On Monday, April 11, 2011 09:13:46 AM seth vidal wrote: > 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! > > Do we have any contributors who are: > 1. troubled by coming to the US and having their fingerprints taken? > 2. find difficulty traveling to the US due to their country of origin? > > The reason I bring this up is that July can be comfortable or can be > damned uncomfortable in huge swaths of the US. And therefore maybe we > should consider some place further north in north america, like canada > somewhere? > > then people coming from outside of the US won't have to go through as > much rigamarole and possibly we all won't have to sweat nearly as much. > > thoughts? That only works if they can get flights to Canada that are not routed though the US, if you land in a US airport even for transit you must go though immigration. you can not just transit though the US. Dennis
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