On 28.09.2015 23:08, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 28/09/2015 RA Stehmann wrote: >> as promised Mechtilde and I will join the Apache booth (stand) team at >> FOSDEM 2016. > > So you think it's better not to apply (additionally) as OpenOffice? We > don't have any assurance that the ASF will be granted a stand, and > OpenOffice has always been granted one for years.
Before your posting, I've no doubts, that Apache will get a booth at FOSDEM, if they ask for it. Especially, if they say, they will come with Apache OpenOffice. Apache is one of the major (and greatest ;-) ) projects in the Free Software world. > >> It's a great pleasure for us, that the greater Apache Community joins >> FOSDEM with a booth. > > I was assuming/understanding that we would have sent both the OpenOffice > request (highly likely to be approved; but less important) and the ASF > request (new, so less likely; but more important). And that, if both > were approved, we would merge the tables, or if one was approved we > would share the table. We might get a problem, if both booths are granted, but in different places. It isn't a proper behavior to quit one of the booths in that case. > > So no doubt we would all be together, in any case; I thought we would > try and maximize the chance of getting a presence. > > It appears Daniel has already sent a request on behalf on the ASF > (deadline is in November) but I haven't seen it at > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/FOSDEM+2016 or on the > lists, so I have no idea about the contents. I just want to be sure that > the ASF at large, and OpenOffice as part of it, get a presence under > whatever name; and that we maximize our chances to be at FOSDEM. > Perhaps we should make a conditional request. But the best thing would be, that Daniel ask the orga sufficiently early before the deadline. They are all nice human beings. Regards Michael
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