FUDCon Proposal

[Mike McGrath]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 08:12 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:00:29 -0400
>> seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 00:20 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:10:52PM -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Take a look:
>>>>> http://gregdek.livejournal.com/
>>>>>           
>>>> Entirely reasonable.  
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> 4. In future, there will always be a FUDCon in December (about 6 weeks 
>>>>> after the annual Halloween release) and June (about 6 weeks after the 
>>>>> annual May Day release).
>>>>>           
>>>> Thoughts about locations on these?  Red Hat Summit has done a good job
>>>> moving around the US (Nashville, San Diego, next Boston), and
>>>> presumably the June RHS/FUDCon would move around too.  Will the
>>>> December one be constrained a) to the US and b) to a city with a
>>>> large Red Hat presence (Boston or Raleigh)?
>>>>         
>>> Maybe chicago. I think there's a rh office there but I'm not sure it's
>>> very large. It has mass transit, it's an actual city and it is
>>> equidistant from both coasts (roughly) for people coming from the US.
>>>       
>> Chicago would be good.  Chicago in June would be better than in
>> December though.
>>     
>
> Chicago's office has no space to hold any sort of conference. We'd need
> to find offsite facilities.
>   

Lots of universities around as well, I can ask around the University of 
Chicago if Chicago's a place we're seriously considering.

    -Mike