Hi all, SCALE 12x went very, very well. I met a number of enthusiastic supporters, handed out many pamphlets and stickers, and talked so much that I became a bit hoarse by Sunday.
I've started to follow-up on a number of the contacts I made during the event, and I've pointed a number of people who were interested in becoming contributors towards the appropriate teams of LibreOffice. I also chatted with students from Cal Poly and a couple of other universities, and enquired about possible interest in hosting a hackfest or having some other type of LibreOffice/FOSS-related event on their campus. I got a chance to speak briefly with the OpenHatch folks, and think that their experience w/"Open Source Comes to Campus" could serve us well as we look to higher ed for new hackers and other contributors to TDF/LibreOffice: (https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/In_a_Box) I spent a bit of time thinking about our NA Conference Box, and thanks to financial support from David Eisenberg, added a few items to the current set of supplies, including - duct tape - sharpie - power strip/surge suppressor - scissors One person who stopped by was a reporter with LWN who is an organizer of the Texas Linux Fest and who was interested in us having a booth at the event this year. Texas Linux Fest will be June 13-14 in Austin: http://texaslinuxfest.org/ That's all I can think of off the top of my head. It was a great conference, and LibreOffice got a lot of praise from exhibitors, speakers, and other users. I wish some of you could have been there to hear the praise first-hand! Cheers, --R P.S. Many people loved the t-shirts, but wished that we had larger sizes (What I brought from FOSDEM was mostly ladies' sizes). I assured everyone that we'd do our best to bring larger sizes next year :-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
