> On Jan 27, 2017, at 12:17 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > > On 01/27/2017 01:58 PM, Leif Hedstrom wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >>> > > Nobody has been in touch with me. It's possible that they've been in > touch with Angela, but nobody has mentioned it to me. I know there was > talk early on about a Monday or Monday/Tuesday event, but I never saw > anything firm.
Roger, I will talk to the PMC chairs. Is there a preference from ACNA / LinuxFoundation? I’m fairly certain we would prefer Mon-Tue, or even Tue-Wed if LF is ok with that. > > Events that are outside of the main event (chronologically) will have to > have a different pricing, somehow, to accommodate for these > out-of-schedule days. Yep. That’s what we did last year, it was a marginal cost (I think $150 / person) for those who did not attend ACNA itself. For ACNA ticket holders, there was no additional fee. Cheers, — Leif
