Hi,
We need to start the Flock 2017 bidding process. I am going to send the following email to the flock-planning list and post an announcement on the Comm Blog on Monday. I'd appreciate any input you all have on the email (from which I will draw the blog post) and the wiki page (see inline).
Thank you.
regards,
bex
-------8x------- It is time to start the bid process for this year's Flock. This year we are back in North America for Flock 2017.
If you'd like to help host the event in your city, it's time to start putting together a bid. To find out what you need to do, read the wiki page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flock_bid_process
Bids are due by February 28, 2017, so do not wait to start. It takes more time than you may realize to compile all of the required information for a good bid.
Along those lines, keep in mind that committing to help plan a conference is a lot of work and shouldn't be approached lightly. It's a big time commitment, and as the local contact, you're critical to the success of the event.
Flock has been held successfully on college campuses and in hotels. We need to make sure that the space will both work for the conference and be affordable. Details are on the wiki page.
Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions or need help getting your bid together.
Thanks!
regards,
Brian "bex" Exelbierd
On 01/05/2017 06:02 AM, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
Hi,
We need to start the Flock 2017 bidding process. I am going to send the following email to the flock-planning list and post an announcement on the Comm Blog on Monday. I'd appreciate any input you all have on the email (from which I will draw the blog post) and the wiki page (see inline).
It would probably be useful to provide some additional useful information, like other known events during the summer with which we might want to avoid conflicting (or possibly co-locate).
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017, at 02:00 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
On 01/05/2017 06:02 AM, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
Hi,
We need to start the Flock 2017 bidding process. I am going to send the following email to the flock-planning list and post an announcement on the Comm Blog on Monday. I'd appreciate any input you all have on the email (from which I will draw the blog post) and the wiki page (see inline).
It would probably be useful to provide some additional useful information, like other known events during the summer with which we might want to avoid conflicting (or possibly co-locate).
GUADEC and LinuxCon are listed on the wiki page. I encourage you to add others and dates if you know them.
As for colocation, I will add something to the wiki to cover that. Please look for it.
regards,
bex
On 01/05/2017 08:02 AM, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017, at 02:00 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
On 01/05/2017 06:02 AM, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
Hi,
We need to start the Flock 2017 bidding process. I am going to send the following email to the flock-planning list and post an announcement on the Comm Blog on Monday. I'd appreciate any input you all have on the email (from which I will draw the blog post) and the wiki page (see inline).
It would probably be useful to provide some additional useful information, like other known events during the summer with which we might want to avoid conflicting (or possibly co-locate).
GUADEC and LinuxCon are listed on the wiki page. I encourage you to add others and dates if you know them.
As for colocation, I will add something to the wiki to cover that. Please look for it.
Perhaps we should start a 2017-specific page listing potential conflicting events?
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017, at 02:23 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
On 01/05/2017 08:02 AM, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017, at 02:00 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
On 01/05/2017 06:02 AM, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
Hi,
We need to start the Flock 2017 bidding process. I am going to send the following email to the flock-planning list and post an announcement on the Comm Blog on Monday. I'd appreciate any input you all have on the email (from which I will draw the blog post) and the wiki page (see inline).
It would probably be useful to provide some additional useful information, like other known events during the summer with which we might want to avoid conflicting (or possibly co-locate).
GUADEC and LinuxCon are listed on the wiki page. I encourage you to add others and dates if you know them.
As for colocation, I will add something to the wiki to cover that. Please look for it.
Perhaps we should start a 2017-specific page listing potential conflicting events?
I'd prefer to keep them on this page so that when we rebuild this page for 2018 we have a list of conferences to go hunting for. A table in the dates section would seem ideal.
regards,
bex
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Brian Exelbierd bex@pobox.com wrote:
Hi,
We need to start the Flock 2017 bidding process. I am going to send the following email to the flock-planning list and post an announcement on the Comm Blog on Monday. I'd appreciate any input you all have on the email (from which I will draw the blog post) and the wiki page (see inline).
Email is fine. Only comment on the wiki page is in the budget section we list the base budget as the total available funding. That is accurate in that it is the only money we can count on, but we do get additional funds or services from sponsors. It would be good to add a sentence highlighting that finding sponsors brings additional funding.
josh
-------8x------- It is time to start the bid process for this year's Flock. This year we are back in North America for Flock 2017.
If you'd like to help host the event in your city, it's time to start putting together a bid. To find out what you need to do, read the wiki page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flock_bid_process
Bids are due by February 28, 2017, so do not wait to start. It takes more time than you may realize to compile all of the required information for a good bid.
Along those lines, keep in mind that committing to help plan a conference is a lot of work and shouldn't be approached lightly. It's a big time commitment, and as the local contact, you're critical to the success of the event.
Flock has been held successfully on college campuses and in hotels. We need to make sure that the space will both work for the conference and be affordable. Details are on the wiki page.
Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions or need help getting your bid together.
Thanks!
regards,
Brian "bex" Exelbierd _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list -- council-discuss@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to council-discuss-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017, at 02:38 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Brian Exelbierd bex@pobox.com wrote:
Hi,
We need to start the Flock 2017 bidding process. I am going to send the following email to the flock-planning list and post an announcement on the Comm Blog on Monday. I'd appreciate any input you all have on the email (from which I will draw the blog post) and the wiki page (see inline).
Email is fine. Only comment on the wiki page is in the budget section we list the base budget as the total available funding. That is accurate in that it is the only money we can count on, but we do get additional funds or services from sponsors. It would be good to add a sentence highlighting that finding sponsors brings additional funding.
I've added some sentences. Please review them.
regards,
bex
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Brian Exelbierd bex@pobox.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017, at 02:38 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Brian Exelbierd bex@pobox.com wrote:
Hi,
We need to start the Flock 2017 bidding process. I am going to send the following email to the flock-planning list and post an announcement on the Comm Blog on Monday. I'd appreciate any input you all have on the email (from which I will draw the blog post) and the wiki page (see inline).
Email is fine. Only comment on the wiki page is in the budget section we list the base budget as the total available funding. That is accurate in that it is the only money we can count on, but we do get additional funds or services from sponsors. It would be good to add a sentence highlighting that finding sponsors brings additional funding.
I've added some sentences. Please review them.
Looks great, thanks for the quick edit!
josh
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