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Event Description
On October 7 (Saturday) we're hosting for the first time a MiniDebConf composed of lectures, workshops and social events in Prishtina. The MiniDebConf Prishtina is an event open to everyone, regardless of their level of knowledge about Debian or other free and open source projects. At MiniDebConf Prishtina we are organizing talks and workshops on a range of topics incidental to Debian and free software, including any free software project, Outreachy and Google Summer of Code internships, privacy, security, digital rights and diversity in IT.
In conjunction with MiniDebConf Prishtina, we are also hosting “Fedora Women Day” - series of lectures organized by the “Fedora Diversity Team” who are members from the Fedora community and Open Labs Hackerspace in Tirana, Albania.
About MiniDebConfs
?MiniDebConfs are local meetings organized by members of the Debian Project and local Free and Open Source project related communities to achieve objectives similar to those of DebConf, but in a smaller scale and regional context. Throughout the year ?MiniDebConfs are organized around the world, as you can see on this page. A MiniDebConf is an awesome opportunity for any user who wants to experience the magic of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Here you can meet the veterans in FOSS development, develop professional connections which will help you in future, chat with contributors who can guide you, advance the cause of Debian and other related projects, and most importantly, grasp the essence of FOSS development. It is indeed a good opportunity that will give you a foundation to build on!
About Fedora Women Day
Fedora Women Day (FWD) is a day of celebration dedicated to the female contributors. During this day of celebration, local communities around the world will gather to present the accomplishments of the women that are part of the Fedora Project and thank them. FWD is a great chance to promote the participation of more women, bring together contributors and raise awareness about the gender gap in tech communities. This day is being celebrated across the community in order to show the importance of having women involved in open source projects, such as Fedora.
FWD is initiated by the Diversity Team within the Fedora Project. The aim of the Diversity Team is to encourage people who come from underrepresented social groups to get involved in the community. Everyone is welcomed to participate. Respect and tolerance are the greatest principals within the Fedora community and Diversity strives to make people feel accepted and more confident about their skills.
Event details
Announcement: <announcement URL> IN PROGRESS
Location: Prishtina Hackerspace
- Start: Saturday 7 October 2017
- End: 7 or 8 October
- Main website: this wiki page
Contact: FLOSSK mailing list
Venue
Prishtina Hackerspace
Address: Aktash neighborhood, Ganimete Tërbeshi Str, No. 2, 10000 Prishtina, Kosovo. (former Radio UrbanFM house)
Map: <click here>
How to get there: <Video>
Organisation
Talk to us
IRC channel #flossk on irc.freenode.net (web chat)
Call for Participation
If you have an idea for a talk, workshop, or any other event, or you'd just like to help:
- Send us an email on the mailing list (above)
- Write to us on IRC (above) or
- Try creating an account on this wiki and add your talk on the list below before it's finalized.
Registration
No need for registration, just show up at the venue on time. We can host up to 40 people, so first come first served.
Accomodation
Check the following hostels in Prishtina if you're travelling:
http://www.hotelafa.com/ (close to the venue)
Catering
We're planning on eating at the Prishtina Hackerspace on lunchtime. We'll probably order in sandwiches, pizza or similar. There are plenty of shops within 10 minutes' walk if you would prefer to do something different, of course. Free drinks and snacks for the participants too.
For the evening we'll most likely organise during the day and decide we head to downtown for some fun.
