On 02/24/2016 09:26 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
On 02/23/2016 04:16 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> I know this is a big, high-profile conference, but... is it worth it?
> What do we get out of it? Since it's _already_ an open source
> conference, how does our presence advance the Fedora mission?
Chiming in even though I'm not an official ambassador. My feeling is
"no" unless OSCON wants to comp Fedora a booth.
The show floor is typically loaded with people just looking to grab
freebies, and the paid attendees already know about Fedora. We'd be far
better off using that money and time to reach new / more people.
Hey all,
We discussed OSCON at the FAmNA meeting tonight.
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-02-26/famna.2016-02...
After discussing this, we took a vote about OSCON and it was unanimous
among all in attendance to skip over OSCON this year.
As much as it is event that is a large crowd of people, we agreed that
there are better uses of our budget this quarter on making more targeted
approaches to smaller communities and regions, particularly with
schools, universities, businesses, and other local groups.
For the upcoming quarter, we are hoping to reflect the increased focus
towards these regional events with BrickHack (March 5 -6) and Bitcamp
(in April), which are focusing on university hackers at the Rochester
Institute of Technology and University of Maryland, respectively. A lot
of planning and work is being put into these events, and we are hoping
to connect these events to tangible events with some of the resources
that we can already leverage with tools in the Fedora Infrastructure.
I will add this vote to the Trac ticket in FAmNA and close the ticket.
If for some reason the ticket needs more discussion, it can be reopened.
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Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com