FUDCon Proposal

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:10:52PM -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>
> > 1. Next proposed FUDCon: January 11-13, 2008, at Red Hat HQ in Raleigh.
> > Yeah, not that exciting, but we have the space, we have the time to make
> > it happen, it's at a reasonably good time in the Fedora cycle, and Max and
> > I know all the best bars.
>
> It's been a few years since I've been to Raleigh, so my memory isn't
> so fresh, but how close are hotels etc to the office ?

The hotel situation is meh.  But workable.

> > 2. Next proposed FUDCon after that: June 18-21, 2008, in Boston, at the
> > Hynes Convention Center. Associated with the Red Hat Summit, but without
> > the hefty fees. :) Attendance free to all community folks. At a *really*
> > good time in the release cycle.
>
> Just to clarify, this means Fedora people get free entrance to fudcon,
> not free entry to rhsummit right ?

That's what it means.  Although for certain community luminaries, I think 
we could provide entry to both.

> (as cool as that would be, I suspect the people organising the summit 
> might feel a little uneasy with a few hundred "oh yeah, I hack on 
> Fedora" people trying to blag their way in :-)

We'll keep that from happening.  :)

> My only issue with coupling it with the rh summit is that due to budget 
> constraints, not every engineer gets to go to the rh summit.  By 
> association, this now means "you don't get to go to fudcon either".

Not necessarily.  It means that:

a. The budget we have for FUDCons becomes more discretionary, since we're 
piggybacking all facilities;

b. We get the benefit of partner relationships, so it becomes much easier 
to hit up an Intel or an AMD for FUDCon funding.

In the end, FUDCon is all about the engineers.  No engineers, no FUDCon. 
Getting the best engineering talent to FUDCon from inside and outside Red 
Hat will remain, in my eyes, the highest priority.

--g

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