Rich, There is no need to pick on OFBiz. I have organized the speakers for ACEU 2012, ACEU 2014 and together with Sharan interesting talks for ACNA 2015 are lined up. Each were/are full tracks. Again for ACNA2015 I experienced unwillingness upfron at some parties because of skewed cost/benefit ratios. Nevertheless, like for ACEU 2014 we have more talks for ACNA 2015 than space in a track. We even have input for a panel/Q&A session, that we are looking into.
If you (or your assisting organisation) want sponsors for such tracks, I suggest you/the ASF run to the names you know and start asking. Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > On 02/04/2015 03:42 AM, Pierre Smits wrote: > >> We are discussing again, as it seems to me, what the purpose of the >> Apachecon is based on talks submitted. And why is that? >> > > > For what it's worth, we have made a concerted effort for ACNA15 to ask > project communities to step up to make ApacheCon what they think it should > be. If a project wants a track (even now) and can provide the content for > it, we'll schedule it. > > If OFBiz, for example, wants to provide us with a track that has more the > focus that you think we should have at ApacheCon, make it happen, and we'll > schedule it. (I pick on OFBiz, at least in part, because they made a real > effort to do this exact thing in EU.) If that brings sponsors along with > it, all the better. > > The open CFP phase is over, but if someone brings me a track (n * 6 talks, > for an n day track), we'll make it happen. Within reason - in agreement > with Joe's comments else-thread, I'm not keen on running corporate > advertisements at ApacheCon. But if there are companies that are deeply > involved in an ASF project (as is the case at OFBiz), then, yeah, I'd love > to see their content showcased. > > So, yes, we can only schedule content that is submitted, but we've made an > effort this event to go out and get those submissions from specific > communities. At future events, we'd like to see more communities step up to > do this hard work. > > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >
