Regarding:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-January/msg00017....
What do people think of having an Infrastructure-related FAD (Fedora Activity Day)? Something more along the lines of a hackfest rather than a barcamp style thing. Rel-Eng folks would be welcome too since I'm sure buildsystem stuff will get discussed.
Having it in Chicago or the vicinity would be cool since Mike McGrath and Dennis Gilmore are nearby (and I'm not that far off either). Or if you really wanted to get crazy we could have it in Des Moines and I'd be willing to take care of most of the legwork. I might even be able to get some conference space at $DAYJOB for relatively little cost (one bonus of this would be better-than-most-hotel wireless and Internet).
Timewise I'm thinking a Saturday in February...
Anyway, as long as it's no further from Des Moines than Chicago I'd make a serious attempt to attend... (It's really sucked that I haven't been able to get to a FUDCon).
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:55:25PM -0600, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
Regarding:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-January/msg00017....
What do people think of having an Infrastructure-related FAD (Fedora Activity Day)? Something more along the lines of a hackfest rather than a barcamp style thing. Rel-Eng folks would be welcome too since I'm sure buildsystem stuff will get discussed.
Having it in Chicago or the vicinity would be cool since Mike McGrath and Dennis Gilmore are nearby (and I'm not that far off either). Or if you really wanted to get crazy we could have it in Des Moines and I'd be willing to take care of most of the legwork. I might even be able to get some conference space at $DAYJOB for relatively little cost (one bonus of this would be better-than-most-hotel wireless and Internet).
Timewise I'm thinking a Saturday in February...
Anyway, as long as it's no further from Des Moines than Chicago I'd make a serious attempt to attend... (It's really sucked that I haven't been able to get to a FUDCon).
I talked to Mike about this very topic at FUDCon and assured him that we'd support such a FAD whenever someone is interested in planning it. This is exactly the kind of thinking that makes sense for FAD -- getting together people within a day's drive to work on the tasks in which they're regularly participating -- or in which they want to involve or interest other nearby community members. Huzzah!
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
Regarding:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-January/msg00017....
What do people think of having an Infrastructure-related FAD (Fedora Activity Day)? Something more along the lines of a hackfest rather than a barcamp style thing. Rel-Eng folks would be welcome too since I'm sure buildsystem stuff will get discussed.
Having it in Chicago or the vicinity would be cool since Mike McGrath and Dennis Gilmore are nearby (and I'm not that far off either). Or if you really wanted to get crazy we could have it in Des Moines and I'd be willing to take care of most of the legwork. I might even be able to get some conference space at $DAYJOB for relatively little cost (one bonus of this would be better-than-most-hotel wireless and Internet).
Timewise I'm thinking a Saturday in February...
So for me at least, February is out. The first weekend is to close to organize anything, the next two I'll have classes during the week and an exam on Friday and will likely be exhausted on the weekend. The last weekend (combined with march 1st) I have plans that I can't break :-/. While I'd hate for an entire event to hinge on me, it'd be kind of silly to have a small infrastructure hackfest in my home town that I can't attend :)
So +1 the following dates (pretend lodging and travel aren't an issue right now)
March 6-8 March 13-15 March 20-22 March 27-29
-Mike
Mike McGrath wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
Regarding:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-January/msg00017....
What do people think of having an Infrastructure-related FAD (Fedora Activity Day)? Something more along the lines of a hackfest rather than a barcamp style thing. Rel-Eng folks would be welcome too since I'm sure buildsystem stuff will get discussed.
Having it in Chicago or the vicinity would be cool since Mike McGrath and Dennis Gilmore are nearby (and I'm not that far off either). Or if you really wanted to get crazy we could have it in Des Moines and I'd be willing to take care of most of the legwork. I might even be able to get some conference space at $DAYJOB for relatively little cost (one bonus of this would be better-than-most-hotel wireless and Internet).
Timewise I'm thinking a Saturday in February...
So for me at least, February is out. The first weekend is to close to organize anything, the next two I'll have classes during the week and an exam on Friday and will likely be exhausted on the weekend. The last weekend (combined with march 1st) I have plans that I can't break :-/. While I'd hate for an entire event to hinge on me, it'd be kind of silly to have a small infrastructure hackfest in my home town that I can't attend :)
So +1 the following dates (pretend lodging and travel aren't an issue right now)
March 6-8 March 13-15 March 20-22 March 27-29
March 27 through Sunday March 29, 2009 is pycon and I know you and I are giving talks :-)
-Toshio
2009/1/19 Toshio Kuratomi a.badger@gmail.com:
March 27 through Sunday March 29, 2009 is pycon and I know you and I are giving talks :-)
Maybe arrange it around pycon? If a large group of folks are already going to be in Chicago for something else, it makes sense to piggy-back our efforts on it.
I might even attend, but I'll have to undergo Chicago decontamination quickly afterwards :)
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
So +1 the following dates (pretend lodging and travel aren't an issue right now)
March 6-8 March 13-15 March 20-22 March 27-29
March 27 through Sunday March 29, 2009 is pycon and I know you and I are giving talks :-)
True dat. SO thats out 9at least those exact days. jds's suggestion about combining with pycon might be good. Any thoughts on that? It might give us a bigger presence at pycon (we had a booth last year)
-Mike
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Mike McGrath mmcgrath@redhat.com wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
March 27 through Sunday March 29, 2009 is pycon and I know you and I are giving talks :-)
True dat. SO thats out 9at least those exact days. jds's suggestion about combining with pycon might be good. Any thoughts on that? It might give us a bigger presence at pycon (we had a booth last year)
Unless Fedora sponsored me to attend PyCon (I'd be willing to do some booth bunny duties) I don't think I could afford to go to PyCon itself. But we'd already have another Infrastructure person in the Chicagoland area. I'd be more worried about burning you guys out, especially if the FAD was _after_ PyCon.
Other than that, I'm willing to roll with it to see this thing happen! The first weekend in March (6th-7th) we're likely to have guests at the house, but I should be good with any of the other weekends.
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Mike McGrath wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
Regarding:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-January/msg00017....
What do people think of having an Infrastructure-related FAD (Fedora Activity Day)? Something more along the lines of a hackfest rather than a barcamp style thing. Rel-Eng folks would be welcome too since I'm sure buildsystem stuff will get discussed.
Having it in Chicago or the vicinity would be cool since Mike McGrath and Dennis Gilmore are nearby (and I'm not that far off either). Or if you really wanted to get crazy we could have it in Des Moines and I'd be willing to take care of most of the legwork. I might even be able to get some conference space at $DAYJOB for relatively little cost (one bonus of this would be better-than-most-hotel wireless and Internet).
Timewise I'm thinking a Saturday in February...
So for me at least, February is out. The first weekend is to close to organize anything, the next two I'll have classes during the week and an exam on Friday and will likely be exhausted on the weekend. The last weekend (combined with march 1st) I have plans that I can't break :-/. While I'd hate for an entire event to hinge on me, it'd be kind of silly to have a small infrastructure hackfest in my home town that I can't attend :)
So +1 the following dates (pretend lodging and travel aren't an issue right now)
March 6-8 March 13-15 March 20-22 March 27-29
So there's not been much response to this thread, is this a lack of interest, poor timing or just people that aren't sure yet?
-Mike
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