FUDCon, Pune ‘11: Day 2
Day 2
Day 2 began with Harish Pillay delivering the keynote. A number of sessions began thereafter, very much like the previous day. I went to the session ‘Creating Web Apps using Django’ which was taken by Arun SAG. Using a simple blogging web-app, Arun demonstrated how a web application is written using Django. He also shared some useful self-helps and other resources with the participants. The Django Book was one on which both him and rtnpro, who was assisting Arun at times, emphasized on.
Continuing from where Arun left off, it was time for rtnpro to show the participants how to test your django app, the one which they had just created. Speaking about the importance of testing and writing test cases during the development of a software, Ratnadeep ( rtnpro) explained how he had himself benefited by doing so and how he implements testing as a part of his current work at Indifex.
Then, I moved into the auditorium, primarily in search of a stable internet connection as the one in the Seminar Hall during the Django sessions was unreliable. Paresh Mutha gave an ‘Introduction to Spacewalk’. Spacewalk is an open source Linux and Solaris systems management solution. Quoting,
“It allows you to :
- Install and update software on your systems
- Collect and distribute your custom software packages into manageable groups
- Provision (Kickstart) your systems
- Manage and deploy configuration files to your systems
- Monitor your systems “
Later, Amit Shah spoke about the latest developments in Linux Virtualization, which was followed by Kashyap Chamarthy digging into Virtualization with Libvirt. Then, Jared Smith gave his talk on Writing Technical Documentation with DocBook and Publican. Jared explained that writing code was not the only way people could contribute, there exist a number of other ways, one being writing technical documentation. Taking Kushal’s book Python For You & Me as an example he demonstrated the usage of Publican and DocBook.
Rahul Sundaram then discussed Ask Fedora, its use, the efforts put in by the community, present status and future plans. Ask Fedora is a community knowledge base and support forum for the Fedora community where people can ask any questions related to Fedora. Ask Fedora is now active and can be accessed here. Read the release announcement and click here if you wish to know more get involved.
Later that night, the whole community and the volunteers for the event got together at FUDPub and had a gala time with drinks and good food.
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