On 24.10.2007 19:10, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > Take a look: > http://gregdek.livejournal.com/ > The text: > === > > Max and I just spent a half-hour with the lovely and talented Leigh Day. > She is the guru of Red Hat PR. She is also the person in charge of the Red > Hat Summit. The topic of our discussion: the future of FUDCon. [...] Looks good in general -- just one thing I tend to think is not that ideal: > 1. Next proposed FUDCon: January 11-13, 2008, at Red Hat HQ in Raleigh. > Yeah, not that exciting, but we have the space, we have the time to make > it happen, it's at a reasonably good time in the Fedora cycle, and Max and > I know all the best bars. > > 2. Next proposed FUDCon after that: June 18-21, 2008, in Boston, at the > Hynes Convention Center. Associated with the Red Hat Summit, but without > the hefty fees. :) Attendance free to all community folks. At a *really* > good time in the release cycle. > [...] > 4. In future, there will always be a FUDCon in December (about 6 weeks > after the annual Halloween release) and June (about 6 weeks after the > annual May Day release). I'd prefer something like two weeks after the planned release dates -- then the release should be out, we hopefully have some fresh energy and ideas again for planing the next release, which IMHO would be way easier done on a FUDCon than via Mail and IRC. Yes, two week after a scheduled release bears the risk that we run into problems if we slip. Another good reason to not slip. ;-) Not sure how it's in the US, but in Germany a lot of people are really busy with preparing everything at home and at work for the winter holidays/Christmas. They also spend lots of their money for presents. IOW: I doubt that December is a good time for a conference. Considering the winter holidays it means that there are abut 8 -- 11 work weeks (beginning either from the FUDCon date in December or early January) until the Feature Freeze which afaics is planned about 8 - 9 weeks before the release, e.g. beginning or March. Not much time to realize great features that were discussed on a FUDCon. Cu knurd _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
