(With apologies to people who have already seen this discussion elsewhere. I figured more eyes on it was better.)
As you might imagine, I've spent a LOT of time over the last 15 years thinking about what ApacheCon is, and should be. Moving from a handful of projects all in generally the same technology space, to 300 projects across all areas of technology, has put a great strain on our ability to produce a conference that is "about Apache", and have people actually attend to it. I'd like to offer my vision for ApacheCon.next - something that we've already been moving towards for many years, and which we want to make the final leap to in 2018 - ApacheCon as a convention of Apache project mini-conferences. In Miami this year, we'll be hosting CloudStack Collaboration Conference, TomcatCon, and Flex Project Summit. We have room for one more such event, if your project wants to have a dedicated, branded track or mini-conference. In discussion on other lists, it looks like an IoT mini-conference is shaping up, which I'm very excited about. Anyways, if you're still reading, and you are interested in where we see ApacheCon going in the coming years, I've put together my detailed thoughts here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RQeWtXo6Pn1C5mwu1zNQOMIXcvRYzLa4Y3yPiHK_vtA/edit?usp=sharing and I welcome your comments. -- Rich Bowen, VP Conferences -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
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