Awesome news, Nick. Thanks ConCom! Cheers, Chris
On May 3, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Nick Burch wrote: > Hi All > > Those of you at ApacheCon NA 2011 in Vancouver may remember me standing on > stage, announcing some provisional information on ACEU12, and saying more > information on ApacheCons for Europe and North America would be along > soon.... It's been a little while longer than hoped, but we do now have some > firm announcements! > > Firstly, for Europe, SAP have kindly agreed to host us in Sinsheim, Germany > on the week of the 5th-9th November 2012, for ApacheCon Europe 2012. We've > got the venue confirmed, but we still need to decide on the many things, so > please get involved in the organising if you can! (Details on getting > involved below) > > Secondly, for North America, following the RFP we've accepted a proposal from > Open Bastion (producers of DjangoCon and PyCon) to run our next ApacheCon > North America! The plan is for the event to happen in early 2013, likely in > Portland, we'll be able to confirm the details shortly (once contracts are > all signed). Again, we need people to help get involved in organising this > too! > > The initial discussions and planning for both events will be taking place > together, on the new-ish public list <[email protected]> > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-apachecon-discuss/ > We need organisers who can help with the planning, with talk selection and > track allocations, to help with planning non-talk events (hackathons, > meetups, new kinds of sessions etc), as well as those able to help out on the > ground. Please get involved if you're interested and able! > > To get involved, send an email to <[email protected]> in > the usual way, and we'll look forward to seeing you get involved there soon! > > Nick > (On behalf of ConCom, the Conferences Committee) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
