On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 07:47:14AM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
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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.
Or from our upstreams - we talk a lot how we do upstream first but we do not know much about upstreams and what they do/plan to do and it directly affects Fedora. But for the most important ones, I'm not sure we can get people as because of pretty tight coexistence with Guadec and I'll expect everyone is going to be there :(
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.)
I really like this idea - better than keynote. Especially if you realize when talking to people being at FUDCon that on that FUDCon we talked/decided X and they are - "Really? Wow, I didn't know. When? Who?". So recap in the morning for everyone to be on the same board and allow people to potentially join the upcoming discussion - worth $1 billion!
This is a really intriguing idea, especially if Flock is meant to be a conference where we can do bigger planning for Fedora's future and the components needed to get things moving in that direction. It also enforces some accountability on those discussions.