On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]>wrote:
> +1000 for an AOO track. Note that, assuming we work out a few details AOO > will have budget to assist with speakers and TAC for AOO related > activities. > Thanks Ross. Yes, we expect to work through some 'paperwork' and have in hand some funding for TAC and other minor bits. > > Furthermore there are people in the community eager to help with > organisation, all they need is someone to lead the activity (from behind), > Don is your man for that and I'm happy to help too (I won't be taking a > leadership role, but happy to help Don keep it moving). > > I'm planning on combing through my files where I collected the programmes from OpenOffice.org Conferences Past; i.e. Koper, Barcelona, Orvieto, Budapest. My idea is not to necessarily replicate the past into the future here, but more as a reference for what worked, and what was less than hoped for. >From my recollection these conference programmes featured keynotes from IT leaders courageous enough to tackle the challenge of desktop migrations/co-existence strategies, use cases from education, research papers on accessibility topics and a spectrum of developer oriented sessions on the respective components of OpenOffice including programmability. So I'd say it was 60% developer focused, 40% IT; i.e. what does it take to successfully manage a large end user population adopting an open source office productivity application suite. I'll start a separate thread on my ideas for a dedicated track over on our ooo-dev list so that we don't overly annoy folks on apachecon-discuss here. We can work it in the PMC at AOO and return here in a week or so with a more refined proposal. Make sense? > Ross > > Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. > On May 30, 2012 3:04 PM, "Donald Harbison" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Nick, > > > > Thanks for jolting this topic to the top. We certainly can benefit by > > having a more clear plan by the end of June, before many people will go > off > > on their summer holidays. > > > > So here goes: > > > > I propose that the the Apache OpenOffice project be one of the large > > projects that can easily fill (1) day worth of sessions, plus generate > > activity in side sesssions; e.g. hacking, etc. Germany is the epicenter > for > > OpenOffice skills since the original team began work in Hamburg over 15 > > years ago. I'm confident we can build an exciting one-day program that > > will have good participation. > > > > OpenOffice.org conferences in the past were entirely volunteer driven > with > > corporate sponsorships from the likes of Sun, IBM, Novell, Google, etc. > > Volunteer teams competed for the honor to host the conference(s). CFPs > were > > issued, and selected, etc. > > > > We could use the past OpenOffice.org conference structure as a template > > for modification to harmonize with the larger conference themes that will > > emerge in this discussion. It would be great to group projects like > > Chemistry, POI, PDFbox, Tika, ODF Toolkit along the other available time > > slots since all of these project combined provide value propositions that > > relate to documents, content management. This might emerge as one of the > > conference themes. Thoughts? > > > > I am happy to volunteer to lead the 'conference within a conference' > idea, > > or whatever the ConComm team finalizes as the model for ACE in Sinsheim. > > There are Apache OpenOffice guys in Hamburg and other places in Germany, > > Switzerland and Austria. who could help on a local level. > > > > HTH, > > > > /don > > > > > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:05 AM, 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? > > > > > > (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://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/> > > > > > >
