[Ambassadors] Red Hat's investments (was Re: Going passive)

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 20:58:45 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Mark Chappell <tremble at tremble.org.uk> wrote:
> On 10 November 2010 10:32, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
>> What about one global FUDCon accompanied with smaller local events - like one
>> day FADs + hackfests. I see it working for other projects, it's of course more
>> expensive but it helps breaking barriers, makes it easier to meet all people. I
>> can compare EMEA and NA FUDCons. And I really enjoyed NA one.
>
> If you're going to do that, please rotate where you hold it.  It's a
> lot cheaper for Europeans to travel around Europe than to travel over
> to the US, so if you only held them in the US you're putting a
> significant barrier in place for the Europeans.

The only globally fair way to hold a conference is to pick a place
that is equally difficult for most everyone to get to. FUDCon South
Pole 2013 sounds equitable in that regard.

-jef"a FUDCon I can easily commute to"spaleta


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