On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Nick Burch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > I did send an email a few weeks ago about the next steps, but as a few > people have contacted me privately to ask about what needs doing, I fear it > may have got lost in the noise... Plus it didn't have everything, so here > goes again! > > There are currently several things that anyone can (and needs to be!) > helping with, and a few bits largely specific to those near the venue. > > On the everyone front, we need to decide exactly what kind of conference we > want to fill this lovely SAP sponsored space with. Do we want big tracks > (200/300 people), or small ones (5*100), or some days with one setup and > some days others? What sort of tracks do we want to put on? Do we want to do > a day or two for certain popular project areas, or do we want to do one > track for the whole time for a popular area, with smaller ones around it? > What things (if any) do we want to put on in the evening? What things might > we want to try in Portland next year, which we should be attempting to > test/pilot in Europe?
Besides the already proposed OpenOffice track, we should consider the Hadoop operating system ;-) Hadoop is big in germany. If we would have two bigger tracks, one open office hacking, one hadoop + cloud,. Then two smaller, probably an enterprise track with Camel et al and for example a Tooling track. > (Once we have answers for these, then we'll have the structure around which > to run the CFP) > > For those in Germany, we need to start putting together some resources for > attendees, especially around accommodation. I know there isn't much near the > venue, but it'd be good to get / find a list of what that is. We also want > to provide information on what bigger towns/cities nearby people could be > looking at for staying it, and how long (+ how late!) they'd be looking at > for public transport. We may also want to look at hiring something nearby > that's cheap for people to stay in (especially TAC funded attendees, > committers who are paying for themselves etc). It'd be good to know what > options there might be (hostels, church halls etc). For now, I'd suggest we > start capturing this sort of information on the wiki[1], and we can worry > about if that's the best place or not later! > > Cheers > Nick > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de
