On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 07:04 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > I'd like to get feedback on a possible thought around FUDCon. I've > spoken with some folks about it in passing but I think it might be > worthwhile to bring up as an idea for pondering. > > The idea is fairly simple: Trying out the idea of having a US-based > "worldwide" FUDCon for a year. I think we had a great deal of success, > and quite a bit of added productivity, in bringing in a handful of > contributors from other regions for the Tempe FUDCon just a few months > ago. I believe that adding larger numbers of contributors from other > regions might help to scale that productivity and "getting things done" > in a great way. > > I'd suggest that this would work in the following way: Rather than have > the NA FUDCon in Q4 of Red Hat's 2012 fiscal year (December 2011 - > February 2012), we allocate Q4 budget, plus the majority of next year's > budget for ALL FUDCons, towards a FUDCon in sometime between March and > July of next year (2012). We still use the regional money for the > 2012-2013 fiscal year by region, ie: 20k for bringing in folks from > Europe, etc. I think we could bring in a BOATLOAD (or airplane-load, I > suppose) of regional folks for that money. > > And then shift back to having regular regional FUDCons the following > year, and then possibly back to another worldwide fudcon the year > following that, depending on success/fail. > > (This might also have the benefit of having fudcon in the US in a season > that, quite frankly, doesn't suck for travel with snow.) > > Thoughts, comments, flames? I think it's worthwhile to at least consider > the idea. I realize that we already have had the deadline pass for > submitting bids for a FUDCon in NA late this year/early next year, > though I suppose it's not entirely set in stone. Pros/cons welcome! > > -Robyn Sounds like an interesting possibility. If you do this, I'd like to suggest that the worldwide FUDCons be specified as NA-based rather than US-based, because there are some in the community (Alan Cox comes to mind, and other too) who flat-out refuse to travel to the US because they are not confident that they are welcome due to their work with cryptography and/or US-patent-encumbered and/or DMCA-related technologies (or simple visa issues) - no one wants to risk being the next Dmitry Sklyarov, for example. Occasionally hosting the worldwide FUDCon outside of the US would permit these people to attend, and I think that FUDCon Toronto proved that it's not necessarily more expensive to "go north". -Chris _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
