Re: Quick Update about FOSDEM 2018

[Isabel Drost-Fromm]

Am 11. Februar 2018 13:28:26 MEZ schrieb Roman Shaposhnik 
:
>Huge +1 to the above! My only suggestion would be to perhaps plan for
>having
>a directory of all the ASF project talks at FOSDEM -- perhaps
>something the community
>can do next time and folks at the boot can just display it there.

That did exist, though not in dead tree form at the booth:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/FOSDEM+2018


Isabel


>Thanks,
>Roman.

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Re: Quick Update about FOSDEM 2018

[Roman Shaposhnik]

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:56 AM, Isabel Drost-Fromm  wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 12:20:57PM -, Sharan Foga wrote:
>> Once again a big thank you to everyone who turned up to help out at the booth
>> or to chat to people about the ASF or their project. I like FOSDEM because
>> it's a place where you can finally meet in person the people that you have
>> been chatting with on the mailing lists. So a great place to connect.
>
> +1
>
> Sharan and everyone who organised having a booth there: Thank you! Also thanks
> to everyone who helped run the booth, gave talks about Apache projects at
> FOSDEM.

Huge +1 to the above! My only suggestion would be to perhaps plan for having
a directory of all the ASF project talks at FOSDEM -- perhaps
something the community
can do next time and folks at the boot can just display it there.

Thanks,
Roman.

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Re: Quick Update about FOSDEM 2018

[Kevin A. McGrail]

On 2/8/2018 5:56 AM, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote:

As for stickers: Would it help to have a few more general ASF ones as well? I
saw us having lots of project specific ones, but little "plain feather" and the
likes (maybe I was there at the wrong time though).


They were definitely there, likely just burned through them with all the 
visitors.  We were down to dregs by the time the booth closed.  I think 
I even gave away our save the date sign to someone's husband ;-)


Regards,
KAM


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Re: Quick Update about FOSDEM 2018

[Isabel Drost-Fromm]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 12:20:57PM -, Sharan Foga wrote:
> Once again a big thank you to everyone who turned up to help out at the booth
> or to chat to people about the ASF or their project. I like FOSDEM because
> it's a place where you can finally meet in person the people that you have
> been chatting with on the mailing lists. So a great place to connect.

+1

Sharan and everyone who organised having a booth there: Thank you! Also thanks
to everyone who helped run the booth, gave talks about Apache projects at
FOSDEM.

As for stickers: Would it help to have a few more general ASF ones as well? I
saw us having lots of project specific ones, but little "plain feather" and the
likes (maybe I was there at the wrong time though).


Isabel (who still owns little balls with the Apache logo printed on top from
ages ago)

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Re: Quick Update about FOSDEM 2018

[杉浦剛]

こんにちは。
英語が読めなくて困ってます。

2018/02/05 午後9:21 "Sharan Foga" :

> Hi All
>
> I wanted to post a quick update about FOSDEM that ran over the weekend. As
> usual it was a huge event, with lots of people a coming along from all over
> the world.
>
> Once again a big thank you to everyone who turned up to help out at the
> booth or to chat to people about the ASF or their project. I like FOSDEM
> because it's a place where you can finally meet in person the people that
> you have been chatting with on the mailing lists. So a great place to
> connect.
>
> This year we had some larger roller banners, one with our feather and one
> with our list of projects. Once again people were surprised to realise just
> how many projects we have at the ASF or that they were already using.
>
> Daniel organised a“Save the Date” sign with details of ApacheCon NA and
> the Apache EU Roadshow. This was great at promoting the events to everyone.
>
> We also had a few project demos running via a monitor at the booth.
> Visitor often want to find out more project details or see it in action so
> having a visual display really helped us interact with people. (BTW the
> Kibble demo got a lot of attention not only from visitors but Apache people
> too :-)
>
> As usual people came by to pick up stickers and I know we will never have
> them all so there are always people asking us for stickers that we don't
> have. I think this time Kaftka and Cassandra were requested a lot!
>
> We also had some different swag this time Apache balloons (which were
> popular not only with children), pens (that went quickly!), bracelets (we
> ran out of both our Meritocracy and Do I.T like a Girl ones), t-shirts (we
> printed a few and they were very popular, in fact someone happily donated
> 20 euros for 2 shirts), mugs (we had a few Apache mugs that became a most
> wanted item).
>
> FOSDEM is quite an intense conference because it runs over a couple of
> days a lot of information gets circulated to a large audience then
> discussions start discussions which start even more discussions. It's very
> easy to get caught up in conversations with people you have only just met
> about technology, development, community and any other topic you care to
> think of.  I think it was a lot like that at the booth this year:-)
>
> I'd really like to thank all the booth volunteers (Daan, Rohit, Trevor,
> Myrle, Andrus, Kevin, Rich, Daniel, Pono and Isabel). I apologise if there
> was anyone I've missed out!
>
> It was also good to meet a few people from the earlier Apache days (so
> thanks to Xander and Torsten too!).
>
> It was an amazing fun event and I had a really great time. I hope that we
> can be present at FOSDEM in the future and continue to promote Apache there.
>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
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Re: Quick Update about FOSDEM 2018

[Rich Bowen]

Thank you so much for all of your hard work on making this happen. Every 
time I was up at the table, it was very busy, and people were really 
learning a lot.


When I was there, we got a lot of the usual "I thought it was only a 
webserver", but more than that, this year, we got a lot of people asking 
about specific projects, and telling stories of how they use then in 
their stack.


A highlight: Sharan and I had a great conversation with a university 
professor who teaches open source, and who was *thrilled* to learn that 
there were more Apache projects than the handful he was aware of, and 
you could see him rewriting his curriculum in his head right there. That 
was pretty exciting.


