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

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 13:01 +0200, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
> > I agree with Jared. The feeling "everything happens in NA FUDCon" come
> > from fact, that leaders of many projects are from NA, so most of
> > decision is happening there. Also I'm always wondering if anyone
> > interesting would be on non-NA events. It might be good invite Fedora
> > celebrities in advance, so organizers could say there will be decision
> > makers.
> 
> I think we can overplay this meme, to be honest. I certainly got a lot
> of important work done at FUDCon Zurich, and had the sense that others
> did too, and never felt like 'this event is useless because no-one who
> MATTERS is here!' or anything.

Fair enough, but in my not so limited experience, EMEA FUDCons are different, 
I hope you can agree with that.

Please allow me to refer to a conversation I was having with Guillermo Gomez 
in the hospitality room at the Courtyard in Tempe; We've just met one another 
-we were introduced-, and we do the packaging and ruby and "ohw my god are you 
also interested in that" dance.

At some point he says he's glad to have been able to make it to the NA FUDCon, 
to which I look around the room, and think... "Why don't I show you around and 
introduce you to people?". In hindsight, the reason I didn't physically go 
around and do just that turns out to be bluntly obvious. There's too many much 
too interesting people to introduce other people to -admittedly a luxury 
problem.

Instead I pointed out *a couple of dozen* people in that room alone, and 
everywhere I pointed I had to give an introduction along the lines of "He/She 
is *the* go-to person on <significant foo X>".

Let's say everyone who's anyone is at a North-American FUDCon, which, 
arguably, is not far from the truth, and that that's not so much the case 
elsewhere. That is not necessarily problematic, but it leads the FUDCons in 
other places in the world to have to try and find their own way of becoming 
the yearly "key" event in that region. Perhaps that too is part of what makes 
these events be perceived as less of the place to be, the happening of the 
year.

-- Jeroen
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