Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Ross Gardler
yes please! Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Senior Technology Evangelist Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation On 3 March 2014 01:54, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe for this year's ApacheCon this idea is a bit too late - but I > thought it makes sense t

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Rich Bowen
On 03/03/2014 02:52 PM, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: This sounds like a really good idea! In fact, if there's any chance for us to give it a try at ApacheCON EU -- it'll be pretty nice. Not sure how feasible it is for ApacheCON US, but on a related note: I've always wondered about combining my two f

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
This sounds like a really good idea! In fact, if there's any chance for us to give it a try at ApacheCON EU -- it'll be pretty nice. Not sure how feasible it is for ApacheCON US, but on a related note: I've always wondered about combining my two favorite passtimes: ASF and euro boardgames ;-) Has

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:04:16AM -0500, Rich Bowen wrote: > Last week I attended SCaLE[...] I knew this couldn't only be some EU trend - great to hear. > I'll ask Angela what our options are for Europe. Awesome - Thanks. Looking forward to her input. Isabel

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Isabel Drost
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:42:11AM -0800, Ted Dunning wrote: > I have to say one of the most fun conferences I have ever attended was the > third ALife conference. They had a lego play area for children attending. > Happily, very few children were there which allowed the rest of us to > spend man

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Ted Dunning
I have to say one of the most fun conferences I have ever attended was the third ALife conference. They had a lego play area for children attending. Happily, very few children were there which allowed the rest of us to spend many hours building responsive bots. Balancing sticks. Orienting respo

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 01:51:57PM +, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: > A number of software / ASF people I know, by virtue of working remotely, are > also > defacto “child handlers” while their partner works in a normal face-to-face > job. It would be nice to facilitate conference attendees/speakers

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 02:32:10PM +0100, jan i wrote: > Apachecon will be in europe later this year, so the european perspective is > equally important. Great. > I think the idea is good. Thanks - it's just that in recent years I've observed more and more conferences become family friendly.

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Rich Bowen
On 03/03/2014 04:54 AM, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: Hi, Maybe for this year's ApacheCon this idea is a bit too late - but I thought it makes sense to get the discussion started anyway (maybe it even benefits myself at a later event ;) ): I don't know about the US tech conferences, the trend I'

Re: ApacheCon NA 2014 Schedule

2014-03-03 Thread Rich Bowen
On 02/28/2014 07:21 PM, Phil Steitz wrote: Many, many thanks to all who helped get the talks reviewed and schedule set. I was in a hurry preparing the abstract for my talk to hit the deadline. I would like to tweak the abstract a little, but the site does not let me do that. I bet some others

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Dave Cottlehuber
On 03. März 2014 at 13:32:23, jan i (j...@apache.org) wrote: > On 3 March 2014 10:54, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Maybe for this year's ApacheCon this idea is a bit too late - but I > > thought it makes sense to get the discussion started anyway (maybe it even > > benefits myself

Re: On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread jan i
On 3 March 2014 10:54, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe for this year's ApacheCon this idea is a bit too late - but I > thought it makes sense to get the discussion started anyway (maybe it even > benefits myself at a later event ;) ): > > I don't know about the US tech conferences, the

On geeks growing up - wrt. ApacheCon

2014-03-03 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
Hi, Maybe for this year's ApacheCon this idea is a bit too late - but I thought it makes sense to get the discussion started anyway (maybe it even benefits myself at a later event ;) ): I don't know about the US tech conferences, the trend I've observed in past years here in Europe is that mor