On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 00:36 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: > Hi guys, is there anyone able to help? > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Speak at Flourish Conference 2011, Chicago, April 1st - 3rd > Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:24:37 -0600 > From: Joel Luellwitz <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > Greetings, > > I am a fan of the Document Foundation and Libre Office and would like > to invite someone from your Foundation to speak at a conference I am > helping run. Flourish 2011 is Chicago’s annual conference dedicated > to open source, sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago > Linux Users Group (UIC-LUG) and the University of Illinois at Chicago > Association for Computing Machinery (UIC-ACM). The conference will be > held at the University of Illinois at Chicago on April 1st through > April 3rd. > > The Flourish Conference is in its fifth year and has previously has > previously hosted speakers from big names like Google, IBM, Microsoft > and even Sun (OpenOffice.org). More information about Flourish 2011 > can be found at http://www.flourishconf.com/. > > Our attendees would love to hear about The Document Foundation's > reasons for forking OpenOffice.org and how forking OpenOffice.org > changes the project's direction and features. While The Document > Foundation is based in Germany, I suspect your have representatives > (or key developers) close to Chicago who would be willing to speak at > our conference. However, in case you do not have a representative in > our area and if travel costs are an issue, please let us know as I am > certain we can work something out. > > Please let me know whether or not you can send a representative from > The Document Foundation to speak at Flourish 2011. If you have any > questions about Flourish 2011, please e-mail me at > [email protected] and I will get back to you as soon as possible. > I look forward to hearing from you. > > Thank you, > Joel Luellwitz > > --
*BUMP* Howdy - folks this may be the most important invitation you get this year. This is the best place to find real coding contributors for the project, from the US. I have a rather long email written as to why I believe BUT will do you a favor and not send it. I will however just urge you to consider offering to go and present at this event. Do not think someone else can do this for you - recruiting of young talented software engineers is crucial and this is THE real deal for a location. That's it, Drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
