On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:41:24AM +0100, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > > Finally, I believe these events do not need to be standalone. I > > think they can have greater impact when collocated with other > > conferences or run as "+1 days" to other events. While this > > shouldn't be a requirement, I think it is a good practice to > > encourage. > while there might some economies of scale and this option always looks > very appealing to people, I have almost never seen an event where it > brought a lot of benefit. The specialized co-located event never > attracted anyone from the larger event and people who came for the > specialized event were usually too busy to attend the larger event. > And if it's organized as "+1 day" event, it means people have to stay > longer to benefit from both, thus lodging costs go up. > I think the only exception was GNOME.Asia+FUDCon APAC 2014. Two smaller > events got together and created something big enough to attract > sponsors and visitors from far away. It also worked because > GNOME+Fedora is a combination that makes sense and there is an overlap > in contributors. I'm one of those who contribute to both. So, this argues against things like "Tack a FUDCon onto FOSDEM", but maybe we can do more combined events with other projects, making bigger-than-Fedora open source conferences where those don't already exist? -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list -- council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to council-discuss-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
