----- Original Message ----- > 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.
Yep, I'd like to be there too - before, we have Go/No-Go meeting (5 p.m. UTC), so maybe after Board meeting, it should be better ;-). Btw. thanks Ruth for organizing the meeting. Jaroslav > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ fudcon-planning mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning
