What is a FAD (was Re: Fedora Board Recap 2009-01-27)

[Max Spevack]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> What is a FAD? Sorry ... I think it is something regional.. but no 
> idea.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-December/msg00077.html

"(2) Create a second kind of Fedora-centric event that can complement 
FUDCons, and allow folks like me, Paul, or regional Ambassador leaders 
to create the sorts of events that are most useful to their region.

To that end, I would like to re-brand the idea of "Fedora Ambassador 
Day" to "Fedora Activity Day" (still keeping the FAD acronym). The idea 
of the new FAD is to bring smaller groups of people in a region (I'm 
picturing 5-20) together for day-long or weekend-long sessions that 
focus on one or two specific Fedora topics, and also include some sort 
of social event, or interesting location.

I'm picturing bringing a bunch of packagers together for a weekend and 
giving them the resources they need to knock one or two things off their 
agenda, or bringing a couple of people who are working on a particular 
feature to the same place and enabling them to have a code sprint. 
Little "Fedora summits", all over the place, focusing on whatever piece 
of Fedora is interesting to a group of contributors who want to come 
together. The model the Fedora Ambassadors have been using -- bringing 
the regional leaders together for a weekend to plan the next 6-12 month 
strategy -- is also a good example.

Smaller, contributor-focused events that have specific goals, and can be 
organized by whoever is interested in putting them together, wherever 
they are in the world. These events complement FUDCons, and allow us to 
mix FUDCons and FADs together in different regions of the world with 
more flexibility and modularity."

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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD

"The Fedora Activity Day (FAD) is a regional event (either one-day or a 
multi-day) that allows Fedora contributors to gather together in order 
to work on specific tasks related to the Fedora Project.

Originally, these meetings were used for local Fedora Ambassador groups 
to make their plans for the coming year, but the idea is being expanded 
to bring local contributors together in order to work on any projects 
related to Fedora, and (if so desired) to organize some sort of social 
event or to hold the event in an interesting location."