Re: ApacheCon Europe status and ToDo

2014-04-23 Thread Rich Bowen


On 04/23/2014 01:05 PM, jan i wrote:

We will announce the schedule on July 28, but registration is open
already, and the prices are best right now. Eu799 through August 1, Eu1099
through November, and Eu1399 thereafter. Committers are always Eu275.


Can we put this part of the info on our dev@ now, and start reaching out ?


Sure. I suspect that most folks won't want to register before there's a 
schedule published, but the earlier we get work out the more response 
we'll have, so no objection to that at all.



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Re: ApacheCon Europe status and ToDo

2014-04-23 Thread Rich Bowen


On 04/23/2014 12:56 PM, Ulrich Stärk wrote:

Am 2014-04-23 um 18:40 schrieb Rich Bowen :


I currently have two keynotes tentatively accepted, both of which I'm pretty 
stoked about. Please note that while I'm not being secretive about this on this 
list, it would be nice if you didn't publicize these until we have titles and 
abstracts. Thanks.

You realize that this is a public list? ;)


Yes, I do. Like I said, I'm not being secretive about it. but there's a 
difference between that and actually publicizing it. Stuff sent to this 
list doesn't generally have a very wide distribution, even though it's 
"public".


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Re: ApacheCon Europe status and ToDo

2014-04-23 Thread Rich Bowen


On 04/23/2014 12:40 PM, Rich Bowen wrote:


If you would like to be involved in reviewing the content for the 
conference, please let me know. If you already have an account in the 
system, you should be able to log in and start at any time, but if you 
weren't involved in content selection for ACNA, you'll need to get 
authorized in the system.


It appears that even if you helped review content for ACNA, you'll need 
to be reauthorized for this event. If you'd like to be on that list, 
email "C. Craig Ross"  with your LF.org username


Also, drop by #apachecon on Freenode if you're interested in the daily 
conversation about the event. (Very low traffic.)


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Re: ApacheCon Europe status and ToDo

2014-04-23 Thread jan i
On 23 April 2014 18:40, Rich Bowen  wrote:

> Now that I'm caught up from ApacheCon US, I wanted to give folks a little
> information about the plans for ApacheCon Budapest, and the ways in which
> you can help make it our best conference yet. Those of you who read the
> board@ list regularly will find that much of this is repeated from a note
> I sent there, but there's some new stuff.
>
> I know this is really long. tldr; we have awesome stuff planned for
> Budapest, and the longer lead time means it'll be even awesomer.
>
> The CFP is open - http://apachecon.eu/ or more specifically
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org//events/apachecon-europe/program/cfp We
> currently have 10 talks proposed. While I expect that people will leave it
> to the last minute and expect an extension, the earlier you get your talk
> in, the higher chance that folks will actually review it in a useful manner.
>
> The CFP will close June 25, so we'll want to start pushing it harder at
> the beginning of June, although it would be nice to have project-specific
> tracks penciled in a long time before that, and we're getting a lot of
> cooperation on that from various projects that want to see dedicated
> tracks. (So, for internal promotion, I'll be trying to get specific
> projects to provide a day or half-day of content.)
>
> If you would like to be involved in reviewing the content for the
> conference, please let me know. If you already have an account in the
> system, you should be able to log in and start at any time, but if you
> weren't involved in content selection for ACNA, you'll need to get
> authorized in the system.
>
I you haven´t done so already, please sign me up for review and help.


> We will announce the schedule on July 28, but registration is open
> already, and the prices are best right now. Eu799 through August 1, Eu1099
> through November, and Eu1399 thereafter. Committers are always Eu275.
>

Can we put this part of the info on our dev@ now, and start reaching out ?


>
> I currently have two keynotes tentatively accepted, both of which I'm
> pretty stoked about. Please note that while I'm not being secretive about
> this on this list, it would be nice if you didn't publicize these until we
> have titles and abstracts. Thanks.
>
> David Nalley will be giving a keynote on the subject of the actual value
> of the foundation. We talk all the time about it being a million dollar
> organization, but that is just what we have in the back. Pretty much any
> established project you pick contributes way more value than that to the
> global economy, and we are largely unaware of this economic value. David
> will enlighten us. I should have an abstract in the coming weeks.
>
Just an idea, do we know a global economer (e.g. world bank) that could
give a second light on this.

>
> Douglas Carswell, who in addition to being my best friend in third grade
> is also a member of parliament in the UK, has written a book about the role
> of social media in engaging people into the conversation about politics.
> http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Politcs-Birth-iDemocracy-
> ebook/dp/B009L20H92/ He'll be giving a talk about those ideas - we're
> still a little vague on details, but I should have an abstract in the
> coming weeks.
>
> I am also in contact with an author of a fairly well known sci fi book ...
> I'll keep the details to myself until I have at least a tentative
> acceptance on that, but I'm pretty excited about it.
>
That sounds awesome.


