I'm pondering the idea of giving one/two talks at the ApacheCon in November.
The two talks I'm considering are: 1) A year of Commons. An auditing of 12 months of Jakarta Commons, detailing what has happened in terms of releases (and what the reasons/changes were), promotions, and committer issues. I think this will be useful as it provides a single way in which users can keep up to date on the state of Commons. Due to its nature, Commons is targetted at Java projects both inside and outside of Apache, so seems like a lot could be interested in it. Commons is however just a set of libraries, so it might not be sexy enough to create interest. This would be a 3 hour presentation (1, 3 and 6 are the options), as it seems that's the right length of time to try and fit the content in. 2) The state of the sandbox. A description of the current state of the Jakarta Commons Sandbox. This would describe some of the components within the sandbox and provide examples of using them. I would almost definitely choose those components which seem closest to promotion. It a) helps get users, but b) will help to let people know about the components that just need a bit of support to get them promoted. ie) email. This would be a 1 hour talk, as that seems to be a nice contrast to talk 1) and will help me judge interest levels. ==== Now, I've only ever been to a few conferences so far in my life, and not to ApacheCon, so wanted to see what people on this list felt about the ideas. Worth it? Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
