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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:52:06 -0400
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Subject: Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM
From: Rob Weir <robweir@apache.org>
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Louis Su=C3=A1rez-Potts <luispo@gmail.com=
> wrote:
>
> On 12-09-24, at 07:59 , J=C3=BCrgen Schmidt <jogischmidt@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>
>> On 9/24/12 1:20 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>>> FOSDEM, one of the biggest Free and Open Source Software events in
>>> Europe, is coming again on 2-3 February 2013 in Brussels.
>>>
>>> Attendance is free and, moreover, "Developer Rooms" can be made
>>> available upon request, but they must be requested before the end of
>>> September. See https://fosdem.org/2013/call_for_devrooms.html
>>>
>>> I'm available to draft the application for an OpenOffice devroom and
>>> post it here on ooo-dev for lazy consensus, unless:
>>> - Someone has already done it (just let us know)
>>> - Apache manages applications in a centralized way
>>> - No OpenOffice developers can attend (I would appreciate to know that
>>> we will have some full-time developers there)
>>> - People believe it is useless (but FOSDEM is a big event and we
>>> shouldn't miss it, since by February we will probably have graduated an=
d
>>> version 3.5 could be approaching release).
>>>
>>
>> OpenOffice was there present for many years and it can be of course an
>> opportunity to reach out to other open source developers there.
>
> fosdem is very important.
>>
>> Depending on the feedback of the organizers I can also think about a
>> joined devroom with the LibreOffice folks. Space for devrooms is limited
>> and I can of course think about a joined effort here. I am at least open
>> for this if wanted.
>
> We have previously thought and discussed this option, of a joint room. It=
'd be great, I think, but also interesting to arrange. Given the realities,=
 perhaps propose this idea but also hold open the idea of a devroom specifi=
c to AOO? Previously, I had advocated this idea, only to learn that TDF had=
 also gone ahead with it=E2=80=94but there's room there, too, for collabora=
tion. Or, another option that relates interestingly to what we are doing at=
 AOO that can be of wider interest.
>

Perhaps it could be de-politicized a little more if the request is for
an "ODF Editors" room, and do with multilateral, with LO, Calligra,
AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc.


>
>>
>> I will support any activities and will probably join the conference.
>> FOSDEM is a nice event and it makes always fun to meet so many open
>> source freaks. I can only recommend it from this perspective and it is
>> always on a weekend.
>>
>> Juergen
>>
>>
> Fosdem is immensely important. It might also truly offer us here at AOO o=
pportunity to find means to collaborate with TDF/LibreOffice. Personally, I=
'd like something like that, as I think we probably can help endusers bette=
r by such collaboration.
>
> Louis
>