On Wednesday, February 4, 2015, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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? same place and time next year. rgds jan i > > 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 > <javascript:;>> 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 <javascript:;> - @rbowen > > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > > > -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
