Sponsorship deadline for UDS-Lucid approaching

[Jordan Mantha]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On 25 Sep 2009 00:19:09 +0200 "Michael Bienia" <michael at bienia.de> wrote:
>>On 2009-09-24 15:35:18 -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
>>> Just a reminder that the deadline for applying for sponsorship to the
>>> Ubuntu Developer Summit is approaching. You have until September 28th
>>> to submit your application to http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-l
>>
>>Did I miss any announcements? I didn't see any announcement for the code
>>name for the next Ubuntu release (found it by coincidence on fridge) nor
>>did I see any annoucement (either on ubuntu-devel or
>>ubuntu-devel-announce) that the time for requesting sponsorship for the
>>next UDS has already begun. And was a little bit surprised that the
>>deadline is already in 3 days.
>>
>>Perhaps it's just me but I don't have the time to follow all possible
>>resources for news (-announce lists, planet.ubuntu.com, fridge, etc.)
>>all the time so some redundancy for such important news would be nice.
>>
>>I get more and more the feeling that I'm not so well informed as I would
>>like to be and I don't really like it.
>>
> As far as I know it was only announced via Jono's blog.  I only found out
> because of a passing mention on IRC.  I think a post to U-D-A would have
> been appropriate.

Additionally, the place where it was being held was not announced at
any point that I'm aware of, just that it was going to be in the US.
As often times a person needs to make sure they can even attend before
trying for sponsorship it would have been nice to have a bit more time
to decide.

-Jordan

FYI: Apparently UDS-L will be in Dallas, TX based on the wiki page.