OFBiz Symposium at ApacheCon USA Redux 2009

[David E Jones]

The ApacheCon USA 2009 conference committee has contacted the OFBiz  
PMC (and other pmcs) about conference involvement. There is some  
interest among PMC members in participating in the conference, and  
last year most of the speakers were not on the PMC, so I wanted to  
open this discussion to the community at large.

In short it look like we have an opportunity to do something like we  
did last year. I suppose if we wanted to do another 2 full days we  
could, but I'm thinking that going for 1 full day (6 presentations,  
plus possibly 2 evening BOF sessions) will be a more reasonable goal.  
We already have volunteers for at least 3 presentations, so I think we  
can at least do this. On the other hand... I won't be upset if I get  
such a response from this message that we have to ask them for 2 full  
days!

Anyway, right now they are not looking for a schedule or for people to  
commit to a presentation, but rather a general interest level and a  
proposal from the PMC for what we think we can do. For more  
information about the conference please see http:// 
www.us.apachecon.com/ (though it seems to down at the minute).

If you are interested in presenting, please reply here to the mailing  
list or email the PMC privately (priv...@ofbiz.apache.org).

Thank you! I'm looking forward to another great gathering of minds on  
Oakland, CA in November!

-David

BTW: it looks like ApacheCon in general will be a bigger deal this  
year as the foundation is celebrating its 10 year anniversary and they  
want to do some big stuff for that!