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FUDCon: Fedora Users and Developers Conference

FUD: An acronym for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. A typical tactic used by the opponents of open source to prevent its widespread adoption.

Con: In opposition or disagreement with; against.

FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference. FUDCon is a combination of sessions, talks, workshops, and hackfests in which contributors work on specific initiatives. Topics include infrastructure, feature development, community building, general management and governance, marketing, testing and QA, packaging, etc.

FUDCon is always free to attend for anyone in the world.

Upcoming FUDCons

See Premier Fedora Events for the calendar of upcoming FUDCons and FADs.

Past FUDCons

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

Organizing a FUDCon

For organizers (or potential organizers), we have an FUDCon:Organization page with tips on how to plan a FUDCon. This page also includes information about the FUDCon Planning FAD that is part of the process of planning a FUDCon.

For a list of information about potential locations, please see (and/or edit) this page.

Quarter 2010-11 2011-12
Mar-May (Q1) FUDCon NA Planning FAD FUDCon India/APAC/Australia
FUDCon NA Planning FAD
Jun-Aug (Q2) FUDCon Santiago
Possibly FUDCon Pune
FUDCon LATAM
FUDCon India/APAC Planning FAD
Sep-Nov (Q3) FUDCon EMEA (Milan?)
FUDCon LATAM Planning FAD
FUDCon Pune or FUDCon India/APAC Planning FAD
EMEA (Zurich?)
FUDCon LATAM Planning FAD
Dec-Feb (Q4) FUDCon NA
FUDCon EMEA Planning FAD
FUDCon India/APAC Planning FAD if it hasn't already happened
FUDCon NA
FUDCon EMEA Planning FAD

FUDCon design

We are in the middle of an Events FAD 2010 to discuss the design of FUDCon in the future. See design discussions at FUDCon design.