FUDCon Zurich wiki pages

[Yaakov Nemoy]

2010/3/30 Sandro "red" Mathys <red at fedoraproject.org>:
>
> On 03/30/2010 03:16 PM, Gerold wrote:
>> ... maybe I can "organise" a talk from and with Ralf Spenneberg [1] either
>> for FROSCamp and/or also for FUDCON, if there is a wish (for having him as
>> speaker).
>
> As Marcus said, Ralf would be very welcome. Any speaker giving any
> (topic related) talk is very welcome. The Call for Papers for FrOSCamp
> is open and everyone is invited to submit talks (or workshops) on the
> FrOSCamp website/wiki. As for FUDCon we'll set up the wiki for the talks
> soon. It's the speaker's decision whether he wants to submit his talk
> for FUDCon or FrOSCamp.
>
> In the end, there'll be one big talk agenda showing the talks of both
> events, just that some rooms feature Fedora-related topics only (i.e.
> are Fedora dedicated) and the other rooms feature non-Fedora-related
> talks (only). It's all in the same building and we encourage working
> together with other communities (e.g. other distributions or upstream
> projects).
>
>> Private note: If not, he will attend FUDCON (as a "special guest" of
>> mine). He knows about the date and has confirmed.
>
> I've got no idea what you mean by a "special guest" but just to make
> this clear: everyone can attend FUDCon and FrOSCamp, both events are
> open to the general public and entrance is free. The only reason to
> pre-register is to get the FUDCon t-shirt. No need to be the guest of
> anyone or to particularly be invited.

Yes, FUDCon is open to anyone. The point of a 'special guest' of any
kind is something that we can emphasize and market. One of the issues
we have with the split between the NA and EUR FUDCons is that we have
a number of 'implicit special guests', namely the people who work for
Red Hat in NA directly on Fedora. Since alot of future planning is
done there more than European FUDCons, there is a special draw to it.
While i'm no fan of the celebrity culture we live in, inviting special
guests for marketing reasons is a great way to even out the balance a
little.

-Yaakov