FUDCon Proposal

[Steve Dickson]

Mike McGrath wrote:
> 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.
+1 for Chicago in June...  Everything, including hotels,
conferences rooms, and food and airports are reachable from
the "L" (i.e. the city trains). Plus flying to either ORD or MDW
is pretty easy, usually direct...

steved.