CouchDB Dev list & Sharan, I would not recommend attending FOSDEM.
Their Code of Conduct is not up to modern standards (despite numerous attempts asking for improvement) and their past year’s incident handling has been sub-par to say the least. Your mileage my vary. Best Jan -- > On 12 Jan 2017, at 13:12, Sharan F <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Everyone > > This email is to tell you about ASF participation at FOSDEM. The event will > be held in Brussels on 4^th & 5^th February 2017 and we are hoping that many > people from our ASF projects will be there. > > https://fosdem.org/2017/ > > Attending FOSDEM is completely free and the ASF will again be running a booth > there. Our main focus will on talking to people about the ASF, our projects > and communities. > > *_Why Attend FOSDEM?_* > Some reasons for attending FOSDEM are: > > 1. Promoting your project: FOSDEM has up to 4-5000 attendees so is a > great place to spread the word about your project > 2. Learning, participating and meeting up: FOSDEM is a developers > conference so includes presentations covering a range of > technologies and includes lots of topic specific devrooms > > _*FOSDEM Wiki *_ > A page on the Community Development wiki has been created with the main > details about our involvement at conference, so please take a look > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/FOSDEM+2017 > > If you would like to spend some time on the ASF booth promoting your project > then please sign up on the FOSDEM wiki page. Initially we would like to split > this into slots of 3-4 hours but this will depend on the number of projects > that are represented. > > We are also looking for volunteers to help out on the booth over the 2 days > of the conference, so if you are going to be there and are willing to help > then please add your name to the volunteer list. > > _*Project Stickers*_ > If you are going to be at FOSDEM and do not have any project stickers to give > away then we may (budget permitting) be able to help you get some printed. > Please contact me with your requirements. > > _*Social Event*_ > Some people have asked about organising an ASF social event / meetup during > the conference. This is possible but we will need know how many people are > interested and which date works best. The FOSDEM wiki page also contains an > 'Arrival / Departure' section so so please add your details if you would like > to participate. > > I hope this helps people see some of the advantages of attending FOSDEM and > we are looking forward to seeing lots of people there from our ASF > communities. > > Thanks > Sharan > > Apache Community Development > http://community.apache.org/ -- Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/
