[opensuse-marketing] event report from LCA
Hi all, I went to LCA ;-) Did blog about it - pictures can be found on my picasaweb: http://picasaweb.google.com/jospoortvliet/LCA2011Brisbane Event Report LCA 2011 * LCA 2011 happened from mon 24 to sat 29 of Januari 2011. * openSUSE Ambassadors: Jos Poortvliet, Tim Serong * Event Details o It is a well organized and quite professional conference. Biggest sponsors HP, IBM, Intel and Google. Budget about $700.000, entry fee from $60 to $600 (depending if you're student, hobbyist or professional and if you get early bird registration (50% off). There are about 1000 people there, mostly semi-regulars, few students. Most of them quite technical and experienced. o Arrived Tuesday night, Wednesday first day of the conference. o Was 'fairy penguin' sponsor (A$ 1500). This was noticed by a few people. o At professional networking meeting got to talk to a few people, got one in contact with Bretzn team to talk about payment systems for openSUSE's appstore and someone else on OBS. o Attended talks, among others by Red Hat/Fedora ppl Learned about Koji and how it is about 5 lightyears behind on OBS :D o Blogged daily about LCA & other stuff (blog aggregated on an LCA planet) and tweeted several times. Also linked with Facebook. o Got in contact with a few local (open)SUSE people, will work with them to set up more of a community in AU. o Realized many people want to spread openSUSE but don't know how. They used to have local Novell contacts but those disappeared (layoffs etc) and now they're stuck. I will try and get them motivated to become openSUSE ambassador. Need to expand our ambassador program, communicate it better and work with the local Novell/SUSE offices, integrate their work with local (open)SUSE people and the ambassador work! This is what Red Hat and Canonical do very well. o Spoke with keynote speaker Mark Pesce, will try to get him as keynote speaker for Desktop Summit (if not maybe suse conf!) o Had a meeting with Fedora Project Lead. We discussed cross-distro collaboration. There will be a discussion panel on that on FOSDEM lead by him and the Debian project lead, I will join them. o Gave a 90 second lightning talk (24 slides about SUSE Studio) during the closing ceremony which earned me a t-shirt (winner best lightningtalk). Resulted in ppl coming up to me all Saturday, both to compliment with talk and to say they would check out openSUSE and SUSE Studio again. o Held a booth on Saturday together with Tim, local Novell/SUSE employee. Answered many questions. o Created 1 A4 poster to get geeks' interest, gave away about 40 and used it in booth area o Gave away 150 DVD's, rest is with 2 local openSUSE ppl now. o This conference is certainly worth going to but needs more marketing materials and more people, a team! Common questions asked: openSUSE still alive? (answer: more than ever :D) Why would I use openSUSE and not XXXX? (because we're cool, see A4 poster) How is the takeover stuff doing for openSUSE? (see my interview with Jeff Hawn) I will put this in the wiki page of LCA 2011 too :D
On Thursday 03 February 2011 19:11:33 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Hi all,
I went to LCA ;-)
Did blog about it - pictures can be found on my picasaweb: http://picasaweb.google.com/jospoortvliet/LCA2011Brisbane
Event Report LCA 2011 * LCA 2011 happened from mon 24 to sat 29 of Januari 2011. * openSUSE Ambassadors: Jos Poortvliet, Tim Serong * Event Details o It is a well organized and quite professional conference. Biggest sponsors HP, IBM, Intel and Google. Budget about $700.000, entry fee from $60 to $600 (depending if you're student, hobbyist or professional and if you get early bird registration (50% off). There are about 1000 people there, mostly semi-regulars, few students. Most of them quite technical and experienced. o Arrived Tuesday night, Wednesday first day of the conference. o Was 'fairy penguin' sponsor (A$ 1500). This was noticed by a few people. o At professional networking meeting got to talk to a few people, got one in contact with Bretzn team to talk about payment systems for openSUSE's appstore and someone else on OBS. o Attended talks, among others by Red Hat/Fedora ppl Learned about Koji and how it is about 5 lightyears behind on OBS :D o Blogged daily about LCA & other stuff (blog aggregated on an LCA planet) and tweeted several times. Also linked with Facebook. o Got in contact with a few local (open)SUSE people, will work with them to set up more of a community in AU. o Realized many people want to spread openSUSE but don't know how. They used to have local Novell contacts but those disappeared (layoffs etc) and now they're stuck. I will