Hi everyone.
Those who followed the recent discussions in Fedora Malaysia mailing list and also the Fedora Malaysia Google+ page might have already known that a number of us are bidding to get the Fedora User Developer Conference Asia Pacific (FUDCon APAC) to be held in Kuala Lumpur this year.
The bid page is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:APAC_2012_Bid_Malaysia
FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference, a major free software event held in various regions around the world, usually annually per region. FUDCon is a combination of sessions, talks, workshops, and hackfests in which contributors work on specific initiatives. Topics include infrastructure, feature development, community building, general management and governance, marketing, testing and QA, packaging, etc.
FUDCon is always free to attend for anyone in the world.
For FUDCon KL, we are planning to use a mixed conference+barcamp format. There will be 1 day of conference and 2 days of barcamp/workshops.
The bid result will likely be decided on tomorrow, Thursday , 1st March 2012 in a meeting by the Fedora Ambassador Steering Committee (FAMSCo) . So tonight, we will be finalizing our bid document for review by FAMSCo tomorrow.
Those who are interested to give input for the bid document, do attend the meeting at :
channel: #fedora-my network: irc.freenode.net time: 2100 (9:00 PM) MYT
If we win this bid. The event will happen on 18th - 20th May 2012 at APIIT.
Pre-submission and pre-registration is already open.
You can pre-register by adding your info here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:APAC_2012_Bid_Malaysia#Pre-registratio...
pre-submission for talks/hackfests can be submitted by adding it here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:APAC_2012_Bid_Malaysia#Talks
Do show your support by pre-registering and submitting sessions and see you tonight!
Regards.
malaysian-users@lists.fedoraproject.org