Awesome! Re: buy us a coffee, there is some discussion here about a paypal here reader and using credit cards: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f5dce02145e0e4b96faca72a12b29fe39bf098ef204c8b912601e5ba@%3Cfundraising.apache.org%3E
On 2/5/2019 3:21 PM, Sharan Foga wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Last weekend FOSDEM was held in Brussels so wanted to post a quick update. > > FOSDEM weather is generally quite predictable (read that as bad!) and this > time as well as rain, it snowed! Yet even with the bad weather, thousands of > people made the effort to attend. > > Daniel flew in with our swag collection, I brought the banner and stickers. > Normally we are on the first floor but this time we were located on the > ground flow at the end of the row around from the reception. We arrived early > on Saturday morning to setup the booth, and although things officially > started at 10am, we had a crowd a few people deep, around the booth from > 9.30am onwards ready to talk to us (or maybe they had seen our wonderful swag > which included some very nice warm fleece hats :-) > > As well as the stickers and swag we also had a chrome book available for > project demos and on Sunday we used it to run the video about Apache > statistics. This was really useful for looking up project details and showing > people where to get additional information. > > Our new location also meant that we had a lot of foot traffic and thanks to > our booth volunteers, we managed to laugh, talk, joke and well as inform a > lot more people about Apache, and Apache projects. We had queries ranging > from incubator to how to foundation itself works. > > For the last couple of years, people had always been asking for Cassandra > stickers so this time we had some – so this is when all the people wanting > other stickers appeared and this years top request was Kafka followed by > Commons and even Thrift! I told people that if we printed stickers for every > single Apache project – the booth table would collapse! > > It was good to see a few projects represented at the booth – these included > Beam, Httpd, Tomcat, Fineract, OFBiz, Kibble and Jena (Sorry if I’ve missed > any!) and there were also a few Apache related talks on the schedule. > > Being at FOSDEM is great for outreach as well as the visibility of the > Foundation and as a result we have been invited to participate at even more > events. > > I’d really like to thank everyone that was involved in helping out to make > the event a success. Special mentions go out to the “swagman Daniel”, Rich, > Claude, Lars, Jean-Frederic, Gris and Myrle! > > One thing we did start was the idea of getting people to ‘buy the ASF a > coffee’ or ‘buy the ASF a beer’ to get people to think about donating 2 – 5 > euro especially if any of the ASF projects had helped them in someway. This > potentially could be something to look into for next time. > > By the way – I was hoarse from talking by the time I got back home! Looking > forward to doing it all again next year if we get the chance. > > I'm happy to hear about any other FOSDEM experiences, feedback, thoughts, > comments. > > Thanks > Sharan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
