Hi All I thought it would be good to give a brief update of my experience at FOSDEM over the weekend.
It was really interesting to be there and I've never seen so many developers and techie people in one place ! On Saturday the statistics said that there were over 4400 people connected to the FOSDEM wifi (and believe me not everyone who was there was connected!). I arrived on Friday afternoon and met up with Eric and Pierre at the beerfest. We had a good chat over a few beers before the hoards arrived. On Saturday we met up with Gil, Leila and Florient from Nereide. It's always good to meet people from our community face to face. I spent most of Saturday at the ASF booth, generally talking to people :-) There is a lot of interest in big data and so I think OFBiz as project at FOSDEM may not be geeky enough unless we perhaps look at trying to market the framework. That said, I think FOSDEM could still be good as a place for the OFBiz community to meetup and collaborate. This year there were a range of 'Developer Rooms' available for people to get together and code / fix bugs etc. I think the ASF group were talking about trying to get a developer room for next year and if so then we could plan to meetup there and do some work together. Also a few other projects had project stickers, flyers and t-shirts so maybe we could get some marketing material done, if not for this then definitely for Apachecon. In general I think it's a great open source conference and you have the ability to talk to a range of people over a lot of different technologies. I think all the main sessions have been recorded so should be available online. It's amazing that this is a free event and I think the ASF are planning to have a stronger presence there in the future. Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Feedback-about-FOSDEM-tp4676722.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
