[libreoffice-marketing] Re: POSSCON Call for Speakers (Deadline Nov. 16, 2012)

Hi Italo,

Le 2012-11-05 07:06, Italo Vignoli a écrit :
> Il 05/11/2012 10:49, Marc Paré ha scritto:
>
> > FYI, if anyone is interested, we were not represented last year.
>
> Hi Marc, I tried to, but they did not approve my presentation. I
> strongly suspect that there is a strong bias towards another project
> based on the prominent role that another foundation is having there (the
> president is a regular speaker there).
>
> This year, I have decided to act in a different way: I will prepare a
> presentation for POSSCON, but instead of going for the call for papers I
> will make a video which will be published online the very same day of
> the conference.
>
> LibreOffice has been the fastest growing large FLOSS project over the
> last two years. We have been invited to present our story to all major
> free software conferences worldwide, and when we have filed a call for
> papers it has always been approved with enthusiasm (I am at LinuxCon
> Europe now).
>
> If a conference does not accept our call for papers I prefer to ignore
> them rather than beg for a presentation. I suppose they are not a true
> free software conference if they are not interested in LibreOffice.
>
> On the other hand, by publishing a video of our story, I will give their
> attendees the opportunity to learn about LibreOffice even if the
> conference ignores TDF.
>
> Best, Italo

Sounds like an excellent plan! I suspect they will now know of it ... I 
am sure someone at POSSCON will raise the topic after having read this 
on our list. :-)

Cheers,

Marc

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