Two small steps towards FOSDEM 2014 (Brussels, 1-2 February 2014):
1) I drafted a very generic Call for Talks. You can find it at
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Conferences/FOSDEM/2014
When/if approved, this will be the "official" call, shared between
OpenOffice and LibreOffice. It is an initial draft, not reviewed by the
LibreOffice project (or by Italo who is organizing the devroom on behalf
of LibreOffice) yet. I hope we can, through personal channels, get to a
final version in the next days and send it out. In the meantime, please
have a look and see if the text is OK. Remember that this text must be
neutral and basic: we have blogs and mailing lists for richer communication.
2) We approved a budget for speaker reimbursements last year, but in the
end we didn't use it since no speakers asked for reimbursement. Our
"events budget" is thus mostly untouched so far. I think Oliver was
handling the issue and had decided for a flat fee. So I propose, subject
to lazy consensus and hopefully to finding someone who can take
responsibility for this, to have a flat reimbursement of 200 Euros for
accepted speakers who ask for it. It won't cover all expenses, but it
may be a significant help for some speakers. (I can't find how much
Oliver proposed last year; feel free to discuss a different amount).
There's more to FOSDEM (namely, stand/booth and merchandising), but
these issues have a different timeline so I would focus on the two items
above for the time being.
Regards,
Andrea.
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