On 06/27/2011 05:14 PM, inode0 wrote:
I planned to stay out of this thread largely because I don't
really
think a public vote of all ambassadors really makes much sense.
i also think a public vote does not make sense - but a public
communitcation to evaluate the candidates, is showing that we care for
the bids
However I do agree with Igor here. I helped a little bit with the
last
LATAM organizational meetings concerning site selection and
sponsorships and I found this spreadsheet very difficult to make sense
of as I think most people did. Not only are most of the listed items
not something easy to determine from far away but the categories being
used didn't really capture the things we felt were important (not that
the things listed weren't important).
ok - i love to quantify things ;) - but i am not always right - i
thought it was a good idea to have facts(and find new facts) as a base
for this decission and take the other things you mention later in your
mail as further "weight" in the one or other direction.
Part of selecting a site is answering questions like:
How much would a FUDCon in this area improve Fedora participation in the region?
How much would a FUDCon in this area result in actual productive work
being done during the event? Shortly after the event? Long term?
Perhaps if FAmSCo was given some guidance about what the Fedora
Project hopes to achieve with a particular event
I can only give my perspective, and maybe i am alone with this opinion,
but from my experiences with EMEA and NA FUDCons - A FUDCon is a
Conference for People who already have something to contribute, want to
extend their horizon within the Fedora Project or just want to meet and
work together over a period of time.
Considering that i do not think that the main purpose of a FUDCon is to
attract new User or Contributors - once again - from what i experienced
a FUDCon is more something like a large FAD where multiple sessions,
multiple teams meet and work together.
So concentrate only on this questions i would asume(biased):
A FUDCon in India would be a "Getting Things Done" Event - because there
is a strong core community and long time contributors with already a lot
interesting sessions
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:India_2011#Sessions
For Beijing i can not answer if there is a large enough Fedora
contributor-base outside the Ambassadors - to work on something during a
3 day conference( from what i know we have a very commited but small base).
Or if the scope would be more a Fedora Introduction-Conference to
Students? If yes, this would be another concept of event from my pov!
And would need also other advertising.
But as said - maybe i am not right with my opinion because of wrong
impression.
cu Joerg
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