Great idea, especially the plan to start early.
Geoff Marr
IRC: coremodule
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 7:59 AM Amita Sharma <amsharma(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I like the idea. Involving an event team will surely help.
Thanks,
Amita
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 5:59 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
> We want to get this started now, so we don't end up running into last
> minute
> problems. Also, as I think many people know but was never officially
> announced, it'd be nice for Red Hat engineering travel budget if we end up
> in a cycle with expensive-travel EU Flock in a different year from
> expensive-travel San Francisco Red Hat Summit. (Next year's summit is
> Boston, so that doesn't constrain us, but the year after that shouldn't be
> in the EU.)
>
> We talked about all sorts of possibilities including doing an APAC or
> LATAM
> Flock, but the general consensus was that those areas need something more
> user-focused than Flock. It's additionally the case that having the
> confernece within reasonable ground transit distance from Brno means a lot
> of Red Hatters who work in that RH office can easily attend (this year
> there
> was a bus with, like, 50 people!) — and that has turned out to _not_ be
> the
> case with proximity to Westford/Boston. (That's not to say that we
> shouldn't
> do NA — see earlier point on travel costs — just that when we do EU,
> there's
> significant benefit in keeping to, say, 5 hour bus/train from Brno.)
>
> We also talked about relying more on the RH events team (hi Jen!) to
> provide
> their expertise in finding a venue. We've had some great success with this
> being community based, but also a lot of challenges. And we've definitely
> found the hotel-with-venue model to work better for us than finding
> university or other low-cost or donated space and then finding lodging
> secondarily. The events people have the contacts and expertise to do this.
> So, as we go forward, I'd like to let them help us with logistics in this
> way, while we as a community focus on the conference *content*.
>
> With all that in mind, I'm thinking of a model like this:
>
> 1. Fedora Council decides on a general region.
> 2. Events team comes back with several possibilities in that region.
> 3. We get community feedback on ability to attend and excitment for
> each of those, and return a ranked list to events team.
> 4. Fedora Council and events team pick final location.
> 5. Community people in or around that location who are able and willing
> to volunteer to help with logistics, finding awesome evening events,
> etc., are absolutely invited to work together.
> 6. Awesome Flock conference!
>
> And, actually, assuming something like this is what we want, in the future
> I'd like to get started even earlier than now, so we can do what many
> conferences do and announce the location for the next Flock at the end of
> each one.
>
> What does everyone think?
>
> --
> Matthew Miller
> <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
> Fedora Project Leader
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