Events FAD 2010 Action Items
From FedoraProject
Things that we want at every FUDCon
- FUDcon's need different regional foci
- Based on dgilmore going to Brazil, 95-99% of the people were users, very different from a NA FUDCon. Developers disappeared and did not appear for the rest of the conference
- Encourage presentation of new/controversial/unprecedented ideas
- Reasonable walking distance and transit options
- Broad representation of areas within Fedora
- A place for parts of the Fedora community that do not ordinarily interact to do so
- Get developers talking to users - presenting information and education
- A suffciently wide variety of people from around the region in order for people that do normally see each other to do so.
- Some sponsorship available for attendees
- At least one person should be sponsored, so that someone that is not otherwise able to get there should be able to get there
- Social event for attendees - a way for people to interact that is not around a keyboard
- Good, reliable Internet connectivity at site, as a variable value depending on region.
- How do we gauge this?
- Minimum from facility is 10Mbps (this would be in NA)
- At other conferences,
- Options for diniing around the site, taking into account various dietary restrictions and variety.
- Variety of room capacities and configurations
- One of the rooms must a large auditorium that will seat everybody registered.
- Sufficient A/V support at negligible cost
RFE's
- Make North American FUDCon 4 days long
- This will fix:
- Make BarCamp two days
- Fewer simultaneous BarCamp tracks
- This might fix:
- Clearly defined user and developer tracks
- Developers one day, users other day
- Welcome packet at the hotel
- This will fix:
- Start on time all the time
- This might fix:
- People showing up on time
- Admin staff
- This will fix:
- Tour guides so that new users don't get lost
- Add women's shirt sizes
- This will fix:
- No women's shirt sizes at previous FUDCon's
- Conference software
- This will fix:
- Online registration
- Wiki no longer workable
- This might fix:
- Better organized content in advance (while preserving BarCamp)
- Participatory limits, do we need them? (i.e. SW may allow us to declare slots and not have too much content for our audience/time)
- Budget process/travel sponsorship (FIXME, Mel: What does this mean?) (IIRC this meant that software might automate the process of budget and sponsorship tracking -- nothing exists currently to do all this, but "could be developed." --pfrields 15:12, 2 February 2010 (UTC))
- FUDcon Marketing Plan
- This will fix:
- More exposure to outside folks
- This might fix:
- Online survey available at the event
- Survey before and after
- Effective questions for the survey
- Have a "Family Friendly" owner (Karsten + Mel willing to kick off?)
