I bet the Sling and Jackrabbit/Oak projects would be interested in such a track. Those projects have pretty strong corporate backing which could help with sponsorship. Would it make sense to cross post this to them to get the ball rolling?
- Bob On 11/30/2016 2:15 PM, Tom Barber wrote: > Nick, who *wouldn't* want to see your talks?! > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Nick Burch <apa...@gagravarr.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Allison, Timothy B. wrote: >> >>> ApacheCon and Apache Big Data will be held at the Intercontinental in >>>> Miami, Florida, May 16-18, 2017 >>>> >>> I plan to attend. >>> >>> Who's in? Any idea if there will be another "content" track like we had >>> in Austin? >>> >> If we want a Content track, then we'd have to do some work for it! I'd >> love to see one though, I think we've enough good stuff around Apache to >> make it a success >> >> We'd need to find a few related projects interested in putting some talks >> in, work out a marketing message for the track, and ideally work out how we >> can "pay" our way (in terms of finding a sponsor, or explaining why someone >> would buy quite a few tickets to see just our talks, or that sort of thing) >> >> Are we up for that bit of extra work this time? >> >> There's also a chance to take part in the hackathon too :) >> >> Nick >>
