On Monday 17 July 2006 17:22, Diego Búrigo Zacarão wrote:
> 1) What's the best time to hold such an event
Well, I was looking at FUDCon web pages and (today) there is just one event
upcoming in Silicon Valley. On the last saturday I saw two events. Is the
San Francsico event cancelled?
Anyway, I think that in the beginning of the next year it's a good moment
to realize our event.
We will need to dedicate much time to plan all things and I think between
the March and May months it's the better time for everything to be done.
But it's just my opinion.
We have a kind of a problem here in Brazil: we have lots of events going on
every month. I say this because I'm helping organize (next year) an event on
brazil's northeast and we have to take really care when marking a date to
hold an event.
If we're gonna to hold the event in São Paulo (opinions below), I suggest to
hold it after the CONISLI (
http://www.conisli.org) in November. CONISLI will
be held on November 07 until 11. We can do the FUDCon one week later, in
November 18. Or maybe near it? November 12? (I vote for November 12, on
sunday, one day after CONISLI)
Why?
Because it is a main event here in Brazil and will publicize our FUDcon very
well too. It's pretty much like what Fedora did on LinuxWorld Expo earlier
this year in USA.
> 2) What's the best location to hold such an event
The better place, geographically talking, is in São Paulo. David and Hugo
can talk more about it because they living there.
+1 here, Sao Paulo is the main state to hold such an event. Many business and
users are located there. A good advantage is that Sao Paulo is really
accessible for other good states like Parana and Minas Gerais.
> 3) What's the expected turnout, how do we publicize?
Really I don't know. But we have good tools to explore and we start to have
an idea. I'm talking about our Discussion Lists and CMS (
www.projetofedora.org).
We would publicize in three events that we are participating: III Festival de
Software Livre da Bahia (August), ESLAM (Encontro de Software Livre do
Amazonas - October) and CONISLI (November).
Also in main Linux news sites, where we get most of the public.
> 4) What's the format?
Lectures? Discussion? Use cases? InstallFest? (only ideas)
One day should be enough for the initial event. A parallel InstallFest, a few
lectures. IMO, discussions will be important, as this is a FUDcon.
For example: We can hold a two-hour discussion where users can ask and talk
questions about the Fedora Project and the Fedora disitribution. We answer
and take notes about those and present later to the Project. A good feedback.
The lectures can be for all Fedora new tecnologies (SELinux, Xen, ne features
from FC6) and about the project as a whole (how to help, how to participate,
why participate?)
> 5) Who are the main people on the ground in Brazil who will be in
charge?
I intend to help how I can. :)
I can be of help too :-) But I vote for David being the "in charge" guy that
coordinates us - the organizers. Like a board of members with a chairman.
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