On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Mark, > > On 9/27/17 5:14 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: >> All, >> >> TomcatCon London 2017 took place yesterday and was even more >> successful than hoped. We sold 16 tickets for a full day of content >> from 3 Tomcat committers. >> >> I'd like to take this opportunity to once again thank our >> sponsors. >> >> Liferay generously provided the venue - including all the >> associated organisation. This provided us with a very nice venue, >> removed a significant amount of the organisational overhead and >> also removed all of the financial risk to the PMC members >> organising the event. >> >> c2b2 generously purchased 2 tickets and contributed towards the >> other expenses (speaker travel expenses, buying a microphone so we >> could record some of the sessions, name badges, etc,). >> >> We were able to record 4 out of the 6 sessions and these will be >> uploaded to YouTube and linked from the Tomcat website hopefully by >> the end of the week. >> >> As planned, the event generated a sufficient surplus to underwrite >> the next event. With this in mind, thoughts are already turning to >> future events. >> >> We are looking for suggestions for possible locations for the next >> event. Please add your suggestions to this thread. >> >> Some points to keep in mind: >> >> - Events close to one or more Tomcat committters will generally >> have lower overheads due to reduced travel costs. At this point >> that probably means Europe if the event runs without sponsorship. >> >> - Sponsorship to cover speaker travel and/or to provide a venue >> increases the options available with regard to location. I was >> serious when I said in a previous thread that the next event could >> be in India if a sponsor offered to provide a venue and cover >> speaker travel. >> >> If you'd like to discuss sponsorship options privately, please feel >> free to contact me off-list. >> >> With regards to timing, the aim is to try and organise one of >> these events every couple of months. That probably means we need to >> start thinking about event N+1 and N+2 in parallel. >> >> I look forward to your suggestions, > > Washington, DC would be a lovely place to have a TomcatCon. :)
+1, it's only an hour flight for me :) > I'd be happy to organize the event. Not too many Tomcat committers in > the area, but lots of ASF folks are here, including jimjag (though his > schedule is sometimes awkward). We held a BarCampApache here in 2012 > on a Saturday and got ~45 attendees. Tomcat would probably have a > smaller draw from that crowd, but there might be more locals who would > be more interested in a more focused set of topics rather than the > wide-ranging chaos that often accompanies a BarCamp. > > There are quite a few big internet companies with presences around > here (e.g. Living Social, Facebook, etc.) but I'm not sure which ones > utilize Tomcat within their technology stack. They may be willing to > give us some meeting space, however, since most of those companies end > up being "friends of open source" even if they aren't > directly-benefiting from one particular tool. > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEMmKgYcQvxMe7tcJcHPApP6U8pFgFAlnOmOcACgkQHPApP6U8 > pFjK4Q//a+0pdGDS0licweHyD7fjAlfKri9i8nhVM0qTDhi9UpuPKufWJ+mqs401 > OSCSDW4LbhKZhq2S2AQn28usHEXhdQFuuNDIlaOfNMSvoPdp8y4f7FBz2a1zYyAc > RfMSoUl/S0npXvkaG2wHtIhuT4T3TBh7i7JnkDd9mtL5AD6bDYh4oKPHIiDtGebs > FLhR4kK4EbGRGPJS+xH31xbQyKxIzC6Lf54BXHiYA89LCmXb3zs0ZU9IrCEl5NIj > fTcsMaOu3rjxt4j6397keksmJy9fAtF47NLYGgk9US6p8hVZxnXEyUmE5un7s/RU > iICNzkvuUFF3MxQXq2huPuoBCFy5nm0Q4msLNdE5l7pBBwvbklUzsNPghIS5CD0J > lNlhdIFRZYFc7/JdrUOH4JHLg1187c6MrIEz9Yg9RteAE8oHj2u/KhBwGXk5kV2D > I9Ug4+A0pobMUN5aYI56+3ln51u2rIKSta7s7iwdoFC3DpS7EZHCYaSA23gGuuPO > LckRQR1XG5icdcLhKrs9abwKWsl97SzZ+G+eS15XlfP36ZMSquVctsC8RM/7y4cB > UWZFhh0Caim9+bX7g9gvuf2FhOwS6JnCE0kW8+2R9zrSQ0Wy3LyHuPEgWUdVirUS > UHcIQeiPsUqe5hhgG5XaLk0r9dnz7mgut6m0tCcOM/chg3XDVVk= > =xJiL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
