| Tales of FUDcons past and future |
Feb. 25, 2009
 Videos are now available from the FUDCon (Fedora Users and Developers Conference) that took place in Boston, Jan. 9-11. Additionally, the next FUDCon will happen in Berlin, Germany, co-incident with the popular LinuxTag expo Jun. 26-28, the Red Hat-sponsored open source Fedora project has announced.
The Fedora Project holds FUDCons from time to time, with the aim of enabling community discussion and collaboration. Over the last couple of years, community-building has been a strong focus for the project, which competes with larger, older community distributions like Debian for package maintainers and other types of developers. (For example, Fedora recently rolled out an array of world-class collaboration tools, following the release of Fedora 9.)
Videos from the Boston event can be found here. They are encoded in the completely free Ogg Theora codec, so anyone at all ought to be able to enjoy them -- even Fedora users (the Fedora project is committed to using freely redistributable code only, though in fairness, adding proprietary bits like codecs is easy enough for experienced Linux users).
The Berlin event will be co-located with LinuxTag ("Linux Day" in German), a large expo held annually. Fedora has had a "strong presence" at LinuxTag for several years, but decided to do a full-fledged FUDcon this year, in response to rising interest in Fedora in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Asia), it said.
Max Spevack, manager of Red Hat's community team, stated, "Following successful events in Brno, Czech Republic in 2008 and Boston, Massachusetts in January 2009, we are very excited to bring FUDCon back to Europe."
Paul Frields, Fedora project leader, stated, "Since the release of Fedora 10 [story] we've seen about 1 million new installations and approximately 2 million unique visitors to fedoraproject.org each month."
The Berlin FEDcon event will run from Friday through Sunday, and will include speeches in English and German that are both user and developer focused. "Self-organizing" BarCamp events, together with multiple "hackfests," are additional touted happenings. Attendance at FUDCon is free, but registration is encouraged. More details can be found here.
-- Henry Kingman
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