Draft blog post: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
I drafted a short article on what's coming at FOSDEM this weekend. You can find the draft at https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=apache_openoffice_at_fosdem_2013 and I'll proceed to publish as soon as I get some positive feedback (or corrections/integrations). Everything else is ready, rollup and flyers are printed, and it looks like we are set to have a nice weekend! By the way, if someone is already in Brussels we could maybe meet tonight already, at the FOSDEM beer event or elsewhere. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Draft blog post: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
LGTM! I would not wait very long to publish it. Regards, Dave On Feb 1, 2013, at 4:39 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: I drafted a short article on what's coming at FOSDEM this weekend. You can find the draft at https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=apache_openoffice_at_fosdem_2013 and I'll proceed to publish as soon as I get some positive feedback (or corrections/integrations). Everything else is ready, rollup and flyers are printed, and it looks like we are set to have a nice weekend! By the way, if someone is already in Brussels we could maybe meet tonight already, at the FOSDEM beer event or elsewhere. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Draft blog post: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
Dave Fisher wrote: LGTM! I would not wait very long to publish it. Published: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_at_fosdem_2013 Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
I updated the font (ubuntu) all the way around. Rewrote the last column of second page, ehh to be honest. - still not the first two paragraphs though - any thoughts on what you want to say there. Or other comments updated odt and a pdf as it is now at https://www.dropbox.com/s/aef3a6fz44yrwft/AOO%20Flyer.odt https://www.dropbox.com/s/xx62g6knl2s44ce/AOO%20Flyer.pdf Otherwise, will come back to this later today. One other thing, this isn't really what I would call a FOSDEM piece IMO.. but more on that later. //drew On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.orgwrote: On 16/01/2013 Drew Jensen wrote: OK, well I made a couple more small edits and pushed it to dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/s/**aef3a6fz44yrwft/AOO%20Flyer.**odthttps://www.dropbox.com/s/aef3a6fz44yrwft/AOO%20Flyer.odt Thanks, looks very nice! I uploaded it to https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/** FOSDEM+2013+Organizationhttps://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+Organization There will be a couple tweaks to apply (including replacement of the Comic Sans font, which is known to be very unpopular among geeks) but this flyer will be very useful at FOSDEM and hopefully elsewhere. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On 16/01/2013 Drew Jensen wrote: OK, well I made a couple more small edits and pushed it to dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/s/aef3a6fz44yrwft/AOO%20Flyer.odt Thanks, looks very nice! I uploaded it to https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+Organization There will be a couple tweaks to apply (including replacement of the Comic Sans font, which is known to be very unpopular among geeks) but this flyer will be very useful at FOSDEM and hopefully elsewhere. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On Jan 14, 2013, at 7:43 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A couple of quick questions as I finish up the tri-fold brochure: Supported operating systems - the original lists in three places with three different sets of OS: (fr cover) Windows, Linux, Unix, OS/2, OS X, Solaris (bk cover) Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, IBM OS/2, OS X, Solaris So, I believe the back cover is more correct, and would use it for both? In a body section it again lists them, but differentiates between what is available from the main AOO website (Win, Linux, OS X) and those from third parties (OS/2, Solaris, Free BSD and Portable) and lists this link, http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ to find these. This is going to go away, yes? What would you like for this link? That Page is not going away. We're only talking about moving the /porting/Mac page. -Rob Oh one other thing, anyone know what overgangsëffecten translates to, the only word I'm lost on. Thanks, Drew On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.orgwrote: On 09/01/2013 Andrea Pescetti wrote: Schedule now ready at https://fosdem.org/2013/**schedule/track/apache_**openoffice/https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/apache_openoffice/ The organizers asked to shift everything one hour forward. The updated devroom schedule is now online at the same address. The devroom will run 11 to 18.30, in line with all the other Saturday devrooms. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
Hi all, is there any official/unofficial FOSDEM template (or at least a guideline for logos, elements or styles that should be shared between presentations) for AOO track? Best regards, Fabrizio
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
