FUDCon comes home to Raleigh
by Max Spevack
From Friday, Jan. 11 through Sunday, Jan. 13, the Fedora Project will be holding its annual FUDCon at Red Hat’s headquarters in Raleigh, NC.
FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference–a time when members of the Fedora community who usually only communicate via email or IRC have a chance to meet in person. FUDCon includes two full days of hackfests, in which specific technical problems are worked on in small group code sprints, as well as one day of talks, sessions, and presentations that are of interest to all variety of users and developers.
The second meaning of FUDCon is to stand opposed to the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt that opponents of free software often try to promulgate.
The first FUDCon was held in February 2005 in Boston, MA. In the three years since, FUDCon has been global, with events in India, England, Germany, Brussels, and the United States. This FUDCon will be the fourth held in the United States.
There are currently over 100 attendees signed up for this year’s FUDCon, with sessions ranging from highly technical programming projects to open source marketing strategy and legal issues. There will be demonstrations of Fedora on a USB key, tutorials on how to become a Fedora packaging expert, sessions on documentation, customization of Fedora, OLPC, Fedora in classrooms, and much more.
For information, please see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF9
http://barcamp.org/FUDConRaleigh2008