Here's an initial draft. Once we have consensus, we can move it over to the RHT press blog. I *think* I am a writer on that blog, so I can do the byline if Kerri et al wish. I wrote this from a personal viewpoint, since that is the flavor at www.press.redhat.com, which I happen to agree with. :) But the facts should be general. Also, if anyone has a better approach, go for it! In fact, we could publish several postings from several perspectives. ### begin The <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon";>FUDCon</a> (Fedora User and Developer Conference) has once again sprung to life, this time coming to Raleigh, NC 11 to 13 January 2008 for a meeting of the minds near Red Hat HQ. <a href="http://barcamp.org/FUDConRaleigh2008";>Sign up</a> is easy and <em>zero cost</em>. If you can get yourself to Raleigh, you are welcome to attend. We're serious. Come. Started a few years ago as a grassroots conference with a bootstrappers budget, FUDCon has slowly grown in size and importance. These days at a FUDCon, decisions are made about the next few releases of Fedora, hackfests are held to produce code, content, and design, and leaders, doers, and users meet to talk about just what they want. <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon#Past_FUDCons";>Past FUDCons</a> were held in Boston (<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBoston2007";>2007</a>, <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBoston2006";>2006</a>, <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDCon1";>2005</a>), <a href="">Berlin</a>, <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBrussels2007";>Brussels</a>, <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConDelhi2006";>Delhi</a>, <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDCon3";>London</a>, <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDCon2";>Karlsruhe</a>, and <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF8";>virtually</a>. At FUDCon Boston 2007 we had what I felt was one of our most successful FUDCons. The conference sessions were held as a <a href="http://barcamp.org";>BarCamp</a>-style, with session topics and schedule finalized the morning of the event. Over the weekend we held a big hackfest, with hacks held by everyone from <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure";>Fedora Infrastructure</a> to <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging";>packagers</a> doing final reviews for a merged Core and Extras. For me, the hackfest started Saturday morning and finished Sunday night when we all started to fall asleep in someone's hotel room. The hackfest event I was most involved in resulted in a new, streamlined process for <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join";>joining Fedora as a contributor</a>. We worked out the target audiences via use cases on a whiteboard with comments from Fedorans who joined us or happened to be in our corner of the room, and while <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MairinDuffy";>Mo</a> drew up the cool icons, I whipped together the wiki pages to make it all happen. By the next day we were announcing new pages and a new process for all projects to follow, helping to improve new contributors joining experience. At previous FUDCons, this happened, and so did that. At LinuxTag FUDCon, organizers did that, and this was the result [[Help with more cool FUDCon history.]] While I can't make any <em>forward looking statements</em> for the Project in general, the future of FUDCon is definitely looking good to me. One thing I'd like to hear about is a more fixed schedule for at least some of the FUDCons, such as the one(s) held in the United States. Bio -- Karsten Wade is a Fedora Project Board member, currently leads the Fedora Documentation Project, and works as a developer community manager for Red Hat. ## 30 ## -- Karsten Wade, Developer Community Mgr. Dev Fu : http://developer.redhatmagazine.com Fedora : http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg key : AD0E0C41
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