Great, thank you for the update Sharan and everyone who made it possible!! :-)
- Best Regards, Swapnil M Mane, http://ofbiz.apache.org/ On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 1:51 AM Sharan Foga <sha...@apache.org> 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 > >
