Hi Jan
Thanks for the feedback.
I attended FOSDEM last year and wasn't aware of any of these issues. If
you can let me have any specifics that you'd like to share (either here
or offlist) then I'll make a point of looking into it.
Thanks
Sharan
On 12/01/17 14:12, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
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
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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/
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