On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Scott Dowdle wrote:
MY MAIN POINT IN SENDING THIS EMAIL IS... how many enjoyed it and
would like to use it for Fedora?
My only regret though is that the event was outsourced to
virtualevents365.com (this was my first use of their service) and that
it, I assume, is a closed service/product... and based strongly on
Flash.. If there were unresolved concerns about using
virtualevents365.com for a Fedora virtual conference, maybe Fedora
could setup up a DimDim server (
http://www.dimdim.com/) as an almost
suitable substitute that is much more open/free?!?
The things that are actionable here are:
(1) Figure out if DimDim is in a state where we could successfully use
it to try out a Fedora-like virtual event.
(2) Depending on the answer, do one or more of the following:
* Put together an event in DimDim, just because it would be interesting.
Anyone care to volunteer to look into this?
* Work on making DimDim better upstream.
* Put together a virtual event on IRC. We already know that Fedora
Classroom is a successful virtual education model. We did an online
FUDCon a few years ago, and I think we've learned a lot since then that
would make for a good event, especially if it was one day with a strong
focus, etc.
--Max