Felicitaciones & Congratulations on the stand and for all the excellent work in creating DDL. Saludos, Richard.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Jean-Michel PHILIPPE <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is the summary of the Fosdem week-end! Xavier is speaking, I am, > JM, translating :). > > * A lot of people, so a huge work for a single person... (NB from JM: > unfortunately I could not attend Fosdem this year and Xavier was finally > alone). > * As a result, many people met and many discussions: > - a potential new contributor (a sysadmin at first glance) > - professors from French universities who should be able to provide > some help through their students, in various topics (email contacts > being awaited) > - met one of our Danish translators! > - met the creator of GCompris who's still ager to see the latest > version of GCompris in DDL!!! (NB from JM: it's too much packaging work, > I prefer rely on Debian!) > - met Russian people, very friendly, we may have new Russian contacts > soon. (NB from JM: fortunately I had sent Russian leaflets to Xavier > before Fosdem ;) > > So this was very enriching! > > * Concerning goodies, they've been nearly sold out! > - Only 3 USB keys left for, say, 12-15 to be sold. > - 140 EURO income + 40 EURO donation (NB from JM: our association now has > 600-700 EURO of money + stock of goodies to be evaluated) > - Many stickers given to visitors, translators, and so. > - More than 500 leaflets distributed!!! In English, French, Russian, > Italian, Swedish :). > * We have an audience!!! People stop especially at our stand, each year! > Just for us! So yes this was enriching! > > =============== > > Thanks Xavier for this great and tiring contribution to the project, > consisting in promoting DDL in a large European event. This is always > interesting to get live feedback from people, even if they've never > heard of us (which is less and less the case indeed :). I see you've > enjoyed doing this as much as I do when I have this opportunity. See you > next year in Brussels! > > Now a personal note. > > I think you're right: yes we have an audience, undoubtedly. I'm still > convinced DDL answers an issue that is not really or not correctly > answered by the purely commercial world: education and self-fulfillment > of children with digital tools, for the best of children and their > parents only. Of course this attracts an audience, potentially a large, > very large audience. Unfortunately we still have difficulties to find a > way to ensure the continued existence of our project. It is now too > large to be developed on the free time of few persons to provide > interesting new features, not large enough to get the visibility > required to get enough funding. Probably the best thing to do is to > continue promoting it, follow Debian changes as quickly as possible > (hem) and wait until good opportunities arise (new contributors, friend > organizations, donators, etc.). As stated by François Élie, free > software is free once it's been paid! (with free time, money, services > and so) > > NB: Don't know if you've ever looked at our stats recently, we have had > more than 550,000 visitors on our website, download figures are in > hundred thousands, more than 45 languages opened on Transifex with more > than 200 translators, elected one of the distribution of year 2014, many > visitors at Fosdem, etc. Kind of success, isn't it? > > > Cheers, > JM. > > > Le 02/02/2015 20:18, Xavier Brusselaers a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > FOSDEM is done! That was a great event! > > > > I hope all the person who visit the FOSDEM stand are in the list > > (sorry for the danish translator I don't recognize you! :) ). > > JM will send a small resume (@JM I send you a resume on your e-mail!). > > > > I hope to be present for the next year, but not alone :) > > Cheers all! > > > > Xavier > > > > > > > > 2014-12-18 23:40 GMT+01:00 Jean-Michel Philippe <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm glad to inform you that our request for a stand at Fosdem 2015 in > > Brussels on 31th Jan. / 1st Feb. has been accepted. We will > > present our > > project, discuss with visitors and... sell goodies! No DDL talk is > > planned > > though, I didn't ask for it and would have had too little time to > > prepare something. > > > > Of course if you're willing to help, you're welcome, this event is > > very > > crowded! In this case, please inform me rapidly :). > > > > Cheers, > > JM. > > > > > > -------- Message transféré -------- > > > De: FOSDEM Stands Team <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > Hi Jean-Michel, > > > > > > The FOSDEM stands team is glad to be able to inform you that > > your request > > > for a stand for DoudouLinux has been accepted. > > > There will be one table reserved for you. > > > > > > You will receive further information about what's expected of > > you closer > > > to the event date. > > > > > > Looking forward to seeing you at FOSDEM 2015! > > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > > > Wynke Stulemeijer > > > FOSDEM stands team > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Doudoulinux-dev mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Doudoulinux-docs mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-docs > -- PCLinuxOS, MS-14, Trios, Devuan
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