On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > 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. >
It looks good to me. There is now less than 1 month before the call for papers ends, so it would be good to publicize this via the blog, etc., if there are no more changes. -Rob > 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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
