On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 07:49 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: > > > However, I have some additional input here. For the Tempe FUDCon, we > made the case that we were having additional people from each region > come to participate to learn how to run a FUDCon, and to bring that > knowledge back to their respective regions. And to that, I say, > MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, we now have plenty of people with the knowledge. > And yet, for Blacksburg, we had numerous people applying from out of > the country, with requests like, "I'm coming to teach about X," or > "I'm coming to learn about how to run a FUDCon," "I'm coming to engage > with other people from the teams I work on," etc., without any very > specific, concrete deliverables. I think these requests (and grants) > need to be cut down drastically, or we should reconsider the idea of > just having one or two large fudcons a year, bring in as many people > as we can, and push people to enable smaller one-day events for > outreach in their regions. While reading your email I was thinking, what about inverting the process. Instead of saying: "I want to come because I have never been to a FUDCon and want to see how nice it is", you would nominate someone else: "I know XX wants to come but budget might be tight for him and I think he should have a chance to come. I want to meet in face to face and work with him on x, y and z". I realize nominations have pros and cons and can be circumvent (I request for you, you request for me), but maybe worth considering. Regards, Pierre _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
