[Ambassadors] Fedora conference co-located with Linux Symposium?

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On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Matt Domsch <matt at domsch.com> wrote:
> Andrew Hutton caught me online earlier today and asked if Fedora would
> be interested in hosting a conference of any size, to run concurrent
> with the Linux Symposium (previously held in Ottawa) in Montreal 13-17
> July 2009).  Plenty of space is available for a 2-day concurrent
> conference, and he's working on chartered busses from several (nearby)
> cities such as Boston, Ottawa, and Toronto to ease getting to
> Montreal.
>
> This wouldn't be a Fedora 12 planning FUDCon as we've traditionally
> had such, given that mid-July is pretty late for such assuming we get
> back to our May 1 / October 31 release schedule.  But it could be an
> opportunity for Fedora-specific side-tracks to LS, or a hackfest, or
> any number of ways to use the time and space.  If we had 2 days and
> space for 100+ people in Montreal that week,, how could we use it?
>
> I'd like an interested Ambassador to step up and volunteer to run such
> an event.  Volunteers?

Wow, this is a great opportunity. We have some ambassadors on the
ground in Montreal so let's try to make this happen if we can.

John