Well, this Tri-Fold flyer isn't done. I put to current file to the wiki at: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/File:AOO_Flyer.odt The first paragraph (two actually) on page one needs re-write I think. The right hand column on page 2 certainly needs re-write. I made a subtle change with the logos, using what was in the original but without zooming one up 300%, would look terrible printed I think. So, if anyone has an ideas on those sections, feel free to just update the file directly or post a message. I'm off to do a few other things, will check here and the wiki this evening when I come back to this. Thanks //drew On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Fabrizio Marchesano fmarches...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, is there any official/unofficial FOSDEM template (or at least a guideline for logos, elements or styles that should be shared between presentations) for AOO track? Best regards, Fabrizio
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On 15/01/2013 Drew Jensen wrote: Well, this Tri-Fold flyer isn't done. I put to current file to the wiki at: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/File:AOO_Flyer.odt Thanks! But I think there's something to fix on the wiki, I can't download the file. The link in your page goes to http://wiki.openoffice.org/w/images/a/af/AOO_Flyer.odt which returns a Not found error. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
Sylvain DENIS wrote: I have printed 300 folders in French ;) (250 B/W 50 colors) Thank you both! I'm collecting information about flyers at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+Organization An English version would be next, possibly starting from the Dutch ODT file and keeping the German and French PDF versions for reference. Anyone willing to do the first step? Of course we can then ask native speakers to proofread it. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
I'll translate the Dutch flyer today and upload it to the wiki. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.orgwrote: Sylvain DENIS wrote: I have printed 300 folders in French ;) (250 B/W 50 colors) Thank you both! I'm collecting information about flyers at https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/** FOSDEM+2013+Organizationhttps://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+Organization An English version would be next, possibly starting from the Dutch ODT file and keeping the German and French PDF versions for reference. Anyone willing to do the first step? Of course we can then ask native speakers to proofread it. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:18:03 + Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: I've translated the first page of the French flyer and will send it to you now, off list. Chop and change as you think fit. No time today to tackle the second side, so glad you are doing it. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:42:50 -0500 Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: Oh one other thing, anyone know what overgangsëffecten translates to, the only word I'm lost on. Transition effects or animation effects, I think. Drew: that paragraph translates (from the French) Need to present your thoughts to a meeting or a conference? Time to call on Impress. Templates assist you to easily prepare your presentations. Use animations, transition effects, sound and video to liven up your presentations. Different methods of layout and formatting and many useful tools will help you design your slide show. Preset yor data in tables and charts. Record your presentation in PowerPoint format if necessary, or export it in PDF format. Be persuasive with Impress! -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On 10/01/2013 10:12, RA Stehmann wrote: Andrea, could you please make a simple poster, which contains the dev-room program (and the room number). We can place it a the stand (booth) to inform the public in that way. Maybe we can place it also on other places. Sure, I'll try to have a couple of simple A3 printouts (or A4 if I don't manage to print in A3) with the full devroom schedule. An important detail: in the organizer's list of stands that you forwarded, the Apache OpenOffice stand was called AOO. This is hard to understand for people who are not familiar with the project. Our devroom is called Apache OpenOffice and our stand should be called Apache OpenOffice too, not AOO. Maybe you can check with them that they will use Apache OpenOffice if they make posters/signage/booklets with the list of all stands? Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
Am 09.01.2013 20:54, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: On 27/12/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+Proposals Is the program of the AOO presentations set already? Speakers have already been notified of acceptance/rejection. But the detailed schedule is not ready yet, it will take some more days. Schedule now ready at https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/apache_openoffice/ We were also officially assigned our room: room AW1.125. You will find that we also added the Hacking OpenOffice session. Not a presentation, but more a questions/answers session, where I expect everybody who has experience with OpenOffice development to be there and discuss best practices and possible tasks that newcomers can pick (I had to list some names as speakers due to technical constraints, e-mail me off-list if you want me to make changes). Andrea, could you please make a simple poster, which contains the dev-room program (and the room number). We can place it a the stand (booth) to inform the public in that way. Maybe we can place it also on other places. Regards Michael signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On 21.12.2012 13:23, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 