[Event Report] 25th International Conference on VLSI Design, Hyderabad, India, Jan 7-11, 2012
by Shakthi Kannan
Hi,
I attended the 25th International Conference on VLSI Design and 11th
International Conference on Embedded Systems [1] between January 7-11,
2012 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre [2], Hyderabad,
India. The first two days consisted of tutorial sessions, and the next
three days had the conference presentations [3]. There were also
exhibit stalls from different companies.
On the first day I attended the tutorial session on SystemC AMS
extensions [4] by Markus Damm [5], Sumit Adhikari [6], and François
Pecheux [7]. Chitlesh Goorah [8] had earlier tried to get SystemC into
Fedora and Fedora Electronic Lab [9], but, due to licensing issues
[10] it could not be included. SystemC-AMS is now released under
Apache license. Open SystemC Initiative and Accellera Unite have now
integrated to become Accellera Systems Initiative [11]. We hope to
work with them to get their sources under a single free/open source
software license. François Pecheux is from Laboratoire d'Informatique
de Paris 6 [12], Pierre & Marie Curie University (UPMC) [13], and we
already ship their free/open source EDA tools in Fedora.
On day two, I attended the tutorial session by Sridhar Arvind [14] on
3D-ICE [15], a free/open source interlayer cooling emulator from
Embedded System Laboratory [16], Ecole polytechnique fédérale de
Lausanne [17], Switzerland. I have already been working with Sridhar,
Prof. David Atienza [18] and Alessandro Vincenzi [19] on testing
3D-ICE on Fedora. I had built and tested the dependency SuperLU [20]
library and the 3D-ICE package before the tutorial session. Their
software has already been downloaded by over 70 research labs around
the world. I will push our tested changes to them. On the later half
of the day, I attended a session on verification constraint
complexity. Teal [21] is a useful verification utility and connection
library that has support for constraints and parameter control. The
authors of the tool had agreed to release it as free/open source
software, and we also ship it in Fedora.
On the following three days of the conference, I attended various
paper presentations from different tracks from reconfigurable
architectures to methods in AMS optimization. I met Prof. Susmita
Sur-Kolay [22] from the Indian Statistical Institute [23], Kolkata,
India where they run Fedora in their labs. They also wished to use the
3D-ICE tool and GPU tools in their labs. I also visited the exhibit
stalls meeting different people from the industry and academia. There
are quite a few interesting free/open source tools that users can
benefit from, and we will work in making them available in Fedora. In
2013, the conference will be held in Pune. Thanks to Red Hat for
sponsoring my travel and participation at the conference.
SK
[1] 25th International Conference on VLSI Design.
http://vlsiconference.com/vlsi2012/
[2] Hyderabad International Convention Centre. http://www.hicc.com/
[3] Conference schedule. http://vlsiconference.com/vlsi2012/conf_schedule.htm
[4] SystemC-AMS extensions. http://www.systemc-ams.org/
[5] Markus Damm. https://www.fp7-smartcode.eu/ecws2/biosketch/damm
[6] Sumit Adhikari. http://rfamsarchitects.weebly.com/
[7] François Pecheux.
http://www.lip6.fr/actualite/personnes-fiche.php?ident=P102
[8] Chitlesh Goorah. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chitlesh
[9] Fedora Electronic Lab. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/fel/
[10] Distributing SystemC in Fedora.
http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-electronic-lab/msg00117.html
[11] Accellera Systems Initiative. http://www.accellera.org/home/
[12] Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6. http://www.lip6.fr/index.php?LANG=en
[13] UPMC. http://www.upmc.fr/en/index.html
[14] Sridhar Arvind. http://people.epfl.ch/arvind.sridhar
[15] 3D-ICE. http://esl.epfl.ch/3d-ice.html
[16] Embedded Systems Laboratory, EPFL. http://esl.epfl.ch
[17] Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. http://www.epfl.ch/index.en.html
[18] Prof. David Atienza. http://people.epfl.ch/david.atienza
[19] Alessandro Vincenzi. http://people.epfl.ch/alessandro.vincenzi
[20] SuperLU library. http://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~xiaoye/SuperLU/
[21] Teal. http://www.trusster.com/products/teal/
[22] Prof. Susmita Sur-Kolay. http://www.isical.ac.in/~ssk/
[23] Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. http://www.isical.ac.in/
--
Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com
12 years, 3 months
An informal get together in Bangalore
by Ankur Sinha
Hello all,
Some of us fedora volunteers are getting together this Saturday around
1100 hours at the food court, Forum, Koramangla. It isn't an event, just
folks getting together: maybe some hacking, planning, fun.
