Excellent if you can collaborate with this will be a great help.
Thanks.
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 19:15 -0300, Sven von Brand Laredo wrote:
On 11/01/2010 06:03 PM, David Nalley wrote:
At today's FAmSCo meeting the primary topic was a decision on the location for FUDcon LATAM 2011.
[...] As noted in the bid process, regional ambassador leadership, and ultimately the budget owner (CommArch, represented by Max Spevack, who is also on FAmSCo) is responsible for venue decision. In the end the decision was for Panama as the location for FUDcon LATAM 2011.
Congrats to Panamá, hopefully this will help grow the community in the country and also in Central America.
I peronally have some experience doing 3D animation, and would like to offer to make a commercial or publicity simple game for the event. One of my best pieces of work from last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACaIyAHem78
What follows is a bit of explanation, as a decision did have to be made. The following issues seemed to be important during the course of the FAmSCo meeting:
- Whether we wanted a stand-alone FUDcon or one attached to a F/LOSS event.
and
- Whether we wanted FUDcon to continue occurring in locations that
have previously held a FUDcon.
[...]
In the course of the meeting, there seemed to be repeated concern over the fact that a large portion of our LATAM contributor base is from South America, and the cost of travelling outside of that region. Travel sponsorships are available, and the Fedora Project, via CommArch is committed to seeing contributors from all over LATAM attending FUDcon.
I read the meeting log and would like to give some opinion: First, it would have been great to have had someone from Chile present at the meeting, I didn't attend, because I believed I wasn't supposed to be present, but I saw that it was an open meeting. For the next year maybe it would be a good idea to invite a representative from each bid to the meeting.
Second: I wanted to clarify, that the difference between Panamá and Brazil, Chile, Argentina and many other countries in South America is that Central America is actually small compared to South America, it is expensive to get there and it does not benefit from countries around it, because it's much like a line of countries. Actually I recommend seeing this wikipedia article on Peters projection to really compare sizes: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proyecci%C3%B3n_de_Peters
And last, in my opinion it would be great if the sponsorship could go to some strong "wanna be" contributors from other countries from LATAM instead of just bringing the big contributors as I see FUDcon LATAM not as giving a country a boost, but trying to give LATAM a boost and help develop a community that goes beyond countries.
Hopefully in 2012 FUDcon LATAM comes closer to us here in Chile and Brazil and has the participation of new contributors from Panamá and contributors from other countries that became contributors in Panamá!
Regards