Hi Alexandro,
sorry for my late reply. CeBIT took some resources, but I'm catching up
now... :-)
[email protected] wrote on 2010-02-18 17.26:
I was listening to the call and found that about the budget guidelines
conversations about events that you don't give a talk or have a booth. I
do think that we need to invest in this "non-participatory" events
because usually they are first timers, and it shows an intend to
participate in the future. For that reason we need to encourage simply
because otherwise we could we just be "preaching to the choir".
If we want to make ourselves present on a government policy meetup, we
might not be presenting the first event, but definetly could network
ourselves up to have a participation or sponsorship for the next events.
If we by policy decided not to fund this kinds of events we might get
stuck on just FLOSS types events which are more relatively simple to
participate because we represent OOo.
I see your point, and there are indeed some valid reasons you raise.
It's not always easy to put everything we want into a "rule", that's why
I insist on having some exceptions where applicable. The question here
is, what is the rule and what is the exception, and I'm still thinking
about it. :-)
The first draft of the funding guidelines should be available soon.
Blame me, didn't find the time yet to look into the changes the budget
authorizers made, but as promised, I'll try to catch up soon, and I'm
happy to hear your comments then.
At the same time I think we should also try to talk to Oracle people to
see situations where Oracle showcase their products and we can put an
OOo expert (Marcon) to attend to this event as a guest to talk a bit
about OOo. Again this might not be the easiest but we should try.
In general, I'd like to get into the boat with our major contributors.
They have so many resources and attend so many events, it would be great
if we could join forces there. That has always been my plan, but it only
worked out well with Sun, not with others. Hope to improve on that.
Florian
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