A Fedora Activity Day was held at Sri Jayachamarajendra College Of Engineering, Mysore, Karnataka, India on Saturday, April 20, 2013.
The agenda included talks in the morning, and practical sessions in the afternoon. I started the day’s proceedings on best practices to be followed when working with free/open source software projects, giving examples on effective project, and communication guidelines. The various Fedora sub-projects that students can contribute to were mentioned. This was followed by an introductory session on Python by Aravinda V K. The “Python: Introduction for Programmers” presentation was given to the students. Vijaykumar Koppad then gave an overview, and a demo of the Gluster file system.
After lunch, we had a Q&A session with the participants. Questions on working with free/open source software projects, differences between file systems, GNU/Linux distributions, and programming languages were answered. Basic installation and troubleshooting techniques were discussed. I addressed system architecture design concepts, compilation, cross-compilation, and revision control systems, and briefed them on copyright, and licensing. Students had brought their laptops to work on Python scripting, and GlusterFS. I also worked on few bug fixes, package builds for ARM, and package updates:
- Bug 928059 - perl-Sys-CPU 0.54 tests fail on ARM
- Bug 926079 - linsmith: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide
- Bug 925483 - gputils: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide
- Bug 922397 - flterm-debuginfo-1.2-1 is empty
- Bug 925202 - csmith: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide
- Bug 925247 - dgc: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide
- Bug 925208 - CUnit: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide
- Bug 901632 - ghc-smallcheck-1.0.2 is available
- Bug 926213 - nesc: Does not support aarch64 in f19 and rawhide
- Bug 953775 - ghc-data-inttrie-0.1.0 is available
Thanks to Vijay Bellur and Vijaykumar Koppad for working with me in organizing this workshop. Thanks also to the Fedora project for sponsoring my travel and accommodation.
Few photos taken during the trip are available in my /gallery.