Re: Invitation to join FOSS Backstage 2018

[Lydia Pintscher]

Hey :)

I did submit a talk and I am on the program committee.


Cheers
Lydia

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Re: Invitation to join FOSS Backstage 2018

[Paul Brown]

On Thursday, 22 February 2018 14:13:58 CET Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> Somewhere the question got lost about how Agnes was approaching us:
>  1. as sponsors / booth purchasers
>  2. as a community with something interesting to tell
> 
> I read it as (1), and regarding that I think it's safe to say that no, we
> don't want a 3500 EUR booth at a conference.

I totally agree.

> Although if someone describes a
> business case that makes sense of spending money to present ourselves to
> this particular audience, I'll be happy to take that statement back.

You are right. From a promotion point of view, and looking at the site, it 
would not be worth the money. I was just focusing on trying to participate 
with talks.

> On Thursday, February 22, 2018 6:30:08 AM EST Mirko Boehm wrote:
> > > On 22. Feb 2018, at 12:20, Paul Brown  wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thursday, 22 February 2018 12:00:01 CET Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > >> On Friday, February 9, 2018 3:33:24 PM EST Agnes Ratajczyk wrote:
> > >>> Dear KDE-Team,
> > >>> 
> > >>> I'd like to invite you to join us for the first FOSS Backstage
> > >>> > conference
> > >>> on
> > >>> June 13&14 in Berlin. It will take place directly after Berlin
> > >>> Buzzwords >
> > >>> and is dedicated to everything related to *Free and Open Source
> > >>> Software governance and open collaboration*.
> > >> 
> > >> It's an interesting)-ish) conference, though not really technical
> > > 
> > > This should not put us off, Adriaan. We are explicitly looking for non-
> > > technical events, even not specifically FLOSS events, where we can go
> > > and
> > > seek more users.
> 
> That's fine, Paul.
> 
> > Yes, maybe. If we have relevant issues to share this will be a good
> > conference for it. It is about governance and compliance, I am sure we
> > have
> > something to present. How about talking about the manifesto and our code
> > of
> > conduct, community principles. Any takers?
> > 
> > I have submitted presentations about compliance tooling and OIN. Hope to
> > see you at the event :-)
> 
> Well, maybe. I was just preparing a talk on governance, manifesto, code of
> conduct (also the FreeBSD one, which is very very different in wording from
> the KDE bits) for a Dutch thingmabob, I may try to recycle it (and have
> emailed as much to Agnes, in the unlikely event that it was reason (2),
> above).

Good call.

Paul
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Re: Invitation to join FOSS Backstage 2018

[Adriaan de Groot]

Somewhere the question got lost about how Agnes was approaching us:
 1. as sponsors / booth purchasers
 2. as a community with something interesting to tell

I read it as (1), and regarding that I think it's safe to say that no, we 
don't want a 3500 EUR booth at a conference. Although if someone describes a 
business case that makes sense of spending money to present ourselves to this 
particular audience, I'll be happy to take that statement back.

On Thursday, February 22, 2018 6:30:08 AM EST Mirko Boehm wrote:
> > On 22. Feb 2018, at 12:20, Paul Brown  wrote:
> > On Thursday, 22 February 2018 12:00:01 CET Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> >> On Friday, February 9, 2018 3:33:24 PM EST Agnes Ratajczyk wrote:
> >>> Dear KDE-Team,
> >>> 
> >>> I'd like to invite you to join us for the first FOSS Backstage
> >>> > conference on
> >>> June 13&14 in Berlin. It will take place directly after Berlin
> >>> Buzzwords >
> >>> and is dedicated to everything related to *Free and Open Source
> >>> Software governance and open collaboration*.
> >> 
> >> It's an interesting)-ish) conference, though not really technical
> > 
> > This should not put us off, Adriaan. We are explicitly looking for non-
> > technical events, even not specifically FLOSS events, where we can go and
> > seek more users.

That's fine, Paul.

> Yes, maybe. If we have relevant issues to share this will be a good
> conference for it. It is about governance and compliance, I am sure we have
> something to present. How about talking about the manifesto and our code of
> conduct, community principles. Any takers?
> 
> I have submitted presentations about compliance tooling and OIN. Hope to see
> you at the event :-)

Well, maybe. I was just preparing a talk on governance, manifesto, code of 
conduct (also the FreeBSD one, which is very very different in wording from 
the KDE bits) for a Dutch thingmabob, I may try to recycle it (and have 
emailed as much to Agnes, in the unlikely event that it was reason (2), 
above).

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Re: Invitation to join FOSS Backstage 2018

[Paul Brown]

> Yes, maybe. If we have relevant issues to share this will be a good
> conference for it. It is about governance and compliance, I am sure we have
> something to present. How about talking about the manifesto and our code of
> conduct, community principles. Any takers?

