Hi,
Attached is a ODS of plane fare for the Marketing FAD compiled from me lazily searchingk kayak... They are only rough estimates and will probably get more expensive as time goes on... looks like the cheapest place for us to meet is DC, followed by Boston. Personally, I'm leaning towards Boston or Raleigh (which is third) if only because of the Red hat offices there... Mel Robyn and I talked a while last night (this morning? who knows, I don't...) and came up with some ideas for what we could be doing at the FAD... Some of it relies on there being a contingent of engineers on hand either in person or remotely, so the RH offices would probably be a pretty cool place. Here's the zodbot log... I'll post more details when I'm conscious tomorrow, I think. http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2009-12-28/fedora- mktg.2009-12-28-08.50.log.html Sorry for being so terse, clock downstairs just struck 3:30am ;)
Yours from under a warm blanket... Ryan Rix
Attached is a ODS of plane fare for the Marketing FAD compiled from me lazily searchingk kayak...
Wow - thanks, Ryan!
expensive as time goes on... looks like the cheapest place for us to meet is DC, followed by Boston. Personally, I'm leaning towards Boston or Raleigh
For the record: the estimates (for flights alone) from the spreadsheet are:
Washington DC - $1574 Boston - $1694 Raleigh - $2136
I'm assuming we're going to have the FAD in NA since it seems to be the most central place for those interested in attending (though I would love to have future Marketing FADs outside NA, and to do everything we can to get non-NA Marketers to be able to fully participate in this).
This doesn't take into account housing costs, which (if we need to do hotel rooms) could also get pretty expensive. I don't know what the couchsurfing situation is in each location and how people feel about couchsurfing, or how it's been done for prior FADs, but these are the people we would /not/ need to figure out housing for at each location:
Washington DC: 1 (Paul) Boston: 1 (Mel) Raleigh: 2 (Kara, Max)
... I think that what we actually need right now is a hard number for a budget, so we know what in the way of resources we have, and whether we should be pouring those resources into getting everyone together, or into making this into a "you can participate remotely!" FAD, etc.
Let's see if we can nail that - and the final details - down... possibly not at the next meeting this coming Tuesday (although we can probably get a hard number for budget by then), but by the end of the next one on Jan 12th.
--Mel
Hy,
... I think that what we actually need right now is a hard number for a budget, so we know what in the way of resources we have, and whether we should be pouring those resources into getting everyone together, or into making this into a "you can participate remotely!" FAD, etc.
Hopefully we could get all together for once for our first FAD.
Let's see if we can nail that - and the final details - down... possibly not at the next meeting this coming Tuesday (although we can probably get a hard number for budget by then), but by the end of the next one on Jan 12th.
I added some lines to the agenda at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010 under "sideline".
I thought that we could take the opportunity to take some "Fedora Images" for the hopefully upcoming photobook and for a kind of press/photo archive startup. I think there will be some photographers beside me among us. The archive will also ease our later work for later, because many texts, photos, Event-Coverage, etc. will show us the way... The archive thing should be implemented to the upcoming Zikula CMS, but we could do some research and how that could be in.
mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards Henrik Heigl - wonderer@fedoraproject.org
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... I think that what we actually need right now is a hard number for a budget, so we know what in the way of resources we have, and whether we should be pouring those resources into getting everyone together, or into making this into a "you can participate remotely!" FAD, etc.
Hopefully we could get all together for once for our first FAD.
We have a ceiling of somewhere around $3k, so let's switch into "get everyone together" mode. I'd like to see if we can pull travel and housing for everybody off for $2500 so we have some buffer room for things like a rental car (if needed) and food.
Any thoughts on length-of-FAD? I'm not sure what people's work schedules look like, but if we overlap with weekend days to minimize the amount of schedule-shifting folks who aren't on school vacation have to do, some 4-day options would be Thursday-Sunday, Wednesday-Saturday, and Saturday-Tuesday.
The last one is my current favorite because we'd start out with a weekend to plan and gear up base material, and then have 2 full workdays to find engineers to interview, talk with RH PR folks, etc... and end with our normal Tuesday meeting time and use it to sync up everyone who can't physically make it.
Hotel rooms in Raleigh are cheaper than in pretty much any other location - we can get pretty nice doubles for about $30/person/night. Just thinking out loud right now.
--Mel
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