Max,
Where would I find the list of suggestions for F8. I would be interested in
reading what you have planned so far.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Spevack" <mspevack@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <fedora-devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 5:41 PM
Subject: Fedora 8's FUDCon
Yesterday the Fedora Board made the decision not to hold an in-person
FUDCon for F8. Like you, I'm a disappointed, but I'm also excited for us
to try out an organized, weekend-long virtual hackfest (more below).
The Board also began planning for the F9 FUDCon, which would be held
around January or February 2008. This earlier planning should give us
time to resolve the kinds of problems we've faced with this short-notice
FUDCon.
There's a couple of reasons for the cancellation of the Fedora 8 FUDCon.
The first is the most obvious of all -- we have been unable to secure a
location that could offer us a place for both a FUDCon and a hackfest.
Additionally, the administrative overhead for putting on a FUDCon is very
high. Becoming a FUDCon event planner becomes a full time job for a
couple of people in order to make the event happen. Especially this late,
just getting the logistics for a FUDCon worked out would take up lots of
people's time that we can't really afford.
Also a factor is the financial cost of a FUDCon. With the comparatively
smaller scope of Fedora 8, it seems wise to save money now by not going
through the whole FUDCon process, and allowing the financial and budget
planners to have more opportunity to make a larger commitment to Fedora 9.
Fedora 9 will be a bigger release, and I'd rather have one really good
FUDCon and hackfest then, than try to do two of them on the cheap.
The feature list for Fedora 8 is coming together very well, and we're
planning over the next few weeks how we can do a virtual hackfest for F8.
The idea is to pick some days, probably the same weekend (4, 5 August),
and organize energy around people having an IRC-based hackfest that
weekend.
We can capture some of the energy that would come from a hackfest, but in
a way that has significantly less overhead and organizational costs.
Part of the danger of trying to plan and discuss things in public from the
very beginning is that when you're forced to pull the plug on something,
you have to send out emails like this. I'm willing to accept that,
because overall I think we get a bretter experience for everyone by doing
our planning in the open.
Sorry, folks, for the short notice coming and going! We really appreciate
your understanding, flexibility, good ideas, and patience.
--Max
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