Hi Sally,
I'm standing with Ignasi,Please don't get me wrong that I'm not trying to
self judge the event based on the personal experience. I was accepted for a
talk in the event as ASF representative.
In order to obtain visa (as I'm a US resident ) I asked for an letter
issued by that event from the organizers mentioning about the scheduled
talk in women in open source event . .They refused doing that for me ,
Ignasi was very supportive to sort out that and finally ASF issued the
letter for me when they threw it back to us as a our problem. After all of
these they have been contacting me to take part in many marking
initiatives, asking materials and interviews with no clue of a community
representation for open source rather more business type.
As a strong open source community, ASF deserves more acceptance, well
treated for our presence with them and it should be more transparent their
intentions to contribute back to the community.
Cheers,
Kanchana
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 1:52 PM Ignasi Barrera wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have contradictory feelings about this event. On the one hand, the main
> focus of the event is purely business. The main activities are around
> business development and a big part of the focus is on company booths,
> showing their "open source" projects. From our involvement last year, it
> looked like they were trying to make it more open and more focused on real
> open source, but I'm not sure that is for real or not. On the other hand,
> if this event becomes a popular and well-accepted event, probably it makes
> sense for us to be there, especially if we are offered a booth.
>
> I can be the primary point of contact; I did it last year and it went quite
> well. However, I wouldn't like to be the only one supporting this event. If
> I have to staff the booth myself all day, then, I would probably say that's
> something I honestly wouldn't like to do given the nature of this event.
>
>
>
> I.
>
>
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 at 04:40, Sally Khudairi wrote:
>
> > Hello ComDev-ers --I was contacted by the marketing team at OpenExpo
> > Europe (20 June/Madrid) about a possible Community Partnership.
> >
> > Whilst I'm happy to arrange this with our remaining Apache events this
> > year (Chicago Roadshow, plus ApacheCon North America and Europe), I need
> to
> > know if we are planning to be there in the first place
> >
> > They offered us a booth, which is what raised the flag on my end: we're
> > usually involved with them by now, well before we roll out the publicity.
> >
> > Can someone please confirm, and, if so, who is our primary point of
> > contact (from the ASF)?
> >
> > Kind thanks,
> > Sally
> >
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