21/11/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 12/11/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: FOSDEM 2013 will be held in Brussels, Belgium, 2-3 Feb 2013 and it is a huge, free, developer-oriented, technical conference. ... Call for Talks out and advertised on the FOSDEM site at https://fosdem.org/2013/news/2012-11-01-cfp/ (as well as ooo-dev and ooo-announce). Wiki page for proposals ready at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+Proposals Deadline for submissions: 23 December. ... cut ... Is the program of the AOO presentations set already? What about the following idea: if the number of presentations and presenters allow for, why not repeat the presentations in the afternoon? (Among other things, this way, people attending FOSDEM who are interested in different topics may become able to attend some of the AOO presentations in the case of time clashes that would inhibit attendance of a presentation.) ---rony
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+Proposals Is the program of the AOO presentations set already? Speakers have already been notified of acceptance/rejection. But the detailed schedule is not ready yet, it will take some more days. What about the following idea: if the number of presentations and presenters allow for, why not repeat the presentations in the afternoon? The idea is not bad, but we won't be able to implement it unless we are given (I'm joking!) a second day... Keynotes, lunch break and the need to start not too early already limit quite a bit our schedule. That said, we have a stand/booth for two full days, so this might be an occasion for some quick demos. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On 25/11/2012 Sylvain DENIS wrote: a stand is planned? It has been requested. It will only be confirmed mid-December (originally, the deadline was this week). on page http://s.apache.org/fosdem-2013-proposals there is no category stand, for volunteers and languages and journey. I created https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+Organization so that everybody can write details there. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
Thanks, i 've modified the wiki Regards librement, *Sylvain DENIS* /Expert TIC, FLOSS WEB Conseiller en sécurité de l'information Formateur, conférencier/ Le 29/11/12 09:04, Andrea Pescetti a écrit : On 25/11/2012 Sylvain DENIS wrote: a stand is planned? It has been requested. It will only be confirmed mid-December (originally, the deadline was this week). on page http://s.apache.org/fosdem-2013-proposals there is no category stand, for volunteers and languages and journey. I created https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+Organization so that everybody can write details there. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
Hi Andrea, Do you need flyers in french and dutch for the stand ? If yes, it should be nice to have an official english version to can begin the work. A+ -- gw 2012/11/29 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org On 25/11/2012 Sylvain DENIS wrote: a stand is planned? It has been requested. It will only be confirmed mid-December (originally, the deadline was this week). on page http://s.apache.org/fosdem-**2013-proposalshttp://s.apache.org/fosdem-2013-proposalsthere is no category stand, for volunteers and languages and journey. I created https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/** FOSDEM+2013+Organizationhttps://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+Organization so that everybody can write details there. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On 21/11/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 12/11/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: 3) An Apache OpenOffice speaker in the main track ... Timeline: proposals due by 1 Dec ... This is still unaddressed. It's time to agree on a proposed talk here. Ideas? In case it turns out to be too narrow in scope for the main track, we will of course put it in our devroom track, so effort here is not wasted. Last call: if we want a talk from Apache OpenOffice to appear in the main track, it needs to be submitted (and ideally, agreed on this list) within 3 days. Otherwise we will still have our dedicated track (devroom), but a talk in the main track is an important occasion to be more visible. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On 11/23/12 8:34 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 21/11/2012 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Always nice are cups, T-Shirts, stickers, flyers,... something like that. Ideally not branded for FOSDEM but more neutral for AOO that it can be used for other events as well. Excellent idea. At least we should have some t-shirts for volunteers and a simple gadget to distribute (a notepad can be ok, a USB stick with OpenOffice and related content might be nice too, but it's probably more expensive). We can also think about AOO branded note pads (~1500-2000) that we can give the organizers to put it in the conference welcome packs. I'm not sure FOSDEM has conference welcome packs. I don't recall being given one in recent years. If we want to do something like this, we need ideas for an logo/image Yes, and consider that, with the rebranding currently ongoing, it could happen that we have a new logo soon. So we shouldn't exaggerate with quantities. we need also volunteers to drive it because I will have limited time Juergen
