Hi there, On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 14:09 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote: > Below the draft for the announcement and the link to the wiki.
Looks excellent. > Do we want a deadline for the cfp ? Good question; normaly some flexibility is good here, along with prodding people into action. > Do we want to tell about current uncertainty wrt refund of costs ? I would make the text more like: "FOSDEM is a free conference to attend, and we will try to seek sponsorship, but funding is limited, so please only request it if you cannot attend otherwise" how about that ? :-) > Do we want to discuss at libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org ? Can do; lets whack it in the wiki first, and just not announce it - so people can go edit it in-place there. > The draft for the announcement: And thanks for the great start ! :-) wonderful to get a nucleus to grow this around. > 2011 Brussels, FOSDEM... Your first chance ever to give a talk for > LibreOffice at this great open source event … obviously you don't want > to miss this! Love it :-) > So do you want to share for example your experience in starting hacking > the code, or tell about the tweaks in your build environment, code > changes you have done or those that you prepare, or your work on QA? > Simply submit your proposal at our wiki: One thing I would like is to have a range of talk lengths. ie. I think we should have some 30 minute, and some 15 minute, slots - and perhaps some 5 minutes. There is great benefit in having people simply stand up, say hello, and sit down again ;-) so you get to know who they are - and they build confidence. > When there are too many proposals, we will have to choose, so please > give a clear description of your talk, goal and target audience. > We are going to try to arrange sponsoring for our speakers, but the > possibilities are not sure at the moment. I would ask for a couple of paragraphs about the talk - maximum 300 words - otherwise, some will write their life story, and others two lines :-) Anyhow - thanks muchly for the nice, punchy draft :-) and leading this. ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted