> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 06:41 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [OT] ApacheCon > > On 17/03/2016 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > I thought about it, since the travel part is easy. > > I decided to avoid the expense of the conference and accomodations and > stay home though. > > ApacheCon would be a quite appropriate usage of our travel funds. If the > reason for you not to attend ApacheCon is the expense (and if you can > travel easily to it) I suggest that we look into using the travel funds. > The fact that we never used them so far is more a mistake than a > virtuous example. > > It is useful to meet with the Board and with Infra, for example. I can > surely say that if I hadn't attended ApacheCon in early October 2015 we > wouldn't have had OpenOffice 4.1.2 released later that month, since we > needed to do some work sitting together with Infra. > > If access to conference is the problem, I still believe that the > entrance fee is high for a volunteer, but there are significant > discounts for committers and also options for attending only part of the > conference. We can surely cover a presence at ApacheCon (if not a full > attendance). [orcmid]
If there will be an exhibition area or other place where there might be an ASF booth or tables, I might be able to enter the conference as an Exhibitor, in the same manner as at OSCON for the past two years. That usually provides access to attending individuals, board members, and meetings that are separate from the sessions but at the venue. I don't know how that works in the case of ApacheCon. - Dennis > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
