2009/12/18 Mel Chua mel@redhat.com:
Rodrigo and I talked a bit about FUDCon LATAM today, and how the upcoming Events FAD might be able to help it out.
For transparency-ness, here are meeting notes/logs - this was entirely spontaneous/unplanned, but when we realized we were talking about things that should be logged, we move to channel and logged it.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-planning/2009-12-17/fudcon-planning....
This also raises two interesting questions:
(1) Local FUDCons will be planned - and run - in local languages. How can we keep FUDCon planning in sync, given this? How much do we want to worry (at the moment) about translating FUDCons, bringing people from other regions in as guests to a region's FUDCon, etc?
There are a number of decent online translation systems available. I think linking to them should be enough. We can also mention that it's ok to plan in a different language than English, but it's a good idea to have someone available that can help translate the more nuanced parts into English.
I really don't think we need more than that, and that we should just put faith in the fact that people can self organise a solution here when they need it.
(2) If we have 4 FUDCons a year (1 per region) and it takes 6 months to plan a FUDCon, planning periods are going to overlap. This may make reading mailing lists confusing. How can we handle this? Will we eventually need fudcon-planning-latam, fudcon-planning-emea, fudcon-planning-na, and fudcon-planning-apac?
We have a number of mailing lists available that already handle more than one conversation flow per day. I think a critical part of participating in an open source project is the ability to filter out the information you don't need. One of my pet peeves is people who complain mailing lists are too cluttered because they don't know how to filter.
-Yaakov