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On 11/22/12 7:13 PM, Guy Waterval wrote: Hi Andrea, 2012/11/12 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org 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 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? Organizers want to be sure that we will have at least two people on Sat 2 Feb and Sun 3 Feb, full days. 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. I will be in FOSDEM the 2 days and available for the stand if you need people. I speak french, but also a little english and german. perfect I am looking forward to meet you there Juergen
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
Hello, hello, as Guy, I can come to the stand one day or two. I live in Belgium 60 km from Fosdem. I speak French and a little English. I can help without problem. Regards librement, *Sylvain DENIS* /Expert TIC, FLOSS WEB Conseiller en sécurité de l'information Formateur, conférencier/ Le 23/11/12 10:47, Jürgen Schmidt a écrit : On 11/22/12 7:13 PM, Guy Waterval wrote: Hi Andrea, 2012/11/12 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org 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 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? Organizers want to be sure that we will have at least two people on Sat 2 Feb and Sun 3 Feb, full days. 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. I will be in FOSDEM the 2 days and available for the stand if you need people. I speak french, but also a little english and german. perfect I am looking forward to meet you there Juergen
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
Am 23.11.2012 10:53, schrieb Sylvain DENIS: Hello, hello, as Guy, I can come to the stand one day or two. I live in Belgium 60 km from Fosdem. I speak French and a little English. I can help without problem. Regards librement, *Sylvain DENIS* /Expert TIC, FLOSS WEB Conseiller en sécurité de l'information Formateur, conférencier/ Le 23/11/12 10:47, Jürgen Schmidt a écrit : On 11/22/12 7:13 PM, Guy Waterval wrote: Hi Andrea, That's great, because we need some french speaking persons. Regards Michael signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
RA Stehmann wrote: Am 23.11.2012 10:53, schrieb Sylvain DENIS: as Guy, I can come to the stand one day or two. I live in Belgium ... That's great, because we need some french speaking persons. Nice to see we are building a FOSDEM team for the stand, thank you! If you like, you can edit http://s.apache.org/fosdem-2013-proposals and add somehwere a table with presence at the stand, and languages spoken. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On 11/21/2012 3:46 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 11/13/12 7:21 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: 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?) In the past I have created T-Shirts for example and we gave them more or less for a small donation to people. They were initially paid by the Community Council (Team OpenOffice). The collected money (minus production costs) went back to Team OpenOffice . We could do something similar and the money would go back to the ASF. We had also other small stuff that we gave away for donations. Always nice are cups, T-Shirts, stickers, flyers,... something like that. Ideally not branded for FOSDEM but more neutral for AOO that it can be used for other events as well. We can also think about AOO branded note pads (~1500-2000) that we can give the organizers to put it in the conference welcome packs. Information on the note pad could be info where to find our DevRoom and the booth for example. We could also benefit some of some banners (roll up banners for example) If we want to do something like this, we need ideas for an logo/image we want to put on shirts, cups, etc. and of course the technical realization that can be used for the production. Other questions: - collecting quotes for the production and volunteers who take care of it - who can carry the material to the event (I booked my flight already and can't carry too much) The time is running and many questions would have to be clarified. Some more info and basic quotes: - rollup banner - 100-150€ - note pad, 1000 pieces, á 50 sheets, 100% recycling paper, 2 color print, glue laminated on one site, first quote I found ~1050 € - stickers, 100mm, 1000 pieces, ~150€ See for some concrete stuff (shirt, banner) http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Conferences/FOSDEM/2009 http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Conferences/FOSDEM/2010 I'm supporting your request. Maybe you should resend it as a separate [Proposal]. As well, I'm not sure about the policies. Maybe it's up to the PMC to decide. From my point of view the PMC. Best regards, Peter Juergen 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
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On 21/11/2012 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Always nice are cups, T-Shirts, stickers, flyers,... something like that. Ideally not branded for FOSDEM but more neutral for AOO that it can be used for other events as well. Excellent idea. At least we should have some t-shirts for volunteers and a simple gadget to distribute (a notepad can be ok, a USB stick with OpenOffice and related content might be nice too, but it's probably more expensive). We can also think about AOO branded note pads (~1500-2000) that we can give the organizers to put it in the conference welcome packs. I'm not sure FOSDEM has conference welcome packs. I don't recall being given one in recent years. If we want to do something like this, we need ideas for an logo/image Yes, and consider that, with the rebranding currently ongoing, it could happen that we have a new logo soon. So we shouldn't exaggerate with quantities. