A proposal for your thoughts, as we plan future FUDCons...

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Monday, April 11, 2011 09:13:46 AM seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 07:04 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> > I'd like to get feedback on a possible thought around FUDCon.  I've
> > spoken with some folks about it in passing but I think it might be
> > worthwhile to bring up as an idea for pondering.
> > 
> > The idea is fairly simple: Trying out the idea of having a US-based
> > "worldwide" FUDCon for a year. I think we had a great deal of success,
> > and quite a bit of added productivity, in bringing in a handful of
> > contributors from other regions for the Tempe FUDCon just a few months
> > ago.  I believe that adding larger numbers of contributors from other
> > regions might help to scale that productivity and "getting things done"
> > in a great way.
> > 
> > I'd suggest that this would work in the following way: Rather than have
> > the NA FUDCon in Q4 of Red Hat's 2012 fiscal year (December 2011 -
> > February 2012), we allocate Q4 budget, plus the majority of next year's
> > budget for ALL FUDCons, towards a FUDCon in sometime between March and
> > July of next year (2012). We still use the regional money for the
> > 2012-2013 fiscal year by region, ie: 20k for bringing in folks from
> > Europe, etc. I think we could bring in a BOATLOAD (or airplane-load, I
> > suppose) of regional folks for that money.
> > 
> > And then shift back to having regular regional FUDCons the following
> > year, and then possibly back to another worldwide fudcon the year
> > following that, depending on success/fail.
> > 
> > (This might also have the benefit of having fudcon in the US in a season
> > that, quite frankly, doesn't suck for travel with snow.)
> > 
> > Thoughts, comments, flames? I think it's worthwhile to at least consider
> > the idea. I realize that we already have had the deadline pass for
> > submitting bids for a FUDCon in NA late this year/early next year,
> > though I suppose it's not entirely set in stone.  Pros/cons welcome!
> 
> Do we have any contributors who are:
> 1. troubled by coming to the US and having their fingerprints taken?
> 2. find difficulty traveling to the US due to their country of origin?
> 
> The reason I bring this up is that July can be comfortable or can be
> damned uncomfortable in huge swaths of the US. And therefore maybe we
> should consider some place further north in north america, like canada
> somewhere?
> 
> then people coming from outside of the US won't have to go through as
> much rigamarole and possibly we all won't have to sweat nearly as much.
> 
> thoughts?
That only works if they can get flights to Canada that are not routed though 
the US,  if you land in a US airport even for transit you must go though 
immigration.  you can not just transit though the US.

Dennis
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