We also had awesome conversations around Kibble, particularly from 
several organizations who were going to go back home and implement it in 
their org to measure internal projects. That was pretty exciting.


And people were very pleased that we're doing an event in Berlin, so 
this was a great outreach event for the RoadShow.


In all, even better than last year, and a great event to be at. It is 
very important that we continue to be at FOSDEM going forward. It's a 
shame that there's really no comparable event in North America any more.


On 02/05/2018 07:20 AM, Sharan Foga wrote:

Hi All

I wanted to post a quick update about FOSDEM that ran over the weekend. As 
usual it was a huge event, with lots of people a coming along from all over the 
world.

Once again a big thank you to everyone who turned up to help out at the booth 
or to chat to people about the ASF or their project. I like FOSDEM because it's 
a place where you can finally meet in person the people that you have been 
chatting with on the mailing lists. So a great place to connect.

This year we had some larger roller banners, one with our feather and one with 
our list of projects. Once again people were surprised to realise just how many 
projects we have at the ASF or that they were already using.

Daniel organised a“Save the Date” sign with details of ApacheCon NA and the 
Apache EU Roadshow. This was great at promoting the events to everyone.

We also had a few project demos running via a monitor at the booth. Visitor 
often want to find out more project details or see it in action so having a 
visual display really helped us interact with people. (BTW the Kibble demo got 
a lot of attention not only from visitors but Apache people too :-)

As usual people came by to pick up stickers and I know we will never have them 
all so there are always people asking us for stickers that we don't have. I 
think this time Kaftka and Cassandra were requested a lot!

We also had some different swag this time Apache balloons (which were popular 
not only with children), pens (that went quickly!), bracelets (we ran out of 
both our Meritocracy and Do I.T like a Girl ones), t-shirts (we printed a few 
and they were very popular, in fact someone happily donated 20 euros for 2 
shirts), mugs (we had a few Apache mugs that became a most wanted item).

FOSDEM is quite an intense conference because it runs over a couple of days a 
lot of information gets circulated to a large audience then discussions start 
discussions which start even more discussions. It's very easy to get caught up 
in conversations with people you have only just met about technology, 
development, community and any other topic you care to think of.  I think it 
was a lot like that at the booth this year:-)

I'd really like to thank all the booth volunteers (Daan, Rohit, Trevor, Myrle, 
Andrus, Kevin, Rich, Daniel, Pono and Isabel). I apologise if there was anyone 
I've missed out!

It was also good to meet a few people from the earlier Apache days (so thanks 
to Xander and Torsten too!).

It was an amazing fun event and I had a really great time. I hope that we can 
be present at FOSDEM in the future and continue to promote Apache there.

Thanks
Sharan

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Re: Quick Update about FOSDEM 2018

[Kevin A. McGrail]

Top-posting my thanks to Sharan and agreement that the posters were very 
impactful and good quality. Make a note of whichever company did them!


Regards,
KAM

On 2/5/2018 7:20 AM, Sharan Foga wrote:

I wanted to post a quick update about FOSDEM that ran over the weekend. As 
usual it was a huge event, with lots of people a coming along from all over the 
world.

Once again a big thank you to everyone who turned up to help out at the booth 
or to chat to people about the ASF or their project. I like FOSDEM because it's 
a place where you can finally meet in person the people that you have been 
chatting with on the mailing lists. So a great place to connect.

This year we had some larger roller banners, one with our feather and one with 
our list of projects. Once again people were surprised to realise just how many 
projects we have at the ASF or that they were already using.

Daniel organised a“Save the Date” sign with details of ApacheCon NA and the 
Apache EU Roadshow. This was great at promoting the events to everyone.

We also had a few project demos running via a monitor at the booth. Visitor 
often want to find out more project details or see it in action so having a 
visual display really helped us interact with people. (BTW the Kibble demo got 
a lot of attention not only from visitors but Apache people too:-)

As usual people came by to pick up stickers and I know we will never have them 
all so there are always people asking us for stickers that we don't have. I 
think this time Kaftka and Cassandra were requested a lot!

We also had some different swag this time Apache balloons (which were popular 
not only with children), pens (that went quickly!), bracelets (we ran out of 
both our Meritocracy and Do I.T like a Girl ones), t-shirts (we printed a few 
and they were very popular, in fact someone happily donated 20 euros for 2 
shirts), mugs (we had a few Apache mugs that became a most wanted item).

FOSDEM is quite an intense conference because it runs over a couple of days a 
lot of information gets circulated to a large audience then discussions start 
discussions which start even more discussions. It's very easy to get caught up 
in conversations with people you have only just met about technology, 
development, community and any other topic you care to think of.  I think it 
was a lot like that at the booth this year:-)

I'd really like to thank all the booth volunteers (Daan, Rohit, Trevor, Myrle, 
Andrus, Kevin, Rich, Daniel, Pono and Isabel). I apologise if there was anyone 
I've missed out!

It was also good to meet a few people from the earlier Apache days (so thanks 
to Xander and Torsten too!).

It was an amazing fun event and I had a really great time. I hope that we can 
be present at FOSDEM in the future and continue to promote Apache there.




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Re: Quick Update about FOSDEM 2018

[Bertrand Delacretaz]

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 1:20 PM, Sharan Foga  wrote:
> ...Once again a big thank you to everyone who turned up to help out
> at the booth or to chat to people about the ASF or their project

Thank you Sharan and team for organizing the booth and everything! The
booth, stickers and swag seemed to generate lots of interest.

-Bertrand

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