Potential speakers and workshops
Name |
City/Country |
Topic |
Contact |
Duration |
Type of presentation |
Language |
Tirana |
Outreachy |
20 minutes |
Talk |
Albanian |
||
Daniel Pocock |
Zurich |
Mentoring programs (Outreachy and GSoC) |
|
30 minutes |
Talk |
English |
Daniel Pocock |
Zurich |
Mentoring programs (Outreachy and GSoC) |
|
n/a |
practical help with application process |
English |
|
|
GNU/Linux installation space |
|
all day |
help installing GNU/Linux |
any |
Tirana |
Albanian translation initiatives (Debian, LibreOffice, GNOME) from FOSSCamp |
20 minutes |
Talk |
Albanian |
||
Scarsdale, New York, USA |
OpenBSD ports and packages |
30 minutes |
Talk |
English |
||
Prishtina |
Intro to GNU/Linux OS and command line |
1 hour |
Talk/workshop |
Albanian |
||
Prishtina |
Intro to FLOSSK and Prishtina Hackerspace |
30 min |
Talk |
Albanian |
||
Arion Banishta |
Prishtina |
Firefox Quantum Testing (to be decided) |
30 min |
Workshop |
Albanian |
|
Gjakova |
Intro to copyright for free software developers |
25 min |
Talk |
Albanian |
||
Prizren |
Slackware packages, makepkg/SlackBuilds, and sbopkg |
30 minutes |
Talk |
English |
||
Tirana |
Fedora Women Day, Rails Girls Summer of Code |
30 minutes |
Talk |
Albanian |
||
Tirana |
Rails Girls Summer of Code |
15 minutes |
Talk |
Albanian |
||
Ferizaj |
File indexing and full-text searching using Elastic Search |
45 minutes |
Talk |
Language TBD |
||
Gjakova/Prishtina |
Converting (or Hacking) an electric vehicle in Kosovo |
20 minutes |
Talk |
English |
||
Qendresa Hoti |
Prishtine/Kosovo |
CoderGals/Hackathon |
10 minutes |
Talk |
Albanian |
|
Dashamir Hoxha |
Vlore, Albania |
Building SSH Tunnels |
30 minutes |
Talk |
Albanian |
Help installing and upgrading GNU/Linux
Experts at the event can help you safely and efficiently install and configure Debian GNU/Linux on your laptop or upgrade from an older Debian to the recently released Debian 9.0 stretch or another distribution.
If you have existing files or an existing operating system on your laptop, we can help you split the disk into separate partitions for GNU/Linux and Windows, you can then choose which one to use each time you turn on the computer. It is highly recommended that you delete unnecessary files to free disk space before coming to the event.
If you have a new laptop with nothing on it or an older laptop that you want to erase and only use for GNU/Linux then the installation process is even easier and faster.
The process of partitioning the disk, moving files to/from a backup and downloading the software can take time so we recommend coming early and starting the process in the morning. The fastest installs can take 1 - 2 hours but sometimes we will need more to help you with the disk partitioning and moving around files if you want to have two operating systems (dual boot GNU/Linux Windows)
Please make sure you bring your power supply, any ethernet dongle required by your laptop (if it doesn't have a built-in ethernet socket), an ethernet cable (3 meters or longer, 5 meter recommended).
It is also suggested to bring an 8GB or bigger USB stick that you can erase and an external hard disk if you want to copy/backup files.
Help installing and upgrading OpenBSD
Amateurs at the event can help you safely and efficiently install and configure OpenBSD on your laptop or upgrade from an older OpenBSD. We will not assist in dual booting, so you should prepare that beforehand or expect to delete everything from your storage media during the installation.
The process of partitioning the disk, moving files to/from a backup and downloading the software can take time so we recommend coming early and starting the process in the morning.
Please make sure you bring your power supply, any ethernet dongle required by your computer, an ethernet cable (3 meters or longer, 5 meter recommended). It is also suggested to bring an 2GB or bigger USB stick that you can erase and an external hard disk if you want to copy/backup files.
Volunteers / tasks needing assistance
People can volunteer for just a few hours or the whole day.
Task |
When |
Details |
Names, time available |
Preparing schedule |
Before 7 October |
Contacting speakers, setting time and length of talk slots |
Ardian, ? |
Speaker audio |
During event |
Putting microphone on speaker, starting/stopping app |
|
Speaker video |
During event |
Pointing camera, starting/stopping recording |
|
Introducing speakers |
During event |
Announcing name of speaker and their topic |
Altin |
GNU/Linux installation |
During event |
Setting up hacklab cables, helping users run GNU/Linux installer |
? |
OpenBSD installation |
During event |
Helping users run OpenBSD installer |
Tom |
Organizing food |
Before and during event |
Ordering and purchasing lunch, providing receipts for reimbursement |
Arion, Altin |
Things to bring
Not everything here is essential, but if people can bring any of these things it helps make a better event.