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On 11/13/12 7:21 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: 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?) In the past I have created T-Shirts for example and we gave them more or less for a small donation to people. They were initially paid by the Community Council (Team OpenOffice). The collected money (minus production costs) went back to Team OpenOffice . We could do something similar and the money would go back to the ASF. We had also other small stuff that we gave away for donations. Always nice are cups, T-Shirts, stickers, flyers,... something like that. Ideally not branded for FOSDEM but more neutral for AOO that it can be used for other events as well. We can also think about AOO branded note pads (~1500-2000) that we can give the organizers to put it in the conference welcome packs. Information on the note pad could be info where to find our DevRoom and the booth for example. We could also benefit some of some banners (roll up banners for example) If we want to do something like this, we need ideas for an logo/image we want to put on shirts, cups, etc. and of course the technical realization that can be used for the production. Other questions: - collecting quotes for the production and volunteers who take care of it - who can carry the material to the event (I booked my flight already and can't carry too much) The time is running and many questions would have to be clarified. Some more info and basic quotes: - rollup banner - 100-150€ - note pad, 1000 pieces, á 50 sheets, 100% recycling paper, 2 color print, glue laminated on one site, first quote I found ~1050 € - stickers, 100mm, 1000 pieces, ~150€ See for some concrete stuff (shirt, banner) http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Conferences/FOSDEM/2009 http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Conferences/FOSDEM/2010 Juergen 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
RE: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013, 2-3 February 2013, Brussels
It seems valuable to have the CFP available here also: https://staging.fosdem.org/2013/news/2012-11-01-cfp/ - Dennis -Original Message- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 09:22 To: annou...@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013, 2-3 February 2013, Brussels Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013, 2-3 February 2013, Brussels Apache OpenOffice (formerly OpenOffice.org) is coming again to FOSDEM in Brussels, for the first time as an Apache Top-Level Project. Our community has a new structure, friendly and open, and new developers are especially welcome. We invite submissions of talks for the Apache OpenOffice devroom, to be held on Saturday, 2 February 2013, 9.00 to 17.30. If you have something interesting to say about Apache OpenOffice or the ODF format from a technical point of view (code, extensions, localization, QA, tools... but also less known functions or creative ways to use the program) please share it with us! It doesn't need to be long or serious. Funny contributions are welcome as well. Just make sure to specify an estimated length for your talk, as well as a proposed title, description and a few lines about yourself. The deadline is Sunday, 23 December 2012. Accepted talks will be published by 10 January 2013. Limited funding may be available for accepted speakers in need. Please add your talk proposals to the following page: http://s.apache.org/fosdem-2013-proposals You can send any questions to our development mailing list: dev@openoffice.apache.org = Note: you received this email because you are subscribed to the OpenOffice announcement mailing list. More information on this list, including information on unsubscribing, can be found here: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html#announce-mailing-list
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On 14/11/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: copied and pasted into an e-mail, see other announcements ... https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+CFP is just for writing/reviewing this text. Link won't be published. Reminder: in slightly more than 24 hours, that page will be copied and pasted into a text-only message to the FOSDEM mailing lists and (if nobody opposes) to ooo-dev and ooo-announce. So far, only Rob made a few minor edits. Feel free to improve the call for talks before it is sent. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: A draft of the Call for Papers/Talks (text only) is available at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+CFP ... It would be good to jazz this up a little. Is there a FOSDEM logo that we are permitted to use? Does anyone have a good photo (or two) from ApacheCon that we could use? Sorry I wasn't clear. That page hosts the text only version: it will be copied and pasted into an e-mail, see other announcements at https://fosdem.org/2013/ So only the text should be improved there. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+CFP is just for writing/reviewing this text. Link won't be published. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+Proposals is the nicer version where we can add formatting, practical information and the actual talk submissions too. This is the link we will publish, so images can be added here, good suggestion. But we first need the other page ready (i.e., the final version of the CFP text). Regards, Andrea.
