Formally announcing FUDCon: Paris and FUDCon: Lawrence.

news · May 9, 2012

As many of you know, FUDCon is the abbreviation for Fedora Users and

Developers Conference, an event we typically hold 4 times per year in

various regions of the world. These events are proposed and arranged

largely by Fedora contributors, and are designed to be events where

contributors and those new to Fedora can learn, share, hack, and

participate in various aspects of the Fedora Project.

It is with great pleasure that I am formally announcing two upcoming

FUDCons:

FUDCon for the EMEA region in 2012 will be held in Paris, France,

October 13-15, 2012 [1]. This particular event will be held over those

days in two locations; the first day, Saturday the 13th, will be held at

the Eurosites Georges V facility, in conjunction with the Open World

Forum (OWF) [2], and on the 14th and 15th at Universcience. I'd like to

thank Kevin Raymond and the rest of the FUDCon Paris team for putting

together this bid, and for working with OWF to procure space during that

event for the first day of FUDCon; I think that this will be an

interesting opportunity to showcase Fedora to a captive audience that is

passionate about open source. I would also like to thank the other

teams who submitted bids for the EMEA region.

The next FUDCon for North America will be held in Lawrence, Kansas, on

the 18th through 20th of January, 2013 [3], at the University of

Kansas. While you can peruse the bidding page [4] for details, I'd like

to note that Lawrence is home to many awesome things: It is the birth

place of the Django Project, was pinpointed as the "center of the earth"

in Google Earth, was the home of William Burroughs, is the location of

the awesomely-named Free State Brewing Company, has been named a top-ten

college town, and most importantly, is the collegiate location of our

resident Wiki Czar and Doer of Stuff, Ian Weller, who, as you may have

guessed, was also the author of this FUDCon bid. A big thank-you! to Ian

for volunteering to put this together.

FUDCon planning continues, in grand tradition, to be open to everyone

for participation; if you are interested in contributing to the

discussion or lending a helping hand, I encourage you to subscribe to

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