Great idea, especially the plan to start early. Geoff Marr IRC: coremodule
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 7:59 AM Amita Sharma amsharma@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@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:
- Fedora Council decides on a general region.
- Events team comes back with several possibilities in that region.
- We get community feedback on ability to attend and excitment for each of those, and return a ranked list to events team.
- Fedora Council and events team pick final location.
- 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.
- 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?
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