try and get them motivated to become openSUSE ambassador. Need to expand our ambassador program, communicate it better and work with the local Novell/SUSE offices, integrate their work with local (open)SUSE people and the ambassador work! This is what Red Hat and Canonical do very well. o Spoke with keynote speaker Mark Pesce, will try to get him as keynote speaker for Desktop Summit (if not maybe suse conf!) o Had a meeting with Fedora Project Lead. We discussed cross-distro collaboration. There will be a discussion panel on that on FOSDEM lead by him and the Debian project lead, I will join them. o Gave a 90 second lightning talk (24 slides about SUSE Studio) during the closing ceremony which earned me a t-shirt (winner best lightningtalk). Resulted in ppl coming up to me all Saturday, both to compliment with talk and to say they would check out openSUSE and SUSE Studio again. o Held a booth on Saturday together with Tim, local Novell/SUSE employee. Answered many questions. o Created 1 A4 poster to get geeks' interest, gave away about 40 and used it in booth area o Gave away 150 DVD's, rest is with 2 local openSUSE ppl now. o This conference is certainly worth going to but needs more marketing materials and more people, a team!
Common questions asked: openSUSE still alive? (answer: more than ever :D) Why would I use openSUSE and not XXXX? (because we're cool, see A4 poster) How is the takeover stuff doing for openSUSE? (see my interview with Jeff Hawn)
I will put this in the wiki page of LCA 2011 too :D Done: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:LCA2011
Please check out http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:LCA2011 and not the mail below, the site is better organized and I fixed some things :D On Thursday 03 February 2011 19:29:27 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Thursday 03 February 2011 19:11:33 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Hi all,
I went to LCA ;-)
Did blog about it - pictures can be found on my picasaweb: http://picasaweb.google.com/jospoortvliet/LCA2011Brisbane
Event Report LCA 2011
* LCA 2011 happened from mon 24 to sat 29 of Januari 2011. * openSUSE Ambassadors: Jos Poortvliet, Tim Serong * Event Details
o It is a well organized and quite professional conference. Biggest
sponsors HP, IBM, Intel and Google. Budget about $700.000, entry fee from $60 to $600 (depending if you're student, hobbyist or professional and if you get early bird registration (50% off). There are about 1000 people there, mostly semi-regulars, few students. Most of them quite technical and experienced. o Arrived Tuesday night, Wednesday first day of the conference. o Was 'fairy penguin' sponsor (A$ 1500). This was noticed by a few people.
o At professional networking meeting got to talk to a few people,
got one in contact with Bretzn team to talk about payment systems for openSUSE's appstore and someone else on OBS.
o Attended talks, among others by Red Hat/Fedora ppl Learned about
Koji and how it is about 5 lightyears behind on OBS :D
o Blogged daily about LCA & other stuff (blog aggregated on an LCA
planet) and tweeted several times. Also linked with Facebook.
o Got in contact with a few local (open)SUSE people, will work
with them to set up more of a community in AU.
o Realized many people want to spread openSUSE but don't know how.
They used to have local Novell contacts but those disappeared (layoffs etc) and now they're stuck. I will try and get them motivated to become openSUSE ambassador. Need to expand our ambassador program, communicate it better and work with the local Novell/SUSE offices, integrate their work with local (open)SUSE people and the ambassador work! This is what Red Hat and Canonical do very well.
o Spoke with keynote speaker Mark Pesce, will try to get him as
keynote speaker for Desktop Summit (if not maybe suse conf!)
o Had a meeting with Fedora Project Lead. We discussed cross-distro
collaboration. There will be a discussion panel on that on FOSDEM lead by him and the Debian project lead, I will join them.
o Gave a 90 second lightning talk (24 slides about SUSE Studio)
during the closing ceremony which earned me a t-shirt (winner best lightningtalk). Resulted in ppl coming up to me all Saturday, both to compliment with talk and to say they would check out openSUSE and SUSE Studio again.
o Held a booth on Saturday together with Tim, local Novell/SUSE
employee. Answered many questions.
o Created 1 A4 poster to get geeks' interest, gave away about 40
and used it in booth area
o Gave away 150 DVD's, rest is with 2 local openSUSE ppl now. o This conference is certainly worth going to but needs more
marketing materials and more people, a team!
