FUDCon

FUDCon: Fedora Users and Developers Conference

FUD: An acronym for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. A typical tactic used by the opponents of open source to prevent its widespread adoption.

Con: In opposition or disagreement with; against.

FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference. FUDCon is a combination of sessions, talks, workshops, and hackfests in which contributors work on specific initiatives. Topics include infrastructure, feature development, community building, general management and governance, marketing, testing and QA, packaging, etc.

FUDCon is always free to attend for anyone in the world.

Upcoming FUDCons

• FUDCon LATAM 2010 - Location TBD - Date TBD
• FUDCon EMEA 2010 - Location TBD - Date TBD
• FUDCon Pune 2010 - Pune, India - Date TBD

Past FUDCons

2009

• FUDCon Toronto 2009 - Toronto, Canada - December 5 - 7, 2009
• FUDCon Berlin 2009 - Berlin, Germany - June 26 - 28, 2009
• FUDCon Porto Alegre 2009 - Porto Alegre, Brazil - June 24 - 27, 2009
• FUDCon Boston 2009 - Boston, MA - January 9 - 11, 2009

2008

• FUDCon Brno 2008 - Brno, Czech Republic - September 5 - 7, 2008
• FUDCon Boston 2008 - Boston, MA - June 19 - 21, 2008
• FUDCon Berlin 2008 - Berlin, Germany - May 30, 2008
• FUDCon Raleigh 2008 - Raleigh, NC - January 11 - 13, 2008

2007

• FUDCon Online 2007 - A virtual FUDCon - August 11 - 15, 2007
• FUDCon Berlin 2007 - Berlin, Germany - May 31, 2007
• FUDCon Brussels 2007 - Brussels, Belgium - February 23 - 24, 2007
• FUDCon Boston 2007 - Boston, MA - February 2 - 4, 2007

2006

• FUDCon Boston 2006 - Boston, MA - April 7, 2006
• FUDCon Delhi 2006 - Delhi, India - February 9, 2006

2005

• FUDCon London 2005 - London, UK - October 6, 2005
• FUDCon Karlsruhe 2005 - Karlsruhe, Germany - June 24 - 25, 2005
• FUDCon Boston 2005 - Boston, MA - February 18, 2005

Premier Fedora Events calendar

History of FUDCons & thoughts for the future.

Quarter	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	Ongoing
Mar-May (Q1)	Boston	Boston	Boston Brussels Berlin 1 FAD	(Berlin) 1 FAD	3 FADs	NA Ambassador FAD India/APAC/Australia?	India/APAC NA Ambassador FAD
Jun-Aug (Q2)	Karlshrue		Online experiment --> Classroom	Boston	Porto Alegre Berlin 4 FADs	Milan? Pune?	Zurich? India/APAC FAD?
Sep-Nov (Q3)	London		1 FAD	Brno 2 FADs	3 FADs	Pune? EMEA Ambassador FAD LATAM	LATAM EMEA Ambassador FAD
Dec-Feb (Q4)	Delhi	1 FAD	Raleigh	Boston 3 FADs	Toronto 2 FADs	NA LATAM Ambassador FAD	NA LATAM Ambassador FAD

Organizing a FUDCon

For organizers, we have an information page with tips on how to plan a FUDCon.

For a list of information about potential locations, please see (and/or edit) this page.

FUDCon design

We are in the middle of an Events FAD 2010 to discuss the design of FUDCon in the future. See design discussions at FUDCon design.