Qty |
Item |
Purpose |
Who |
Note |
1 |
External Hard Disks |
Backup/moving files during GNU/Linux installation |
Anybody who wants to install Linux (Tom has one 5TB USB3 hard drive, but it doesn't work very well. He also has USB-to-SATA adapters, so it is possible to use internal hard disks for the backup/moving as well.) |
Optional, but useful if you have a lot of stuff in your laptop HDD already |
2 |
Video camera, DSLR or webcam |
Recording/streaming video |
Daniel has 1x DSLR |
|
2 |
HDMI to HDD recording |
Any device for taking HDMI from DSLR and Projecter to HDD |
? |
|
2 |
HDMI / video splitter |
Split the signal from speaker's laptop to go to projector and recording simultaneously |
? |
|
2 |
Video tripod |
Recording/streaming video |
Hackerspace |
|
1 |
Photo tripod |
Recording/streaming video |
Daniel |
Can be used if no video tripod available |
2 |
Lighting for video |
Recording/streaming video |
Hackerspace |
|
1 |
Lapel / lavalier mic with transmitter |
Speaker audio recording, amplification |
? |
|
1 |
Lapel / lavalier mic for smartphone (Rode ?SmartLav+) |
Speaker audio recording |
Daniel |
Can be used if no amplified mic setup |
3 |
Power boards |
GNU/Linux installation workbench, hacklab |
? |
For laptops |
2 |
Ethernet switch (8 ports or bigger) |
GNU/Linux installation workbench, hacklab |
Hackerspace |
For laptops installing GNU/Linux |
15 |
5 meter ethernet cable |
GNU/Linux installation workbench, hacklab |
Hackerspace (maybe) |
For laptops installing GNU/Linux |
5 |
8GB or bigger USB sticks |
GNU/Linux installation |
? |
For installation ISO |
3 |
US or other well known keyboard, e.g. UK, DE |
GNU/Linux installation |
? |
For laptops with unusual keyboard layouts not supported by GNU/Linux installer |
1 |
PXE/DHCP net boot server |
GNU/Linux installation without USB sticks |
? |
Can be a laptop, NUC, router, etc serving the ISO image over NFS |
Schedule
Saturday
Time |
Talk/Workshop |
Speaker |
Language |
10:00AM - 10:30AM |
Registration & Morning coffee |
||
10:30AM - 10:50AM |
Opening speech & community presentation (FLOSSK/PRNHS, Debian, Fedora, Mozilla) |
||
11:00AM - 11:30AM |
Outreachy |
Kristi Progri |
|
11:35AM - 11:55PM |
Mentoring (Outreachy and GSoC) |
Daniel Pocock |
|
12:00PM - 12:45PM |
File indexing and full-text searching using Elastic Search |
Endrit Bytyqi |
|
12:50PM - 01:15PM |
Intro to copyright for free software developers |
Arianit Dobroshi |
|
01:15PM - 02:15PM |
Lunch |
||
02:15PM - 02:35PM |
Converting (or Hacking) an electric vehicle in Kosovo |
Nathan Troll & Gëzim Haziri |
|
02:40PM - 03:00PM |
Albanian translation initiatives (Debian, LibreOffice, GNOME) from FOSSCamp |
Anisa Kuci |
|
03:05PM - 03:25PM |
My first week using Debian |
Izabela Bakollari |
|
03:30PM - 04:00PM |
Fedora Women Day |
Jona Azizaj |
|
04:05PM - 04:15PM |
CoderGals/Hackathon |
Qendresa Hoti |
|
04:20PM - 04:30PM |
Click-to-dial popup on the Linux desktop |
Diellza Shabani |
|
04:45PM - 05:00PM |
Outreachy |
Renata Gegaj |
|
05:05PM - 05:15PM |
Rails Girls Summer of Code |
Jona Azizaj |
|
05:15PM - 05:35PM |
Coffee break |
||
05:35PM - 06:05PM |
Intro to GNU/Linux OS and command line |
Altin Ukshini |
|
06:10PM - 06:40PM |
Building SSH Tunnels |
Dashamir Hoxha |
|
06:45PM - 07:15PM |
OpenBSD ports and packages |
Thomas Levine |
|
07:20PM - 07:50PM |
Slackware packages, makepkg/SlackBuilds, and sbopkg |
Dian Fishekqi |
Sunday
Time |
Talk/Workshop |
Coordinator |
12:00PM - 12:10PM |
Opening & presentation of the activities |
|
12:10PM - 01:00PM |
Firefox Quantum Sprint |
|
01:00PM - X |
Help installing and upgrading GNU/Linux |
|
01:00PM - X |
Help installing and upgrading OpenBSD |
Thomas Levine |
01:00PM - X |
Help installing and upgrading Moodle |
Dashamir Hoxha |
Reports
Please add links to reports, blog posts, photos etc about the event here:
Useful links
?Debian Booths HOWTO