Common questions asked: openSUSE still alive? (answer: more than ever :D) Why would I use openSUSE and not XXXX? (because we're cool, see A4 poster) How is the takeover stuff doing for openSUSE? (see my interview with Jeff Hawn)
I will put this in the wiki page of LCA 2011 too :D
Le 03/02/2011 19:41, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
Please check out http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:LCA2011 and not the mail below, the site is better organized and I fixed some things :D
should add the country and place :-) thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 03 February 2011 19:59:05 jdd wrote:
Le 03/02/2011 19:41, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
Please check out http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:LCA2011 and not the mail below, the site is better organized and I fixed some things :D
should add the country and place :-)
Hey, it's a wiki, you could've done that :D But just did it...
thanks jdd
On Friday 04 February 2011 07:11:33 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Hi all,
I went to LCA ;-)
Did blog about it - pictures can be found on my picasaweb: http://picasaweb.google.com/jospoortvliet/LCA2011Brisbane
Event Report LCA 2011 * LCA 2011 happened from mon 24 to sat 29 of Januari 2011. * openSUSE Ambassadors: Jos Poortvliet, Tim Serong * Event Details o It is a well organized and quite professional conference. Biggest sponsors HP, IBM, Intel and Google. Budget about $700.000, entry fee from $60 to $600 (depending if you're student, hobbyist or professional and if you get early bird registration (50% off). There are about 1000 people there, mostly semi-regulars, few students. Most of them quite technical and experienced. o Arrived Tuesday night, Wednesday first day of the conference. o Was 'fairy penguin' sponsor (A$ 1500). This was noticed by a few people. o At professional networking meeting got to talk to a few people, got one in contact with Bretzn team to talk about payment systems for openSUSE's appstore and someone else on OBS. o Attended talks, among others by Red Hat/Fedora ppl Learned about Koji and how it is about 5 lightyears behind on OBS :D o Blogged daily about LCA & other stuff (blog aggregated on an LCA planet) and tweeted several times. Also linked with Facebook. o Got in contact with a few local (open)SUSE people, will work with them to set up more of a community in AU. o Realized many people want to spread openSUSE but don't know how. They used to have local Novell contacts but those disappeared (layoffs etc) and now they're stuck. I will try and get them motivated to become openSUSE ambassador. Need to expand our ambassador program, communicate it better and work with the local Novell/SUSE offices, integrate their work with local (open)SUSE people and the ambassador work! This is what Red Hat and Canonical do very well. o Spoke with keynote speaker Mark Pesce, will try to get him as keynote speaker for Desktop Summit (if not maybe suse conf!) o Had a meeting with Fedora Project Lead. We discussed cross-distro collaboration. There will be a discussion panel on that on FOSDEM lead by him and the Debian project lead, I will join them. o Gave a 90 second lightning talk (24 slides about SUSE Studio) during the closing ceremony which earned me a t-shirt (winner best lightningtalk). Resulted in ppl coming up to me all Saturday, both to compliment with talk and to say they would check out openSUSE and SUSE Studio again. o Held a booth on Saturday together with Tim, local Novell/SUSE employee. Answered many questions. o Created 1 A4 poster to get geeks' interest, gave away about 40 and used it in booth area o Gave away 150 DVD's, rest is with 2 local openSUSE ppl now. o This conference is certainly worth going to but needs more marketing materials and more people, a team!
To get more people requires timely preparation, those of us that have to pay our own way, need to budget months ahead, get early bird registration and book flights ahead of time so we don't to pay full price, especially when we have to cross the Tasman Call for papers is usually in July and Miniconf proposals around the same time We need people submitting papers and making commitments to be there so we can budget for the early bird regos in October and so we can gather resources.
