Status: telling LUGs about FUDCon

[Mel Chua]

1.  mchua to report status of spreading information to LUGs about FUDCon

The short: we have LUG liasons who we can ping to poke said LUGs about 
proposals but no proposals per se yet. Relevant ticket is 
https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/18.

Copying the wonderful folks who've been doing the LUG Liasoning on this 
email. Karlie, Charley, Jon - I grabbed Paul's FUDCon announcement and 
re-spun it into a "hey LUGs, please send your ideas" form letter, which 
is at https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/ticket/18#comment:7 and 
also posted below.

Could you copy-paste that into an email and forward it (with any 
modifications you want) to the LUGs you are in contact with, and Cc 
fudcon-planning at lists.fedoraproject.org so we know who's got the letter?

Thanks!

--Mel

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FUDCon Toronto 2009, the upcoming Fedora Users and Developers Conference 
in Toronto from December 5-7, needs your help, o wonderful local LUGs!

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009

Fedora is a popular Linux distribution; our mission is about the rapid 
progress of Free and Open Source software. FUDCon is where our community 
gets together and simultaneously celebrates and sprints towards the 
future - and we'd love it if you could join us and help us figure out 
what that future should look like. Namely, we'd love to have 
participation from local LUGs, particularly with turning FUDCon into an 
opportunity to introduce folks from and near Toronto to open source - 
and we need ideas on how to do just that.

We will have some special “getting-started” user sessions on Saturday, 
December 5, as well as our always-popular developer tracks and hackfests 
throughout the length fo the conference. We’re also planning some sort 
of refereed or pre-sorted content, in addition to BarCamp? format talks, 
so everyone will be able to find something they like. Some of our ideas 
are at 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Technical_sessions_-_Saturday, 
but we would love to hear yours - how would you shape the schedule?

Please give us ideas for sessions and hackfests you’d like to see! 
Outreach for kids? A gaming corner? An artists' studio with Inkscape 
tutorials running? A keysigning party? A session on marketing for open 
source projects? Invite a local high school newspaper to cover a "how 
did you get started with open source?" storytelling circle? A helpdesk 
where we can pool together and tackle the weirdest setups, questions, 
and bugs you've always wanted to work out? A lunch gathering on 
education? An installfest? A test day? A kernel hacking party?

We need your ideas! Email the fudcon-planning 
(https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning) list 
with your thoughts on what would make this FUDCon *really* cool, and how 
we could use it to help you build your presence and momentum here in 
Ontario - we're looking forward to hearing your brainstorms and seeing 
you all in December!

Thanks muchly,

--Mel Chua on behalf of the FUDCon Planning Crew

PS: If you can come, pre-registration is already open on the wiki 
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Toronto_2009#Pre-registration), 
where you can find loads of other information and maps as well. 
Pre-registering gets you a couple extras, like lunch each day, a bit of 
schwag, and a pass to FUDPub. But FUDCon is absolutely free to attend, 
whether you pre-register or not, and FUDCon is open to everyone, since 
time immemorial. (Or at least since we started having them years ago.)