> On Jan 27, 2017, at 6:18 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > (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.
I hope the ATS/ATC project is on that list of summits? The PMC chair(s) should have contacted you already? If not, can you mark them down? The plan is to have ATS (and possibly ATC) Summits on Sun - Mon before ACNA, unless you think it’d be acceptable to have them overlap with ACNA? If so, we should talk, because I think people would prefer our Summits on Mon-Tue, or even Tue-Wed. > > 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. You want the comments in reply to this thread? Cheers, — Leif
