On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 23/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> especially those who live in the US may be pleased >> to know that the website of the next ApacheCon North America is online: >> http://na.apachecon.com/ >> The conference will take place in Portland, Oregon, USA, 26-28 Feb 2013. >> The Call for Papers is already open and will stay open until 12 Nov 2012 >> > > If anybody missed this: the deadline for submitting talks is 11 Nov (so in > 3 days; and I was mistaken in writing 12 Nov, apparently it's closing one > day earlier). > > North-American community members, please do submit a talk (if someone > needs an incentive: having a talk accepted will save you the 1300 USD > admission fee). Others are welcome too, of course. > > I won't attend ApacheCon NA or submit a talk, for a few reasons: > > 1) Time. ApacheCon is amazing, but I can't take another week off from my, > totally unrelated, job to attend the US edition too. (I also prefer to > spend my money in different ways, but time is the main issue). > Totally understandable. Committing to participate and present at a conference is a significant investment in time and energy. Thank you for help make the Apache OpenOffice track at ACE a success! > > 2) Overlapping events. In the first weekend of that month (February 2013) > we will already have FOSDEM in Brussels, which I will very likely attend. > Good prioritization. Your leadership and commdev skills will be most needed at FOSDEM. > > 3) Conference spirit. ApacheCon US seems a business-oriented conference, > while ApacheCon EU is the "community edition". We have plenty of project > members, especially in North America, who will feel perfectly at home in a > business-oriented conference, while the "community edition" is just fine > for me. > Well, it's still a developer-to-developer conference. The 'business' side is more reflected by the professionalism of the event producer, The OpenBastion Group. Steve Holden did an awful lot to pull ACE back from the brink of chaos, but in the end ACE was still mostly driven by community volunteers. > I might be wrong about item 3, but a lot of people on this list have > probably attended both ApacheCon NA and ApacheCon EU and can explain the > difference better than I can > I attended ACNA in Vancouver last November, yes. As I said above, it is still a developer event, there were very few business folks there. You could say that the corporate sponsorships may be more evident, but I think ACE picked up quite a few in the closing weeks as well, so I'm not sure that it's much different in terms of corporate business support. > Regards, > Andrea. >
