Hi Sharan, Am 16.02.20 um 06:02 schrieb Sharan Foga: > Hi Everyone > > (Sorry for the delayed post as I am currently travelling overseas and wont be > back to normal till early next month.) > > As usual during the first weekend in February FOSDEM was held in Brussels and > I wanted to to post a quick update. > > FOSDEM and rain. Rain and FOSDEM - they always seem to both go together but > that doesnt stop thousands of people turning up to meet, discuss and learn > about new open source technologies and ideas. > > Huge thanks to Martin van dem Bemt for being our FOSDEM swag storage > warehouse and also to Daniel Gruno for co-ordinating ASF swag central. We had > our banner, over booth cover and what seemed like millions of stickers. > People would walk by do a double take and look again...then take a picture of > all the stickers. Even with the stickers we had - we knew it wasnt them all. > > This year we were back on the first floor of K block right at the top of the > stairs so everyone had to pass by us . so we got some great foot traffic. I > got there at around 9am to find Martin, Daniel and Claude already there and > getting things setup. > > As well as stickers we gave away some balloons for the children (and adults > too), some fleece hats and bags left over from last year, some coffee thermos > containers, feather and committer pins plus lots and lots of pens. It all > disappeared! > > We had people from various projects take time on the booth - so thanks to Dan > (Dahn :-) Hogland from cloudstack, Claude Warren from Jena, the Open Office > team, as well as all the others who dropped by to say hello and spend some > time talking to people. People always seem to be amazed at the number of > projects and even without realising it that it is Apache Maven not just > Maven, Apache Hadoop not just Hadoop, Apache Spark, not just Spark. This is > one of the reasons that having a booth presence is great for outreach and > general community building.
FOSDEM 2020 was really great and it was nice to meet you again! I also learned a lot about all those different ASF projects people were asking stickers for... But with my PMC hat on: It is "OpenOffice" not "Open Office" ;-) Regards, Matthias > > We also had the D&I team spend some time on the booth talking to people about > the ASF survey and encouraging people to go online and fill it out. > > For the last few years I have been involved with the Community Devroom but > till now had never managed to see a community talk. That changed this year > and I spent most of Sunday helping out in the Community Devroom and saw some > amazing talks. At several points the room was completely full with a queue > waiting outside the door. This shows that people are really keen to learn > about and understand topics related to open source communities so I would > encourage everyone to keep it on their radar for the next FOSDEM! > > While at FOSDEM I received several invitations for the ASF to have a booth at > other open source events including FOSSASIA, OpenExpo Europe and an open > source conference in Mauritius, so if you are interested in participating in > any of these events then please let me know. > > I would really like to thank everyone that was involved in helping out to > make the event a success. Looking forward to doing it all again next year if > we get the chance. > > I'm happy to hear about any other FOSDEM experiences, feedback, thoughts, > comments. > > Thanks > Sharan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org >
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