Sylvain, On 12-09-24, at 12:08 , Sylvain DENIS <sylvain.tech...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello > > I am not a developer but user and representative Apache OpenOffice Belgium. I > defend Apache OpenOffice in education in Belgium (french). > I will at FOSDEM. This is an opportunity to meet and discuss even if my > English is approximate. > Votre anglais c'est mieux que mon français, je pense :-) but how's your Flemish? :-) I know and am friendly with Nicolas Pettiaux, of Uni. Libre de Bruxelles, who used to be with Open@Work and was (and remains, I hope) a strong proponent of ODF, open standards, and OpenOffice. At the time we had our substantive discussions, back in 2008, I think, but maybe later, the issue of education and OO and ODF was crucial. My argument was and is that ODF and OO should be used and taught (coding) in post-secondary schools, but also used generally at all grades. But little has happened. (Of course, this is also true of much bureaucratic movement in Belgium.) Still, I remain hopeful, especially as the issue of ODF in Belgium and in the EU at large is increasingly important and recognized as not only a vehicle for democratic goodness but also economic sanity. I, at least, look forward to your kind help and contribution and hope we can make this event a really great event! ciao louis > Regards > > Sylvain DENIS > > Le 24/09/12 13:20, Andrea Pescetti a écrit : >> FOSDEM, one of the biggest Free and Open Source Software events in Europe, >> is coming again on 2-3 February 2013 in Brussels. >> >> Attendance is free and, moreover, "Developer Rooms" can be made available >> upon request, but they must be requested before the end of September. See >> https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html >> >> I'm available to draft the application for an OpenOffice devroom and post it >> here on ooo-dev for lazy consensus, unless: >> - Someone has already done it (just let us know) >> - Apache manages applications in a centralized way >> - No OpenOffice developers can attend (I would appreciate to know that we >> will have some full-time developers there) >> - People believe it is useless (but FOSDEM is a big event and we shouldn't >> miss it, since by February we will probably have graduated and version 3.5 >> could be approaching release). >> >> Regards, >> Andrea. >
