I'd reallly believe that a Maven Meetup in Amsterdam is a very good idea and a very nice place to share our Maven knowledge, too many times felt by junior developers as highly black magic ;)
And for us (Sourcesense) to discuss some of our work in Sourcesense around Maven ALM support [1] and around Alfresco ECM Maven support [2]. Any other maven user/dev interested to join (I'm extending the request to the user list to get some more attendees)? I believe that getting to 15/20~ attendees is to be considered the treshold for organizing this. I will be also forwarding this email to my customers to get more attention around the topic. HTH, Gab [1] http://code.google.com/p/maven-calm [2] http://code.google.com/p/maven-alfresco-archetypes 2009/2/27 Rogier Peters <rogier.pet...@gmail.com> > Hi Petar, > > Great idea. We're a couple (3-5) developers from Sourcesense NL, based in > Amsterdam. We would be interested in coming, and also giving a short talk on > Application Lifecycle Management with Maven. Since we're based in Amsterdam, > we could also help organizing or drum up some more local developers. > @nick you're probably there, more people from IProfs interested? > > Regards, > Rogier > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Petar Tahchiev <paranoia...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> I got an email from Arje Cahn with a proposal to make a Maven >> GetTogether/Meetup during the ApacheCON in Amsterdam. I am >> very interested in such an event but I do feel that it will only make >> sense if more of the Maven developers are present at the >> conference. >> >> I know for sure me, Carlos and Wendy are going to be there. >> Anybody else planning to attend? If we get there more people >> we can easily setup a wiki page and announce a few sessions there. >> >> What do you think? >> >> Here is the email from Arje: >> >> ============================== >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm sending you this email because we've done GetTogethers / Meetups >> together, or have spoken about them somewhere in the past. >> If you feel I should be addressing different people, or different >> projects, I'd be grateful if you could point me to the right project >> and/or person! :) >> >> As you are probably very much aware of, the ApacheCon Europe is in >> about 7 weeks, in Amsterdam. >> >> I got a really nice offer from the ApacheCon producers. The Matterhorn >> rooms are available in the evenings for Meetup / GetTogether style >> events. This means we can host up to 3 evening Meetups, from 18:00 - >> 22:00, with our own program, on Monday evening and Tuesday evening, >> all within the ApacheCon venue (the Movenpick). Meetups happen after >> the trainings. This is in my opinion a much better opportunity than we >> had last year where we were >> 1) in a different location >> 2) conflicting with the hackaton >> 3) conflicting with trainings >> >> Grant, I'd love to hear your thoughts from your Lucene perspective. I >> know last year was unclear and I hope to be able to straighten that >> out with you this year. We're *not* organizing Lucene meetups without >> having Lucene people on board :) >> >> Potentially, we could have 6 Meetups in total. The rooms can hold up >> to 100 people each. Wifi, beamers, etc, is all taken care of. >> >> The question I have for you all, is whether you think you and / or >> your project would be interested in filling an evening. Can you >> organize between 20 and 100 people from your project, and put up an >> agenda with speakers and talks? >> >> Also, we'll have to come up with some sponsors. To give you an idea - >> last years Meetups were sponsored by 2 to 4 sponsors per project, >> paying roughly 1000 euro each to cover all costs. >> These sponsors will then become official ApacheCon Meetup sponsors and >> get marketed like that on the ApacheCon website. >> >> Right now, the planners have asked me to come up with a list of Apache >> projects that would be interested in the idea. If you're interested, >> please let me know ASAP, as I need to follow up on Monday to be able >> to be in time with all the marketing stuff going on around ApacheCon. >> >> Hope you like this idea as much as I do! >> >> -- >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Arjé Cahn >> >> -- >> Regards, Petar! >> Karlovo, Bulgaria. >> - - - - - - - - >> | Author @ Manning Publications. >> | Senior Solution Architect @ Unic >> | BGJUG-Bulgarian Java User Group Leader. >> | Apache Maven Developer. >> | Apache Jakarta PMC member. >> | Jakarta Cactus Lead Developer. >> | Codehaus Plexus Developer >> | Blogger: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/paranoiabla/ >> - - - - - - - - >> Public PGP Key at: >> https://keyserver1.pgp.com/vkd/DownloadKey.event?keyid=0x19658550C3110611 >> Key Fingerprint: A369 A7EE 61BC 93A3 CDFF 55A5 1965 8550 C311 0611 >> > > > > -- > Rogier Peters > rog...@twitter, flickr, delicious > > -- Gabriele Columbro Alfresco ECM Product Strategy Consultant +31 627 565 103 Sourcesense - Making sense of open Source (http://www.sourcesense.com)
