Hi :) For others who missed the report about OSCON in Portland Oregon i'm forwarded the message sent to the marketing mailing lists Regards from Tom :)
On 24 July 2014 17:43, Robinson Tryon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/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
