Fedora Board Recap 2009-01-27

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:33:12AM -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 12:03:32PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:58:29AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Karsten Wade wrote:
> > > >
> > > > What do you all want to know about the FADs?  Some ideas for questions
> > > > I had:
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I started a thread about this on Infrastructure to ask for dates that
> > > would work for people to have a midwest infrastructure type FAD.  It had
> > > remarkably little response.  I seem to recall only 3 people responding to
> > > the thread.
> > > 
> > > I can push the idea and try to get more people interested, but I was
> > > wondering if others had tried organizing one and what success they had?
> > 
> > Karsten, Larry Cafiero, and Clint Savage (IIRC) are organizing a FAD
> > around the SCaLE 7x conference.  I know at least one of them is
> > listening to this list and can provide feedback. :-)
> 
> Before I start, I'll note that talking about this on
> fedora-ambassadors-list is probably the best location ultimately; that
> is the group most familiar with our events, large and small.
> 
> As it happens, we're planning the "first FAD" for SCaLE 7x, so some of
> it is seat-of-the-pants on top of repeatable processes.
> 
> In addition, we're not sure there are going to be more than a
> half-dozen of us there.  We are putting out the word and contacting
> people and such, but if there aren't people already planning to come
> to the event ...
> 
> This is the catch-22 of the FAD.  There pretty much has to be
> something there to entice people to travel; unlike a FUDCon, which is
> an event in and of itself.
[...snip...]

Marketing FADs to area LUGs might be a great way to find interested
attendees, if the purpose of the FAD is to provide some primer
material for potential new contributors.  If the targets for the FAD
require more esoteric Fedora knowledge, this strategy might not prove
as useful, though.

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