I've gotten in touch with quite a few folks who've jumped at the chance
of getting together. I've also made an announcement on the Bangalore LUG
mailing list, and on my blog (It should've showed up on the planet by
now).
If you're around, we'd love to have you there! More the merrier!
--
Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur: "FranciscoD"
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/
12 years, 3 months
Calling for Fedora Insight
by Zoltan Hoppar
Dear Fedora Ambassadors!
The Insight team is looking for help, aid, we would like to grab more
people for the development of the project called Fedora Insight[1].
But what is that Insight? Those who don't know this project here is an
short description:
Fedora Insight is a Drupal-based website that serves as a place to
publish and share news, articles related to Fedora and Fedora
marketing materials in various formats. Insight makes it easy for
users, developers, and journalists -- people who aren't yet a part of
the Fedora contributor community -- to keep up with recent highlights
without following a dozen different blogs and mailing lists.
We believe you can help us in Insight development. Currently we are
looking for the following people:
1. Theme creator
Knows the combination of HTML, CSS and a little bit of PHP. To this
you need only some Drupal theme docs [2][3] and you could successfully
contribute, to be available an Drupal 7 theme for Insight. If you are
interested, you'll find our wiki [3] how can you make contact with us,
and where you could find the Drupal theme (sample) files.
2. PHP (+Drupal) developer
If you know PHP, but would like to learn Drupal either, then you're
our perfect candidate.
Currently we have an actively maintained FAS auth module [4] for
Drupal 6, what we would like to update to Drupal 7. Also we could
provide an documentation [5] for this, what is available on
drupal.org. We use the Feature module, what makes easy the development
flow. More about this - check at [6] here.
3. Testers, Use case testers
It's important, that we must test it out every piece of code, an we do
it as we could. Sadly, sometimes some bugs are appearing when it's
unwanted, or it's stays hidden, or we haven't met. Therefore we
appreciate anybody who could help to discover and report bugs. Tester
can be anybody from the community, no need any special knowledge. We
need also people who help to test out the mentioned FAS auth and
Drupal 7 Mediawiki modules, the calendar module, and the site itself.
All this can be done on our testing site [7]. But here
pre-registration is required, because the FAS module has been
temporarily disabled.
To be able help our work, please send an mail to our mailing list [8],
with an short introduction that includes FAS, and the job that would
like to help us. After this you'll receive the necessary access
rights, if the work needs that. (eg. like you would like to make an
theme).
Also, you as a future important contributor of the project, we
awaiting you - and everyone else online at Fudcon Blacksburg 2012,
where we'll put great emphasis to the calendar module [9], and we ask
you to share any kind of idea, critics around it, or just contact with
us through the IRC - at fedora-mktg channel. We gladly help your first
steps.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Insight
[2] http://drupal.org/update/themes/6/7
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_work_on_the_Insight_theme
[4] http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=drupal6-authfas.git;a=summary
[5] http://drupal.org/update/modules/6/7
[6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Insight_development_using_Features_module
[7] https://insight02.dev.fedoraproject.org
[8] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/logistics
[9] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Insight_use_cases_for_calendar
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PGP: 06853DF7
12 years, 3 months
[EMEA] Event Report - Rencontres Fedora 16, Paris - France
by Kévin Raymond
Hi,
Finally, here is my event report!
The release party[1] took place the 3rd of December in the same place as usual
in Paris.
There were many Fedora contributors (thanks for coming guys!).
We first enjoyed a pizza together, and then met people, spoke about Open
Source and the Fedora Project, and installed Fedora when asked to do so,
or helped people discovering Fedora.
We have also distributed many Fedora medias, and shown to people how to
create live USB.
There were more people as last time at our talks, that was great.
There were recorded (with slides) but we still need to create the
webpage to hold them.
* Christophe Fergeau held a talk about Spice,
* Michael Scherer held a talk about common firewall security
* Bertrand Juglas has introduced OpenStack
* With some other we spoke about projects wide translation
We also had a chance to met some contributors that we see everyday in
irc but we never personally met before.
One more time, I forgot to take a group picture, which is something more
important to me than a room picture showing people beeing helped.
Action written for the next event!
If you have any questions, I am around!
