[libreoffice-marketing] Re: OSCON: Conference wrap-up + big thanks to our volunteers!

Hi Robinson,

Thanks for such a complete report and good description of the booth! 
Really handy and useful for others who may want to do the same at 
another conference.

Did you have time to take some photos?

Cheers,

Marc

Le 2014-07-24 12:43, Robinson Tryon a écrit :
> 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


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