I will go, so I'm stepping up to help. On Tue, Aug 8, 2017, 20:04 Eike Hein <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi everyone, > > Berlin, Germany will once again host a Qt World Summit this year, on > October 10th through 12th. This follows on from the Qt Contributor > Summit on October 9th and 10th. > > As in previous years, we want KDE To have a strong presence at this > event, which draws much of the wider Qt community. We're an important > part of the community and we make lots of things that are interesting > and useful to Qt developers, so we should be there. It's a great > opportunity to network as well as watch some interesting talks. > > I've stepped up to coordinate KDE's presence at QtWS this year. Sune, > who has done it in recent years, is a little to busy this year and > will be number #2. > > As usual we're going to have table space in the booth area (I did > some shifts there during QtWS'15, which was a thoroughly good time), > where we want to promote our products, engage people and answer > products. > > We also want KDE to appear as a community partner again, and if > possible place promo materials around the event (e.g. in the > attendee bag, have our logo slapped on things, etc). > > And since The Qt Company is allowing our team to attend QtWS for > free, we will likely also chip in with running the event again, e.g. > by chairing some of the talks on the schedule. > > To make all of this happen we'll need the following: > > - Helpers! Who wants to be an awesome person and go to QtWS and rep > KDE there? Who can make it to Berlin in the timeframe? (I know > there's a KDE Edu sprint and a Blue Systems dev sprint going on, > so no excuses! :P) > > Everyone interested and willing to commit please speak up, or get > in touch with me directly. You will be able to express a pre- > ference for booth and talk chairing duty which we'll try to > respect when drawing up the duty roster. You'll get lots of karma > bonus points if you're willing to help with booth setup and tear > down. > > There will be a limit to how many people we can send, so please > don't be upset if we can't bring you along in the end. But please > do try! > > If travel/accomodation expenses would be the only thing keeping > you, get in touch and we can look into that. > > - Figure out what we want to show at the booth this year. Who wants > to make cool demo loops or slides? > > - Make promo materials. We'll need to review and update our posters > (if anyone has the 2015/2016 posters, please link them in reply) > and flyers. And do it early enough so we can get them refined and > printed in time. Jens Reuterberg has promised to help make things > look great! > > > Cheers, > Eike >
