Re: FUDCon schedule for FY 2011
We can add this to the agenda for the Marketing FAD in March.
-Kara
Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:11:36AM -0500, Mel Chua wrote:
> On 01/15/2010 10:32 AM, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Paul W. Frields<stickster(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>>> The schedule for FY2011 FUDCons will certainly be on our radar at the
>>> Events FAD in a few weeks. But in advance of that I wanted to confirm
>>> a couple things:
>>>
>>> * There are plans for only one FUDCon in the North America (NA)
>>> region, as with all other regions. Although there will be a Fedora
>>> presence at the Red Hat Summit 2010[1] in Boston in June, this
>>> presence will not be a FUDCon event. I've finished a draft of
>>> the vision for that event:
>>>
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Summit_2010
>>>
>>> Now that I've finished a bit of prep work internally with the Red
>>> Hat organizers, I'll share it with the Fedora Marketing and
>>> Ambassador teams.
>>>
>> I've mentioned this before on the mktg-list - is there any possible
>> way that we could take advantage of press presence at the event and do
>> a mini-interview session or panel or presentation of some sort (with
>> shiny press kits, of course!)? F13 will have been out for about a
>> month prior to RH Summit; it would be a great time to reinvigorate
>> press / analysts and keep the train of coverage flowing. It would also
>> be a great time to work on trying to educate press on some of the
>> "oopsies" that have been made (on their part).
>>
>> -robyn
>>
> Is this something we can figure out at the Marketing FAD in March when
> we can sit down with the RH marketing and PR folks, or do we need more
> lead time to prepare awesomeness?
>
I believe March would be OK, but I cc'd Kara Schiltz on my reply, so
if there's a strict time runway involved, she should be able to let us
know.