FUDcon LATAM 2011 decision & FAmSCo meeting minutes

[Alejandro Pérez]

Excellent if you can collaborate with this will be a great help.

Thanks.

On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 19:15 -0300, Sven von Brand Laredo wrote:
> On 11/01/2010 06:03 PM, David Nalley wrote:
> > At today's FAmSCo meeting the primary topic was a decision on the
> > location for FUDcon LATAM 2011.
> >
> > [...] As noted in the bid process, regional ambassador
> > leadership, and ultimately the budget owner  (CommArch, represented by
> > Max Spevack, who is also on FAmSCo) is responsible for venue decision.
> > In the end the decision was for Panama as the location for FUDcon
> > LATAM 2011.
> >    
> 
> Congrats to Panamá, hopefully this will help grow the
> community in the country and also in Central America.
> 
> I peronally have some experience doing 3D animation, and would
> like to offer to make a commercial or publicity simple game for the
> event.
> One of my best pieces of work from last year:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACaIyAHem78
> 
> > What follows is a bit of explanation, as a decision did have to be
> > made. The following issues seemed to be important during the course of
> > the FAmSCo meeting:
> >
> > 1. Whether we wanted a stand-alone FUDcon or one attached to a F/LOSS event.
> >
> > and
> >
> > 2. Whether we wanted FUDcon to continue occurring in locations that
> > have previously held a FUDcon.
> >
> > [...]
> >    
> > In the course of the meeting, there seemed to be repeated concern over
> > the fact that a large portion of our LATAM contributor base is from
> > South America, and the cost of travelling outside of that region.
> > Travel sponsorships are available, and the Fedora Project, via
> > CommArch is committed to seeing contributors from all over LATAM
> > attending FUDcon.
> >    
> 
> I read the meeting log and would like to give some opinion:
> First, it would have been great to have had someone from
> Chile present at the meeting, I didn't attend, because I believed
> I wasn't supposed to be present, but I saw that it was an open
> meeting. For the next year maybe it would be a good idea to
> invite a representative from each bid to the meeting.
> 
> Second: I wanted to clarify, that the difference between Panamá and
> Brazil, Chile, Argentina and many other countries in South America
> is that Central America is actually small compared to South
> America, it is expensive to get there and it does not benefit from
> countries around it, because it's much like a line of countries.
> Actually I recommend seeing this wikipedia article on Peters
> projection to really compare sizes:
> http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proyecci%C3%B3n_de_Peters
> 
> And last, in my opinion it would be great if the sponsorship could go
> to some strong "wanna be" contributors from other countries from
> LATAM instead of just bringing the big contributors as I see FUDcon
> LATAM not as giving a country a boost, but trying to give LATAM a
> boost and help develop a community that goes beyond countries.
> 
> Hopefully in 2012 FUDcon LATAM comes closer to us here in Chile
> and Brazil and has the participation of new contributors from
> Panamá and contributors from other countries that became
> contributors in Panamá!
> 
> Regards
>