Of course we could also add a track (1 day) about EE technologies: TomEE, OpenWebBeans, MyFaces, BVal, OpenEJB, OpenJPA, etc
There is currently a discussion over at openejb-dev about doing a TomEE hackaton at ApacheCon EU LieGrue, strub ----- Original Message ----- > From: Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> > To: apachecon-discuss@apache.org > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 4:21 PM > Subject: Re: Things we need to do for ApacheCon EU > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Nick Burch <nick.bu...@alfresco.com> > 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 >