FUDCon schedule for FY 2011

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 08:32:32AM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The schedule for FY2011 FUDCons will certainly be on our radar at the
> > Events FAD in a few weeks.  But in advance of that I wanted to confirm
> > a couple things:
> >
> > * There are plans for only one FUDCon in the North America (NA)
> >  region, as with all other regions.  Although there will be a Fedora
> >  presence at the Red Hat Summit 2010[1] in Boston in June, this
> >  presence will not be a FUDCon event.  I've finished a draft of
> >  the vision for that event:
> >
> >  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Summit_2010
> >
> >  Now that I've finished a bit of prep work internally with the Red
> >  Hat organizers, I'll share it with the Fedora Marketing and
> >  Ambassador teams.
> 
> I've mentioned this before on the mktg-list - is there any possible
> way that we could take advantage of press presence at the event and do
> a mini-interview session or panel or presentation of some sort (with
> shiny press kits, of course!)? F13 will have been out for about a
> month prior to RH Summit; it would be a great time to reinvigorate
> press / analysts and keep the train of coverage flowing. It would also
> be a great time to work on trying to educate press on some of the
> "oopsies" that have been made (on their part).

I think that's a great idea, Robyn.  I know that Kara Schiltz watches
this list, and we should get her involved in helping us plan that kind
of activity, whom we could reasonably invite, and what specific
information we want to address there.

Also, at every Summit, typically in my role as FPL I do meet with
press and analysts separately to give some interviews both about the
current release and the project in general.  We should definitely
consider how we could do that as a more community-centric event.  But
we also need to be quite cognizant that, while we have separate FUDCon
events focused entirely on Fedora, the Summit is focused on Red Hat.
Therefore that kind of event needs to be closely coordinated with the
people in charge of ensuring the Summit generates effective coverage
for the company.

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