Chris,
I think you asked earlier -- although I can't seem to put my hands on the specific email -- about how widely to publicize FUDCon. (At least I'll be splitting this thread out now, hope that helps.) You noted that there might be as many as several hundred students interested in attending, and I think you were concerned that might overwhelm our ability to provide effective event support.
We could limit the need to provide limitless funding if we do one or more of the following:
* Limit gifts (T-shirt, FUDPub coverage) to a pre-arranged number of pre-registrants.
* Seek sponsorship from one or more places. Seneca is already giving us free facilities so I'm loath to go there, but perhaps the user education track gives us a way to seek sponsorship elsewhere.
A further thought about Point #1: Running the pre-registration process through the wiki works tolerably well and requires little effort on our part, but it's not going to be easy for planning technical sessions. We may need to find and set up conference management somewhere on Fedora infrastructure.