Thanks Mirko. 

To list all the preferred topics:

* open source project leadership best practices
* community management
* open source project metrics
* open source strategy for the enterprise
* adopting open source collaboration in corporations
* legal matters when dealing with open source
* vendor neutrality
* leading projects without discretionary power

By the way, I am not saying we must go to this event in particular. I am just 
saying we should not discard an event offhand just because it is not technical 
any more. Fortunately (I would say), KDE is not only comprised of developers. 
At some point we may even have more end-users than developers.

Imagine that!*

Paul

* No flames, please. I'm kidding.
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Re: Invitation to join FOSS Backstage 2018

[Mirko Boehm]

Hi!

> On 22. Feb 2018, at 12:20, Paul Brown  wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, 22 February 2018 12:00:01 CET Adriaan de Groot wrote:
>> On Friday, February 9, 2018 3:33:24 PM EST Agnes Ratajczyk wrote:
>>> Dear KDE-Team,
>>> 
>>> I'd like to invite you to join us for the first FOSS Backstage
>>> > conference on 
>>> June 13&14 in Berlin. It will
>>> take place directly after Berlin Buzzwords >> >
>>> and is dedicated to everything related to *Free and Open Source Software
>>> governance and open collaboration*.
>> 
>> It's an interesting)-ish) conference, though not really technical
> 
> This should not put us off, Adriaan. We are explicitly looking for non-
> technical events, even not specifically FLOSS events, where we can go and seek
> more users.

Yes, maybe. If we have relevant issues to share this will be a good conference 
for it. It is about governance and compliance, I am sure we have something to 
present. How about talking about the manifesto and our code of conduct, 
community principles. Any takers?

I have submitted presentations about compliance tooling and OIN. Hope to see 
you at the event :-)

Mirko.
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Re: Invitation to join FOSS Backstage 2018

[Paul Brown]

On Thursday, 22 February 2018 12:00:01 CET Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Friday, February 9, 2018 3:33:24 PM EST Agnes Ratajczyk wrote:
> > Dear KDE-Team,
> > 
> > I'd like to invite you to join us for the first FOSS Backstage
> >  conference on June 13&14 in Berlin. It will
> > take place directly after Berlin Buzzwords 
> > and is dedicated to everything related to *Free and Open Source Software
> > governance and open collaboration*.
> 
> It's an interesting)-ish) conference, though not really technical

This should not put us off, Adriaan. We are explicitly looking for non-
technical events, even not specifically FLOSS events, where we can go and seek 
more users.

> or
> something for us as a whole; I have replied off-list to the sender on the
> assumption they're approaching us for sponsorship, rather than for
> speakers.

We can send speakers, only probably they would not necessarily be 
developers... or maybe yes. 

It is time to shake this perception that the KDE community can only offer 
technical talks, especially if we want to reach a wider audience.

Cheers

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Invitation to join FOSS Backstage 2018

[Agnes Ratajczyk]

Dear KDE-Team,

I'd like to invite you to join us for the first FOSS Backstage
 conference on June 13&14 in Berlin. It will
take place directly after Berlin Buzzwords 
and is dedicated to everything related to *Free and Open Source Software
governance and open collaboration*.

FOSS Backstage will provide a space to discuss a broad spectrum of
issues related to community management, vendor neutrality and leading
projects without discretionary power. Conference topics will include
open source project leadership best practices, community management,
open source project metrics, open source strategy for the enterprise,
adopting open source collaboration in corporations, legal matters when
dealing with open source and many more.

With Shane Coughlan
 (OpenChain)
and Danese Cooper
 (Head
of Open Source Software at PayPal) we have already announced two
high-quality keynotes to kick-off the first edition of the conference.
Additionally the Apache Software Foundation will hold their Apache EU
Roadshow  at
FOSS Backstage.

For the conference we are expecting around 400 participants: community
leaders, developers, architects, sysadmins, consultants – basically
everyone interested in building, managing and sustaining communities
within the open source space.

We would be happy to see you get involved, whether it's by getting an
early bird ticket, reserving a booth space or talking to us about
partnerships tailored to your needs and wishes. If your organisation is
interested in supporting us as a sponsor, feel free to contact me for
more details on partnership opportunities. We have special offers for
non-profits. We also offer combined packages with Berlin Buzzwords which
takes place right before the FOSS.

View our full partner brochure here
.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards from Berlin!
Agnes


P.s.: Our Call for Papers is open until February 18th. Feel free to
forward the link to your colleagues or submit yourself. We'd appreciate
that and hope to see you at FOSS: https://foss-backstage.de/call-papers

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