http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents

I am attending a partially Red Hat sponsored LTSP Hackfest in Portland,
Oregon July 25th, 26th and 27th. That is immediately after OSCon.
While my primary purpose for going to Portland will be the LTSP
Hackfest, I wonder if there is an opportunity for me to do any Fedora
thing at OSCon.


http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/content/about
https://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/register#pricing
I'm told by OSCon attendees in previous years that exhibit floor and
BOF's are free. Although it appears from their website that accessto
BOF's is not free. Not sure what is accurate, can somebody figure this out?


I would like to spend some time at a Fedora booth and talk during a
Fedora BOF. Is anyone here already in contact with OSCon and organizing
a booth and BOF?


I don't have the priority to do this myself, but I am willing to
participate if it is already happening. Anyhow, I need to know if any
Fedora event is happening soon because I have to purchase my airfare soon.


Warren Togami
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On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 22:30 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraEvents
>
> I am attending a partially Red Hat sponsored LTSP Hackfest in Portland,
> Oregon July 25th, 26th and 27th. That is immediately after OSCon.
> While my primary purpose for going to Portland will be the LTSP
> Hackfest, I wonder if there is an opportunity for me to do any Fedora
> thing at OSCon.
>
> http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/content/about
> https://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/register#pricing
> I'm told by OSCon attendees in previous years that exhibit floor and
> BOF's are free. Although it appears from their website that accessto
> BOF's is not free. Not sure what is accurate, can somebody figure this out?
>
> I would like to spend some time at a Fedora booth and talk during a
> Fedora BOF. Is anyone here already in contact with OSCon and organizing
> a booth and BOF?
>
> I don't have the priority to do this myself, but I am willing to
> participate if it is already happening. Anyhow, I need to know if any
> Fedora event is happening soon because I have to purchase my airfare soon.

Hi Warren,

John Poelstra, Jack Aboutboul, and I will be at OSCON as well, and Jack
is setting up a Fedora booth for this show. I don't know the story
behind the BoF cost change; a ticket to OSCON that -- according to their
site -- gets you into BoFs is *really* expensive, like $1100. I'll talk
to Jack to see whether this is accurate -- it sounds like crossed wires
to me, since BoFs are normally done on volunteer time as extramural
activities.

I believe strongly that anyone who wants to attend (or speak at) a
Fedora BoF should be able to do so with freedom as in beer and speech.
That's how our project works, and "pay to play" doesn't quite sit right.

On a related note, I was surprised to see that Canonical charges about
$650 for a ticket to their UbuntuLive conference, but it's completely
their prerogative, and I understand they may need to offset costs
somehow. FUDCon events, though, are a cost that Red Hat can, does, and
should proudly bear as a way to give back to the Fedora community, and I
don't foresee changing that model.

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Paul W. Frields wrote:


On a related note, I was surprised to see that Canonical charges about
$650 for a ticket to their UbuntuLive conference, but it's completely
their prerogative, and I understand they may need to offset costs
somehow. FUDCon events, though, are a cost that Red Hat can, does, and
should proudly bear as a way to give back to the Fedora community, and I
don't foresee changing that model.


I thought Live is more of their "business" conference like our Summit.
They have separate events for users and developers during the year.


Warren

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On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 11:08 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
> >
> > On a related note, I was surprised to see that Canonical charges about
> > $650 for a ticket to their UbuntuLive conference, but it's completely
> > their prerogative, and I understand they may need to offset costs
> > somehow. FUDCon events, though, are a cost that Red Hat can, does, and
> > should proudly bear as a way to give back to the Fedora community, and I
> > don't foresee changing that model.
>
> I thought Live is more of their "business" conference like our Summit.
> They have separate events for users and developers during the year.

Yes, I see I've mixed this up with the Developer Summit conference,
sorry.

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On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 11:06 -0400, Jack Aboutboul wrote:
> > I believe strongly that anyone who wants to attend (or speak at) a
> > Fedora BoF should be able to do so with freedom as in beer and speech.
> > That's how our project works, and "pay to play" doesn't quite sit right.
> >
> Oscon BoFs are free.

Brilliant, can you talk about any of the booth or BoF plans then?

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2008/5/7 Paul W. Frields <stickster@gmail.com>:

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 11:06 -0400, Jack Aboutboul wrote:

> > I believe strongly that anyone who wants to attend (or speak at) a

> > Fedora BoF should be able to do so with freedom as in beer and speech.

> > That's how our project works, and "pay to play" doesn't quite sit right.

> >

> Oscon BoFs are free.



Brilliant, can you talk about any of the booth or BoF plans then?


I'd love to help out at the* booth.* Is there a cost for helping out in that way?* If so, how much? I will look on OSCON's site later on, but figured I'd ask the lazy mail


Cheers,

Clint


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On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:24 -0600, Clint Savage wrote:
> 2008/5/7 Paul W. Frields <stickster@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 11:06 -0400, Jack Aboutboul wrote:
> > > I believe strongly that anyone who wants to attend (or
> speak at) a
> > > Fedora BoF should be able to do so with freedom as in beer
> and speech.
> > > That's how our project works, and "pay to play" doesn't
> quite sit right.
> > >
>
> > Oscon BoFs are free.
>
> Brilliant, can you talk about any of the booth or BoF plans
> then?
>
>
> I'd love to help out at the booth. Is there a cost for helping out
> in that way? If so, how much? I will look on OSCON's site later on,
> but figured I'd ask the lazy mail

If I'm not mistaken, the expo floor is free for anyone to attend. (It
probably requires a free registration.) I'd think the more, the
merrier!

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