On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 08:32:32AM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > The schedule for FY2011 FUDCons will certainly be on our radar at the >> > Events FAD in a few weeks. But in advance of that I wanted to confirm >> > a couple things: >> > >> > * There are plans for only one FUDCon in the North America (NA) >> > region, as with all other regions. Although there will be a Fedora >> > presence at the Red Hat Summit 2010[1] in Boston in June, this >> > presence will not be a FUDCon event. I've finished a draft of >> > the vision for that event: >> > >> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Summit_2010 >> > >> > Now that I've finished a bit of prep work internally with the Red >> > Hat organizers, I'll share it with the Fedora Marketing and >> > Ambassador teams. >> >> I've mentioned this before on the mktg-list - is there any possible >> way that we could take advantage of press presence at the event and do >> a mini-interview session or panel or presentation of some sort (with >> shiny press kits, of course!)? F13 will have been out for about a >> month prior to RH Summit; it would be a great time to reinvigorate >> press / analysts and keep the train of coverage flowing. It would also >> be a great time to work on trying to educate press on some of the >> "oopsies" that have been made (on their part). > > I think that's a great idea, Robyn. I know that Kara Schiltz watches > this list, and we should get her involved in helping us plan that kind > of activity, whom we could reasonably invite, and what specific > information we want to address there. > > Also, at every Summit, typically in my role as FPL I do meet with > press and analysts separately to give some interviews both about the > current release and the project in general. We should definitely > consider how we could do that as a more community-centric event. But > we also need to be quite cognizant that, while we have separate FUDCon > events focused entirely on Fedora, the Summit is focused on Red Hat. > Therefore that kind of event needs to be closely coordinated with the > people in charge of ensuring the Summit generates effective coverage > for the company. > As someone who's gone to plenty of these types of events (although, mostly analyst days, but also end-user conferences as an analyst) - I can tell you that, from the press / analyst angle, they can get reeeeeeeally long and one just kind of fades into the other. If we can use the opportunity to be a little more exciting / fun / Friends (from the 4 F's) - I think we can make a good impression in a short amount of time, if we have the right format and, of course, approval :) Although, I have to say, having been to two RH Summits - they are definitely quite a bit more interesting and fun than the average conference I have seen. -Robyn > -- > Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ > gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 > http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ > irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug > _______________________________________________ > fudcon-planning mailing list > fudcon-planning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning > -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
