Sponsoring event attendees

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:17:38AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:49:34 -0700,
>   Robyn Bergeron <rbergero at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > (That said, we have seen a dramatic drop in the number of FADs
> > sponsored; I don't think this is necessarily a sign of anything
> > concrete, except perhaps (a) people have forgotten that this
> > resource exists, or (b) we have fewer people working on new projects
> > or solving problems that they are excited about, and can produce
> > results face-to-face more rapidly. I suspect the latter may be the
> > case, and is certainly troubling, but is a topic not really for this
> > email.)
> 
> My (possibly selective) memory is that Paul instigated a lot of the FADs
> when he was FPL. Since his job change he has had to cut back his time and
> probably isn't in a position to see the needs and push for setting up FADs
> as much as he used to be able to.

In one sense, Bruno's statement confused me, because I only recall
helping to drive a handful of FADs when I was FPL.  Then in another
sense it made me feel happy someone thought I was doing a good job
with those.  At least I think that's what he meant, so thanks for the
kind words Bruno! :-)

But in truth, I recall most of the FADs during my FPL time being
driven by other Fedora contributors.  What I do recall doing is
talking about FADs often, and when good ideas came up, suggesting to
the key contributors involved that they should organize a FAD event
once they had a plan for the work.

It does seem like there were more of them a couple years ago than
perhaps there were in the last year.  But unfortunately the last part
of Bruno's statement is only too accurate; I definitely don't get the
time for Fedora these days that I used to.  However, since I didn't
really drive many of the FADs personally I suspect 

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