FUD: An acronym for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. A typical tactic used by the opponents of open source to prevent its widespread adoption. Con: In opposition or disagreement with; against. === FUDCon II, the second gathering of Fedora Users and Developers, will be held at LinuxTag, on the 24th and 25th of June in Karlsruhe, Germany. FUDCon II will feature presentations from prominent members of the Fedora Project, both from Red Hat and from the Fedora community. Attendance is free to anyone attending LinuxTag, and pre-registration to LinuxTag is also free; visit http://linuctag.org for more details. The FUDCon staff requests that those who plan to attend FUDCon II reply via email to fudcon-register@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thanks, and we'll see you in Karlsruhe! === Call for Presentations Working on an interesting project that uses Fedora? Looking to find contributors to help with your work, or just looking to share your project with the world? The Fedora Project is looking for presenters at FUDCon II. Any topic that relates significantly to the Fedora Project will be considered. Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words to fudcon-cfp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Submission deadline: Friday, April 22nd, 2005 Notification of decision: Friday, May 6th, 2005 Final version deadline: Friday, May 27th, 2005 === _____________________ ____________________________________________ Greg DeKoenigsberg ] [ the future masters of technology will have Community Relations ] [ to be lighthearted and intelligent. the Red Hat ] [ machine easily masters the grim and the ] [ dumb. --mcluhan
