On Wed, Jan 11, 2017, at 12:10 PM, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > Matthew Miller píše v St 11. 01. 2017 v 05:54 -0500: > > 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? > > Yes, something like this. But the combination has to make sense. > Upstream projects who are important for Fedora and Fedora is important > for them are ideal. Organizing events together with for example other > distributions IMHO doesn't work. A couple of years ago, they organized > LinuxDays (general Linux conference)+openSUSE Conference+Gentoo > miniconf in Prague and it didn't really work. The distro tracks didn't > really attract anyone from the general audience or from the other > distro tracks. > Then it's like the quote from Red Dwarf: > "Two bodies who share the same space but are unaware of each other's > existence." :) > > Fedora+CentOS may be a different case, but it also doesn't always have > to work, the two audiences also don't naturally melt in as I could > observe at DevConf.cz. Do we have any experience with adding a Fedora themed event to or on to a non-project focused event, like a developer conference? regards, bex _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list -- council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to council-discuss-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
