Fedora Booth and BOF instead of FUDCon3 for SF?

[Jesse Keating]

Seems that with FUDCon2 being just before, and budgets being rather
flat, and Aug being bad for universities, should we scrap the idea of
FUDCon3, and instead focus on the Fedora Booth for LWCE and a BOF?  We
can still do some presentations IN the Fedora booth, with limited
attendees (:

I'd still very much like to be a part of this.

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FUDCONIII Preliminary Planning WAS [Re: Fedora Booth and BOF instead of FUDCon3 for SF?]

[Jack Aboutboul]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 11:09 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  Seems that with FUDCon2 being just before, and budgets being rather
>  flat, and Aug being bad for universities, should we scrap the idea of
>  FUDCon3, and instead focus on the Fedora Booth for LWCE and a BOF?  We
>  can still do some presentations IN the Fedora booth, with limited
>  attendees (: 
Well, here is what I've been working on.  Ok, so budgets are indeed
tight mainly because Fudcon2 and FudconIII would be in the same fiscal
quarter.  That seems to be the main blocker right now.  I put out that
request for places on fedorapeople and got back someone from berkeley
about possibly doing it there.  

However, this is what I was thinking.  A little company named Google is
not that far from SF and would be willing to let us have FUDCon there.
So, I say we see what they have to offer, with budget being thin and
all, and figure out what we can put together.  Also, maybe we could get
some sort of shuttle service from the bay area to google.

I'll update you as soon as I hear back.

Thanks,
Jack

FUDCONIII Preliminary Planning WAS [Re: Fedora Booth and BOF instead of FUDCon3 for SF?]

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 14:44 -0400, Jack Aboutboul wrote:
>  On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 11:09 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  > Seems that with FUDCon2 being just before, and budgets being rather
>  > flat, and Aug being bad for universities, should we scrap the idea of
>  > FUDCon3, and instead focus on the Fedora Booth for LWCE and a BOF?  We
>  > can still do some presentations IN the Fedora booth, with limited
>  > attendees (:
>  
>  Well, here is what I've been working on.  Ok, so budgets are indeed
>  tight mainly because Fudcon2 and FudconIII would be in the same fiscal
>  quarter.  That seems to be the main blocker right now.  I put out that
>  request for places on fedorapeople and got back someone from berkeley
>  about possibly doing it there.  
>  
>  However, this is what I was thinking.  A little company named Google is
>  not that far from SF and would be willing to let us have FUDCon there.
>  So, I say we see what they have to offer, with budget being thin and
>  all, and figure out what we can put together.  Also, maybe we could get
>  some sort of shuttle service from the bay area to google. 
Although having a facility is one part of the puzzle, it's hardly all of
it.  I really think that we're going to be straining the "what is FUDCon
for" by having tons and tons of them.  Not to mention difficulty of
getting speakers to do tons of places or tons of talks being written.  

Jeremy

FUDCONIII Preliminary Planning WAS [Re: Fedora Booth and BOF instead of FUDCon3 for SF?]

[Paul Stauffer]

>  Although having a facility is one part of the puzzle, it's hardly
> all of
>  it.  I really think that we're going to be straining the "what is FUDCon
>  for" by having tons and tons of them.  Not to mention difficulty of
>  getting speakers to do tons of places or tons of talks being written.
>  
>  Jeremy 
I tend to agree.  By keeping it to just one or two FUDCons a year, there's a
much better chance that a lot of the core developers will be able to attend,
which then becomes a self-reinforcing trend.  This results in a much
higher-value event where actual work can get done (a-la FUDCon1) in addition
to whatever user outreach / PR / marketing opportunities it creates for
Fedora.  Let's not reduce FUDCon to a prepackaged megaBoF.

- Paul

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Computer Science Department
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[Karsten Wade]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 11:09 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>  Seems that with FUDCon2 being just before, and budgets being rather
>  flat, and Aug being bad for universities, should we scrap the idea of
>  FUDCon3, and instead focus on the Fedora Booth for LWCE and a BOF?  We
>  can still do some presentations IN the Fedora booth, with limited
>  attendees (:
>  
>  I'd still very much like to be a part of this. 
Sure, I'm already doing booth bunny duty, and wanted to put a BOF
together.  Also sounds *much* easier to organize, which appeals to my
schedule-that-is-constantly-getting-bigger life.

Next year then becomes something we can actually plan for.

- Karsten
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