== The Introduction == The Fedora Users' and Developers' conference (FUDCon) would be open for all those attending (and/or participating at FOSS.IN). Free pre-registration would be undertaken on the project wiki (Fedora Project Wiki) to estimate the probable attendance and perhaps arrange for pre-printed name tags. == The Objective == The FUDCon is aimed at users and developers within the Fedora Project and in particular increase the number of contributors from India. == The Proposed Format == The FUDCon is proposed to have a collaborative format of a lesser number of talks and a larger share of sessions aimed at doing things in real life. This approach mandates that there is a strictly defined agenda and somewhat of a narrow focus to allow effective contributions and efficient usage of the presence at foss.in This format is also seen to fit in with the foss.in philosophy of 'talk is cheap, show me the code' and thus the proposed FUDCon would be a good fit within the structure of the main event. == What gets done at FUDCon == From an overview a lot gets done if two conditions are met: [i] there are facilities for discussion and [ii] there are pre-defined areas of attack. While not completely finalized, there are a few topics that have received positive response on the fedora-india mailing list. These include:     + liveCD creator hacking #Rahul Sundaram + liveUSB creator hacking #Kushal Das     + Writing TestCases and Contributing to Fedora Desktop QA Effort using Testopia instance #Rahul Sundaram + Sayamindu     + Debugging using Systemtap leading to contribution of tapscripts to the War Stories section of the Systemtap wiki #Satya K + Getting started with OLPC activity development #Kushal Das + Developing Review-o-matic #Rakesh Pandit + Debarshi Ray     + Packaging Sprint for applications which are on the package wish-list #Rakesh + Debarshi + Rahul     + Merge Review sprint for Packaging #Kushal + Susmit*     + Collaborative Bug Triage Sessions for generating new contributions #Susmit + Rahul     + Spins and LiveMedia sessions #Rahul + Susmit     + KDE and Fedora sprint aimed at testing the KDE desktop in Fedora #Kushal + Soumya*     + Performance Testing for Sugar #Sayamindu Dasgupta     + Testing the OLPC #Sayamindu + Kushal + Packaging Java Applications with the aim to show ISVs how to package applications for Fedora #Rakesh (optional) + i18n + l10n + Transifex #Dimitris + EPEL/FEL #Aanjhan + Pulseaudio Hacking #Lennart + SELinux for You/Kiosk #James Morris In addition to this, there would be stations which would allow participants to get LiveMedia installed on USB and CLA stations which would allow potential contributors to use the click-through CLA process to sign up. A meeting with the GSoC students doing SoC Projects under Fedora is also proposed to be arranged. We need atleast 3 desktops for FUDCon.