Just my 2 cents but I would also be in favor of having a messaging track. On Sunday, October 14, 2012, Steve Holden wrote:
> On Oct 14, 2012, at 1:12 AM, Sagara Gunathunga wrote: > > > There was a concern raised by some people including myself during the > > EU CFP time to have a Messaging or Enterprise Integration track > > instead of allocating a track completely to a single messing project. > > At that time we were too late to raise those issues and also had been > > informed that the track chairs are always ready to accept "related" > > talks if they looks good but looking at EU schedule I can see one > > messing project got number of slots and it's hard to see any other > > talks from messaging related projects on same track. > > > > Now we are in CFP for N/A event and still I can't see Messaging or > > Enterprise Integration track instead what I can see is again possible > > messaging track is allocated for a specific messaging project in same > > as EU event. In case If we have enough space I'm very positive to have > > more tracks like "General Messaging" and another track for a specific > > messaging project but If we don't have enough space why can't we make > > a general messaging track so that number of messaging related projects > > can submit their talks and cover more scope/community ? > > > Thanks. In the case of North America, this is probably mostly due to our > relative ignorance of the Apache "ecosphere". So I am very glad you have > raised the issue. If you can suggest changes to the CfP to make it more > inclusive of a wider range we would be grateful for your help. We want to > give all projects the opportunity to showcase their work. > > > Taking a different example I always think "Big data" is the ideal name > > for a track instead calling it using a specific big data project name. > > As I involved organizing number of Apache events in Asia from 2009 I > > don't have any concern about impartiality of organizers, also I can > > understand the difficulty with EU event with time but clearly in NA > > event we have enough time to make changes so that event/tracks will > > cover wide range of projects and get wider community attraction. > > Finally I expect N/A organizers will consider my comments in a > > positive manner. > > > We certainly do regard such input as positive, and stand ready to hear > your (and everybody else's) suggestions for improving the CfP and making > the conference more welcoming to a broader section of the Apache community. > > > Thanks ! > > > And thank *you*. > > regards > Steve > > > -- > > Sagara Gunathunga > > > > Blog - http://ssagara.blogspot.com > > Web - http://people.apache.org/~sagara/ > > LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssagara > > -- > Steve Holden [email protected] <javascript:;>, Holden Web, LLC > http://holdenweb.com/ > Python classes (and much more) through the web http://oreillyschool.com/ > Conferences and technical event management at http://theopenbastion.com/ > Next: Helping with ApacheCon EU (community edition) http://apachecon.eu/ > > > >
