Flock

[spot]

At the end of FUDCon Lawrence, one thing was obvious to me: Bar Camp style conferences were not working for Fedora. Attendance was dropping, we were seeing the same talks over and over again, and we were spending a large chunk of time just shuffling these same talks into a schedule. It was a sort of echo chamber, where the same people presented the

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Tom, Robyn, Ruth, Josh, and the many others that put Flock together -- Thank you!

A question about the rotation of Flock: how many regions will it be rotating through? NA and EMEA for sure, but will it also go to APAC? If it rotates through the three regions, will go NA-EMEA-APAC or NA-EMEA-NA_APAC?

[spot]

Right now, I think we do not have plans to look outside of NA and EMEA, but we're always open to suggestions.

[muerte]

It's a lot of work, but the community benefits greatly from it. Thank you for all your hard work.

[zaitcev]

You should not lose too much sleep over the transparency. IMHO it's only important where either the trust is shaky, so stakeholders need transparency for comfort, or a stark conflict is present between sizeable subgroups. Thanks for redoing Flock BTW, I only was to one FUDcon and it seemed a bit like too many ideas too few implementors. Sorry to miss you guys this time.

[ext_2115686]

Congratulations Spot! You're doing a good job in Fedora! I like the flock idea... Is better.

[ext_2118957]

This sounds really nice.

I am looking forward to the one in Europe, maybe even Barcelona :-)

I never managed to get to one of the Red Hat or Fedora happenings and I have been around since Red Hat 3.0.3