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

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:57 PM, drew <drew@baseanswers.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 09:30 -0700, Carl Symons wrote:
>
> > I don't know how Ohio LinuxFest operates. Speaking from my experience
> > of several years involvement with producing LFNW...
> >
> > - Tell OHLF that it's a go.
>
> I suppose you are correct - I would of really liked some hint of
> interest from the developers but hopefully that will come.
>
> > - Start recruiting people from the LibreOffice Development Team
> > through LibO mailing lists
> >     *including users@global.libreoffice.org; there are a bunch of
> > people there who answer questions regularly
> > - Grassroots Hackfest for the leading open source office suite...join
> > the community, get things done, make a F/OSS difference
> > - OHLF is in Columbus, right in the middle of Ohio. Cleveland,
> > Cincinnatti, Pittsburgh, Louisville are all within driving distance
> > - Contact Indiana LinuxFest (http://www.indianalinux.org). Don't know
> > how big their event is, but Indianapolis is also within driving
> > distance. They have some sort of communication structure.
> > - Chicago's further but they have http://www.flourishconf.com
> >
> > What is the basis for a go/no-go decision? The only downside would
> > come from being timid about getting the word out and recruiting
> > people. We don't have to show you any stinking badges.
>
> *smile* fair enough.
>
> //drew

I will work with you on this. Depending on who shows, the Hackfest may
change directions...that's the nature of these out-of-control open
source thingies.

Will you tell OHLF that it's a go? And find out what they want from
us. We'll do this.

Carl

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