On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Brian Exelbierd <bex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? We do not. josh _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list -- council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to council-discuss-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