Common questions asked: openSUSE still alive? (answer: more than ever :D) Why would I use openSUSE and not XXXX? (because we're cool, see A4 poster)
Is this our only point of difference, that's a bit sad! :/
How is the takeover stuff doing for openSUSE? (see my interview with Jeff Hawn)
I will put this in the wiki page of LCA 2011 too :D
Glad to see it was a success and it has been noticed at last by OpenSUSE. sorry I couldn't be there but my budget wouldn't stretch with only a month to pull together the couple of thousand dollars it would have cost me to go. We need to prepare earlier, I should have made more noise about it than just putting it up on the events list. I shall make a point of it for next year. I see that LCA2012 is in Ballarat, let's make our presence felt there. Cheers GL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On 2011-02-06 Graham wrote:
On Friday 04 February 2011 07:11:33 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
Hi all,
I went to LCA ;-)
Did blog about it - pictures can be found on my picasaweb: http://picasaweb.google.com/jospoortvliet/LCA2011Brisbane
Event Report LCA 2011
* LCA 2011 happened from mon 24 to sat 29 of Januari 2011. * openSUSE Ambassadors: Jos Poortvliet, Tim Serong * Event Details
o It is a well organized and quite professional conference. Biggest
sponsors HP, IBM, Intel and Google. Budget about $700.000, entry fee from $60 to $600 (depending if you're student, hobbyist or professional and if you get early bird registration (50% off). There are about 1000 people there, mostly semi-regulars, few students. Most of them quite technical and experienced. o Arrived Tuesday night, Wednesday first day of the conference. o Was 'fairy penguin' sponsor (A$ 1500). This was noticed by a few people.
o At professional networking meeting got to talk to a few people,
got one in contact with Bretzn team to talk about payment systems for openSUSE's appstore and someone else on OBS.
o Attended talks, among others by Red Hat/Fedora ppl Learned about
Koji and how it is about 5 lightyears behind on OBS :D
o Blogged daily about LCA & other stuff (blog aggregated on an LCA
planet) and tweeted several times. Also linked with Facebook.
o Got in contact with a few local (open)SUSE people, will work
with them to set up more of a community in AU.
o Realized many people want to spread openSUSE but don't know how.
They used to have local Novell contacts but those disappeared (layoffs etc) and now they're stuck. I will try and get them motivated to become openSUSE ambassador. Need to expand our ambassador program, communicate it better and work with the local Novell/SUSE offices, integrate their work with local (open)SUSE people and the ambassador work! This is what Red Hat and Canonical do very well.
o Spoke with keynote speaker Mark Pesce, will try to get him as
keynote speaker for Desktop Summit (if not maybe suse conf!)
o Had a meeting with Fedora Project Lead. We discussed cross-distro
collaboration. There will be a discussion panel on that on FOSDEM lead by him and the Debian project lead, I will join them.
o Gave a 90 second lightning talk (24 slides about SUSE Studio)
during the closing ceremony which earned me a t-shirt (winner best lightningtalk). Resulted in ppl coming up to me all Saturday, both to compliment with talk and to say they would check out openSUSE and SUSE Studio again.
o Held a booth on Saturday together with Tim, local Novell/SUSE
employee. Answered many questions.
o Created 1 A4 poster to get geeks' interest, gave away about 40
and used it in booth area
o Gave away 150 DVD's, rest is with 2 local openSUSE ppl now. o This conference is certainly worth going to but needs more
marketing materials and more people, a team!
To get more people requires timely preparation, those of us that have to pay our own way, need to budget months ahead, get early bird registration and book flights ahead of time so we don't to pay full price, especially when we have to cross the Tasman
Call for papers is usually in July and Miniconf proposals around the same time We need people submitting papers and making commitments to be there so we can budget for the early bird regos in October and so we can gather resources.
Common questions asked: openSUSE still alive? (answer: more than ever :D) Why would I use openSUSE and not XXXX? (because we're cool, see A4 poster)
Is this our only point of difference, that's a bit sad! :/
How is the takeover stuff doing for openSUSE? (see my interview with Jeff Hawn)
I will put this in the wiki page of LCA 2011 too :D
Glad to see it was a success and it has been noticed at last by OpenSUSE. sorry I couldn't be there but my budget wouldn't stretch with only a month to pull together the couple of thousand dollars it would have cost me to go.
We need to prepare earlier, I should have made more noise about it than just putting it up on the events list. I shall make a point of it for next year.
I see that LCA2012 is in Ballarat, let's make our presence felt there.