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:49 AM, RA Stehmann
anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de wrote:
Am 13.11.2012 03:01, schrieb Rob Weir:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Donald Harbison dpharbi...@gmail.com
wrote:
{forgive top posting}
First off, thanks for leading the charge at FOSDEM. On this side of the
Atlantic we need to gear up on ACNA and figure out what we want to do, and
who will be available. (excuses here, for a small delay)
Let's get the devroom right as a priority. IMHO. Points 2 and 3 would be
nice, but let's really nail the devroom, and everything else will take care
of itself, so to speak (and I do not know how that translates, sorry!)
So let's be laser focused on the 'series of talks' we want to ask our
community to step up and do. We can promote this CFP via our banner on
openoffice.org.
The openoffice.org banner would be totally wasted for that, reaching
750K people a day, 99.999% of them being users and not at all
interested in this conference. I'd recommend a blog post as an
intermediate approach.
I'll be commandeering the openoffice.org banner for the near future to
attract new volunteers, something we've so far failed to do by giving
each other presentations at conferences.
-Rob
I don't agree.
I makes IMO sense to promote our aktivities at FOSDEM on our website.
Maybe some friends of OpenOffice will see it and will go to FOSDEM
because of the program in the dev-room or to meet our people at the booth.
If only one of them becomes a submitter or supports us in another way
later effort has payed off.
It comes down to probabilities.
I've demonstrated that using the website to call for new volunteers is
effective. In just the weekend we've had three people sign up as QA
volunteers. Similar, focused calls for volunteers on NL pages has
increased our language coverage, bringing in translators for Danish,
Polish, Norwegian, Polish and Turkish.
We ran a call for papers and an invitation for ApacheCon on the
website for 37 days. How many new volunteers did we get from that?
Can any say we even have 1?
Compare that to the opportunity cost of not running a call for
volunteers directly, a technique that has proven extremely effective.
FOSDEM is definitely no event to reach new users of an office suite but
one to recruit new volunteers.
I'm not saying we don't advertise Fosdem. I'm just saying we should
target that in a way that will be most effective. Running a central
banner add for a month, like we did for ApacheCon will not be as
effective as using that space for other recruitment purposes. I have
the data to back up that assertion.
-Rob
Regards
Michael
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:49 AM, RA Stehmann
anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de wrote:
Am 13.11.2012 03:01, schrieb Rob Weir:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Donald Harbison dpharbi...@gmail.com
wrote:
{forgive top posting}
First off, thanks for leading the charge at FOSDEM. On this side of the
Atlantic we need to gear up on ACNA and figure out what we want to do, and
who will be available. (excuses here, for a small delay)
Let's get the devroom right as a priority. IMHO. Points 2 and 3 would be
nice, but let's really nail the devroom, and everything else will take care
of itself, so to speak (and I do not know how that translates, sorry!)
So let's be laser focused on the 'series of talks' we want to ask our
community to step up and do. We can promote this CFP via our banner on
openoffice.org.
The openoffice.org banner would be totally wasted for that, reaching
750K people a day, 99.999% of them being users and not at all
interested in this conference. I'd recommend a blog post as an
intermediate approach.
I'll be commandeering the openoffice.org banner for the near future to
attract new volunteers, something we've so far failed to do by giving
each other presentations at conferences.
-Rob
I don't agree.
I makes IMO sense to promote our aktivities at FOSDEM on our website.
Maybe some friends of OpenOffice will see it and will go to FOSDEM
because of the program in the dev-room or to meet our people at the booth.
If only one of them becomes a submitter or supports us in another way
later effort has payed off.
