FUDCon: Fedora User and Developer Conference
FUD: An acronym for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. A typical tactic used by the opponents of open source to prevent its widespread adoption.
Con: In opposition or disagreement with; against.
FUDCon is all about fighting FUD.
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Fedora 8's FUDCon - A week-long virtual hackfest.
What is it?
FUDCon is the conference/summit that focuses on the Fedora Project and all things that go along with it. This includes infrastructure issues, both technological and govermental/intermutual, development issues, community issues, marketing issues and the state of the project address.
There is no set time frame with regard to the frequency of FUDCon. (However, it's planned that the Boston event take place roughly annually.)
Upcoming FUDCons
FUDConLinuxTag2008 before or after LinuxTag 2008 at Berlin - Spring 2008
Past FUDCons
Fedora 8's FUDCon - Canceled
FUDConLinuxTag2007 - Berlin - 31st May 2007
FUDCon Brussels 2007 - February 23th-24th, 2007
FUDCon Silicon Valley 2006 - in San Franciso, CA (cancelled)
FUDCon Wiesbaden 2006 - in LinuxTag, Germany (cancelled)
FUDCon Boston 2006 - in Boston, MA (2006-04-07)
FUDConDelhi2006 - in Delhi, India (2006-02-09)
FUDCon3 - in London, UK (2005-10-06)
FUDCon2 - in Karlsruhe, Germany (2005-06-24 to 2005-06-25)
FUDCon1 - in Boston, MA (2005-02-18)
You can download the presentation slides for talks held at these conferences by visiting the respective pages.
Want to help out?
Here's how:
Want to speak at the next FUDCon? Give us a shout!
Have an idea for a workshop? Let us know!
Burning to help organize a FUDCon? Visit this page: Organization
Got pics? If you were at one at the FUDCons and have taken pictures, please send them or a link to the download location to ThomasChung.