+100 Was unfortunate that you couldn't make it, would've loved to meet you :D Cheers, Jos
Cheers GL
On 2011-02-06 Graham wrote: <snip>
Common questions asked: openSUSE still alive? (answer: more than ever :D) Why would I use openSUSE and not XXXX? (because we're cool, see A4 poster)
Is this our only point of difference, that's a bit sad! :/
Hey, that poster has a whole bunch of reasons - and it's not complete, YaST for example isn't on there right now.
How is the takeover stuff doing for openSUSE? (see my interview with Jeff Hawn)
I will put this in the wiki page of LCA 2011 too :D
Glad to see it was a success and it has been noticed at last by OpenSUSE. sorry I couldn't be there but my budget wouldn't stretch with only a month to pull together the couple of thousand dollars it would have cost me to go.
You should've contacted me, I would've been able to help with the finances...
We need to prepare earlier, I should have made more noise about it than just putting it up on the events list. I shall make a point of it for next year.
Please do, I don't think I'll make it again next year and we have more openSUSE people in Au - I know because I met a few. We 'just' have to get you all to talk :D
I see that LCA2012 is in Ballarat, let's make our presence felt there.
Cheers GL
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Jos Poortvliet
Please do, I don't think I'll make it again next year and we have more openSUSE people in Au - I know because I met a few. We 'just' have to get you all to talk :D
I see that LCA2012 is in Ballarat, let's make our presence felt there.
I'll be in Ballarat next year for sure. I'm not really one for public speaking but will be keen to help our Aussie ambassador in any other capacity! cheers Helen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 09 February 2011 01:28:26 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On 2011-02-06 Graham wrote: <snip>
Common questions asked: openSUSE still alive? (answer: more than ever :D) Why would I use openSUSE and not XXXX? (because we're cool, see A4 poster)
Is this our only point of difference, that's a bit sad! :/
Hey, that poster has a whole bunch of reasons - and it's not complete, YaST for example isn't on there right now.
To me and to the simple desktop user, YAST is the biggy. Ubuntu and all it's iterations requires people to fiddle in the command line and it's admin interface is all over the shop. It's a UX nightmare. Watch ubuntu user maillists and all the help is about: "sudo this sudo that" In YAST, root password once and do all your admin from an easy to figure interface. Yast should be at the top of the list although admittedly this is a dev conf so not so significant to them.
How is the takeover stuff doing for openSUSE? (see my interview with Jeff Hawn)
I will put this in the wiki page of LCA 2011 too :D
Glad to see it was a success and it has been noticed at last by OpenSUSE. sorry I couldn't be there but my budget wouldn't stretch with only a month to pull together the couple of thousand dollars it would have cost me to go.
You should've contacted me, I would've been able to help with the finances...
Now he tells me! :/ OK, I'll put my hand up now for next year, so I can get in early.
We need to prepare earlier, I should have made more noise about it than just putting it up on the events list. I shall make a point of it for next year.
Please do, I don't think I'll make it again next year and we have more openSUSE people in Au - I know because I met a few. We 'just' have to get you all to talk :D
I would prefer you to be there, consider this last one as an exploratory trip, there was no planning, no goals set so it only ended up as a flag waving exercise. I was struggling back when I first mentioned it, to convey the significance of LCA, there was a tone initially that was slightly dismissive. You have, however, now seen it for yourself. You also impressed in the lightning talks, that's a plus, people remember that when it comes to handing out speaking engagements.... and believe me the speakers get looked after, I was a speakers Limo driver in wellington! :) Go back over the speakers lists and you'll see what I mean, Linus, Shuttleworth, Maddog, Cerf, Phipps and so on not to mention high powered Politicos and others. I can even see some topics in my minds eye already. We go to LCA, we go for a reason and with a set of goals that would be good to achieve. Given not so recent, almost ancient, history we have to sell openSUSE to the wider linux dev community big time. We have disappeared off the map down here we need to re-establish ourselves. We could even give the trip a title: "LCA 2012, Paint Ballarat Green." Raise profile, set a different image in the minds of the conf attendees, provide some good high value talks that people will talk about afterwards. People see other people committed to their distro of choice, having fun and creating an excellent piece of software and they will want to participate. We need to present a heap of abstracts from Community members, present a miniconf proposal, tutorials and equip for big splash at the OpenDay. They are out there, since LibreOffice forked under the Document Foundation, the community has added 92 developers. Mageia has forked Mandriva under a similar community model and is looking like it will build similar numbers or more. So they are out there if they feel welcomed. I see Tim Serong introed as a new Ambassador, Helen has said she'll be in Ballarat, presumably Tim will too, with that sort of commitment I don't mind putting my hand up as well, but it's not worth my while for something half baked, it has to be planned, effective and supported by the community and the corporate partner. Cheers GL -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org
On 2/10/2011 at 06:38 PM, Graham Lauder
We need to prepare earlier, I should have made more noise about it than just putting it up on the events list. I shall make a point of it for next year.
