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

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 10:07:51 pm Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 08:58:45PM +0000, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Southern hemisphere folks are much closer to that than norhtern hemisphere
> folks; certain countries fly to the south pole more frequently than others.
> 
> Clearly, FUDCon At the Earth's Core is the fairest venue.

Too hot for some northerm nations!

Jaroslav

> 
> ;-)
> 
> -Toshio

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