Had I known upfront it was held in Brussels and the last few days (yes, I had to look it up), I would have popped over as it is only an hour's drive away.
Where will the next be held and when? Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > I just came back from FOSDEM. As always, it was a madhouse, but there was > some time for sane conversation. > > For those that weren't there, you should know that OpenOffice had a > presence there (as they always have), staffed by volunteers, with some swag > provided by the ASF, and other swag provided by the OpenOffice community, > out of their own pockets. They did an *awesome* job of representing both > AOO and the ASF as a whole. > > However, I think we can do better in 2016. I want to see Apache have a > table at FOSDEM 2016, representing more than just one project, with proper > respect to the historical position of AOO at the event - ie, not just > usurping their place there. > > Here are some thoughts from talking with folks (mostly Jan Iversen and > Daniel Gruno) at FOSDEM. > > * We would need to either have a separate table from AOO, or double the > size of the existing table, so that we don't eclipse their place there. > They've put *years* into developing a presence at FOSDEM, and we want to > respect that. > > * Table Staff: I figure it takes at least 6 people to staff a FOSDEM table > if you don't want to go insane. Daniel and Jan have said that they will > staff the table. So we're 1/3 of the way there. I would probably be > available for some time, but, like many of the folks that might otherwise > be willing to do time, I have work duties as well. Two people need to be > there at all times, and people should be willing to commit to specific time > windows. It would also be cool to have times scheduled for specific > projects. Like, say, 11:00 to 12:00 is Cordova Hour, and will have two > representatives of the project present to answer questions and give demos. > > * We need printed materials, as well as stickers/pins/whatever. Printed > materials should cover the ASF as a whole, as well as highlighting a > variety of projects. Individual projects who wish to be represented should > be encouraged to provide materials that we can print, but we don't want to > have too many projects with printed materials - that would be overwhelming. > We need to provide a template (in AOO, of course) that a project can fill > in with their project-specific content to produce a consistent one-page, or > tri-fold, or whatever, that could be printed for the event. We don't want > twenty different-looking documents. We are trying to present a brand. > (Right, Shane?) > > * A tshirt would be nice - the word-cloud of project names we discussed a > year or two ago would be cool. There's several thousand people in > attendance, and this is an opportunity to get the Foundation's name in > front of a really important, and hugely diverse, audience. So having a > cool, eye-catching tshirt is a cheap, easy way to do that. > > So, if you are interested in being part of this effort, please speak up. > This won't happen if I'm in charge of it, but I wanted to throw it out > there and see if it catches anyone. I presume that Jan will take the lead > on this, but I'm the one that took notes. I'm also aware that we tend to > have a lot of passion about this kind of thing for a moment, and then it > fades as the event recedes into the past. But something like this takes > time, effort, money, and grunt work to make it happen. > > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >
