Top-posting my thanks to Sharan and agreement that the posters were very
impactful and good quality. Make a note of whichever company did them!
Regards,
KAM
On 2/5/2018 7:20 AM, Sharan Foga wrote:
I wanted to post a quick update about FOSDEM that ran over the weekend. As
usual it was a huge event, with lots of people a coming along from all over the
world.
Once again a big thank you to everyone who turned up to help out at the booth
or to chat to people about the ASF or their project. I like FOSDEM because it's
a place where you can finally meet in person the people that you have been
chatting with on the mailing lists. So a great place to connect.
This year we had some larger roller banners, one with our feather and one with
our list of projects. Once again people were surprised to realise just how many
projects we have at the ASF or that they were already using.
Daniel organised a“Save the Date†sign with details of ApacheCon NA and the
Apache EU Roadshow. This was great at promoting the events to everyone.
We also had a few project demos running via a monitor at the booth. Visitor
often want to find out more project details or see it in action so having a
visual display really helped us interact with people. (BTW the Kibble demo got
a lot of attention not only from visitors but Apache people too:-)
As usual people came by to pick up stickers and I know we will never have them
all so there are always people asking us for stickers that we don't have. I
think this time Kaftka and Cassandra were requested a lot!
We also had some different swag this time Apache balloons (which were popular
not only with children), pens (that went quickly!), bracelets (we ran out of
both our Meritocracy and Do I.T like a Girl ones), t-shirts (we printed a few
and they were very popular, in fact someone happily donated 20 euros for 2
shirts), mugs (we had a few Apache mugs that became a most wanted item).
FOSDEM is quite an intense conference because it runs over a couple of days a
lot of information gets circulated to a large audience then discussions start
discussions which start even more discussions. It's very easy to get caught up
in conversations with people you have only just met about technology,
development, community and any other topic you care to think of. I think it
was a lot like that at the booth this year:-)
I'd really like to thank all the booth volunteers (Daan, Rohit, Trevor, Myrle,
Andrus, Kevin, Rich, Daniel, Pono and Isabel). I apologise if there was anyone
I've missed out!
It was also good to meet a few people from the earlier Apache days (so thanks
to Xander and Torsten too!).
It was an amazing fun event and I had a really great time. I hope that we can
be present at FOSDEM in the future and continue to promote Apache there.
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