i think the issues facing NELF are timing, venue, advertising, and audience. basically, the event usually takes place during breaks, and most students are gone. the campus does not allow advertising which also inhibits attendance. this is why less than 100 people are in attendance.
it needs better timing or another venue and needs advertising. otherwise it will always draw a very small crowd.
whether fedora offers a mini fudcon, or gives talks, presentations, free installation, it doesn't matter if no one is there totake advantage, that's the point.
i will still attend, host and present as i do every year. last year, 4 people sat through my talks.
hopefully, this year it will be better!
On 1/22/14, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 02:05:59PM -0500, Jonathan Nadeau wrote:
okay i understand. Yes we are still young. i would love to have a big Fedora presence at NELF I really beleive that Fedora is the best community run project and at NELF we want to showcase that to either new users or mature users. last year I wanted to have a room specific for Fedora to almost have a mini Fudcon. So please submit as many talks as you would lie and we will take as many as we can. If anyone is interested we could still have 1 room set aside for Fedora and have a mini fudcon if you guys wish to. Thanks for your support.
"Mini fudcon" idea is interesting, although sometimes planning takes a long time. I'll see if I can drum up some interest.... -- Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- mattdm@fedoraproject.org -- ambassadors mailing list ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors