That's exactly the problem Hadrian. Far too many of our projects expect something valuable to "just emerge". We need to get the PMCs to take ownership. We need speakers from outside the usual pool.
You sending a few emails will help :-) Ross Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation -----Original Message----- From: Hadrian Zbarcea [mailto:hzbar...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 2:08 PM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: ApacheCon track descriptions Geez :). My impression is that some communities just assume it's gonna happen. Let me send a few email and gauge the interest. If there's enough (which I assume to be the case), I'll volunteer. Cheers, Hadrian On 12/12/2014 04:53 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: > If you arrange it, yes :-) > > Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. > A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hadrian Zbarcea [mailto:hzbar...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 1:49 PM > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: ApacheCon track descriptions > > Not sure if my previous mail made it to the list. We kinda traditionally had > a SOA/integration track that attracted a decent crowd. Camel, CXF, Karaf some > ActiveMQ, (ServiceMix a while back) were the main attractions. Do we want > such a track this time around? > > Cheers, > Hadrian > > > On 12/12/2014 11:25 AM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: >> Track organizers you have a small job to do... >> >> Sally is working up a marketing campaign to align with ApacheCon. This is a >> campaign for the foundation not for ApacheCon itself, however it will run >> during the push for attendees and is intended to both ride on the ApacheCon >> press and contribute to it. >> >> In order to help Sally plan this campaign can you please provide a 3-5 >> sentence description of your track in the wiki >> (https://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ACNA2015ContentCommittee). Don't worry >> about the details. We'll help flesh out a more "marketing friendly" set of >> words. We just need some guidance on what your track will contain. >> >> As an example here's what I wrote for my cloud track: >> "The cloud changes everything. The Apache Software Foundation changes >> everything. This track will focus on how The Apache Software Foundation and, >> more specifically, the Apache projects are often found at the core of the >> latest and greatest innovations in IT. Sessions in this track will show how >> the Apache Way enables the largest and the smallest of companies to work >> together to redefine IT. We'll also take a look into the future of cloud >> computing and how Apache projects fit into, even defines, that future." >> Ross >> >>