Hi! I don't think this question has come up on this thread yet, so here it is: what are our thinking about sponsorship? Right now we have two separate sponsorship buckets: Bigdata and Core. Do we plan to keep it that way?
Suppose there's somebody interested in sponsoring Apache XXX (where XXX != Bigdata). Do we make them sponsor Core for now? Thanks, Roman. On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:18 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. > > 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 >
