Let's meet! (Marketing FAD 2010)

[Ryan Rix]

Hi,

Talking to Mel last night reminded me that the team needs to start getting the 
ball rolling on Marketing FAD.

We need to make a few decisions here for the FAD to happen, so that we can 
even start planning it: Where, who, when.

Who: Add yourself to the wiki if you want to attend, either in person or 
virtually. We currently have 9 in-person and one virtual attendee on the wiki 
page[1] Knowing the Who will make the Where easier.

Where: A few locations seem to make sense to me, feel free to throw out any 
others...

*Red Hat office in either Boston, MA or Raleigh, NC as we have attendees in 
the area (Mel for Boston, Max and Kara for Raleigh) and we have the benefit of 
having a Red Hat office, which would probably get us easy conference space.

*Las Vegas, NV was thrown out there; cheap hotels, cheap eats, LOTS of 
touristy things to do, lots of conference space. Of course, with it being 
Vegas, it may take some work to keep things on FAD topic :)

*Phoenix/Tempe, AZ as Robyn's an hour or two's drive from Phoenix, and I'm in 
Phoenix. We have _AMAZING_ weather in March (afaik, it's still cold and gross 
in Boston and possibly NC in March, it'll probably be in th 60-70°F range in 
the Phoenix area.) Tempe is close to at least two universities, one of whom I 
can get a contact at easily. I'm writing this email sitting in my back yard, 
in a tee shirt, if that helps explain how awesome the weather is in winter :)

*Portland: Portland is open-source friendly, and John Poelstra's centered 
there. They also have good coffee I hear, which would be a big plus for a 
Fedora event :)

When: Mel suggested a March time frame, which is pretty broad. My high school 
has spring break from Sat 13 to Sun 21, so any days in those time frames work 
best for me and (iirc) Robyn, as her children have those days off, too. Some 
questions: How many days? Do we want a leisure day? What works best for 
everyone else interested in attending?

Of course, these questions are avoiding the large and awesome topic, of "what"  
we want to do at this event? Mel said we wanted deliverables after the event, 
what deliverables do we want? Any other goals?

[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_FAD_2010

Ryan

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