Events FAD -- comments on our status

[Paul Frields]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Max Spevack <mspevack at redhat.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> While you guys were at dinner, I took a chance to step back from
> everything and try to look at the big picture.  I'm really impressed
> with the amount we've achieved so far at this FAD.
>
> I'm really sorry about the weather screwing up our opportunity to have
> another good social event tonight, but appreciate everyone gutting it
> out and making the best of the situation.
>
> Great stuff, everyone.  I love Fedora.

Thanks for being our eye in the sky.

> I've taken a look at most of the active threads and pages that we worked
> on today, and tried to assess current status and remaining TODOS.
>
> ==
>
> [[Premier Fedora Events]] -- has most of the content it needs.  Could do
> a better job of really making sure that we drive people who care about
> anything more than the schedule of what's upcoming to [[FUDCon]] and
> [[FAD]].

Took a shot at this, check the page.

> The rest of the page serves its purpose, which is to provide the
> calendar for all FUDCons and FADs that are upcoming, or that need to be
> scheduled.
>
> ===
>
> [[FAD]] -- I think this page is in good shape.
>
> [[FUDCon Planning FAD]] -- A good idea.  The closest thing we've ever
> had to this was https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Rheinfelden
>
> ==
>
> [[FUDCon]] -- I'm happy with the current state of this page.
>
> ==
>
> [[FUDCon design]] needs to be merged into [[FUDCon:Organization]],
> replacing what is now deprecated, and then eventually redirected to
> [[FUDCon:Organization]].  We should also include a link off to [[FUDCon
> Planning FAD]] in the new contents.
>
> There is a fudcon-howto doc in gobby that may or may not have already
> been turned into [[FUDCon design]].  If that gobby doc is no longer
> needed, we should remove it.

I think that Mel and Chris should be making this part of their plan
for finishing up the HOWTO have a FUDCon task.

> [[FUDCon_and_FAD_locations]] will eventually be obsoleted by a [[FUDCon
> bid process]] page, and redirect to it.  Probably will rename
> [[FUDcon_location_proposal_policy]] into [[FUDCon bid process]].
>
> This page is still being hacked on in gobby.

OK, keep up the great work.

> [[Sponsoring_event_attendees]] -- this page is superb, and needs to be
> linked to from [[Events]] and from somewhere in [[FAMSCO]], as well as
> the FUDCon organization pages.

I added links from the first two -- the third I think will emerge
automatically, but I will be responsible for making sure that gets
done.

> Remaining TODOs:
>
> * Work with Rodrigo on Sunday about LATAM (Max, Mel, Dennis?).  This is
> really happening at 8 AM?  Good grief.
>
> * Wait for feedback from India about FUDCon (Max already reached out).
>
> * Keep working on the bid process (David, Max).
>
> * Generally update and clean up the following: (Mel)
>        https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events_FAD_2010
>        https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events_FAD_2010_Action_Items
>
> The goal of this item is so that people who want to look at the results
> of the FAD can see a properly cleaned up page that shows them (a) what
> we did, and (b) points them off in the directions of the wiki pages that
> we touched, etc.  We just want to make sure we've tied up loose ends,
> and properly documented the FADs achievement as well as what needs to be
> done post-FAD.
>
> * Are there any survey todos?  If so, what are they, where are they
> captured, and who owns them?

The LimeSurvey app is not yet packaged. I just got a very unpromising
report from David Nalley and Jon Stanley about it -- there are bundled
libraries, but worse, the LimeSurvey devs have apparently altered
(forked?) some of those libraries by changing them. Maybe to fix
problems, and maybe to hack around something. So to get that fixed,
one strategy would be for Fedora to take the position of "ombudsman"
between LimeSurvey devs and the providers of those libs to get them
fixed for a future LS release.  It's not a short-term task.

> * Figure out how folks are getting home.

Put the bug in people's ears tonight that tomorrow before lunch we'll
need to ascertain the airport and road conditions, and make decisions
about extending hotel stays and then working onward from there.

> * Break off the FUDCon Live TODOs and such into its own space so that it
> can have a plan and life beyond this FAD.

Agreed. I want to make sure that this doesn't fall by the wayside just
because we're not sitting in a room together. The Freeseer devs could
use some assistance from our Fedora Pythonistas on a number of topics
and have already reached out for them to help with the aspect of
organizing the code properly.

Paul