Here is the summary of the Fosdem week-end! Xavier is speaking, I am, JM, translating :).
* A lot of people, so a huge work for a single person… (NB from JM: unfortunately I could not attend Fosdem this year and Xavier was finally alone). * As a result, many people met and many discussions: - a potential new contributor (a sysadmin at first glance) - professors from French universities who should be able to provide some help through their students, in various topics (email contacts being awaited) - met one of our Danish translators! - met the creator of GCompris who's still ager to see the latest version of GCompris in DDL!!! (NB from JM: it's too much packaging work, I prefer rely on Debian!) - met Russian people, very friendly, we may have new Russian contacts soon. (NB from JM: fortunately I had sent Russian leaflets to Xavier before Fosdem ;) So this was very enriching! * Concerning goodies, they've been nearly sold out! - Only 3 USB keys left for, say, 12-15 to be sold. - 140 € income + 40 € donation (NB from JM: our association now has 600-700 € of money + stock of goodies to be evaluated) - Many stickers given to visitors, translators, and so. - More than 500 leaflets distributed!!! In English, French, Russian, Italian, Swedish :). * We have an audience!!! People stop especially at our stand, each year! Just for us! So yes this was enriching! =============== Thanks Xavier for this great and tiring contribution to the project, consisting in promoting DDL in a large European event. This is always interesting to get live feedback from people, even if they've never heard of us (which is less and less the case indeed :). I see you've enjoyed doing this as much as I do when I have this opportunity. See you next year in Brussels! Now a personal note. I think you're right: yes we have an audience, undoubtedly. I'm still convinced DDL answers an issue that is not really or not correctly answered by the purely commercial world: education and self-fulfillment of children with digital tools, for the best of children and their parents only. Of course this attracts an audience, potentially a large, very large audience. Unfortunately we still have difficulties to find a way to ensure the continued existence of our project. It is now too large to be developed on the free time of few persons to provide interesting new features, not large enough to get the visibility required to get enough funding. Probably the best thing to do is to continue promoting it, follow Debian changes as quickly as possible (hem) and wait until good opportunities arise (new contributors, friend organizations, donators, etc.). As stated by François Élie, free software is free once it's been paid! (with free time, money, services and so) NB: Don't know if you've ever looked at our stats recently, we have had more than 550,000 visitors on our website, download figures are in hundred thousands, more than 45 languages opened on Transifex with more than 200 translators, elected one of the distribution of year 2014, many visitors at Fosdem, etc. Kind of success, isn't it? Cheers, JM. Le 02/02/2015 20:18, Xavier Brusselaers a écrit : > Hi all, > > FOSDEM is done! That was a great event! > > I hope all the person who visit the FOSDEM stand are in the list > (sorry for the danish translator I don't recognize you! :) ). > JM will send a small resume (@JM I send you a resume on your e-mail!). > > I hope to be present for the next year, but not alone :) > Cheers all! > > Xavier > > > > 2014-12-18 23:40 GMT+01:00 Jean-Michel Philippe <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > Hello, > > I'm glad to inform you that our request for a stand at Fosdem 2015 in > Brussels on 31th Jan. / 1st Feb. has been accepted. We will > present our > project, discuss with visitors and… sell goodies! No DDL talk is > planned > though, I didn't ask for it and would have had too little time to > prepare something. > > Of course if you're willing to help, you're welcome, this event is > very > crowded! In this case, please inform me rapidly :). > > Cheers, > JM. > > > -------- Message transféré -------- > > De: FOSDEM Stands Team <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > Hi Jean-Michel, > > > > The FOSDEM stands team is glad to be able to inform you that > your request > > for a stand for DoudouLinux has been accepted. > > There will be one table reserved for you. > > > > You will receive further information about what's expected of > you closer > > to the event date. > > > > Looking forward to seeing you at FOSDEM 2015! > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Wynke Stulemeijer > > FOSDEM stands team > > > > _______________________________________________ > Doudoulinux-dev mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev > > _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-lang mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-lang
