two thoughts, both selfish :)mizmooseDecember 16 2011, 21:35:24 UTC
1) The Ohio LinuxFest has been trying to get RH to show us some real love for YEARS. Last year (2010) one of our keynotes ("Monty" Montgomery, the creator of Ogg among other fun things) was a RH employee, and it was a struggle to get them to even cover his travel costs. Forget about any sort of sponsorship, booth, or any other kind of actual representation.
OLF gets dismissed by some of the biggies because we started out -- 10 yrs ago -- as a meeting of Ohio based LUGs. Now we're a full 3 day conference with over 1000 attendees a year. Yes, we're bigger than LISA. So there. And, get this -- surveys show that although our talks are more ATC than LISA [we cover just about anything FOSS], most of our attendees claim to be system or network administrators.
If you have any insight on how to get RH to pay more attention to us, let me know. Bug me offline if you'd like.
2. And if you'd been coming down to OLF you coulda heard maddog talk about Project Caua for the past 2 yrs. :-P. This past event he gave me a bottle of his own home-brewed Project Caua beer, which I promptly shared with the rest of the committee and a few special friends. And it was YUMMY.
Re: two thoughts, both selfish :)unzeugmaticDecember 16 2011, 21:41:19 UTC
Moose: There's actually been some serious discussion recently on the internal employee general mailing list about increasing Red Hat's support for and representation at conferences. OLF wasn't mentioned specifically, but as a general subject this is on the table, and others have expressed similar frustrations to yours (some of those others being Red Hat employees). For now (I've got a boatload to do before our holiday shutdown, having just been out for 10 days) I'm just going to add this topic to the list I keep at my terminal that I update every couple of days, so things don't get lost from it they just sometimes remain on the list for an absurdly long time. I'll have to think about this -- who to approach and how.
OLF gets dismissed by some of the biggies because we started out -- 10 yrs ago -- as a meeting of Ohio based LUGs. Now we're a full 3 day conference with over 1000 attendees a year. Yes, we're bigger than LISA. So there. And, get this -- surveys show that although our talks are more ATC than LISA [we cover just about anything FOSS], most of our attendees claim to be system or network administrators.
If you have any insight on how to get RH to pay more attention to us, let me know. Bug me offline if you'd like.
2. And if you'd been coming down to OLF you coulda heard maddog talk about Project Caua for the past 2 yrs. :-P. This past event he gave me a bottle of his own home-brewed Project Caua beer, which I promptly shared with the rest of the committee and a few special friends. And it was YUMMY.
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