Development Meeting in the course of WorkSessionsExtremadura2007

The FAI development team would like to help get the Extremadura Custom Distribution installed with FAI. We'd like to go there and check:

• Does GnuLinex have an own Binary Repository, so is the whole distribution a Debian which is recompiled from source and some stuff added/changed, or is it only Debian Etch Binaries with some additional packages and configurations?

  • if the first (own binary versions): how is the base system bootstrapped, what else is needed to get it installed?
  • If the latter: what makes the Gnulinex distribution special (or: what is needed to make a Debian Install a Gnulinex install)

This information is all it needs to create a basic FAI configuration to install Gnulinex. Some testing and and tinkering will surely be necessray to get this running nice, but it should be possible to get this going in a long weekend.

Then, when we get there fast enough, we can also give some training/introduction for gnulinex/Extremadura people on the general use of FAI - together with the previously created config they shoud then be able to add their specific configs and special systemtypes, and get their systems installed automatically in a flexible way.

Parricipants

ATTENTION - registration for sponsored participation has finished! please contact HenningSprang if you want to attend

• people joining this meeting:

  • HenningSprang (Co-developer, wants to work on FAI Gnulinex installs, if that isn't possible FAI GUI, Configspace Hirarchy, automated testing with crucible)

  • HolgerLevsen (Co-developer, plans to work on FAI guide translation infrastructure and FAI support for debian-edu (?LinEx), git and rpm)

  • Christoffer Kugg Jerkeby (Contributor, wants to work with FAI GUI, Gnulinex support and if possible debian-edu integration.)
  • Henning Glawe (Co-developer)
• People who are interested but can't come:
  • Richard Wonka (Contributor)
  • Michael Tautschnig (Contributor)
  • Thomas Lange (main FAI developer)

  • Wolfgang Rohrmoser (developer of http://livebackup.sourceforge.net/)

  • KurtGramlich (skolelinux.de)

(BTW: not everybody will work on Gnulinex Installation - see the work topics for each person - the requirement to attend the meeting is for people to work on FAI related things)

more concrete and verbose work goals

• HenningSprang:

  • Understand how Gnulinex is deployed in Extremadura

  • check what is needed (technically and organizational) to support die Extremadura Admins to use FAI to deploy their ?GnuLinex installations

  • work further on getting Skolelinux/DebianEdu installed with FAI

    • see wiki:?DebianEdu/HowTo/Debian2DebianEdu and http://wiki.skolelinux.de/FaiLiveXen2007 (the latter in german) - and Ronny Aasen did do this here, too: wiki:?DebianEdu/HowTo/FaiInstallDebianEdu

• Apart from the DebianEdu and ?GnuLinex distributions, also the work for other custom distributions might be interesting, and getting them installed with FAI. They meet at the same time and place: wiki:CustomDebian/Extremadura2007

Schedule

We have not agreed on a very concrete schedule(yet?).

Especially for the goal of getting ?GnuLinex and DebianEdu installed with FAI, it might be interesting to get close to the DebianEdu Team - their schedule is at: wiki:DebianEdu/Extremadura2007/Schedule

Travel Information

Registered participants will have been sent their flight information.

We're still waiting to get some further information about travel from MAD airport to the final destination. As we've been told the meeting is together with debianEdu and CustomDebian teams, this info might help:

• WorkSessionsExtremadura

• Info of the Custom Debian Team: wiki:CustomDebian/Extremadura2007

• http://www.veladahoteles.com/en/merida/home.php

Get from Madrid to Merida

Quoting Cesar:

"Finally there will be two taxi cabs, the first will leave at 14:30 and the other one will leave at 20:30. I will go to Madrid with my own car too, in case of problems I can drive some people to Mérida.

Of course, the taxis are already paid :)"