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The Workshop is over - see [[DeveloperWorkshopNovember2007Report]] for a summary of what we did there.
= General Information =
= General Information =
We would like the participants to read the [[DevWorkshopGuidelines]] first, then you can add yourself to the list of interested participants below.
We would like the participants to read the [[DevWorkshopGuidelines]] first, then you can add yourself to the list of interested participants below.


= Date =
= Date =
This year's FAI official developer workshop will take place from '''9th to 11th of November 2007''' at the Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany.
'''9th to 11th of November 2007''' at the Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany.


= Location =
= Location =
As last year, the Linuxhotel in Essen/Germany gives us their nice training rooms for the meeting again.
Linuxhotel in Essen ([http://www.linuxhotel.de/anreise.html Travel info, Anreise])
See http://www.linuxhotel.de/community.html for generic information on community events at this location(only in German language for now, sorry - important infos are here).
 
See http://www.linuxhotel.de/community.html for generic information on community events at this location (only in German language)


= Sleeping, Eating, Drinking =
= Sleeping, Eating, Drinking =
Sleeping in the hotel, breakfast, coffe flatrate and drinks are included in the low fee we have to pay. We have to organize lunch and dinner on our own. Normally we manage to pay everything with the money from our sponsors, so you do not have to pay anything.
= Sponsorship =
Due to german tax laws, the Linuxhotel is not allowed anymore to give the location away for free.
Due to german tax laws, the Linuxhotel is not allowed anymore to give the location away for free.
They have to charge these prices now:
They have to charge some money:


* Sleeping in a double room in the Linuxhotel: 15€ per night and person
* If n=number of persons. Overall amount of money needed: n * 60
* Breakfast: 5 € per day
* Final cleaning of the Hotel room: 5€ per Person


= Sponsorship =
Additional money is needed for food and travel sponsorship
Sponsorship for travel cost as well as food and Hotel is being cleared at the moment. Companies interested in financing the event are invited to contact [[User:Lazyboy | Henning ]] or Thomas.
 
'''We got some sponsorship and hope to pay all expenses. Thanks to'''


We want to get everything paid by sponsors - we expect people workin in companies who use FAI actively, to ask their bosses to pay the travel cost for them - sure, offerings of any further sponsoring are very welcome!
* http://www.b1systems.de
* http://www.lt-ec.de
* http://www.linux-ag.com


= (interested) Participants =
= Participants =
Please don't forget to let us know some contact data, especially in case you don't read the -devel Mailing list. Please  
Please don't forget to let us know some contact data, especially in case you don't read the -devel Mailing list. Please  
'''In case of travel sponsorship required, please add a guess of your travel costs. (see sponsorship section for details).'''
'''In case of travel sponsorship required, please add a guess of your travel costs.'''


* Thomas Lange
* Thomas Lange
* Henning Sprang(60€ Travel cost)
* Henning Sprang (60E Travel cost)
* Holger Levsen (100e travel costs from hamburg)
 
* Michael Tautschnig
* Michael Tautschnig
* Jan Bungart  
* Sebastian Hetze
 
* Christoffer Jerkeby (~140E Travel costs from copenhagen/malmö)
 
Maybe:
* Maybe: Jan Bungart
 
Cancelled:
* Holger Levsen (100E travel costs from hamburg) CANCELED
* Oliver Osburg (80E Travel costs from Freiburg)
* Boris Lingl


= Communication =
= Communication =
We can talk on the usual IRC Channel, but there's also a spcial Mailing list for announcement - you are very much encouraged to subscribe to it if you are an (interested) participant, because import information about the Event will be communicated there.
We can talk on the usual IRC Channel and using the linux-fai-devel
mailing list.
 
* Mailing list for announcement: https://listi.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/fai-dev-workshop
* [http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/rails/todos/list Todo list]
 
Please subscribe to it if you are an (interested) participant.
Import information about the event will be communicated there.
 
