On 7/12/05, Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 13:39 +0200, Alex Maier wrote: > > > I am organizing the booth for Red Hat at LinuxWorld Expo, and my idea > > was to piggyback a FUDCon on LWE UK. The event is on October 5-6, and > > takes place in London, Olympia. > > So we're not for FUDCon III happening in San Francisco in August then? > Or is this FUDCon IV? I do not know about SF for sure, but in any case October is well after that and in Europe, which means it will be drawing on a completely different audience. > Keeping in mind October is 4Q right, so thats a new clean slate on the > budget... This helps us too. Fresh quarter, fresh money :) > > On my side, I promise undivided attention and all support I can give, > > including lobbying Red Hat into giving us some money for this FUDCon, > > like they did for the FUDCon II. > > Yes, if we can garner the speakers, and there's definitely an active > community in London/UK for Fedora users, I'm sure I can give you at least five names off the top of my head, all of whom are based in Europe and will be cheap to fly in, and I am sure we can round up a few more--we only need ten speakers and one or two keynotes to fill the program. Here is who i think we should ask to speak: Alan Cox Steven Tweedie Mark McLoughlin Caolan McNamara Daniel Veillard I assume Michael Tiemann will be there, so here's a keynote number one. Feel free to add names, including your own :) a -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
