On 2/3/16, 5:49 PM, "omup...@gmail.com on behalf of OmPrakash Muppirala" <omup...@gmail.com on behalf of bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> >wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Just worked out that I should be able to make it, not 100% sure what >>I’ll >> submit as a talk however. Would an Introduction to Flex fit into the >>client >> side track? >> > >I think it would. Would you be open to doing a talk on Flex Mobile >instead? I would like to do it, but I wont have bandwidth for two talks >in >this conference. You guys would know better since you've been to ApacheCons in 2015, but I still find myself wondering what it will take to either 1) cause someone who wouldn't normally attend ApacheCon to show up to learn more about client-side stuff, or 2) cause someone who came to ApacheCon to learn about server-side stuff to attend a client-oriented talk. I also wonder if attendance numbers really matter. Are we competing for rooms against other tracks and won't get accepted based on past attendance records or will the conference organizers accept just about any track because they have space? If the former, we need to figure out how to get more folks to attend. I saw Justin do an introductory Flex presentation at ApacheCon in Portland. Justin does a really good job, but the question remains whether it is the right topic for the demographic we expect. Justin's presentation would be great at any 360|Flex, where people came to learn about Flex, but the people at the two ApacheCons I've attended seem different. Maybe making it more of an overview of the project by mixing in more about Mobile and AIR might make it more interesting to the server-side guy. IMO, it is unlikely the server-side person will become a Flex coder. But what could we present in an overview such that he/she learns something worth taking back to his client folks? Or maybe the server-oriented folks who attend still hear the echoes of negative news about Flash/AIR stuff and are less likely to show up unless we talk more about targeting JS. Or maybe the angle really should be that the server-side folks should learn Flex so they don't have to wait on the client team? Or maybe the content of the presentation is fine, but instead of a title like "Introduction to Flex" it should be something like "Rapid Cross-Platform Client and App Development with Apache Flex". I don't really know, just brainstorming. We keep hearing that AIR is winning as a runtime in many places. Are folks using Flex to create those AIR apps? Have we tried to tell folks about that at ApacheCon? I've seen other Apache projects not choose Flex for their cross-platform UI. Why is that? What could we say at ApacheCon that might make them choose Flex to build an AIR app? Anyway, I don't know how talks are selected for tracks, but I would imagine anything Justin wants to talk about that relates to Apache Flex would fit in the client category. Thoughts? -Alex