It comes down to probabilities.
I've demonstrated that using the website to call for new volunteers is
effective. In just the weekend we've had three people sign up as QA
volunteers. Similar, focused calls for volunteers on NL pages has
increased our language coverage, bringing in translators for Danish,
Polish, Norwegian, Polish and Turkish.
We ran a call for papers and an invitation for ApacheCon on the
website for 37 days. How many new volunteers did we get from that?
Can any say we even have 1?
Compare that to the opportunity cost of not running a call for
volunteers directly, a technique that has proven extremely effective.
FOSDEM is definitely no event to reach new users of an office suite but
one to recruit new volunteers.
I'm not saying we don't advertise Fosdem. I'm just saying we should
target that in a way that will be most effective. Running a central
banner add for a month, like we did for ApacheCon will not be as
effective as using that space for other recruitment purposes. I have
the data to back up that assertion.
And so we're all on the same page, here's a quick review of the
promotional avenues we have easy access to:
-- news story on openoffice.org home page, 70K/day, predominately end users
-- banner on every openoffice,org page, 700K/day, predominately end users
-- blog post, a few thousand views, including broader Apache community
-- email to dev list, 300 hundred or so, but includes all core community members
-- email to announcement list, 9300, mostly users, but some press, etc.
-- Twitter, 850 followers
-- Facebook, 2000 likes
-- Google+, 1300 in circle
(There are other avenues like press articles, YouTube videos, etc.,
that may be impactful, but would require more effort)
Maybe it is an issue with the website design, or the copy writing, but
we're not getting a huge click-through rate on news stories or banner
ads. For example, our home page story on 20 million downloads gets
maybe 300 clicks per day. So a CTR of 0.4%. I this is because users
visiting the home page are task-oriented. They are looking for
something specific, like a download. They tune out extraneous
information. But when on Twitter or Facebook they are mentally open
to getting new stories of interest.
In any case, I think this suggests three things:
1) In any specific promotion we should think carefully about what
combination will reach the target audience.
2) We should cross-promote, e.g., primary announce via blog post,
followed by linking to it from Twitter, etc.
3) Getting above the noise threshold is essential. There is too much
clutter on there, including our website. Being heard is not easy. We
need to constantly experiment, measure, adapt.
-Rob
-Rob
Regards
Michael
Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013
On 11/13/2012 5:49 AM, RA Stehmann wrote:
Am 13.11.2012 03:01, schrieb Rob Weir:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Donald Harbison dpharbi...@gmail.com wrote:
{forgive top posting}
First off, thanks for leading the charge at FOSDEM. On this side of the
Atlantic we need to gear up on ACNA and figure out what we want to do, and
who will be available. (excuses here, for a small delay)
Let's get the devroom right as a priority. IMHO. Points 2 and 3 would be
nice, but let's really nail the devroom, and everything else will take care
of itself, so to speak (and I do not know how that translates, sorry!)
So let's be laser focused on the 'series of talks' we want to ask our
community to step up and do. We can promote this CFP via our banner on
openoffice.org.
The openoffice.org banner would be totally wasted for that, reaching
750K people a day, 99.999% of them being users and not at all
interested in this conference. I'd recommend a blog post as an
intermediate approach.
I'll be commandeering the openoffice.org banner for the near future to
attract new volunteers, something we've so far failed to do by giving
each other presentations at conferences.
-Rob
I don't agree.
I makes IMO sense to promote our aktivities at FOSDEM on our website.
Maybe some friends of OpenOffice will see it and will go to FOSDEM
because of the program in the dev-room or to meet our people at the booth.
If only one of them becomes a submitter or supports us in another way
later effort has payed off.
FOSDEM is definitely no event to reach new users of an office suite but
one to recruit new volunteers.
+1
It may make sense to have a high profile message of Developers, come
see us at FOSDEM
We only need a very low conversion rate to make a substantial difference
to the project,
and it also emphasizes to the end users showing up at the page that we
are a project made
up of volunteers, that is always welcoming of more interested people
willing to help.
A.
Regards
Michael
