I am bringing my sponsors for CCC on as core sponsors and I am being notified by the LF when a sponsor specifies that they are sponsoring CCC. These sponsors are not treated any differently by apachecon, but I am giving them extra visibility in our community and will be giving them special visibility in our tracks.
I was not involved with the planning of apachecon and ended up here because I was trying to run CCC inside apachecon and it turned out that was a common theme for this apachecon. All to say, this is the approach I came up with for our community because I was trying not to ruffle feathers but still wanted to include sponsors in what we were doing at CCC. I am open to other alternatives, but that is what my plan was. This is the messaging I am pointing my sponsors at: http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/#sponsors I am also doing personalized emails to some of our past sponsors to try to bring them on board. On Jan 30, 2017 7:08 PM, "Roman Shaposhnik" <ro...@shaposhnik.org> wrote: > 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/1RQeWtXo6Pn1C5mwu1zNQOMIXcvRYz > La4Y3yPiHK_vtA/edit?usp=sharing > > and I welcome your comments. > > > > -- Rich Bowen, VP Conferences > > > > -- > > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > > >