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Rencontres_Fedora_16_%C3%A0_Universciences
--
Kévin Raymond
(Shaiton)
12 years, 3 months
GPG keysigning event at FUDCon Blacksburg 2012 (and CAcert Assurance Event)
by Nick Bebout
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We are planning a GPG Key Signing event at FUDCon Blacksburg, which
will be held on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 1600 (4pm). If you are
interested in participating, please add your info to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012_GPG_Key_Signing_Event
so we can compile a list of participants and keys. So far we have 22
keys signed up and we hope to have even more. That wiki page also has
more information about how we will conduct the event.
I intend to print copies of the GPG key list on either Monday or
Tuesday, I will probably be waiting until Tuesday, but please sign up as
early as you can. I will also publish on my fedorapeople site a gpg
signed copy of the key list. The current version is at
http://nb.fedorapeople.org/keys.pdf and the signature will be at
http://nb.fedorapeople.org/keys.pdf.asc after the final list is
generated.
If you don't get signed up in time, you can still participate, just
bring printed slips with the output of 'gpg --fingerprint YOURKEYID'
printed on them to hand out at the event.
We will also be hosting a CAcert assurance event immediately
following/in conjunction with the GPG keysigning event. Please see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012_CAcert_Assurance_Event
for more information and a place to sign up for that. We will have
enough assurers present for you to receive well over the 100 points that
you need in order to qualify to become an assurer yourself. Please note
that if you intend to participate in the CAcert event, the name in your
government issued photo ID must match the name recorded in your CAcert
account.
For more information on either event, feel free to contact me at
nb(a)fedoraproject.org or nb(a)cacert.org
Thanks and see you at FUDCon!
Nick
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12 years, 3 months
[Fwd: nullcon Security Conference Goa, 15-18 Feb 2012]
by Ankur Sinha
In case anyone is interested :)
-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Antriksh Shah <antriksh911(a)gmail.com>
> To: sanjay_ankur(a)yahoo.co.in
> Subject: nullcon Security Conference Goa, 15-18 Feb 2012
> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 10:34:58 +0530
>
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>
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>
>
> Keynote
>
> 1. Dr. Kamlesh Bajaj CEO – DSCI
>
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>
>
>
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> 1. Charlie Miller - Breaking iOS Code signing.
> 2. Andrew King - AV Bypass: Your Antivirus cannot protect you
> 3. Rahul Sasi - IVR Security: Internal network attacks via phone lines
> 4. Atul Alex - Binary God
> 5. Gursev Kalra - CAPTCHAs for fun and profit
> 6. Anant, Prashant, Pardhasaradhi - Haxdroid: Empowering Android
> Handset
> 7. Bishan Singh - Node.js: The good, bad and ugly
> 8. Don A. Bailey - War Texting: Weaponizing Machine 2 Machine
> 9. Justin Searle - Attacking and Defending the Smart Grid
> 10. Nishant, Sarathi - Ra.2: Blackbox DOM-based XSS scanner
> 11. Anil, Chaitany - Content Sniffing Algorithm bypassing Techniques
> and Possible Attack Vectors
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> Conference (Technical Track)
> 1. Vivek Ramachandran - WiFi Malware for fun and profit
> 2. Marc Bown - Sharing the love: Forensics in shared hosting
> environments
> 3. Amol Sarwate - SCADA Security: Why is it so hard?
> 4. Disha Agarwal, Manish Pali - Sandboxing: The deep truth
> 5. Almerindo Graziano, George Nicolaou - The art of security evasion:
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> 7. Nibin Varghese - Attacking Backup Software
>
> Conference (Business Track)
> 1. Albert Hui - An effective Incident Response Triage framework in the
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>
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> Tech Hacking Villages
> The villages are an informal, hands-on, learning, discussion Setup
> which will run parallel to the conference with repeating sessions of
> 1-1.5 hrs each, so you can register for your slot at a convenient time
> and not miss your favourite talk. Registration is free for the village
> but will be on a first some first serve basis. Each session will host
> only 6-8 attendees at the max.
> 1. Android Village - Anything and everything you wanted to know about
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> 2. Hardware Village - Teensy Hacking
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> Expert Security Trainings on 15-16th Feb 2012
> 1. Xtreme Web Hacking By Akash Mahajan and Riyaz Walikar
> 2. Advanced WiFi Security By Vivek Ramachandran
> 3. Xtreme Xploitation By Omair
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> Pratul Bajaj: - +91-9225532322
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> --
> Peace
> Antriksh D Shah
> +91 9922900657
>
> " It is not about how much I know. It is about how much you can
> understand of what I know. Trust me, I know. "
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Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur: "FranciscoD"
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com/
12 years, 3 months