>
> The conference format is 3+2 - three days keynotes and conference
> sessions, then two days other stuff. Other stuff includes tutorials (if we
> can get them to fly this time), the CloudStack conference, a one or two day
> Open Office user event (depending on the content we can get for this), and
> various project summits including, at this point, Traffic Server. If your
> project wants to put together either a content track or a dedicated full
> day event, summit, whatever, please let me know, and get your talks into
> the system so we can plan content.
>
> A hackathon will run the whole event, and will be right in the middle of
> everything so that it can't be missed. It was so well hidden in Denver that
> many people were unaware it was there at all. So we're putting it out in a
> central area, trading quiet for visibility.
>
> That's pretty much what I've got at this point. The main call to action
> right now is to get talk proposals in and register for the event.
>
> As for internal publicity, I've still been pretty much catching up with
> all of the loose ends from Denver, and will start preaching the message to
> our PMCs starting ... soonish. I've got two major conferences coming up
> next month, and will be a little less frenzied after that. If you are
> connected with a PMC that is likely to be able to provide a track, it would
> be great if you could go ahead and make that connection.
>
> Oh, and also, real soon (hopefully today or tomorrow) we'll have videos of
> the 

Re: ApacheCon Europe status and ToDo

2014-04-23 Thread Ulrich Stärk
Am 2014-04-23 um 18:40 schrieb Rich Bowen :

> I currently have two keynotes tentatively accepted, both of which I'm pretty 
> stoked about. Please note that while I'm not being secretive about this on 
> this list, it would be nice if you didn't publicize these until we have 
> titles and abstracts. Thanks.

You realize that this is a public list? ;)

Uli

ApacheCon Europe status and ToDo

2014-04-23 Thread Rich Bowen
Now that I'm caught up from ApacheCon US, I wanted to give folks a 
little information about the plans for ApacheCon Budapest, and the ways 
in which you can help make it our best conference yet. Those of you who 
read the board@ list regularly will find that much of this is repeated 
from a note I sent there, but there's some new stuff.


I know this is really long. tldr; we have awesome stuff planned for 
Budapest, and the longer lead time means it'll be even awesomer.


The CFP is open - http://apachecon.eu/ or more specifically 
http://events.linuxfoundation.org//events/apachecon-europe/program/cfp 
We currently have 10 talks proposed. While I expect that people will 
leave it to the last minute and expect an extension, the earlier you get 
your talk in, the higher chance that folks will actually review it in a 
useful manner.


The CFP will close June 25, so we'll want to start pushing it harder at 
the beginning of June, although it would be nice to have 
project-specific tracks penciled in a long time before that, and we're 
getting a lot of cooperation on that from various projects that want to 
see dedicated tracks. (So, for internal promotion, I'll be trying to get 
specific projects to provide a day or half-day of content.)


If you would like to be involved in reviewing the content for the 
conference, please let me know. If you already have an account in the 
system, you should be able to log in and start at any time, but if you 
weren't involved in content selection for ACNA, you'll need to get 
authorized in the system.


We will announce the schedule on July 28, but registration is open 
already, and the prices are best right now. Eu799 through August 1, 
Eu1099 through November, and Eu1399 thereafter. Committers are always Eu275.


I currently have two keynotes tentatively accepted, both of which I'm 
pretty stoked about. Please note that while I'm not being secretive 
about this on this list, it would be nice if you didn't publicize these 
until we have titles and abstracts. Thanks.


David Nalley will be giving a keynote on the subject of the actual value 
of the foundation. We talk all the time about it being a million dollar 
organization, but that is just what we have in the back. Pretty much any 
established project you pick contributes way more value than that to the 
global economy, and we are largely unaware of this economic value. David 
will enlighten us. I should have an abstract in the coming weeks.


Douglas Carswell, who in addition to being my best friend in third grade 
is also a member of parliament in the UK, has written a book about the 
role of social media in engaging people into the conversation about 
politics. 
http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Politcs-Birth-iDemocracy-ebook/dp/B009L20H92/ 
He'll be giving a talk about those ideas - we're still a little vague on 
details, but I should have an abstract in the coming weeks.


I am also in contact with an author of a fairly well known sci fi book 
... I'll keep the details to myself until I have at least a tentative 
acceptance on that, but I'm pretty excited about it.


The conference format is 3+2 - three days keynotes and conference 
sessions, then two days other stuff. Other stuff includes tutorials (if 
we can get them to fly this time), the CloudStack conference, a one or 
two day Open Office user event (depending on the content we can get for 
this), and various project summits including, at this point, Traffic 
Server. If your project wants to put together either a content track or 
a dedicated full day event, summit, whatever, please let me know, and 
get your talks into the system so we can plan content.


A hackathon will run the whole event, and will be right in the middle of 
everything so that it can't be missed. It was so well hidden in Denver 
that many people were unaware it was there at all. So we're putting it 
out in a central area, trading quiet for visibility.


That's pretty much what I've got at this point. The main call to action 
right now is to get talk proposals in and register for the event.


As for internal publicity, I've still been pretty much catching up with 
all of the loose ends from Denver, and will start preaching the message 
to our PMCs starting ... soonish. I've got two major conferences coming 
up next month, and will be a little less frenzied after that. If you are 
connected with a PMC that is likely to be able to provide a track, it 
would be great if you could go ahead and make that connection.


Oh, and also, real soon (hopefully today or tomorrow) we'll have videos 
of the keynotes and a small selection of sessions up on the YouTube 
channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation - and we'll 
be promoting that content on Twitter from @apachecon. We had some 
brilliant keynotes.


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