Meeting today, 1900 UTC / 3:00pm US-EDT / 12:00pm US-PDT

[David Nalley]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 04:54:52PM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 09:03:34AM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > We're meeting today in IRC Freenode #fudcon-planning -- our first
>> >> > official meeting!  The Trac will be our agenda, and I've added this
>> >> > link to the FUDCon page as well:
>> >> >
>> >> > https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/report/9
>> >>
>> >> I'm still on vacation, and unfortunately this meeting is like one hour
>> >> after I'm supposed to be checked out of the hotel.  I'll check the
>> >> minutes tonight, feel free to assign me things as needed.
>> >>
>> >> For the meeting - the only thing I have is a question - I know on the
>> >> FUDCon planning pages somewhere it's indicated that we should have a
>> >> FAD onsite to plan things / go over details - is this still something
>> >> we are going to be doing? If so, do we want to start considering that
>> >> now?
>> >
>> > I don't think it's a hard and fast requirement.  Max and I used to
>> > plan previous FUDCons without one.  But I do think that because FUDCon
>> > is changing a bit in terms of who's taking up logistical duties, other
>> > changes in the way we plan might make sense.
>> >
>> > But before we worry about setting up a FAD, what do we need to plan
>> > that we're not already planning?  What details can't we handle as
>> > we're doing now?  (IOW, what problem are we solving with a FAD?)
>>
>> I have no idea, tbh. It's in the FUDCon organization process -
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_organization_process#FUDCon_Planning_FAD
>> - I figured there might be a reason for this, though the link is more
>> or less empty :)
>>
>> I think it would be helpful to have a pair of eyeballs in the area
>> beforehand (not like, the day before - time enough to make sure we can
>> figure out alternate $solution) to assess building logistics - where
>> is the best place to do registration? Do we have giant lines for that?
>> How much space do we need? Where do we store tee-shirts or proposed
>> lanyards or... ? Should we look at the classrooms and their
>> accompanying accessories to try to figure out what prescheduled tracks
>> should go where?
>
> We should have the actual rooms decided for FUDCon Tempe specifically
> by December, and I would expect that to happen pretty well in advance
> at all FUDCon locations.  So this is something I think the bid team
> can easily handle.  (Ryan will have access to a lot of these places
> starting next month, for instance.)  I don't see a particular need to
> fly Red Hat people around to OK stuff, when we can trust the
> contributors on the ground to make good decisions.  If there are
> questions, though, of course we can always talk about them on list and
> figure things out!
>
>> (/me notes that the Phoenix data center is, well, in the same area -
>> if someone is planning on going there for any reason, that might be
>> something to think about doing.)
>
> Hey, that's a good point.  I'll cc Mike McGrath about this.
>
>> Other than that - I really don't see a huge need, although I may be
>> missing something.  If someone thought it should be done while writing
>> this stuff at Events FAD - it'd be interesting to know why.
>
> /me doesn't recall, other than a general desire to talk about things.
>
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I remember a FAD being discussed, but thought it was for the next
FUDcon - so February or March would have us coming to FAD to document
what we know and learned from the past FAD and to start working on the
non-site-specific parts.