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* London: starts at 33 euros
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* Liverpool: starts at 44 euros


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Location

About Dublin

Dublin is the largest city of Ireland. It is a primate city with an urban population of over 1 million, containing almost 25% of the country's population. Dublin is situated near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey, and at the centre of the Dublin Region.

The FUDcon 2011 is planned to be right before the Red Hat Partner Summit 2011.

Reference Links

Date

  • June 3-5 2011 FUDCon EMEA 2011
  • June 5-8 2011 Red Hat Partner Summit 2011

Transportation

Major Local Airports

Dublin Airport (Airport Code: DUB) is the major airport servicing the eastern part of Ireland.

Local Mass Transit

Dublin Bus operates in the bigger area around Dublin and Bus Éireann serves .

Ferries

There are ferries from the England and France to Dublin (eg. http://www.irishferries.co.uk).

Trains

Irish Rail connects all major cities of Ireland.

Transportation to Event

Costs from US

  • New York:
  • Bosten:
  • Washington:
  • Los Angeles:

Costs from Italy

  • Milan:
  • Rome:

Costs from France

  • Paris: starts at 60 Euros
  • Lyon: starts at 250 Euros

Costs from Switzerland

  • Basel: starts at 170 euros
  • Zurich: starts at 120 euros
  • Geneva: starts at 120 euros

Costs from Germany

  • Frankfurt:
  • Berlin:
  • Hamburg:

Costs from the UK

  • London: starts at 33 euros
  • Liverpool: starts at 44 euros


Possible venues

Red Hat Partner Summit 2011 willl take place at the Convention Centre Dublin

See Cons for a comment about this.


FUDPub Options

Dublin Pub Scene will definitely guide us to a nice location.

About the Organizers

The two responsible persons have plenty of experience in organizing events at remote location.

  • GeroldKassube - Organized several FADs, Fedora presences at big linux events (LinuxTag 2006-2009), and the FUDCon Berlin 2007 and 2009
  • FabianAffolter - Involvement in planning and organizing different Fedora events (incl. FUDCon Berlin 2007 and 2009, LinuxTag Berlin, OpenExpo Switzerland, LinuxDay Austria)

Deadlines

  • -

Pros and Cons of Proposed Location

Pros

  • A clear signal from Red Hat that they care about Fedora. It would be a cooperation of Red Hat and Fedora.
  • Administrators, system engineers, solution architects, and other will maybe join to see what happened in Fedora in the near future that will land in RHEL. FUDCon will have a new audience.
  • Plenty of Red hat people will attend the Summit.
  • One time trip costs (for at least Red Hat employees).
  • There are universities at Dublin (Dublin City University and University College Dublin) even if we know that it's hard to attract students.
  • Fedora presence near/at an important Red Hat event.
  • There is a Red Hat Training Centre at Dublin (use space there?).
  • We can use the Red Hat channels (marketing, press, etc.) to reach people.
  • Share and save costs because of bigger contingent of rooms.
  • Alan Cox is living in the UK and some other important people like Richard Hughes or Dave Jones.
  • It will be easy to find a (FUD)Pub there.

Cons

  • It will be hard piece of work to convince Red Hat to let Fedora stand side-by-side with RH.
  • Costs are high because the Hotel and the Convention Center are business-style and not really for Community events (if we share the locations with the summit).
  • It will be a long week if people attend RH Summit and FUDCon.
  • There are no active local Fedora contributors (as far as I know). Maybe UK Ambassadors will give us a hand.
  • It needs a very good communication between Red Hat and the Fedora Community to make most benefit.