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

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 <bishop.robinson@gmail.com> 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
> qubit@libreoffice.org
>
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