Re: [us-marketing] Hackfest at Ohio Linux Fest

On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 08:40 -0700, Carl Symons wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:29 AM, drew <drew@baseanswers.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 08:58 -0700, Carl Symons wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:01 AM, drew <drew@baseanswers.com> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 16:01 -0700, Carl Symons wrote:
> > > > > What happens at a LibreOffice HackFest?

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> > > >
> > >
> > > This sounds like quite a useful project. Interesting to developers,
> > > but would also require guidance from seasoned LibO development people.
> >
> > 100% agree - there is a little problem there and one I need to address
> > directly on a different mailing list, today.
> >
> > > What skillset would people need to have to be involved? C++, Java, Python?
> > >
> > > Help improve the leading open source office suite at Ohio LinuxFest.
> > > If you are a C++ (and whatever else) programmer and want to help make
> > > a big FOSS difference, join the LibreOffice Hackfest. Free pizza and
> > > Red Bull.
> >
> > At the SELF show I was relentless in doing two things with every person
> > that stopped and talked:
> >
> > 1) They got a hand shake from me. Don't laugh that really does mean
> > something.
> >
> > 2) I asked them to help the effort.
> >
> > The number of people that said they wanted to help somehow was very
> > strong, not everyone of course, not even the majority of people, but a
> > goodly number - of those many where interested in helping with easy
> > hacks or with QA, so now we need to help them start. That is the goal in
> > my mind.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Drew
>
> I don't think that we were as assertive at LinuxFest Northwest as you describe.
>
> The OHLF Hackfest is proposed for the first day, so there wouldn't be
> an opportunity to recruit people to the effort during the Fest. You
> wrote before that some coordination would be required. That would have
> to happen, somehow, ahead of time. The OHLF organizers would probably
> have to help get the word out. And there would have to be LibreOffice
> outreach too.

Yes, yes and yes - also I have a small list of email addresses of folks
that are planning on being in Ohio and would be interested. So the big
thing is to get this to a point of either a go or a no-go quickly so
that those outreach efforts have a chance of happening.

> Taking all that into consideration, it still sounds like a great idea.
> I ran it by a fellow LinuxFest NW person yesterday...got an
> enthusiastic yes response. This is something worth doing. There would
> be some improvements to the apps; more importantly, it's an
> opportunity to build the stakeholder base and demonstrate the
> grassroots-iness.

Yes!


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