Hi all, OSCON -- the O'Reilly Open Source Convention -- wraps up today in Portland, OR: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/content/home
The expo hall closed yesterday, but there are still some sessions and other activities continuing at the Oregon Convention Center until this afternoon. In the expo hall the LibreOffice booth was flanked by our friends at the Software Freedom Conservancy on one side, and Wikimedia on the other: http://sfconservancy.org/ http://wikimediafoundation.org/ Italo and Simon Phipps were both present at OSCON, as were two amazing local LibreOffice booth volunteers, Robin Haberman and Scarlett Clark. Having a solid team turns booth duty from a drudge of long days into a much happier experience. Between the volunteers, Italo, and I, we talked to hundreds of visitors, gave out dozens of brochures, taught people about some new LibreOffice features, and even did a little bug triaging! I held a BoF on Tuesday regarding collaboration between FOSS projects and FOSS-friendly orgs, and got a number of different people from different aspects of FOSS and event planning to show up, including the ever-helpful Bill Wright of LinuxFest NW. We'll continue our discussion on the Community Leadership Forum, as well as planning BoF's at Fossetcon (Orlando, FL) and SeaGL (Seattle, WA): http://www.communityleadershipforum.com/t/collaboration-among-foss-projects-and-foss-friendly-orgs/347 http://fossetcon.org/ http://seagl.org/ This was the first conference where we had a projector at the booth, and it worked out really well. It was small, portable, easy to set up and tear down, and versatile in what it could display. I tried a few projection surfaces, but one of the best visual choices was a matte white shower curtain (grommets included). With such a large projected area, we could quickly display a new message on the back wall of our booth or demo some features of LibreOffice like Hybrid PDFs to a conference attendee. When the UK government announced on Tuesday that they were standardizing on ODF and PDF, we quickly typed up that information in LibreOffice Writer and had it displayed for all to see. Visitor after visitor to our booth would ask "Is that true?" or "Wow! Is that the entire country?", giving us the perfect opportunity to engage with both existing and potential new users in a more personal, one-on-one fashion. I took this opportunity at OSCON to promote the possibility of holding a LibreOffice hackfest in Portland, OR next year, and to collect names and email addresses of individuals interested in participating. All told, we have about 30 people on the current list, with a handful of people connected with universities or programming labs who expressed a desire to invite multiple people from their group. tl;dr - OSCON was great, our volunteers are awesome, and we'll be back -- possibly with a hackfest -- next year! Cheers, --R -- Robinson Tryon LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald Senior QA Bug Wrangler The Document Foundation [email protected] -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
