i'll copy over this mail to chosug as this q has been brought up by another thread by mika....
Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: Von: Matthias Stuermer <matthias at stuermer.ch<mailto:matthias at stuermer.ch>> Datum: 7. Dezember 2009 00:39:00 MEZ An: alessandro rimoldi <ale.pol_06 at xox.ch<mailto:ale.pol_06 at xox.ch>> Kopie: "switzerland at fsfeurope.org<mailto:switzerland at fsfeurope.org>" <switzerland at fsfeurope.org<mailto:switzerland at fsfeurope.org>> Betreff: Re: [CH-FSFE] openexpo march 2009 in bern Hi Alessandro Thanks for your elaborate feedback. I can understand your strange feeling about the changed concept for open source project booths at OpenExpo. However, I can assure you that we don't want to do anything against the goals of the community. As a disclaimer: I have to admit that it was my idea, not the topsoft guys' one, to make the community area look a bit more professional and business-like, therefore blame me ;) It's because I believe that we need to make the best use of the two days of (expensive) exhibition time. Starting from OpenExpo 2010 in Bern the event will only take place once a year. In other words the Swiss FLOSS community will have only two days during the year when it may present its work nicely and clean and interact with business customers. I'd like to recommend to take these two days as a chance to make good marketing for your great software solutions which usually only have one deficiency: low distribution because of ignorance by the people! As Libre Graphics representative take Scribus for example: It's such a great DTP software (I used it intensively for our first two OpenExpo brochures), but only few people use it. Imagine a head of IT of some art school walking around at OpenExpo. In this case we need to make sure that this guys gets the most professional impression of Scribus as a product. Ideally through meeting the community members, through a professional product presentation, through your answers etc. in the end he decides e.g. to start a pilot project with a class and introduce Scribus as the standard layout software. That's my vision and I hope yours, too! Therefore I'd love to welcome you and Libre Graphics again at OpenExpo next spring. Social Event and also the Linux Install Zone will be there as well. And in case some communities still prefer to use the two days at OpenExpo for hacking, they're warmly welcome to do this at the Install Zone tables. Nevertheless, please let me know if I got something wrong. We're happy to adapt the concept. The goal of OpenExpo is to serve the community by providing a great marketing opportunity and thus increasing the diffusion of FLOSS. But if no community members come because of the new concept we missed the goal. Let me know before this happens! All the best, Matthias Am 06.12.2009 23:37, alessandro rimoldi schrieb: hallo i've just read the new conditions for the projects booths at the next openexpo http://www.openexpo.ch/openexpo-2010-bern/anmeldung-projekt/ in my opinion several changes are really welcome, but i have the feeling that all in all, the new conditions are not really friendly to opensource projects. here my two questions: - does anybody know, whether for the new rules have been redacted after consulting the projects? - does anybody else have a similar feeling? on my side, even if the last two booth were for me very successful, i'm not sure if it's worth to apply for a booth for the libre graphics project. have a nice start to the week a.l.e -- Matthias St?rmer | matthias at stuermer.ch<mailto:matthias at stuermer.ch> | <http://stuermer.ch> http://stuermer.ch _______________________________________________ Internal mailing list for coordination, communication and discussion of the Swiss team of the Free Software Foundation Europe. Switzerland mailing list Switzerland at fsfeurope.org<mailto:Switzerland at fsfeurope.org> https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/switzerland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-chosug/attachments/20091207/103ac0a8/attachment.html>
