-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Mark,
On 1/9/17 6:57 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: > There is the opportunity (if we can pull it together as a > community) to run a dedicated Tomcat conference alongside ApacheCon > NA 2017. The dates are May 16 to 18. Interesting. > The call for papers closes on Feb 11 so we have around a month to > get organised. We'll also need to convince the conference > organisers that a) there is a demand for this and b) we have a > plan. > > Getting the right content is going to be critical to success. I've > been thinking about this for a while and I think we can identify > the right content I have a single presentation submitted already for consideration. The topic is "Let's Encrypt Apache Tomcat" ;) I was also planning on reprising one of my previous presentations, either the "Monitoring" or "Load-balancing" one, or possibly the credential-handlers one. They have all been fairly well-attended in the past. If you wanted to really get a LOT of sessions going, I'd be willing to do all of them, though it *is* a lot of talking. > "What topic(s) need to be covered in a Tomcat conference to make it > as easy as possible to get your employer to pay for you to > attend?" > > We have up to three days and potentially multiple tracks so even if > you think you have a niche requirement, please speak up. We > typically have a number of Tomcat committers speaking at ApacheCon > so finding someone to cover a particular topic shouldn't be too > tricky. Equally, if you have a topic you could present on that you > think others would find useful, speak up. > > Do feel free to add your +1 if someone else mentions a topic your > are interested first. Having an idea of how popular the topics are > would also be helpful. > > Also, we don't have to stick to the standard "Sit and listen to > someone present for 40 mins" format. Discussions, workshops, > hackathons are all possible. > > Some topic ideas to get the ball rolling. > > Hands-on workshop: Configuring TLS with Apache Tomcat +0 > Reverse Proxying to Apache Tomcat Load-balancing with Apache > Tomcat Clustering with Apache Tomcat +1 to all 3 > Tomcat Clinic (like the users list but with everyone in the same > room) Evidently, Daniel Rugguri tried this a few years ago with a "Let's solve your mox_proxy problem" workshop, and literally nobody showed up. I'm skeptical about a workshop for a few reasons: 1. Attendees might not have a "problem to solve" and therefore see a workshop as a waste of their time. 2. Anyone with a problem to solve isn't going to wait-around for the conference to get it solved. Maybe we could instead have more like a live-demo of setting things up from scratch. So it's not an AMA (AUA?) with a topic of e.g. "custering" but instead have a session titled something like "Clustering A - Z" where we build a live cluster while the audience watches and asks questions in real time. Jean-Frederic and I were musing in Austin (?) about getting a small number of Raspberry Pi-type devices on the stage with activity/state lights on them, build a cluster, and then start unplugging things to show what actually happens when disaster strikes in your environment, and how the cluster reacts. I'm not sure that could be done in 1 hour, especially with all of the questions we are likely to get or scenarios we might like to demonstrate . - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYdT6gAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYpEYP/3/MmieTpAEdhTO6GNm4yj5P fPTQcCE3v2QeY+mGCNUIfoVs5iD+azrh62OHT9cIO3SFTbd+iMt3ZI2LRB4Pmsxy vrhlgfaiBvg/y8OCCQrh0fR0kgSqG2WLCvXg4b4zzTUYbyHAc7XlT5EPQMiuHz8W 9MXVCdHBn19/kOf0zJ8Kh5xGCmm1ONuir/idVgg9OSWMTFzVQf6rNHAmXvOTIy5E iUIeggk0F6Nu9yiI+x4U2hRVgsk7p+OYefAlo2btSjcQXBKvXFiKFi3mDWT6q3BM CCYWUO2+kbO6kQJVoNWuOBqYQFHZbLlwQDt8xMxCpmpZytldTJDUzZ2wgketLlPc FfcDnvHg779PLwG8M8GKskjOerPgf2BDtGkfB7wOcfC1NT+BT99eW7E8vXef3rWg +cmYQRUmi5o2PM/UdHQSSfZP/RklioD9cq+FTREL5iUVQlJ2ASR3CoiU7lBGtPLm SNKyPxjVQablIOlXKWCCMqFZSGjpxEqr6Mydbj2JKjAChQiO9CU5KwTAjjYbMaO0 PI77MgSZufSicbG3oFpKYKHN5cQBEI3sD+hPYG5C2BiDpYVrlDasXz5llLuw15IS kRjYWlTV5LC491zbwj1P6fz/LrKwQqoHz6GvrBn56YLRiLIO1YhQH07W0gvXATK9 q3qPhL22wc6PPv0THBh3 =vvsN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
