EMEA FUDCon 2012, French bid

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Dienstag, den 20.12.2011, 06:00 -0500 schrieb Kévin Raymond:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Christoph Wickert
> <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 18.12.2011, 21:46 +0100 schrieb Kévin Raymond:
> >
> >> All is not clear yet, because we want to make it happen with the
> >> Open World Forum ("Think. Code. Experiment."). Date and venue are set, but could change a bit.
> >
> > You mean you want to do it at the very same date as OWF? IMHO this will
> > not work out, we tried to do the same with the FUDCon Berlin at LinuxTag
> > once and failed. While it got us some attention from LinuxTag visitors,
> > it was a serious distraction for the FUDCon.
> 
> No, we don't want to make it at the same time… We want it to take
> place _with_ the OWF.

Well, with means same time and same date. ;) Meanwhile we discussed this
on IRC and you told me that only Saturday will overlap.

> I see the LinuxTag as our Solution Linux event, a huge event where
> many visitors come to booth or talk.
> 
> Here, the OWF is much more workshop/talk, there are only few booth.
> We strongly think that our events are complementary, as it is all
> about Open Source contribution.
> This event will gather a lot of FOSS contributors, much more than
> users, but there are users, of course.
> Because FUDCon should be close to an other Free event, we choose this
> one where we would be able to interact with other contributors.

Stands and people to do service at the Fedora stand is only one problem.
If we don't have a Fedora stand at OWF, that's fine, but it doesn't
solve the other problem. People might to attend talks at both events,
some even will have to speak on one event while they would like to
listen to a talk on the other at the same time. This happened to me at
FUDCon Berlin: We had a 4 hour LXDE track and I had to be there all the
time while I wanted to be at FUDCon.

Of course this is completely up to you and the frech team, but I'd like
to warn you. That's all.

Kind regards,
Christoph