Hello all.
It would be definitely cool to have keynotes everyday and I'm sure there
are plenty of topics that could be interesting; however, my only question
would be what's our target (knowing that the idea is to gather people who
*make things*) just to show them how awesome we (or some companies) are, or
projects proposal that can make them want to contribute?
I might not be well experienced in huge events like most people in NA and
EMEA are; however, it would be cool that keynotes encourage
developers/designers/translators/etc to join an initiative or a project and
not just turn into an informative -huge talk-
See ya.
2013/5/29 Robyn Bergeron <rbergero(a)redhat.com>
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> On 29 May 2013 14:21, Ruth Suehle < rsuehle(a)gmail.com > wrote:
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> Of course Flock will have the usual State of Fedora FPL keynote, but I
think
> it would be great to have other keynotes each day of Flock as well. Any
> suggestions on whom we should approach (even better if you know them!)?
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> Well keynotes are usually tied into the theme of a conference.. so
suggesting
> the Red Hat CEO might not be good if that is not the theme. What is the
> theme of Flock? [And sorry if I am missing something obvious.]
I hope it is "get together and get things done/planned" :)
Aside from the FPL talk, which is not so much "so I have a keynote!" and
more to make sure that future FPLs also have the opportunity to set the
tone and issue the "go forth and kick butt" vibe... unless the topic is
highly pertinent to Fedora, keynotes could be boring/not time well-used (If
I had a dollar for every boring keynote I have attended, it would be almost
as much as the If I had a dollar for every irrelevant keynote I didn't
attend pile of money.)
It could also bring up logistics issues of "need to have separate
theatre-style room available all mornings." Not sure if that's an issue or
not offhand.
That said: I think other cool keynote possibilities are:
* People/Company using Fedora to make Real Downstream Product Things that
are not ... RHEL (Arista Networks comes to mind with EOS)
* Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery/Deployment (or even more
loosely, devops) topic - I can give a long list of names here. But the
question here is - can they make it relevant to Fedora? Obviously it's a
direction folks are talking about and I think it would be dandy to have an
inspiring talk along the lines of of "look, end of rainbow! so pretty. we
can get there!"
* Sessions just expected to have asininely high participation could sub
in.
Also: Instead of keynotes, could do a lightning-style session of "recap of
everything yesterday" (this is similar to how ODS sums things up, so people
get the gist of what's transpiring without having to be in all places at
once) - 5m per team/group/session/whatever we decide. (ODS does it by
project, the lead takes the responsibility to pull that stuff together each
day, iirc.)
-r
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