{forgive top posting}
First off, thanks for leading the charge at FOSDEM. On this side of the
Atlantic we need to gear up on ACNA and figure out what we want to do, and
who will be available. (excuses here, for a small delay)
Let's get the devroom right as a priority. IMHO. Points 2 and 3 would be
nice, but let's really nail the devroom, and everything else will take care
of itself, so to speak (and I do not know how that translates, sorry!)
So let's be laser focused on the 'series of talks' we want to ask our
community to step up and do. We can promote this CFP via our banner on
openoffice.org.
Count me in on the 'small committee' to help jury the final selections.
best!
/don
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>wrote:
> FOSDEM 2013 will be held in Brussels, Belgium, 2-3 Feb 2013 and it is a
> huge, free, developer-oriented, technical conference. OpenOffice has three
> opportunities to be featured there.
>
> 1) The Apache OpenOffice devroom. This is what conferences usually call a
> "track", i.e., a series of talks/presentations about Apache OpenOffice, Sat
> 2 Feb full day. We need to issue a Call for Talks and solicit proposals. In
> our case, a page on a wiki where registered users can immediately edit
> pages
> (https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS>is
> OK, right?) is probably best. I'll draft a page there and, if we have
> consensus, send it later this week to FOSDEM for dissemination. Timeline:
> Call published this week; people can submit proposals until December (21-23
> December?); a small committee selects proposals (who wants to be part of
> it?); schedule is announced on 10 January.
>
> 2) The Apache OpenOffice booth/stand. See https://fosdem.org/2013/call_**
> for_stands.html <https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_stands.html> Again, I
> can take care of submitting the request, but we will need to be sure that
> we have enough people available to attend to it. Mechtilde and Michael will
> very likely be there, right? Organizers want to be sure that we will have
> at least two people on Sat 2 Feb and Sun 3 Feb, full days. Please state
> your availability: if we have enough people, it would be nice to request a
> large stand instead of a normal one. Timeline: proposals due by 28 Nov.
>
> 3) An Apache OpenOffice speaker in the main track (different from the
> devroom because it's held in a large auditorium and is not focused on one
> project). As I understand it, this is reserved to high-profile speakers,
> but of course the definition of "high-profile" is highly subjective. The
> topic should be technical and not too narrow. For example, a presentation
> about OpenOffice 4.0 would not qualify; a talk about the "Cloud version"
> which is hugely popular with over 16K views on Slideshare would qualify
> only if accompanied by a more complete demo and pointers for people to get
> involved. At first sight, I wouldn't be sure that a talk about the future
> (by then, "current"!) localization process would qualify; but I'd love to
> see it featured and, if we believe it has chances, we can surely go for it
> too. Please have a look at past year's main track talks
> https://archive.fosdem.org/**2012/schedule/main-tracks.html<https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/main-tracks.html>
> and comment here on what would be best to show. I personally won't propose
> a main track talk (given by me, I mean) about Apache OpenOffice. Timeline:
> proposals due by 1 Dec, but preparing a good proposal might need a few days.
>
> Regards,
> Andrea.
>
