Fedora 8's FUDCon

[Scott Berry]

Max,

Where would I find the list of suggestions for F8.  I would be interested in 
reading what you have planned so far.

Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Max Spevack" <mspevack at redhat.com>
To: <fedora-devel-announce at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 5:41 PM
Subject: Fedora 8's FUDCon


> Yesterday the Fedora Board made the decision not to hold an in-person 
> FUDCon for F8.  Like you, I'm a disappointed, but I'm also excited for us 
> to try out an organized, weekend-long virtual hackfest (more below).
>
> The Board also began planning for the F9 FUDCon, which would be held 
> around January or February 2008.  This earlier planning should give us 
> time to resolve the kinds of problems we've faced with this short-notice 
> FUDCon.
>
> There's a couple of reasons for the cancellation of the Fedora 8 FUDCon.
>
> The first is the most obvious of all -- we have been unable to secure a 
> location that could offer us a place for both a FUDCon and a hackfest. 
> Additionally, the administrative overhead for putting on a FUDCon is very 
> high.  Becoming a FUDCon event planner becomes a full time job for a 
> couple of people in order to make the event happen. Especially this late, 
> just getting the logistics for a FUDCon worked out would take up lots of 
> people's time that we can't really afford.
>
> Also a factor is the financial cost of a FUDCon.  With the comparatively 
> smaller scope of Fedora 8, it seems wise to save money now by not going 
> through the whole FUDCon process, and allowing the financial and budget 
> planners to have more opportunity to make a larger commitment to Fedora 9. 
> Fedora 9 will be a bigger release, and I'd rather have one really good 
> FUDCon and hackfest then, than try to do two of them on the cheap.
>
> The feature list for Fedora 8 is coming together very well, and we're 
> planning over the next few weeks how we can do a virtual hackfest for F8. 
> The idea is to pick some days, probably the same weekend (4, 5 August), 
> and organize energy around people having an IRC-based hackfest that 
> weekend.
>
> We can capture some of the energy that would come from a hackfest, but in 
> a way that has significantly less overhead and organizational costs.
>
> Part of the danger of trying to plan and discuss things in public from the 
> very beginning is that when you're forced to pull the plug on something, 
> you have to send out emails like this.  I'm willing to accept that, 
> because overall I think we get a bretter experience for everyone by doing 
> our planning in the open.
>
> Sorry, folks, for the short notice coming and going!  We really appreciate 
> your understanding, flexibility, good ideas, and patience.
>
> --Max
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