On Jan 26, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Sander Temme wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: > >> We'd appreciate your help in creating a little more buzz about ApacheCon NA. >> >> It turns out that another major West coast big data/cloud conference has >> been scheduled on exactly the same days as ApacheCon, reducing the >> anticipated effects of our marketing and PR efforts. > > You also managed to put the conference on exactly the same days as the RSA > Conference and Expo in San Francisco, so anyone who is in the security > business will have to be there instead of at ApacheCon. >
Thanks for your input. It's true we'd rather not have clashed with RSA, but then so would Strata, who are also suffering because TED is using some of their usual speaker pool. And so it goes. There are over a million conferences a year, worldwide, so such clashes are unfortunate but sometimes unavoidable, and it's much easier to change the future than the past. We received a low number of security submissions this year anyway, and the two talks in the schedule are appropriate to a general Apache audience. regards Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com +1 571 484 6266 @holdenweb -- Python classes (and much more) through the web http://oreillyschool.com/ Conferences and technical event management at http://theopenbastion.com/ Next event: ApacheCon NA 2013: Feb 26-28 http://na.apachecon.com/ Community events: Barcamp Feb 24 Hackathon Feb 25 Development Mar 1/2
