On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12-09-24, at 07:59 , Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 9/24/12 1:20 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >>> FOSDEM, one of the biggest Free and Open Source Software events in >>> Europe, is coming again on 2-3 February 2013 in Brussels. >>> >>> Attendance is free and, moreover, "Developer Rooms" can be made >>> available upon request, but they must be requested before the end of >>> September. See https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html >>> >>> I'm available to draft the application for an OpenOffice devroom and >>> post it here on ooo-dev for lazy consensus, unless: >>> - Someone has already done it (just let us know) >>> - Apache manages applications in a centralized way >>> - No OpenOffice developers can attend (I would appreciate to know that >>> we will have some full-time developers there) >>> - People believe it is useless (but FOSDEM is a big event and we >>> shouldn't miss it, since by February we will probably have graduated and >>> version 3.5 could be approaching release). >>> >> >> OpenOffice was there present for many years and it can be of course an >> opportunity to reach out to other open source developers there. > > fosdem is very important. >> >> Depending on the feedback of the organizers I can also think about a >> joined devroom with the LibreOffice folks. Space for devrooms is limited >> and I can of course think about a joined effort here. I am at least open >> for this if wanted. > > We have previously thought and discussed this option, of a joint room. It'd > be great, I think, but also interesting to arrange. Given the realities, > perhaps propose this idea but also hold open the idea of a devroom specific > to AOO? Previously, I had advocated this idea, only to learn that TDF had > also gone ahead with it—but there's room there, too, for collaboration. Or, > another option that relates interestingly to what we are doing at AOO that > can be of wider interest. >
Perhaps it could be de-politicized a little more if the request is for an "ODF Editors" room, and do with multilateral, with LO, Calligra, AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc. > >> >> I will support any activities and will probably join the conference. >> FOSDEM is a nice event and it makes always fun to meet so many open >> source freaks. I can only recommend it from this perspective and it is >> always on a weekend. >> >> Juergen >> >> > Fosdem is immensely important. It might also truly offer us here at AOO > opportunity to find means to collaborate with TDF/LibreOffice. Personally, > I'd like something like that, as I think we probably can help endusers better > by such collaboration. > > Louis >