= Agenda (1. Vorschlag) =


The list is kindly hosted by [http://www.jpberlin.de JPBerlin], and it's admin and subscription interface can be found at https://listi.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/fai-dev-workshop
==== Freitag ====
 
* Aufbau des Netzwerk
* Bug squashing hour bis alle da sind, Mrfai sucht Hilfe fuer Bugs
* Wenn alle da sind: Vorstellungsrunde, Agenda genauer festlegen
* Read access von /dev/beer
* Aktuelle Probleme besprechen => Lösungsansätze?
* Kurze Intro: Änderungen 3.1.8 -> 3.2 (bei Bedarf, max 20 min)
 
==== Samstag ====
 
* Zukünftige Entwicklungen: Was soll bis lenny Release eingebaut werden?
* z.B. Use cases fuer eine GUI definieren, Demo Boris?
* Nachmittag: 1 Std. Bug squashing, jeden Bug kurz besprechen, Prioritaet vergeben
 
==== Sonntag ====
 
* Coden
* Testen
* Meeting: Was haben wir errreicht?


= Agenda =
== topic proposals for discussion and work ==
== topic proposals for discussion and work ==
In this section, you can enter proposals for topics to work on, and things to discuss. Please add your name and maybe contact information, if you are not well known to your proposals in case of occuring questions.
In this section, you can enter proposals for topics to work on, and things to discuss. Please add your name and maybe contact information, if you are not well known to your proposals in case of occuring questions.
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You can mark your topic with (D) or (W) to make clear it's a (D)iscussion or (W)ork topic.
You can mark your topic with (D) or (W) to make clear it's a (D)iscussion or (W)ork topic.


* Further work on a simple FAI gui (ldap-independent/storage-agnostic and easy to install) - see GUIConcept (W) --[[User:Lazyboy|lazyboy]] 20:28, 16 September 2007 (CEST)
* Further work on a simple FAI gui (ldap-independent/storage-agnostic and easy to install) - see [[GUIConcept]] (W) --[[User:Lazyboy|lazyboy]] -- Kugg
* Work on an automated [[Testing | testing]] system for FAI - using crucible or another framework(W) --[[User:Lazyboy|lazyboy]] 20:28, 16 September 2007 (CEST)
* Work on an automated [[Testing | testing]] system for FAI - using crucible or another framework(W) --[[User:Lazyboy|lazyboy]]
* Bring example configs(and helper scripts, for example stuff needed for bootstrapping base images) for installing other distributions plus Windows into the fai-doc package to make it easier available for end users(W) --[[User:Lazyboy|lazyboy]] 20:28, 16 September 2007 (CEST)
* Bring example configs(and helper scripts, for example stuff needed for bootstrapping base images) for installing other distributions plus Windows into the fai-doc package to make it easier available for end users(W) --[[User:Lazyboy|lazyboy]]
* A new and improved [[Configspace redesign proposal | configspace Hierarchy]] --[[User:Lazyboy|lazyboy]] 00:21, 17 September 2007 (CEST)
* A new and improved [[Configspace redesign proposal | configspace Hierarchy]] --[[User:Lazyboy|lazyboy]], Mrfai
* Once more: setup_harddisks --[[User:Michael|michael]]
* Once more: setup_harddisks (W) --[[User:Michael|michael]], Mrfai
* Simple GUI for collecting MAC addresses, add entries to dhcpd.conf, assign FAI classes (D) -- Mrfai -- Kugg
* cleanup wiki, find outdated pages (W)
* include XEN examples? (D) (does this makes sense without using XEN kernel in FAI examples?)
* add items to http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/rails/todos/list (W) -- Mrfai
* fai-cd using squashfs (W)
* apply Ubuntu patches (W)


== Timeline ==
== Timeline ==
Moderator: Henning Sprang will be responsible to take care that we (roughly)keep in line with the agenda. Talk to him if you see the need for spontaneous changes in the course of the workshop.
Moderator: Henning Sprang will be responsible to take care that we (roughly)keep in line with the agenda. Talk to him if you see the need for spontaneous changes in the course of the workshop.


'''TODO:''' When will we do and discuss what.
'''Will be defined in details by Mrfai around beginning october'''


In general we will have:
In general we will have:


* At the start of the meeting: Starting meeting - people introduce themselves, tell about their interests to work on, workgroups are built, final schedule outlined
* Starting meeting - people introduce themselves, tell about their interests to work on, workgroups are built, final schedule outlined
* Somewhere in the middle: Discussion about general ideas for the further FAI development
* In the middle: Discussion about general ideas for the further FAI development
* End: Discussion about progress made on the work topics - what did we reach - what will happen with the topics not done yet, how will the workgroups continue working on them
* End: Discussion about progress made on the work topics - what did we reach - what will happen with the topics not done yet, how will the workgroups continue working on them
[[Category:Meeting]]

Latest revision as of 12:02, 30 July 2009

The Workshop is over - see DeveloperWorkshopNovember2007Report for a summary of what we did there.


