Re: Some notes on ASF conferences.

2024-07-07 Thread Claude Warren
Off the top of my head I would think that companies that make editors, editor plugins, perf tools, ruggedized packs, think about what you use, or what you would like to use and those are the vendors. In addition, the conference could talk up the vendor booths with potential attendees. What you ar

Re: Some notes on ASF conferences.

2024-06-29 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024, 6:04 AM Claude Warren wrote: > the art show) allow sales of > merchandise. I truly believe that a conference focused on > developers/architects and the information that is valuable in the cross > project space would be a draw for a number of small to medium businesses > tha

Re: Some notes on ASF conferences.

2024-06-29 Thread Claude Warren
Isabel, Sorry for the long radio silence but life has been hectic recently. The Big Data Compute, API & Microservices etc. that were seen in CoC Bratislava are examples of the cross project track idea. They were very well attended and had lots of submissions. There were other tracks that were s

Re: Some notes on ASF conferences.

2024-06-13 Thread Isabel Drost-Fromm
On 2024/06/10 11:20:36 Claude Warren wrote: > I believe that there are two issues that are retarding the acceptance of > ASF produced conferences > >- The name >- The positioning I would add timing: There is less money to go around for sponsorships. So establishing one that sounds new li

Re: Some notes on ASF conferences.

2024-06-11 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 1:21 PM Claude Warren wrote: > ...Renaming the conference to "The ASFConference" or "ASFCon" would > go a long way to mitigating this problem... I agree that the current name is not good, but would also like to get rid of the "con" suffix which means "idiot", or worse

Re: Some notes on ASF conferences.

2024-06-10 Thread Jim Jagielski
> On Jun 10, 2024, at 7:20 AM, Claude Warren wrote: > > I originally posted the content of this note in two different slack > conversations. I have decided to combine them and place them on the > mailing list for wider distribution. > > I believe that there are two issues that are retarding t

Re: Some notes on ASF conferences.

2024-06-10 Thread Ivet Petrova
If it is not in the agenda and there is nothing announced in advance, people just do not self-organise. This is my experience. Or somebody just need to shout at place about the hackathon. Best regards, Marketing Director ivet.petr...@shapeblue.com www.shapeblue.com On 10 Jun 2024, at 15

Re: Some notes on ASF conferences.

2024-06-10 Thread Rich Bowen
> On Jun 10, 2024, at 8:14 AM, Martin Desruisseaux > wrote: > > Le 2024-06-10 à 13 h 52, Ivet Petrova a écrit : > >> One of the things I saw at the Bratislava event is that people were there >> just for specific projects. And there was not option to interact with other >> projects. >> > Wh

Re: Some notes on ASF conferences.

2024-06-10 Thread Martin Desruisseaux
Le 2024-06-10 à 13 h 52, Ivet Petrova a écrit : One of the things I saw at the Bratislava event is that people were there just for specific projects. And there was not option to interact with other projects. What about organizing code sprints during the event? Something like "integrate proje

Re: Some notes on ASF conferences.

2024-06-10 Thread Ivet Petrova
Hi Claude, I want to share a few thoughts, hopefully they will be useful. Please, find my comments below: Best regards, Marketing Director ivet.petr...@shapeblue.com www.shapeblue.com On 10 Jun 2024, at 14:20, Claude Warren wrote: I originally posted the content of this note in two dif

Re: Some notes on ASF conferences.

2024-06-10 Thread Francois Papon
Hi, +1 for the name, ASFCon seems to well fit as we want to rebrand Apache to ASF so it make sense to have ASFCon instead of ApacheCon. People will not be lost. For the positioning, I think that having a mix with how an opensource community is working and some technical talks related to ASF

Some notes on ASF conferences.

2024-06-10 Thread Claude Warren
I originally posted the content of this note in two different slack conversations. I have decided to combine them and place them on the mailing list for wider distribution. I believe that there are two issues that are retarding the acceptance of ASF produced conferences - The name - The po