FUDCon Marketing?

[John Poelstra]

Karsten Wade said the following on 12/12/2007 01:03 PM Pacific Time:
> Here's an initial draft.  Once we have consensus, we can move it over to
> the RHT press blog.  I *think* I am a writer on that blog, so I can do
> the byline if Kerri et al wish.
> 
> I wrote this from a personal viewpoint, since that is the flavor at
> www.press.redhat.com, which I happen to agree with. :)  But the facts
> should be general.  Also, if anyone has a better approach, go for it!
> In fact, we could publish several postings from several perspectives.
> 

It looks good.  I say send it out! Thanks for taking the time to write 
it up.

John

> ### begin
> 
> The <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon">FUDCon</a> (Fedora
> User and Developer Conference) has once again sprung to life, this time
> coming to Raleigh, NC 11 to 13 January 2008 for a meeting of the minds
> near Red Hat HQ.  <a href="http://barcamp.org/FUDConRaleigh2008">Sign
> up</a> is easy and <em>zero cost</em>.  If you can get yourself to
> Raleigh, you are welcome to attend.  We're serious.  Come.
> 
> Started a few years ago as a grassroots conference with a bootstrappers
> budget, FUDCon has slowly grown in size and importance.  These days at a
> FUDCon, decisions are made about the next few releases of Fedora,
> hackfests are held to produce code, content, and design, and leaders,
> doers, and users meet to talk about just what they want.
> 
> <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon#Past_FUDCons">Past
> FUDCons</a> were held in Boston (<a
> href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBoston2007">2007</a>,
> <a
> href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBoston2006">2006</a>,
> <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDCon1">2005</a>), <a
> href="">Berlin</a>, <a
> href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConBrussels2007">Brussels</a>, <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConDelhi2006">Delhi</a>, <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDCon3">London</a>, <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDCon2">Karlsruhe</a>, and <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF8">virtually</a>.
> 
> At FUDCon Boston 2007 we had what I felt was one of our most successful
> FUDCons.  The conference sessions were held as a <a
> href="http://barcamp.org">BarCamp</a>-style, with session topics and
> schedule finalized the morning of the event.  Over the weekend we held a
> big hackfest, with hacks held by everyone from <a
> href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure">Fedora
> Infrastructure</a> to <a
> href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging">packagers</a> doing final
> reviews for a merged Core and Extras.  For me, the hackfest started
> Saturday morning and finished Sunday night when we all started to fall
> asleep in someone's hotel room.
> 
> The hackfest event I was most involved in resulted in a new, streamlined
> process for <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join">joining Fedora
> as a contributor</a>.  We worked out the target audiences via use cases
> on a whiteboard with comments from Fedorans who joined us or happened to
> be in our corner of the room, and while <a
> href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MairinDuffy">Mo</a> drew up the cool
> icons, I whipped together the wiki pages to make it all happen.  By the
> next day we were announcing new pages and a new process for all projects
> to follow, helping to improve new contributors joining experience.
> 
> At previous FUDCons, this happened, and so did that.
> 
> At LinuxTag FUDCon, organizers did that, and this was the result
> 
> [[Help with more cool FUDCon history.]]
> 
> While I can't make any <em>forward looking statements</em> for the
> Project in general, the future of FUDCon is definitely looking good to
> me.  One thing I'd like to hear about is a more fixed schedule for at
> least some of the FUDCons, such as the one(s) held in the United States.
> 
> Bio -- Karsten Wade is a Fedora Project Board member, currently leads
> the Fedora Documentation Project, and works as a developer community
> manager for Red Hat.
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