flock-planning May 2015

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Westford FlockBus round-up (so far)
by Paul W. Frields 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

Re: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flock2015-BostonBus So far it looks like Local Motion is the best bang for the buck. We used this vendor previously for Fedora's FUDCon Toronto 2009 conference and the experience was good. They were on time as needed, and the vehicle (56-passenger bus) and driver quality were good. The bus turned out not to be wifi-equipped, but this was because their outfitter didn't deliver in time as expected. That was six years ago, and they've upgraded several vehicles since then. The bus this time is a newer and different (40-seat) model. Local Motion says it's power and wifi equipped too. The one thing I don't know yet is whether we have to put the drive up on either end at the hotel -- but even if so, the cost would still be considerably below the other vendors. http://www.localmotionofboston.com/bus/motor-coach.htm I noted that one vendor (the one Westford uses for their shuttle service) didn't respond to my RFQ. I'm not terribly driven to track them down since we got several other responses. Are there any objections to going ahead with this vendor? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com

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FUDBus from/to Westford?
by Paul W. Frields 20 May '15

20 May '15

For FUDCon 2009 Toronto, we contracted a bus to shuttle people from the Westford, MA Red Hat office to the event, and back. The cost ended up more reasonable than flying so many people to Toronto. It also wasn't a terribly longer process once you factor in airports and other mass transit. This year Flock is an even shorter distance away (6 hours vs. 8-9). So a bus might again be reasonable, if the number of people attending warrants it. There are also different size buses. I think we had a large 50+ seater, but I believe there are smaller and cheaper ones available. Is there any idea yet how many people from Westford are attending Flock 2015? -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com

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Registration also closed?
by Matthew Miller 11 May '15

11 May '15

More timeline questions! Is pre-registration also supposed to be closed at this point (in addition to talk submission) or is that an accident? -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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Site upgraded
by Paul W. Frields 06 May '15

06 May '15

I upgraded the site to WP 4.2.1 which fixes critical security vulnerabilities. It seems to be working fine now. I'm also trying to get caching working because the admin dashboard is unbearably slow. ~60-90 seconds to get an admin page up is terrible. If the site has a temporary problem, don't fret, I'm working on it. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com

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More website changes
by Toshio Kuratomi 06 May '15

06 May '15

Now that the Talk submission deadline is passed, there's some text on the flock site that needs to be updated: http://flocktofedora.org/ * Green box that tell people to submit a talk * Just above the green box is a textual link to submit talk. * Menu bar has submit a talk as an entry. That links to the post about submitting talks which lists the dates of talk submission. Might be nice for users to remove the menu entry but probably the post is self-explanatory. https://register.flocktofedora.org/ * As Matthew noted, the registration app is saying that registration is closed. But the posting on the flocktofedora page says pre-reg should be open until July 17th ( Source: http://flocktofedora.net/hello-world/ ) -Toshio

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Talk Voting Deadline
by Pete Travis 05 May '15

05 May '15

Did I miss the deadline to vote on talks? It did not occur to me that I should vote before the end of the submission period, and now that I look for it, the flock site says voting closed 03 May but links to a nonexistent election in the elections app. --Pete

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Request: Please Be More Specific with Deadlines
by Tim Flink 04 May '15

04 May '15

I realize that I wouldn't have hit this had I not waited until the last minute to submit a talk proposal for Flock but as a future request - please be specific about deadlines. I assumed that "accepted through May 2" meant 23:59 EST at the earliest, not 23:59 UTC (I assume that's what the deadline was, anyways. It's closed now). Had I known that the deadline was UTC, I would have made sure to submit my proposal before that deadline. I may have missed something but I was not able to find a timezone reference for the deadline extension and the flocktofedora site still lists April 12 as the submission deadline. Thanks, Tim

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