Hi :) I'm not sure if this article is in the blogs yet but i thought some people here might be interested in how Scale went this year.
I was a bit baffled about the man-turns-into-a-horse issue but hopefully that's been resolved with a suitable beverage Regards from Tom :) On 26 February 2014 22:26, Robinson Tryon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > SCALE 12x went very, very well. I met a number of enthusiastic > supporters, handed out many pamphlets and stickers, and talked so much > that I became a bit hoarse by Sunday. > > I've started to follow-up on a number of the contacts I made during > the event, and I've pointed a number of people who were interested in > becoming contributors towards the appropriate teams of LibreOffice. > > I also chatted with students from Cal Poly and a couple of other > universities, and enquired about possible interest in hosting a > hackfest or having some other type of LibreOffice/FOSS-related event > on their campus. I got a chance to speak briefly with the OpenHatch > folks, and think that their experience w/"Open Source Comes to Campus" > could serve us well as we look to higher ed for new hackers and other > contributors to TDF/LibreOffice: > (https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/In_a_Box) > > I spent a bit of time thinking about our NA Conference Box, and thanks > to financial support from David Eisenberg, added a few items to the > current set of supplies, including > - duct tape > - sharpie > - power strip/surge suppressor > - scissors > > One person who stopped by was a reporter with LWN who is an organizer > of the Texas Linux Fest and who was interested in us having a booth at > the event this year. Texas Linux Fest will be June 13-14 in Austin: > http://texaslinuxfest.org/ > > That's all I can think of off the top of my head. It was a great > conference, and LibreOffice got a lot of praise from exhibitors, > speakers, and other users. I wish some of you could have been there to > hear the praise first-hand! > > Cheers, > --R > > P.S. Many people loved the t-shirts, but wished that we had larger > sizes (What I brought from FOSDEM was mostly ladies' sizes). I assured > everyone that we'd do our best to bring larger sizes next year :-) > > -- > 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/global/marketing/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- 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/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
