Hi, Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> Hi, > > On 2006-01-24, at 17:27 , Jeffrey G. Causey, CPA wrote: > [...] > > Although I probably should discuss this on [EMAIL PROTECTED], I would > like to raise as a topic the issue of events: which ones do we want > to go to? And, perhaps more accurately, Which ones *should* we go > to? The way it works in the NLC projects, usually, is that the > particular project may target several big events and put up a booth, > do collateral, etc. for those events. Sun is sometimes but by no > means always involved, though other companies can sometimes help out. > > In North America, the situation is a little different, for a number > of reasons. So, I'd like to propose the following events in North > America that we *should* go to. Other events that are, say, local to > you, you should feel free to raise.... > > > The most immediate: > > ** Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) Feb 11-12 2006 Los Angeles > http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/ > > OOo was invited to this and I announced it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] but > there was minimal interest, at least from OOo people. (The > OpenDocument Fellowship is attending, I believe.) We could possibly > still have a booth there, but I need to know asap. And if we have a > booth, we will also need booth beings, collateral, cdroms, etc. > Organizing a booth takes some effort. > > * LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Apr 3-6 2006 Boston > http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS06A > > I think this is really important. Boston was last year the > epicenters of a major shift in strategies for the uptake of free > software like OOo, if only incidentally, as OOo uses the OpenDocument > > format. Massachusetts' main focus was on the OpenDocument format > (ODF) not OOo but OOo should be there as the *best* implementation of > > the ODF for the public sector. > > * O'Reilly Open Source Convention Jul 24-28 2006 Portland > no link yet, but here is last year: > http://www.oreillynet.com/oscon2005/ I found the following link for the European OSCON: http://conferences.oreilly.com/eurooscon/ The link for the conference in Portland is here: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/ You can check them both, since I'm not sure, if someone wants to attend ab both conferences. > > This is a *must* conference! Last year, we actually had some > excellent presentations on OOo by community members but for all their > goodness they were not as strong or good as those presented by the > OpenSolaris group. And there were lots of developers there, too. I > felt that if there were a conference where we could really show how > capable OOo was, this was it! We need to demonstrate what OOo can > do, how cool it is, how easy it is to work with at a place like this. > [...] > > Finally--and sorry for the long post--one thing I do think we need is > documentation for booth beings. It can be pretty intimidating to > attend an event as a booth being and realize that you are in fact > clueless of what to do... so, I think we need a library of useful > ideas... and a checklist of what the planner has to do. Indeed, I think, this is a really good idea. Maybe we should ask the different NL-projects, what they do while preparing different conferences, fairs... There's no need to invent the wheel again. ;) Sigrid --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
