Archive for June, 2010

Tentative ArchCon Schedule

Monday, June 28th, 2010

I’ve finally drafted a tentative schedule for the activities and goings on at ArchCon2010. Here it is:

Day 1
Start Time Room 1 Room 2 Legend
08:30 AM Registration Starts Talks
09:15 AM Introductions and Introductory Speech: The Status of
Arch Linux
Meals/Breaks
10:00 AM Morning Break Socializing
10:30 AM Arch Linux Projects Public Workshop Arch Development
11:45 AM Lunch Break Public Workshop
12:45 PM AIF: The Arch Installation Framework Open Spaces Open Spaces
01:30 PM Stable and low-maintenance Arch Linux Lightening Talks
02:15 PM Afternoon Break
02:45 PM Arch Linux as a Live CD Bug Squashing Session
03:30 PM Arch Linux In Business: The Good, The Bad, and The
Ugly
04:45 PM Social: What Pub Should We Go To Tonight?
Day 2
Start Time Room 1 Room 2
08:45 AM Conference Notes
09:15 AM Uzbl — web interface tools which
adhere to the unix philosophy
Open Spaces
10:00 AM Morning Break
10:30 AM Arch Linux as a SAN Provider Hacking Pacman
11:15 AM Goggles Music Manager
12:00 PM Lunch Break
12:45 PM Managing Music the Arch Way Development Sprints
02:00 PM Afternoon Break
02:30 PM Lightening Talks Public Workshop
04:30 PM Social: What touristy stuff is everyone doing this
weekend?

I apologize for the crappy layout, this is actually meant to go into print format, and I’m so busy trying to sort everything else out that I couldn’t devote more time to it. This schedule may change slightly, but I don’t think it will change much. Each talk runs for either half an hour or one hour, with 15 minutes to “reset” before the next talk.

In addition to the scheduled talks, we have several other hosted activities. More information on these will follow.

Thank you to our sponsors!

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Archcon is primarily funded by the fees participants are paying to get in. However, we would also like to extend a huge thank you to the following organizations for helping out with costs:

http://www.archlinux.org/ The Arch Linux project forwarded us some of their donation income. Thank you to Aaron and the team!
http://www.elys.com/ Elysium Digital is also helping to defer costs. Elysium uses Arch internally and employs an Arch Linux developer.

Archcon mailing list

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

I’ve had several requests for an archcon mailing list to be set up. Instead of creating a dedicated list, I’m directing all traffic to the arch-events list:

http://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-events

Use it for discussion of all arch-con related topics, including:

* sharing rooms
* touring or hanging out together before or after the conference
* questions about talks
* helping out with the conference
* anything else!