#fedora-meeting: APAC Ambassadors discussion on FUDCon 2015 2015-12-13

Meeting summary

1. The pune bid: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Pune_2015 (siddhesh, 04:07:09)
   1. 30-40 Fedora contributors in Pune alone and more in the rest of india (siddhesh, 04:22:12)
   2. > 500 students expected to attend the conference. Not as many as in PP (siddhesh, 04:22:57)
   3. Pune team have committed sponsors for the additional $10,000 in the budget. (kushal, 04:31:03)
   4. India has hosted two FUDCons earlier, one in 2006 and another in 2011 (siddhesh, 04:31:48)
   5. of the 4 FUDCons organized in APAC, 2 were in India (siddhesh, 04:34:37)
   6. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon 2005-2014 4 fudcons organized 2 were in India (Delhi, Pune) (pravins, 04:37:05)
   7. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_PhnomPenh_2015 (somvannda, 04:39:22)
   
   
2. discussing the PP bid: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_PhnomPenh_2015 (siddhesh, 04:40:20)
   1. flight costs to PP from south-east asia is cheaper than to India (siddhesh, 04:53:22)
   2. FUDCon will be hosted as a sub-event in Barcamp PP with a room dedicated for FUDCon (siddhesh, 04:55:06)
   3. PP does not have a lot of contributors, so most will have to be flown in (siddhesh, 05:00:08)
   4. PP has never had a FUDCon and would benefit from having a large event to promote Fedora (siddhesh, 05:00:26)
   5. IDEA: We should start doing smaller targeted events in Cambodia to get more contributors first and then go for bigger events. (kushal, 05:10:22)

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