On 4 February 2015 at 19:57, Roman Shaposhnik <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > 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. > > A huge +1 there. Any opportunity where you get to tap into attention of > 5000+ > developers is something we can't miss. > > > * 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 can volunteer for part time as well. It is very likely that I'd have to > split > my time between Pivotal booth and ASF's one in 2016. > > Finally, as FYI: I'm now very actively pursuing having a > bigdata/distributed > systems dev room at FOSDEM 2016. Given that most of those projects > come from ASF, hopefully we'd have ever more ASF hackers at FOSDEM > next year. > +1 Let me know if I can help. We might also "smuggle" a presentation in about ASF; about our communities and how we are different from e.g. a place where you just revision your code. rgds jan i. > > Thanks, > Roman. >