[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] SCALE 12x .... and beyond

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 <bishop.robinson@gmail.com> 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 :-)
>
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