fudcon-planning March 2010

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calling for backup
by Max Spevack 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Today seems like a good day to write this blog post. Interested to hear people's feedback. http://spevack.livejournal.com/103305.html --Max

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FAD for User Driven Testing
by Tom Callaway 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Recently, I threw out an idea on how we might be able to do "User Driven Testing" with some new code on both the client and server side, to leverage our existing userbase to test package updates. I've documented the framework of this here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Driven_Testing As Colin Walters pointed out "This needs to go through the Fedora Design group.", and as Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote "I think it's big enough that it would be worth organizing a FAD for. It's exactly the kind of 'infrastructure of participation' solution that requires significant investment, but drives major change." I agree whole-heartedly with both of them. So, let's do a FAD and see if over the course of a few days (possibly as much as 5), we can hash out a solid design and the basis of an implementation. Schedule-wise, I'm looking at sometime between June and September 2010. If you're interested in participating, please either reply here, or let me know offlist. We'll figure out where the best location for this is when we have an idea of who wants to participate. Also, if you want to participate, but have specific dates which will not work, be sure to state that too. This isn't just for Red Hat folks either! If you want to help, please, chime in! Thanks, ~spot

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FUDCon Zurich wiki pages
by Max Spevack 30 Mar '10

30 Mar '10

As promised: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Zurich_2010 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Zurich_2010_planning Let's work from those pages, and especially on the planning page, start to get owners. I'll handle some larger communications to fedora-announce-list, internal Red Hatters in EMEA, etc. --Max

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FUDCon EMEA 2010 Event Location
by Marcus Moeller 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Hi all. Following rooms have now been confirmed at the ETHZ CHN building: C 14 - 172 seats E 46 - 60 seats G 22 - 24 seats F42 - 54 seats G42 - 60 seats G46 - 30 seats plus a lot of hacking areas (and the FrOSCamp exhibition space of course). Hopefully that fits :) Best Regards Marcus

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Re: [Ambassadors] calling for backup
by Paul W. Frields 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:27:27PM -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 09:57 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > [0] and if there was a portion of the bill someone else wanted to pick > > > up - for instance, I recall OLPC sponsored... I think it was FUDPub, > > > back in the January 2009 FUDCon in Boston - there's no "internal Red > > > Hat" stuff needed at all. > > > > We should continue to look for sponsorship opportunities for FUDCon > > where we can do similar partnerships. Those sponsorships increase > > when FUDCon results in some tangible gain, be it code or otherwise, > > that's of interest to a sponsor. If the planning group for a FUDCon > > event builds an objective for something deliverable like that, the > > potential's much greater for substantial sponsorship. > > I wonder if the community doesn't really see much of a difference > between sponsored and non-sponsored -- for example, all of the recent > FUDCons have had FUDPubs, so there's little visible difference if the > FUDPub is sponsored by another party or not (it doesn't "alter the > experience" from an attendee point of view). If the FUDPub is sponsored, > then obviously Fedora is able to do other things such as sponsor more > people to travel to FUDCon or to old additional FADs, but these are not > highly visible or obvious consequences of the sponsorship. > > I wonder if sponsorship would be more successful -- that is, more > attractive to sponsors -- if it had a more-visible impact on the event? In the past, we've offered sponsors the ability to have a planned presentation at the FUDCon event as well. That's more visible than FUDPub, since we often don't have a lot of opportunities available for flashy "Have a good time, this event is sponsored by ___" messages, since we don't usually control the venues to that extent. We've done co-branded swag too, such as T-shirts, which is sort of a continuing ad for the sponsor. -- 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/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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FUDCon India meeting logs
by Ankur Sinha 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

hey all, logs from the quick meet on FUDCon india :) Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-03-29/fedora-meeting… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-03-29/fedora-meeting… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-03-29/fedora-meeting… -- regards, Ankur - FAS : ankursinha ; franciscod @ Freenode - gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5E9BF638

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FUDCon India planning meet this Monday
by Yevlempy(Harsh Verma) 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Hi, We would like to extend/continue our disscussion regarding FUDCon planning in india. So that we can move forward with various responsibilities and goals. The agenda of the meeting: - Finalize location. - Narrow down the dates to a two week period. - Disscussion of collected agenda at[1]. - What's next? [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Pune_2010/Agenda Add your awesome idea here!! Timing : Would Monday at 2030 IST (1500 UTC) be okay? Please be there. We would really appreciate/like to know what you think. :) Thanks, --yev-- -- yevlempy | Harsh Verma Fedora Ambassador(INDIA) http://yevlempy.wordpress.com/

