[Ambassadors] FAD Singapore 2015

[Truong Anh Tuan]

----- On Oct 20, 2015, at 12:12 PM, Harish Pillay harish.pillay at gmail.com wrote:

>>> A FAD has been, for me atleast, a mini FUDcon of
>>> sorts. Smaller scale, but focused to build a following.
>>
>> I would propose that we tread carefully when using bits like "FAD is
>> mini FUDCon" or, "Flock is better FUDCon" etc. Long, long time ago, a
>> Fedora Activity Day/FAD was designed as a day (or, even multi-day)
>> event to enable Fedora contributors to come together and address
>> specific tasks. So, you'll see Design Team FAD or, Taskotron FAD and
>> so forth.
> 
> Fair enough.

+1 too.

>> A natural advantage of having some of the decision-making contributors
>> (I am staying away from 'key' or, 'core' - these are becoming vanity
>> badges) in a single location is that additional aspects of Fedora
>> community growth can be undertaken (eg. FUDCon PNQ had some FUDCon PP
>> planning)
>>
>> Regardless of how things go, it is best to require prep work for
>> budget instead of back-of-envelope/sections-of-whiteboard scribbles.
> 
> I would be more comfortable if there was an element of technical discussions
> including quick hacks, doc sprints, 101-type talks to get newbies on board.
> With the presence of Ambassadors from the region (even if one per city/country)
> the opportunity for the local enthusiasts to meet and network should not be
> wasted.

Each FAD must have some primary goals and should have some secondary ones.
It's nice if we can do some more things beside the primary goals. However, in my
experience, 2-day is too short to complete too many goals. That's why I proposed
we should focus on some main goals:
* Summarize events, activities (may also swags, media, etc.) during current FY.
* Make budget plan based on a prepared events/activities list (swags, media too)
* Discuss about how to improve Ambassadors work in the region

Last year in PP, we need 1.5 days to complete these main goals.

If we have more time, we can do more work as you suggested below:

> So, here's what I would like to propose for the two days:
> 
>  a) Launch/Release of Fedora 23
>  b) Special interest topics around F23/Cloud/Atomic etc
>  c) barcamp topics
>  d) Budget planning sign offs; resolution of critical outstanding issues
>  e) Planning for FUDcon 2016 (and 2017)
>  f) Social
> 
> Does this make sense?

We can do some of those in the afternoon of day two.

Rgds,
Tuan