On 04.05.2012 13:24, Rich Bowen wrote:
--
Rich Bowen
[email protected]
On 2012 5 4 07:04, "Goetz, Paul"<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
I guess it's not carved in stone, but the contract with the venue is
already signed.
Anyway, I could try to change it, but I'm not sure if it will work out...
However: The only other option left would be CW43 = 20-22 November - and
this is clashing with US Thanksgiving.
So moving the event to late November would more or less exclude US
committers...
Although I have no wish to be excluded, EU events should not be planned for
the convenience of US attendees. Thats only bitten us in the past. Ignoring
JAX seems like a bad idea, and ultimately a bigger deal.
For those who don't know those other events:
Software and Support (a German publishing house) publishes "Java
Magazin" which is a monthly german journal about Java development. They
sure have the largest circulation of all similar media in Germany.
They also run several conferences. The biggest is JAX, which is about
Java development (and as far as I know in the early years "A" stood for
Apache and "X" for XML, but that was long ago). JAX is in *May* and
usually is located in the middle of Germany (close to Frankfurt).
I guess the second largest one is W-JAX. That one clashes with the
planned date for ApacheCon. It happens in Munich (in the south of
Germany) and is roughly half the size of JAX (please correct me if my
estimate is wrong), but still much bigger than ApacheCon.
Software and Support very actively promotes those events via the
Journal. Many Java developers in Germany go to one or the other of JAX
and W-JAX. Attendance comes mainly from Germany, Switzerland and
Austria. Inernational attendance is low.
Running ApacheCon the same week will reduce our attendance, but mostly
for the local attendees. Most devs here are only able to attend one
conference per year. As already mentioned there will also be some clash
of possible speakers. The program for W-JAX is not yet announced
although the CFP was closed on May 2nd.
Regards,
Rainer
