Bruno, This list is a good place to start, I've cc'd the appropriate internal list.
I'm travelling right now, but as you know (we met in Oakland) I would like to see an event in Brazil. All Incan say is to repeat what I said in Oakland - for an event to take place in Brazil we need sufficient "on the ground" energy to drive it and make it happen. This is a significant undertaking and needs more than just one person I (and ConCom) look forward to working with you once you have managed to gather the required energy in Brazil. Sent from my mobile device. On 9 Nov 2010, at 05:02, Bruno Borges <bruno.bor...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure if this mailing list is the right one to write about this, but > I'm gonna take the risk. I suppose "Community" means anything related to it. > And this is definitely about community. > > Before anything, I'd like to share my history with ASF. (skip if you want... > :D) > > When I started to get involved with the Apache Software Foundation in a > deeper level, I was still just a user, downloading Tomcat and using it. I > guess most Java developers for the Web environment still do that. > > 5 years a go, I joined the Apache Wicket community and then my relationship > with ASF has born. And for the last 5 years I've been speaking about it in > Brazil, either in JUG meetings or at conferences around the country and > sharing everything I wanted to share on my blog. I've even created a Google > Groups for that, called Wicket pt_BR. With my contributions as an > "evangelist" I gave birth to friendships with great people like Martijn > Dashorst, Jeremy Thomerson, Eelco Hillenius and others from the Wicket > community. > > Then, in 2008 I heard about the Apache TAC and, thanks to ASF, I could meet > them in person during ApacheCon @ New Orleans. It was better than anything > I've ever experienced. Considering how close I was to great people, > professionals and friends, and how easy I could start chatting about anything > to them, I thought that was the best conference it could ever exist. I > thought: "ApacheCon is the best. I got free beer!". That was cool. Every > conference I go here in Brazil, I wish someone put some beers instead of > Coke. Until now... only #fail > > Then, right after I came back from New Orleans, I started to play with the > SOA stack (Camel, CXF, ServiceMix and ActiveMQ). I also became friend of > great people like Bruce Snyder, Claus Ibsen, Hadrian Zbarcea and Debbie > Moynihan. > > Last year, 2009, when I heard about ApacheCon in San Francisco, I took the > chance to apply again to the Apache TAC (no, I wasn't bargaining; it really > is expensive to fly from Brazil to the USA, specially SF). I just applied for > the tickets, and for accommodation I was safe with CouchSurfing friends I > already knew. Also, I really wanted to help the organization. It was when I > met Nick Burch, Ross Gardler and Noirin Shirley. Could not forget my latin > friends Amelia Blevins and Carlos Sanchez. Other names like Jesse McConnell, > David Blevins and Yeliz Eseryel are also in my good memories of ApacheCon > 2009. Unfortunately this year, because of personal reasons (not because of > TAC rules), I couldn't be present at ApacheCon. > > With the help of Bruno Souza, I discussed with some people, including Sally > Khudairi, the idea of bringing ApacheCon to South America. > > What I saw on ApacheCon '08 and '09 was something amazing. Perfect for South > America. Perfect for Brazil. The Apache Way is something that must be shared > with everyone. > > A few months a go, I went to Brasilia (country's capital) to talk about the > ASF in general, not on an specific project. It's amazing how people are > unaware of what the ASF really is. And how people limit their knowledge to > only what the big players show to them. Still, they all know Struts and > Tomcat. It seems that South America is a big user of Apache projects rather > than truly contributors. > > Now this year, with JavaOne going to happen in Brazil, and the sessions that > were scheduled, I believe it is now the time to bring ApacheCon. There's no > single talk about anything related to the Apache Software Foundation in this > South America version of JavaOne. And I feel really sad about that. Sad that > people that are behind the organization had the opportunity to accept papers > (I myself proposed Wicket and Camel - papers I have been presenting since > 2008 for rooms of 30~40 attenders). > > And I'm sure everyone will use Maven, Ant or Tomcat to demonstrate something. > > I don't know if this happened because of recent issues between Oracle and > Apache, or just because of Java standards (like JSF, JavaFX, EJB) are more > important than non-standard projects. It doesn't matter. I'm sure there was > room. On my count, there are at least 3 subjects with more than 1 submission > approved. Look at JavaOne track. > > Now, if the ASF, the most voted JCP EC member (with 95% votes), has no space > on JavaOne Brazil, the country who have been bravely participating in the > Open Source movement, giving birth to the OpenJDK thanks to Javali project, > and Bruno Souza, than we should start considering other alternatives. > Alternatives to standards, like Wicket or Camel. > > We already have ApacheCon Europe and North America. I'm sure we can do > ApacheCon South America. > > Let's do this happen. Let's do it the Apache way. > > Bruno Borges > www.brunoborges.com.br > +55 21 76727099 > > "The glory of great men should always be > measured by the means they have used to > acquire it." > - Francois de La Rochefoucauld >
