Events FAD 2010 Action Items

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?)
 * Maybe fix
 * Be Family friendly