Fedora Event Report
By Shakthi Kannan

In preparation of FUDCon, Pune 2011, we had organized a Fedora Activity Day (FAD) I at Red Hat, Pune, India on Saturday, Sept 24, 2011

Rahul Sundaram started the proceedings with a session on how to contribute to Fedora, and how people can get involved with the community. I showed the various communication channels that people can use to connect with the large Fedora community.

We then proceeded to do a hands-on session on RPM packaging. We used the GNU Hello RPM packaging example from the fedoraproject.org wiki. Rahul and I explained each section of the .spec file, and showed them how to use Rpmbuild. The participants learnt to write the .spec file, and also built, installed, and tested the hello package.

We then took a break for lunch following which I presented a hands-on session on git using the di-git-ally managing love letters presentation. Siddhesh Poyarekar then took an introductory hands-on session on autotools.

All the presentations are available in the FAD wiki page. Thanks to Red Hat for letting us use their facility, and for sponsoring the pizza! They were able to arrange for ten laptops with Fedora 15 installed for participants who didn't have laptops.

Thanks also to Kashyap Chamarthy, Kushal Das, Siddhesh Poyarekar for their help to the participants during the workshop sessions.

(Techgoss had published the following on Sept 21, 2011)

Fedora event in Pune
By Pune Tech News

A Fedora Activity Day (FAD) is scheduled for Saturday, September 24, 2011, 1000 IST onwards at the Red Hat office in Pune. The objective of this FAD is to get any beginner, particularly students, introduced to Open Source and Linux in general, and involved in Fedora in particular, in preparation of FUDCon, Pune.

Agenda: Since this is an unconference, the final agenda will not be known until the day of the event, but you can see the agenda for the list of talks already registered. These include:

-Introduction to Python
-Introduction to Django
-Communication Guidelines (on how to use IRC, wiki, mailing lists, etc)
-Introduction to virtualization in Fedora
-Introduction to Git – How to manage your love letters using Git
-and a bunch of other talks.

Entry is free. 

The second FAD will be held in COEP on Saturday October 8, 2011.

(In Techgoss syndication arrangement with Punetech)