Hey all, We had a lot of fun, and really enjoyed the conference. Associating local speakers with local conferences might be a reasonable way to fulfill the use cases of ApacheCon EU. It has the advantage that we can reach more non-Apache people this way.
One interesting thing that happened during Mark's microservices talk: Three people came in a little late, and one of them popped up in front to start translating Mark's talk into sign-language. There were actually two translators and they traded off through the talk to give each other a break. That was fun and interesting to watch. Greets, Myrle On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Sharan Foga <sha...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Last week we had 3 days of Apache presentations at the Solutions Hamburg > conference (in Hamburg :-). And although the weather was quite wet I think we > all had fun. > > We had 9 speakers at the event including Greg Stein who was invited to give > one of the keynotes. Our planned schedule was as follows > > Developer Day: > - Apache Mynewt - ASF First Embedded OS Project – Justin McClean > - Das große Apache Enterprise und Microservice Puzzle - Mark Struberg > - Apache Commons - Beyond StringUtils - Benedikt Ritter > - Using Structured Streaming in Apache Spark 2.2 Jacek Laskowski > > DevOps Day > - Security around the Hadoop ecosystem - Lars Francke > - Developing and Releasing an Open Source Microservices architecture - Myrle > Krantz > - Deep Dive Into Structured Streaming in Apache Spark 2.2 - Jacek Laskowski > - SCADA Systeme mit Apache Software Entwickeln - Christofer Dutz > > Apache Foundation Day > - Hat Open Source Recht? - Mark Struberg > - The Apache Way - Sharan Foga > - The Apache Incubator: Raising up projects to raise up the world - Justin > McClean & Myrle Krantz > - Wie funktioniert die Apache Software Foundation? - Christofer Dutz > > Chris had attended this conference before and gave us some information on > what to expect. The room we were given was at the university campus where > most of the technical talks were held. Most of the talks were in German but > there were some (including a few of ours in English). > > We understand that 5000 tickets had been sold for the event yet attendance > was a bit mixed and the most popular of our talks were the microservices > related ones with around 20 people. I think Mark's talk about open source > licensing also attacted a few people and questions. We found that the early > morning sessions and the last sessions of the day tended not to have many > attendees so in a couple of cases we decided to run our own adhoc sessions. > > I did a talk on The Apache Way and thought that I didn't have enough content > to fill 75 minutes but it is amazing how quickly the time goes - and I only > just about made it! > > The organisers were great and provided us with lots and lots of food, a > special barista for coffee, a speaker evening event in a bunker and an end of > conference party that was out of this world! > > We did have some issues with transport between the two conference sites and > will be providing this as feedback to the conference organisers. > > We also need to do a bit of a lessons learned review of what worked and what > we could do better next time. This was the first time at this event so it > would be good to talk about how we could improve our participation and > attract more attendees. > > Huge thanks to Myrle Krantz and Chris Dutz for their work in organising, > facilitating and generally liaising with the conference organisers. Also > thanks to the other speakers – it was good to meet, chat and generally hang > out with you all. > > Thanks > Sharan > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
