On 23 April 2014 18:40, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > Now that I'm caught up from ApacheCon US, I wanted to give folks a little > information about the plans for ApacheCon Budapest, and the ways in which > you can help make it our best conference yet. Those of you who read the > board@ list regularly will find that much of this is repeated from a note > I sent there, but there's some new stuff. > > I know this is really long. tldr; we have awesome stuff planned for > Budapest, and the longer lead time means it'll be even awesomer. > > The CFP is open - http://apachecon.eu/ or more specifically > http://events.linuxfoundation.org//events/apachecon-europe/program/cfp We > currently have 10 talks proposed. While I expect that people will leave it > to the last minute and expect an extension, the earlier you get your talk > in, the higher chance that folks will actually review it in a useful manner. > > The CFP will close June 25, so we'll want to start pushing it harder at > the beginning of June, although it would be nice to have project-specific > tracks penciled in a long time before that, and we're getting a lot of > cooperation on that from various projects that want to see dedicated > tracks. (So, for internal promotion, I'll be trying to get specific > projects to provide a day or half-day of content.) > > If you would like to be involved in reviewing the content for the > conference, please let me know. If you already have an account in the > system, you should be able to log in and start at any time, but if you > weren't involved in content selection for ACNA, you'll need to get > authorized in the system. > I you haven´t done so already, please sign me up for review and help.
> We will announce the schedule on July 28, but registration is open > already, and the prices are best right now. Eu799 through August 1, Eu1099 > through November, and Eu1399 thereafter. Committers are always Eu275. > Can we put this part of the info on our dev@ now, and start reaching out ? > > I currently have two keynotes tentatively accepted, both of which I'm > pretty stoked about. Please note that while I'm not being secretive about > this on this list, it would be nice if you didn't publicize these until we > have titles and abstracts. Thanks. > > David Nalley will be giving a keynote on the subject of the actual value > of the foundation. We talk all the time about it being a million dollar > organization, but that is just what we have in the back. Pretty much any > established project you pick contributes way more value than that to the > global economy, and we are largely unaware of this economic value. David > will enlighten us. I should have an abstract in the coming weeks. > Just an idea, do we know a global economer (e.g. world bank) that could give a second light on this. > > Douglas Carswell, who in addition to being my best friend in third grade > is also a member of parliament in the UK, has written a book about the role > of social media in engaging people into the conversation about politics. > http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Politcs-Birth-iDemocracy- > ebook/dp/B009L20H92/ He'll be giving a talk about those ideas - we're > still a little vague on details, but I should have an abstract in the > coming weeks. > > I am also in contact with an author of a fairly well known sci fi book ... > I'll keep the details to myself until I have at least a tentative > acceptance on that, but I'm pretty excited about it. > That sounds awesome. > > The conference format is 3+2 - three days keynotes and conference > sessions, then two days other stuff. Other stuff includes tutorials (if we > can get them to fly this time), the CloudStack conference, a one or two day > Open Office user event (depending on the content we can get for this), and > various project summits including, at this point, Traffic Server. If your > project wants to put together either a content track or a dedicated full > day event, summit, whatever, please let me know, and get your talks into > the system so we can plan content. > > A hackathon will run the whole event, and will be right in the middle of > everything so that it can't be missed. It was so well hidden in Denver that > many people were unaware it was there at all. So we're putting it out in a > central area, trading quiet for visibility. > > That's pretty much what I've got at this point. The main call to action > right now is to get talk proposals in and register for the event. > > As for internal publicity, I've still been pretty much catching up with > all of the loose ends from Denver, and will start preaching the message to > our PMCs starting ... soonish. I've got two major conferences coming up > next month, and will be a little less frenzied after that. If you are > connected with a PMC that is likely to be able to provide a track, it would > be great if you could go ahead and make that connection. > > Oh, and also, real soon (hopefully today or tomorrow) we'll have videos of > the keynotes and a small selection of sessions up on the YouTube channel - > https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation - and we'll be promoting > that content on Twitter from @apachecon. We had some brilliant keynotes. > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > > Thanks for you work with denver, looking forward to an even better budapest. rgds jan I.
