REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
OSCOM.4 / ApacheCon Europe 2004 ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich, Switzerland Wednesday, Sept 29 - Friday, October 1, 2004
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The theme of OSCOM.4 / ApacheCon Europe 2004 is "Cross-Pollination". This will be a joint conference between OSCOM and the Apache Software Foundation. The conference will have 4 tracks:
1) OSCOM Technical / Community Track 2) OSCOM Business / Legal Track 3) ApacheCon Track 1 4) ApacheCon Track 2
The Open Source content management community is rich and varied with many projects such as OpenCMS, Plone, Midgard, Apache Lenya, Cofax, Drupal, and many others. Almost all Open Source CMS rely on Apache technology, and we look forward to lots of cross-pollination between the Apache and CMS communities. In addition, market awareness is rapidly growing, with several Open Source CMS and Apache projects being mentioned favorably in recent analyst reports.
Audience
OSCOM.4 / ApacheCon Europe 2004 is a place for developers, vendors, integrators and users to mingle and learn from each other. We aim to make the conference as interactive as possible.
Scope of Proposals
Individuals and companies interested in making presentations, giving a tutorial, or participating in panel discussions regarding CMS or an Apache project at OSCOM.4 / ApacheCon Europe 2004 are invited to submit proposals. Proposals will be considered in two classes: tutorials and convention presentations (sessions).
Product presentations for track 2 will be asked to follow a standard structure (see Appendix A) to make them more comparable to each other. This will help decision makers to quickly learn about the pro's and con's of various Open Source CMS.
Besides presentations from CMS projects and vendors, we are especially looking for proposals dealing with interesting uses of content management and related problem areas from law, business and society.
Session presentations are 45 minutes long, and tutorials are a half-day (3 hours). If you are interested in participating in or moderating panel discussions, or otherwise contributing to the conference, please let us know (and please include your area of expertise). If you have an idea for a panel discussion or a particularly provocative group of panelists that you'd love to see square off, feel free to send your suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For the Apache tracks, we are interested in proposals covering:
o Apache Web server topics (installation, compilation, configuration, migration, ...) o All Apache Software Foundation projects (Jakarta, mod_perl, Xerces, et cetera) o scripting languages and dynamic content (Java, PHP, Perl, TCL, Python, XML, XSL, etc.) o Security and eCommerce o Performance tuning, load balancing, high availability o tips for writing Apache Web server modules o Technical and non-technical case studies o new Web-related technologies
Only educational sessions related to projects of the Apache Software Foundation or the Web in general will be considered (commercial sales or marketing presentation won't be accepted; please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you're interested in giving a vendor presentation, e.g. "lunch bag session").
Submitting Proposals
Proposals may be submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for OSCOM and Apache tracks.
Keep in mind that proposals need not be works of art. A quick summary or abstract of the talk you plan to give is sufficient for consideration. We prefer outlines for tutorials. The proposal is what the conference committees uses to select speakers, so give enough information that the committee can tell what you'll be covering. As the conference approaches, we will request additional information about your proposal as necessary.
NOTE: All presenters whose talks are accepted will receive free registration at the conference. Travel / accomodation allowances will be handled on a case by case basis.
Important Dates
Proposals Due: July 15, 2004 Registration Opens: August 1, 2004 Speaker Notification: August 1, 2004 Presentation Files Due: September 1, 2004
Appendix A: Structure of CMS Product Presentation
Introduction (5 min) Demo of Highlights (10 min) Feature List (10 min) Case Study (15 min) Q & A (5 min)
-- Gregor J. Rothfuss Wyona Inc. - Open Source Content Management - Apache Lenya http://wyona.com http://cocoon.apache.org/lenya [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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