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Re: [Ambassadors] Hotel rooms
by Gerold 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '10

Wow, wow, wow Marcus, I'm really sorry and I also (like Max) need to apologize in public. For me and in my eyes FUDCON was always an event which was in the first line from Fedora People for Fedora people organized more or less from the Ambassador Crew (who organize events in generell) ... I didn't realize that this event can also be organized by external people. So please accept my apologize. I will shut up immediatly and you'll have my full support because I'm also located in Zurich. Regards Gerold Am Sonntag, den 28.03.2010, 19:43 +0300 schrieb Pierros Papadeas: > 2010/3/28 Gerold Kassube <gerold(a)lugd.org>: > > Marcus, ... > > > > when do you start beeing FEDORA Ambassador? > > > > Regards > > > > Gerold > > > > Am Sonntag, den 28.03.2010, 18:21 +0200 schrieb Marcus Moeller: > >> Dear Gerold. > >> > >> >> > Every Persons gets his own bill and should book by his own on the > >> >> > contingent you reserved with a wonderfull price (in the past) ... > >> >> > >> >> This is still valid till the end of the month (so for 2 days or so :)). > >> >> > >> >> > Some persons are sponsored by Red Hat. > >> >> > >> >> So they pay by their own and get the costs back? > >> >> > >> >> > Another question: Is it now fixed that you and Sandro will get the > >> >> > organisation of the FUDCON EMEA? > >> >> > >> >> As far as you do not want to join us, I guess yes. Maybe Max could confirm. > >> >> > >> > ^^ > >> > WOW, that sounds really great to me and confirm my biggest concerns. > >> > > >> > Because then, if I join that group (you, resigned Ambassador till a few > >> > days but come back with a wonderful statement and Sandro who resigned as > >> > Ambassador shortly before FOSDEM and Organisor of FROSCAMP) ... > >> > > >> > ... you will not get a FUDCON, you guess! > >> > > >> > So maybe it's better that I resign as Ambassador and guys like you do > >> > the job I've done so far. > >> > >> What caused resignment request has been solved now and mainly > >> concerned the stucked process on FUCCon planning. This has been > >> clarified on the Ambassadors list, already. > >> > >> You where not involved in planning nor seem to be interested in any > >> form (besides stating that you are the "boss") so far. So yes, you > >> maybe should decide to either step back a little or to join up, > >> > >> Best Regards > >> Marcus > > I don't like to interfere or something, but you guys have taken it to > another level. > > Each Fedora Contributor, contributes as much as he/she can and wants. > If someone doesn't want to contribute on something there is NO reason > to mock him, accuse him or something else. > > Please, stop being *bad* (to say the least) and continue your own way > within Fedora. Community has it's opinion for every one of us and we > don't need to express this opinion publicly in this way. > > If you feel that something has bothered you, concerning the > Ambassadors Group (or someone within Ambassadors) please state it in a > proper way and possibly bring it up to FAmSCo or in a meeting. > > Let's hope this ends here. > > In good will... let Fedora bloom :) > > ~π > -- > ambassadors mailing list > ambassadors(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors

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Hotel rooms
by Marcus Moeller 28 Mar '10

28 Mar '10

Dear Max, how many hotel rooms are necessary for FUDCon EMEA? Are double rooms with separated beds okay? How is booking handled? Should the rooms be booked on the company, the e.V., or maybe even your name? Best Regards Marcus

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Call for bids?
by Paul W. Frields 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

In about a month, Red Hat will be operating in its FY 2011. So I think it would behoove us to open up the bid process for the FUDCon for North America immediately. Are there any blockers to doing that right now? Second, I have a suggestion to make for the wiki but didn't want to just override the considered work of those who documented the organization process on this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon_organization_process In particular, the schedule says that FUDCon will take 8-15 hours of time up until 1 month before the event. Is that a bit high, or do we really mean a *maximum* of 8-15 hours a week? -- 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/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com

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