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

[Igor Pires Soares]

Em Seg, 2011-04-11 às 11:47 -0700, Adam Williamson escreveu:
> On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 14:29 -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
> 
> > To be frank (no Beefy Miracle pun intended), I already dislike the
> > fact that some people feel like they have to be at FUDCon North
> > America (even if they're not from North America), as that's the FUDCon
> > where "everything happens".  If anything, I'd go the other direction
> > -- I would make the regional FUDCon events stronger.
> 
> I'm kind of siding with Jared here, I think: the barriers to travelling
> to North America aren't just financial. People are likely to feel more
> comfortable in general travelling within their region, it's likely to
> present fewer logistical difficulties, and there are language issues to
> consider too - maybe at regional FUDCons it's easier to do things in
> languages that are common in the region, or at least find others who
> speak your language. And I think the cost issue Matthias points out is
> another big one - as he says, $20k actually doesn't go very far towards
> flying people around the world.

>From the point of view of someone who attended to two FUDCons in LATAM
and one in NA I see that we have a long way to make regional FUDCons
stronger. Although in LATAM there isn't a consensus what the focus of a
FUDCon should be, it seems that the majority agree that we need a
stronger event in the region.

One of ways to achieve that is to enable future FUDCon organizers to
attend to a FUDCon before organizing one. We weren't able to do that for
FUDCon Panama, but we got some Latin Americans into FUDCon Tempe. Those
folks now have a lot of experiences to share and help the Panamanian
organizational team. In addition, we already identified at least one
potential organizer for FUDCon LATAM in 2012 and we are funding him to
go to Panama since he has never been in a FUDCon before.

IMHO we don't need a worldwide unique FUDCon event. Identifying key long
term contributors from around the world and help them to know more about
how to organize a good FUDCon event in their regions might be a wiser
way to use our resources.

I also would like to invite everyone to attend to the "Future of FUDCons
in LATAM" hackfest at FUDCon Panama!

Regards,
-- 
Igor Pires Soares
Fedora Ambassador (Brazil) - Member of FAmSCo
Fedora I18N/L10N QA
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Igor