On 11/13/2012 2:05 AM, RA Stehmann wrote:
Am 12.11.2012 21:53, schrieb Andrea Pescetti:
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.
2) The Apache OpenOffice booth/stand. See
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?
Yes, we'll be there.
We have some years experience presenting OpenOffice at the FOSDEM.
Organizers want to be sure that we will have at least
two people on Sat 2 Feb and Sun 3 Feb, full days.
I'm hopefully, some of our friends running the dev-room will join and
help us on the other day.
We prefer more people will join us, because running a booth with many
people is more joyfully. But we're able to ensure the organizers wants
even we've to do it alone.
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.
We think a normal stand is better than a large one. It's better there
are lot of Apache people around a smaller stand than only a few around a
large one. And we have no merchandize articles to present (like other
projects).
What would you want to give out if you could?
Is there something that we could use to help the image of the project in
the wider open source community?
What would you want? (and how many?)
A.
So a normal stand would fit.
A booth is a place where people can find and meet Apache supporters to
talk, get information etc.. People walk around and see: "Oh, there is
also an Apache OpenOffice booth!" And we can encourage them to ask us,
get information etc.. We can contact people who don't prospect us
specificly. In that way a booth is important even than a dev-room exists.
We like to invite other Apache projects to join and support us and to
present their project at the booth.
Regards
Michael
