Hi, Q: there are rumors FUDCon EMEA gets also cancelled for this
br gnokii 2013/4/16 Ruth Suehle <rsue...@gmail.com> > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:45 PM, inode0 <ino...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For me and probably others this name conjures up memories of deadlocks >> and head scratching trying to figure out how multiple processes came >> to each hold an exclusive lock on the same file. While the >> possibilities for jokes here are plentiful, is the name actually >> intended to mean something to those who see it? >> > > Yes. The idea sprung from the fact that Fedora and the people who > participate in the project encompass so much more than just an interest in > Linux. Flock is the place you meet with other people (friends! one of those > four Fs!) of the Fedora community who share whatever your interest is, > whether that’s the kernel or the cloud, hardware or UX design, whatever > else. We flock together. > > And bonus, no more having to answer, "Why does your conference have FUD in > the name?" > > Those of you who think it's easy coming up with a new name a)should have > said so any number of times I've asked around since FUDCon and b)should > spend an afternoon trying to think of good names that aren't already in use. > > To answer Eric's questions: > > Charleston because someone has space for us. We explored other options, > and they fell through. There hasn't exactly been a long line of placing > waiting to host FUDCons the last few years. If this goes well, perhaps next > year we'll have more money to invest in conference space. However, the more > money spent on that is less money that can be put into bringing > contributors to us. It also, as Tom points out, is a place people might > actually want to go in August. No offense to Kansas, but it's time for > somewhere fun! > > As for timing and openness and speed and all that... budget held us up, > and we really wanted this to happen as soon as possible after release to > increase the productivity of preparing for Fedora 20. Without knowing > whether we had any money at all, it's next to impossible to start planning > anything. I've been thinking of this as sort of the "soft launch" of the > event. Because of the time frame and because we've already had a FUDCon > this year, I expect it to be smaller than next year's. But I also hope that > we'll have a lot of people excited about the change and the opportunities > it will give us as well as to be able to say "I was at the first one." > > HTH. > Ruth > > _______________________________________________ > fudcon-planning mailing list > fudcon-planning@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning > -- make me rich, buy my Inkscape book http://is.gd/yq5OD0 ;)
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