On 1/11/10 1:34 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Florian Effenberger
<flo...@openoffice.org> wrote:
Hello Alexandro,
This event is one where developers will be all over the place and
would be great oportunity to recruit and have a display. Unfortunately
this trip won't allow me to cover the expense of a boot. But I will be
able to bring some brochures and CDs. But also walk around to other
boots and recruit on the spot. Unfortunately I wont give a talk since
the CFP was over on the 24th of last month but I will still be able to
participate on the un-conference and drive a BOF on ODF/OOo and other
of the projects I am involved like Education, BizDev and
Certification.
I'm not hesitant (as some are) because of the amount of money or the long
trip from Mexico, but because I need some more information what you plan to
do at the event. Normally, we only fund event attendance if we either have a
booth/demo point, or a talk.
Is it correct that at the moment you can only say that you will be there and
try to do some "networking"? Are there any chances of getting a
talk/BoF/lightning talk or get some demo point to exhibit at? That surely
would help the funding request...
Perhaps you missed that part of the original email:
"Unfortunately I wont give a talk since
the CFP was over on the 24th of last month but I will still be able to
participate on the un-conference and drive a BOF on ODF/OOo and other
of the projects I am involved like Education, BizDev and
Certification."
"... will still be able to ..." Alexandro the point is probably more
that people want a clear and detailed request. I will talk about X at
event Y where we will also have booth with N people and we would like to
request XY dollars funding to sponsor travel expenses and ...
I don't have problems with such requests but we should provide the
minimum requirements. Requirements that we should probably discuss and
write down in detail for the future.
Otherwise it sounds more like i would like to go to the Scale conference
to do some networking ("private"?) and of course yes i would be able to
talk about OOo topics if applicable but no concrete plans and nothing
confirmed yet. In the economical situation of today probably no company
would accept such a request.
In general i would say yes it is important to be present on such events
and ideally staffed with local community members.
Juergen
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org
