On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 22:55 +0100, Juergen Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > FOSDEM 2010 is coming soon and we will have an OpenOffice.org DevRoom as > well as OpenOffice.org stand there. The main reason for the stand is to > present our project on one of the biggest open source conferences in > Europe. We want demo OOo, want to talk with users as well as developers > and all other interested people. We want celebrate community! The > DevRoom is to spread knowledge around ongoing development efforts as > well as giving hints how to get started etc.. In short we try to attract > developers. The plan is to sponsor the speakers from the development > budget and some t-shirts and the stand crew from the marketing budget. > > For this reason i would like to request a funding of ~650 Euro from the > marketing budget for stand crew members to cover their travel expenses. > > Together with the t-shirts we will have ~2200 Euro expenses going on the > marketing budget. I am till thinking that it is a good investment and i > expect to get some money back from donations.
Just for info, when we were at NEA in California a few years back, we tried selling OOo discs to see if we could make a bit of money to contribute o expenses. We found that when the price was $1 and explained it was try to help cover costs virtually everyone bought one. So 1 Euro might work :-) There is also an environmental reason. Free discs are easily discarded, thrown straight in the trash. If you pay 1 Euro you might think twice about that. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
