On 11/13/2012 5:49 AM, RA Stehmann wrote:
Am 13.11.2012 03:01, schrieb Rob Weir:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Donald Harbison <dpharbi...@gmail.com> wrote:
{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.
The openoffice.org banner would be totally wasted for that, reaching
750K people a day, 99.999% of them being users and not at all
interested in this conference. I'd recommend a blog post as an
intermediate approach.
I'll be commandeering the openoffice.org banner for the near future to
attract new volunteers, something we've so far failed to do by giving
each other presentations at conferences.
-Rob
I don't agree.
I makes IMO sense to promote our aktivities at FOSDEM on our website.
Maybe some friends of OpenOffice will see it and will go to FOSDEM
because of the program in the dev-room or to meet our people at the booth.
If only one of them becomes a submitter or supports us in another way
later effort has payed off.
FOSDEM is definitely no event to reach new users of an office suite but
one to recruit new volunteers.
+1
It may make sense to have a high profile message of "Developers, come
see us at FOSDEM"
We only need a very low conversion rate to make a substantial difference
to the project,
and it also emphasizes to the end users showing up at the page that we
are a project made
up of volunteers, that is always welcoming of more interested people
willing to help.
A.
Regards
Michael
