jenkins instance and build projects using jenkinsapi.

Speakers

Praveen Kumar

Software Engineer, Redhat

Saturday August 9, 2014 17:00 - 18:45 CEST
T9:347 (24 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

17:00 CEST

Fedora.next and the fate of spins

Fedora.next comes as three products: Workstation, server and cloud. The role of the spins in this brave new world is unclear. Are three deliverables enough to rule them all or do we still need spins? If so, can the spins benefit from Fedora.next workflows and governance?

Saturday August 9, 2014 17:00 - 18:45 CEST
T9:302 (24 person)

Workshop/Hackfest

17:00 CEST

GNOME newcomers workshop

The workshop will start with an overview of the GNOME community structure, collaboration practices, and ways to start contributing. After that, established GNOME contributors will help participants work their way through the newcomers tutorial which teaches the process and the tools for downloading the code for a GNOME module, testing the module locally, submitting a bug report, and providing a fix for a bug. This workshop is suitable for complete newcomers to GNU/Linux, as virtual machine images with Fedora 20 will be available for people with other systems. More information is available at https://wiki.gnome.org/Events/NewcomersWorkshop

Speakers

Marina Zhurakhinskaya

Senior Outreach Specialist, Red Hat

Saturday August 9, 2014 17:00 - 18:45 CEST
T9:346 (24 person)

Workshop/Hackfest