Please do, I don't think I'll make it again next year and we have more openSUSE people in Au - I know because I met a few. We 'just' have to get you all to talk :D
I would prefer you to be there, consider this last one as an exploratory trip, there was no planning, no goals set so it only ended up as a flag waving exercise. I was struggling back when I first mentioned it, to convey the significance of LCA, there was a tone initially that was slightly dismissive. You have, however, now seen it for yourself. You also impressed in the lightning talks, that's a plus, people remember that when it comes to handing out speaking engagements.... and believe me the speakers get looked after, I was a speakers Limo driver in wellington! :) Go back over the speakers lists and you'll see what I mean, Linus, Shuttleworth, Maddog, Cerf, Phipps and so on not to mention high powered Politicos and others.
I've been to the last four LCAs (Melbourne, Hobart, Wellington, Brisbane), and AFAICT openSUSE (or SLES/SLED for that matter) was almost invisible. IBM, HP, RedHat and Canonical have often (always?) been sponsors at one level or another, and (subjectively) most presenters seemed to be running something Ubuntu/Debian-ish or RedHat/Fedora (or OSX). The same is true at LUV (http://luv.asn.au/) meetings in Victoria - RedHat sponsors the venue for monthly meetings, and most presenters don't seem to be running anything SUSE-related. At LCA2011 I was delighted to see openSUSE mentioned as a fairy penguin sponsor at the LCA 2011 opening (shame we somehow didn't get mentioned during the close). I was similarly happy to see Sander van Vugt's "Setting up a HA cluster in 20 minutes" talk at the sysadmin miniconf presented on SLES. For the talk Florian Haas and I gave, my laptop was running openSUSE, and the demo toward the end was on SLES 11 SP1 with some openSUSE VMs (http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4719948/ if y'all are interested), but really this wasn't obvious except when running the demo, due to the nature of the presentation. Apparently there were a few happy openSUSE users up the back of the room at the time, and Jos and I met a gentleman (whose name I am embarrassed to say eludes me) at open day who is/was a keen openSUSE/SUSE user, but who had lost his local Novell contact (the latter moved interstate I believe). So, yeah, I think we've got some work to do :)
I can even see some topics in my minds eye already. We go to LCA, we go for a reason and with a set of goals that would be good to achieve. Given not so recent, almost ancient, history we have to sell openSUSE to the wider linux dev community big time. We have disappeared off the map down here we need to re-establish ourselves.
FWIW, I am aware of some reasonable-sized corporate deployments of SLES in .au, but this obviously hasn't translated to mass usage or knowledge of openSUSE.
We could even give the trip a title: "LCA 2012, Paint Ballarat Green."
Cute :)
Raise profile, set a different image in the minds of the conf attendees, provide some good high value talks that people will talk about afterwards. People see other people committed to their distro of choice, having fun and creating an excellent piece of software and they will want to participate.
Agreed.
We need to present a heap of abstracts from Community members, present a miniconf proposal, tutorials and equip for big splash at the OpenDay.
They are out there, since LibreOffice forked under the Document Foundation, the community has added 92 developers. Mageia has forked Mandriva under a similar community model and is looking like it will build similar numbers or more. So they are out there if they feel welcomed.
I see Tim Serong introed as a new Ambassador, Helen has said she'll be in Ballarat, presumably Tim will too, with that sort of commitment I don't mind putting my hand up as well, but it's not worth my while for something half baked, it has to be planned, effective and supported by the community and the corporate partner.
Yep, I'll be there. Thanks for the ambassadorial welcome too, everybody :)
Regards,
Tim
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Tim Serong
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