FUDCon coming this summer/fall?

[S.Kemter]

Hi,

Q: there are rumors FUDCon EMEA gets also cancelled for this

br gnokii


2013/4/16 Ruth Suehle <rsuehle at gmail.com>

> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:45 PM, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For me and probably others this name conjures up memories of deadlocks
>> and head scratching trying to figure out how multiple processes came
>> to each hold an exclusive lock on the same file. While the
>> possibilities for jokes here are plentiful, is the name actually
>> intended to mean something to those who see it?
>>
>
> Yes. The idea sprung from the fact that Fedora and the people who
> participate in the project encompass so much more than just an interest in
> Linux. Flock is the place you meet with other people (friends! one of those
> four Fs!) of the Fedora community who share whatever your interest is,
> whether that’s the kernel or the cloud, hardware or UX design, whatever
> else. We flock together.
>
> And bonus, no more having to answer, "Why does your conference have FUD in
> the name?"
>
> Those of you who think it's easy coming up with a new name a)should have
> said so any number of times I've asked around since FUDCon and b)should
> spend an afternoon trying to think of good names that aren't already in use.
>
> To answer Eric's questions:
>
> Charleston because someone has space for us. We explored other options,
> and they fell through. There hasn't exactly been a long line of placing
> waiting to host FUDCons the last few years. If this goes well, perhaps next
> year we'll have more money to invest in conference space. However, the more
> money spent on that is less money that can be put into bringing
> contributors to us. It also, as Tom points out, is a place people might
> actually want to go in August. No offense to Kansas, but it's time for
> somewhere fun!
>
> As for timing and openness and speed and all that... budget held us up,
> and we really wanted this to happen as soon as possible after release to
> increase the productivity of preparing for Fedora 20. Without knowing
> whether we had any money at all, it's next to impossible to start planning
> anything. I've been thinking of this as sort of the "soft launch" of the
> event. Because of the time frame and because we've already had a FUDCon
> this year, I expect it to be smaller than next year's. But I also hope that
> we'll have a lot of people excited about the change and the opportunities
> it will give us as well as to be able to say "I was at the first one."
>
> HTH.
> Ruth
>
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