Events FAD 2010 Action Items

Things that we want at every FUDCon

• FUDcon's need different regional foci
  • Based on dgilmore going to Brazil, 95-99% of the people were users, very different from a NA FUDCon. Developers disappeared and did not appear for the rest of the conference
• Encourage presentation of new/controversial/unprecedented ideas
• Reasonable walking distance and transit options
• Broad representation of areas within Fedora
• A place for parts of the Fedora community that do not ordinarily interact to do so
• Get developers talking to users - presenting information and education
• A suffciently wide variety of people from around the region in order for people that do normally see each other to do so.
• Some sponsorship available for attendees
  • At least one person should be sponsored, so that someone that is not otherwise able to get there should be able to get there
• Social event for attendees - a way for people to interact that is not around a keyboard
• Good, reliable Internet connectivity at site, as a variable value depending on region.
  • How do we gauge this?
  • Minimum from facility is 10Mbps (this would be in NA)
  • At other conferences,
• Options for diniing around the site, taking into account various dietary restrictions and variety.
• Variety of room capacities and configurations
  • One of the rooms must a large auditorium that will seat everybody registered.
  • Sufficient A/V support at negligible cost

RFE's

• Make North American FUDCon 4 days long
  • This will fix:
    • Make BarCamp two days
    • Fewer simultaneous BarCamp tracks
  • This might fix:
    • Clearly defined user and developer tracks
    • Developers one day, users other day

• Welcome packet at the hotel
  • This will fix:
    • Start on time all the time
  • This might fix:
    • People showing up on time

• Admin staff
  • This will fix:
    • Tour guides so that new users don't get lost

• Add women's shirt sizes
  • This will fix:
    • No women's shirt sizes at previous FUDCon's

• Conference software
  • This will fix:
    • Online registration
    • Wiki no longer workable
  • This might fix:
    • Better organized content in advance (while preserving BarCamp)
    • Participatory limits, do we need them? (i.e. SW may allow us to declare slots and not have too much content for our audience/time)
    • Budget process/travel sponsorship (FIXME, Mel: What does this mean?)

• FUDcon Marketing Plan
  • This will fix:
    • More exposure to outside folks
  • This might fix:
    • Online survey available at the event
    • Survey before and after
    • Effective questions for the survey

• Have a "Family Friendly" owner (Karsten + Mel willing to kick off?)
  • Maybe fix
    • Be Family friendly