[okfn-discuss] OKF at FOSDEM 2014?

Fri Sep 27 15:14:42 UTC 2013

As part of Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium, I have been going to 
FOSDEM for the last 4 years, and it hasn't succeeded in ever letting me 
down. It would be great to have some OKF labs people there!

Kind regards,

Pieter

On 09/27/2013 09:37 AM, Karsten Gerloff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 07:00:19PM -0300, Everton Zanella Alvarenga wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I didn't know about this event before. Is someone from OKF going to
>> participate? Since OKF has lots of people in Europe, maybe it is worth
>> a visit.
>>
>> If someone can share your opinion about this event, that would
>> be great.
> FOSDEM is Europe's biggest meeting of Free Software developers. It
> has a relatively narrow focus on Free Software development, so it
> tends to be a very technical conference, with a couple of more
> political keynotes at most.
>
> If OKF goes there, I'd suggest that you focus on presenting the
> tools you're building. If you have a talk in the main track,
> explain a couple of cool projects, and show people how they can
> get involved.
>
> Perhaps you might be able to get a dev room, ie. a room to
> yourself for half a day or so. Then you can do more specialised
> talks there, or just use the conference as meeting place where
> OKFers can come together to hack.
>
> You might also want to apply for a booth, if you manage to have it
> staffed continously on both days. This would give people there the
> opportunity to get to know OKF, and decide whether they want to be
> involved.
>
> FOSDEM is perhaps the best place for networking within the Free
> Software community. Many groups use Thursday and Friday ahead of
> the conference for their own meetings, since everyone is in town
> for FOSDEM anyway.
>
>
> In short, the conference is really valuable, if your interests
> fall within its focus. They always have a lot of talk submissions,
> and competition for the limited booth places and dev rooms is
> strong.
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Karsten
>
>
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