Re: Apache OpenOffice Meetup Switzerland
Hi Raphael, Your suggestion is a good one, but I think we also should try to approach such technical schools and universities because they have a big potential and also a great influence in the society. The principal issue is how to do that. There are, for me two available approach : #1 Directly through an official AOO presentation, a solution probably more complex and heavy which requires means that we perhaps don't really have. #2 Through an users association, not obligatory limited to OpenOffice, let's say an association which promotes the use of free software. The creation of an association classified public utility is simple in Switzerland, and offers some advantages. The second solution has clearly my preference, because it allows to approach the potential users with a more regional color. Volunteers who have an interest to collaborate directly with the AOO project could be encourage to do it, others who don't will directly collaborate with the project, for questions of langage or maybe also cultural differences, are not lost for the project but have an opportunity to collaborate indirectly with the sensation of being a little more at home. This solution could also allow to create more specific layers between the AOO project and the users, with a better proximity, which seems to me important for push the use of OpenOffice in the society in a multicultural context. A+ -- gw 2013/10/14 Raphael Bircher r.birc...@gmx.ch Hi Guy Am 12.10.13 06:58, schrieb Guy Waterval: Sorry for confusion. I will say ethz for 2014 and Epfl for 2015 or 2016. I'm not sure if we talk about the same thing. I talk about a small meetup and not about a conference. So a restaurant would probabily be better. Greetings Raphael --**--**- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.orgdev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Apache OpenOffice Meetup Switzerland
Hello, From: Guy Waterval [mailto:waterval@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 6:47 AM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Apache OpenOffice Meetup Switzerland Hi Raphael, Good idea. I suggest http://www.ethz.ch/ for this year, and http://www.epfl.ch/ for next year. So, a maximum of people should be happy. I think what Raphael says, this is what we call in the German community OpenOffice Stammtisch. Last weekend had e.g. the team of PrOOo-Box (www.prooo-box.org), such a OpenOffice Stammtisch organized in Lübeck. (http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/DE-AOO/Stammtische) A OpenOffice Stammtisch is nothing more than a meeting in a restaurant where people (community members and others) talk about OpenOffice - they drink and eat and talk about OpenOffice and free software. Greetings, Jörg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Apache OpenOffice Meetup Switzerland
Hi Jörg, OK, many thanks, I didn't know about it. It's seems effectively a good way to create groups of users without the need of a big structure. A+ -- gw 2013/10/15 Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de Hello, From: Guy Waterval [mailto:waterval@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 6:47 AM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Apache OpenOffice Meetup Switzerland Hi Raphael, Good idea. I suggest http://www.ethz.ch/ for this year, and http://www.epfl.ch/ for next year. So, a maximum of people should be happy. I think what Raphael says, this is what we call in the German community OpenOffice Stammtisch. Last weekend had e.g. the team of PrOOo-Box (www.prooo-box.org), such a OpenOffice Stammtisch organized in Lübeck. (http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/DE-AOO/Stammtische) A OpenOffice Stammtisch is nothing more than a meeting in a restaurant where people (community members and others) talk about OpenOffice - they drink and eat and talk about OpenOffice and free software. Greetings, Jörg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Apache OpenOffice Meetup Switzerland
On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:07:29 +0200 Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jörg, OK, many thanks, I didn't know about it. It's seems effectively a good way to create groups of users without the need of a big structure. A+ -- gw 2013/10/15 Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de Hello, From: Guy Waterval [mailto:waterval@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 6:47 AM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Apache OpenOffice Meetup Switzerland Hi Raphael, Good idea. I suggest http://www.ethz.ch/ for this year, and http://www.epfl.ch/ for next year. So, a maximum of people should be happy. I think what Raphael says, this is what we call in the German community OpenOffice Stammtisch. Last weekend had e.g. the team of PrOOo-Box (www.prooo-box.org), such a OpenOffice Stammtisch organized in Lübeck. (http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/DE-AOO/Stammtische) A OpenOffice Stammtisch is nothing more than a meeting in a restaurant where people (community members and others) talk about OpenOffice - they drink and eat and talk about OpenOffice and free software. Greetings, Jörg Back in the early microcomputer days (c 1979/80) when we built our own machines with a soldering iron and a kit, our local microcomputer club used meet for a talk, and many of us would go afterwards for a meal. This built a good social group. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Apache OpenOffice Meetup Switzerland
Hi Guy Am 12.10.13 06:58, schrieb Guy Waterval: Sorry for confusion. I will say ethz for 2014 and Epfl for 2015 or 2016. I'm not sure if we talk about the same thing. I talk about a small meetup and not about a conference. So a restaurant would probabily be better. Greetings Raphael - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Apache OpenOffice Meetup Switzerland
Raphael Bircher wrote: I'm not sure if we talk about the same thing. I talk about a small meetup and not about a conference. So a restaurant would probabily be better. You can combine both: a meeting in a University or a technical schools with a couple of presentations and then a more social part in a restaurant. This way, you have a social moment for existing volunteers but you can also attract some new volunteers. Apache has an Event in a Box proposal that is now being finalized and that you might find useful. Some outdated (for example, the Conference Committee does not exist any longer) information: http://wiki.apache.org/concom-planning/ConComSupportedEvents Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Apache OpenOffice Meetup Switzerland
Hi Raphael, Good idea. I suggest http://www.ethz.ch/ for this year, and http://www.epfl.ch/ for next year. So, a maximum of people should be happy. A+ -- gw 2013/10/12 Raphael Bircher r.birc...@gmx.ch Hi at all The Swiss has a active Apache OpenOffice Community. I like to put up a meet up at CH. Good location would be Bern or Zurich. Any proposal for location? Greetings Raphael --**--**- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.orgdev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Apache OpenOffice Meetup Switzerland
Sorry for confusion. I will say ethz for 2014 and Epfl for 2015 or 2016. 2013/10/12 Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com Hi Raphael, Good idea. I suggest http://www.ethz.ch/ for this year, and http://www.epfl.ch/ for next year. So, a maximum of people should be happy. A+ -- gw 2013/10/12 Raphael Bircher r.birc...@gmx.ch Hi at all The Swiss has a active Apache OpenOffice Community. I like to put up a meet up at CH. Good location would be Bern or Zurich. Any proposal for location? Greetings Raphael --**--**- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.orgdev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
