On 11 June 2014 09:51, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/06/14 08:21, jan i wrote: > > Hi. > > > > We have been offered a possibility to have a AOO event just after > ApacheCon > > EU. > > > > ApacheCon EU is monday-wednesday, so the AOO event can be thursday and > > friday, in parallel with a cloudstack event. > > > > There are costs asociated with the offering, how to handle that is being > > discussed by the PMC, either we find a sponsor and can make the event > next > > to free of charge, or we have to charge a fee and look for the more > > professional users (goverments etc). > > > > I think its a great opertunity to show that AOO is still a very active > > project, and show what we do for other projects. I also believe its a > great > > opertunity for developers, QA, documenters to meet with real life users > and > > visa versa. > > > > My aim with such an event, would just be the event itself, and the > > marketing that follows. It can be a major kick to our project. > > > > But in order for this to be a reality, the community needs to be behind > the > > idea, and we need a couple of people to stand up, and help get it > organized. > > > > Therefore my simple questions: > > - Is this something the community at large wants to pursue ? > > - Any volunteers to help ? > > > > I am skeptical that we can manage it in time (specially the sponsoring > part). The CFP for the normal ApacheCon ends June 25th and we can have > potentially a AOO related track during the main conference, I don't > know. But we should not miss this deadline. > No for sure that deadline is important, but there are NO in submitting talks. Please submit all the talks you want, when we arrange the talks there will be either a small AOO track + event, or a (hopefully) big AOO track. > > I personally will focus on development and release tasks only in the > following month and will not have too much time to help. But I would of > course try to support such an event with a potential talk, a workshop or > whatever. > The more talks/workshops we get the better. There should be plenty of topics to talk about. rgds jan I. > Juergen > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
