On 26/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote:
There is another opportunity not to miss: we can propose a (technical)
talk about Apache OpenOffice as a Main Track Talk, see the same page.
Deadline 31 October. It would be good if Juergen, or another developer,
took the occasion to show something about OpenOffice and the challenges
ahead.
Updates:
1) Deadline for Main Track Talks extended to 1 Dec, see
https://fosdem.org/2013/ ; any high-profile developer willing to propose
something? By the way, these are the only sponsored speakers.
2) Call for stands is open until 28 Nov:
https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_stands.html ; stands are not that big
(a table with 2 chairs) and the requirement is that they are manned by
at least 2 persons on Saturday and Sunday; so, while we will obviously
ask around at ApacheCon EU to see if other Apache projects need a stand
at FOSDEM, we could probably manage an Apache OpenOffice stand. About
sharing it with non-Apache projects, see below.
Here's a brief recap of the FOSDEM facts concerning us (I've already
forwarded everything anyway):
- Apache OpenOffice applied for a devroom; since the call for devrooms
stated that "projects with similar goals/domains will be asked to
co-organize a devroom" we agreed here on the list and stated explicitly
in our application that we were willing to share a devroom with similar
projects.
- The organizers received a separate application from LibreOffice and
asked Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice to actually share a devroom,
saying they were "very reluctant" to assign separate devrooms.
- Apache OpenOffice confirmed it was OK to share a devroom.
- In the end we won't share a devroom, so it should be a matter of very
simple logic to understand who said no; but I've never seen the
LibreOffice answer or the reasons for it.
- Apache OpenOffice has a devroom with capacity for about 80 people for
the full day of Saturday 2 February; we should issue a call for talks
around mid-November, to have the time to discuss it after ApacheCon.
- The "Main Track Talks" and "stands" are independent from the devrooms:
the first one is an opportunity to have an extra talk featured in the
main auditorium; the second one is simply a small booth available for
meeting people, answering questions, merchandising and so on. Here the
FOSDEM organizers do not make explicit recommendations to share tables,
so I would save the effort, while still hoping that cross-project
cooperation will be better in future occasions.
Regards,
Andrea.
