[Ambassadors] Fedora conference co-located with Linux Symposium?

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:16:44PM -0500, inode0 wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Matt Domsch <matt at domsch.com> wrote:
> > Andrew Hutton caught me online earlier today and asked if Fedora would
> > be interested in hosting a conference of any size, to run concurrent
> > with the Linux Symposium (previously held in Ottawa) in Montreal 13-17
> > July 2009).  Plenty of space is available for a 2-day concurrent
> > conference, and he's working on chartered busses from several (nearby)
> > cities such as Boston, Ottawa, and Toronto to ease getting to
> > Montreal.
> >
> > This wouldn't be a Fedora 12 planning FUDCon as we've traditionally
> > had such, given that mid-July is pretty late for such assuming we get
> > back to our May 1 / October 31 release schedule.  But it could be an
> > opportunity for Fedora-specific side-tracks to LS, or a hackfest, or
> > any number of ways to use the time and space.  If we had 2 days and
> > space for 100+ people in Montreal that week,, how could we use it?
> >
> > I'd like an interested Ambassador to step up and volunteer to run such
> > an event.  Volunteers?
> 
> Wow, this is a great opportunity. We have some ambassadors on the
> ground in Montreal so let's try to make this happen if we can.


Can anyone volunteer to coordinate Fedora's involvement in this event?
Andrew would like to know if Fedora is interested and start planning
space needs.

Thanks,
Matt