General Information

We would like the participants to read the DevWorkshopGuidelines first, then you can add yourself to the list of interested participants below.

Date

9th to 11th of November 2007 at the Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany.

Location

Linuxhotel in Essen (Travel info, Anreise)

See http://www.linuxhotel.de/community.html for generic information on community events at this location (only in German language)

Sleeping, Eating, Drinking

Sleeping in the hotel, breakfast, coffe flatrate and drinks are included in the low fee we have to pay. We have to organize lunch and dinner on our own. Normally we manage to pay everything with the money from our sponsors, so you do not have to pay anything.

Sponsorship

Due to german tax laws, the Linuxhotel is not allowed anymore to give the location away for free. They have to charge some money:

  • If n=number of persons. Overall amount of money needed: n * 60

Additional money is needed for food and travel sponsorship

We got some sponsorship and hope to pay all expenses. Thanks to

Participants

Please don't forget to let us know some contact data, especially in case you don't read the -devel Mailing list. Please In case of travel sponsorship required, please add a guess of your travel costs.

  • Thomas Lange
  • Henning Sprang (60E Travel cost)
  • Michael Tautschnig
  • Sebastian Hetze
  • Christoffer Jerkeby (~140E Travel costs from copenhagen/malmö)

Maybe:

  • Maybe: Jan Bungart

Cancelled:

  • Holger Levsen (100E travel costs from hamburg) CANCELED
  • Oliver Osburg (80E Travel costs from Freiburg)
  • Boris Lingl

Communication

We can talk on the usual IRC Channel and using the linux-fai-devel mailing list.

Please subscribe to it if you are an (interested) participant. Import information about the event will be communicated there.

Agenda (1. Vorschlag)

Freitag

  • Aufbau des Netzwerk
  • Bug squashing hour bis alle da sind, Mrfai sucht Hilfe fuer Bugs
  • Wenn alle da sind: Vorstellungsrunde, Agenda genauer festlegen
  • Read access von /dev/beer
  • Aktuelle Probleme besprechen => Lösungsansätze?
  • Kurze Intro: Änderungen 3.1.8 -> 3.2 (bei Bedarf, max 20 min)

Samstag

  • Zukünftige Entwicklungen: Was soll bis lenny Release eingebaut werden?
  • z.B. Use cases fuer eine GUI definieren, Demo Boris?
  • Nachmittag: 1 Std. Bug squashing, jeden Bug kurz besprechen, Prioritaet vergeben

Sonntag

  • Coden
  • Testen
  • Meeting: Was haben wir errreicht?

topic proposals for discussion and work

In this section, you can enter proposals for topics to work on, and things to discuss. Please add your name and maybe contact information, if you are not well known to your proposals in case of occuring questions.

People interested in a topic should enter their name in the section of this topic to show their interest.

You can mark your topic with (D) or (W) to make clear it's a (D)iscussion or (W)ork topic.

  • Further work on a simple FAI gui (ldap-independent/storage-agnostic and easy to install) - see GUIConcept (W) --lazyboy -- Kugg
  • Work on an automated testing system for FAI - using crucible or another framework(W) --lazyboy
  • Bring example configs(and helper scripts, for example stuff needed for bootstrapping base images) for installing other distributions plus Windows into the fai-doc package to make it easier available for end users(W) --lazyboy
  • A new and improved configspace Hierarchy --lazyboy, Mrfai
  • Once more: setup_harddisks (W) --michael, Mrfai
  • Simple GUI for collecting MAC addresses, add entries to dhcpd.conf, assign FAI classes (D) -- Mrfai -- Kugg
  • cleanup wiki, find outdated pages (W)
  • include XEN examples? (D) (does this makes sense without using XEN kernel in FAI examples?)
  • add items to http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/rails/todos/list (W) -- Mrfai
  • fai-cd using squashfs (W)
  • apply Ubuntu patches (W)

Timeline

Moderator: Henning Sprang will be responsible to take care that we (roughly)keep in line with the agenda. Talk to him if you see the need for spontaneous changes in the course of the workshop.


In general we will have:

  • Starting meeting - people introduce themselves, tell about their interests to work on, workgroups are built, final schedule outlined
  • In the middle: Discussion about general ideas for the further FAI development
  • End: Discussion about progress made on the work topics - what did we reach - what will happen with the topics not done yet, how will the workgroups continue working on them
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