On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Ruth Suehle <[email protected]> wrote: > tl;dr: Planning meeting for the new event, tomorrow at 2 p.m. Eastern, 6 > p.m. UTC in #fedora-meeting-2
Unfortunately this conflicts with the Fedora Board meeting at the same time and I'm guessing at least several Board members are interested in attending this. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I apologize again to those of you who feel left out of the process of > planning Flock, the new style of FUDCon, which began with Robyn's post last > July (http://wordshack.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/the-future-of-fudcons/) and > has been discussed in bits here and there on and off since then. The reality > of it has happened very fast because of how late in the calendar year Red > Hat budgets are approved--in other words, we didn't even know if there was > money for it until very recently. That means in order to make it even > vaguely possible based on Robyn's vision of coming together at a better > point in the release cycle, we've had to move very, very quickly. > Conferences don't happen overnight. That doesn't mean we don't need more > help--quite the opposite--or that we're trying to hide things, so here's the > next step. > > We are very nearly guaranteed a (free! yay!) location; they've just asked > for a few more days to be absolutely certain they can give us the space we > need. Meanwhile, we can talk about the next most important thing: the call > for submissions. > > Barcamps are awesome, but let's be honest--most people know before they get > there what talk they're going to pitch. So let's do it that way. Let's know > what the schedule is before we get there. If for nothing else, we get back > several hours of the schedule that we use making pitches and building a > schedule. Being honest we should note that the real point of barcamps is to let the attendees choose the talks available to them rather than leaving that to a committee of three people who don't know who will be attending when the selections are made and may or may not know what talks attendees would like to see. Barcamps do have issues and while I'm not objecting to dropping them from the program there is a cost to doing so. > Discuss potential tracks and methods tomorrow at 2 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. UTC > in #fedora-meeting-2. Good luck to everyone who can attend this meeting and help make it a success. I'd like to just mention my biggest concern with the format proposed although I'm sure those doing the planning have considered it already. If the conference + hackfests run Friday Aug. 9 through Thursday Aug. 15 when you add travel days on the ends we are asking contributors to miss 7 work days. Ignoring cost implications I know many people simply can't take 7 work days off to attend something like this. John _______________________________________________ fudcon-planning mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning
