Planning meeting tomorrow

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Ruth Suehle <rsuehle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > tl;dr: Planning meeting for the new event, tomorrow at 2 p.m. Eastern, 6
> > p.m. UTC in #fedora-meeting-2
> 
> Unfortunately this conflicts with the Fedora Board meeting at the same
> time and I'm guessing at least several Board members are interested in
> attending this.

Yep, I'd like to be there too - before, we have Go/No-Go meeting (5 p.m. UTC),
so maybe after Board meeting, it should be better ;-).

Btw. thanks Ruth for organizing the meeting.

Jaroslav

> 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I apologize again to those of you who feel left out of the process of
> > planning Flock, the new style of FUDCon, which began with Robyn's post last
> > July (http://wordshack.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/the-future-of-fudcons/) and
> > has been discussed in bits here and there on and off since then. The
> > reality
> > of it has happened very fast because of how late in the calendar year Red
> > Hat budgets are approved--in other words, we didn't even know if there was
> > money for it until very recently. That means in order to make it even
> > vaguely possible based on Robyn's vision of coming together at a better
> > point in the release cycle, we've had to move very, very quickly.
> > Conferences don't happen overnight. That doesn't mean we don't need more
> > help--quite the opposite--or that we're trying to hide things, so here's
> > the
> > next step.
> >
> > We are very nearly guaranteed a (free! yay!) location; they've just asked
> > for a few more days to be absolutely certain they can give us the space we
> > need. Meanwhile, we can talk about the next most important thing: the call
> > for submissions.
> >
> > Barcamps are awesome, but let's be honest--most people know before they get
> > there what talk they're going to pitch. So let's do it that way. Let's know
> > what the schedule is before we get there. If for nothing else, we get back
> > several hours of the schedule that we use making pitches and building a
> > schedule.
> 
> Being honest we should note that the real point of barcamps is to let
> the attendees choose the talks available to them rather than leaving
> that to a committee of three people who don't know who will be
> attending when the selections are made and may or may not know what
> talks attendees would like to see. Barcamps do have issues and while
> I'm not objecting to dropping them from the program there is a cost to
> doing so.
> 
> > Discuss potential tracks and methods tomorrow at 2 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. UTC
> > in #fedora-meeting-2.
> 
> Good luck to everyone who can attend this meeting and help make it a success.
> 
> I'd like to just mention my biggest concern with the format proposed
> although I'm sure those doing the planning have considered it already.
> If the conference + hackfests run Friday Aug. 9 through Thursday Aug.
> 15 when you add travel days on the ends we are asking contributors to
> miss 7 work days. Ignoring cost implications I know many people simply
> can't take 7 work days off to attend something like this.
> 
> John
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