On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:43:27AM -0400, Chris Tyler wrote:
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 13:00 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> 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.
Paul,
This is the direction I'm going:
* Promoting FUDCon to the smaller number of students who are strongly
plugging into the project as contributors, such as my Build & Release
students (i.e., have a FAS2 account, using bugzilla, on IRC, etc).
* Encouraging other students not to register online but to attend the
barcamp day on Saturday. This will relieve pressure on the t-shirt &
FUDPub expenses if they are restricted to registered attendees. (OTOH,
maybe I should get them to sign up somewhere -- perhaps on the Seneca
wiki -- so we do have a count for room-size purposes).
These both sound reasonable to me. We do want to make sure we can
populate the "user track" that will consist of kinder, gentler
getting-started info, so we really are bringing as much of the 'U'
into FUDCon this time around as possible.
I think we can plan to have a low-cost giveaway available for everyone
regardless of registration -- stickers, buttons, or what have you.
--
Paul W. Frields
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