On 22 November 2014 at 18:16, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > The CFP for ApacheCon Austin closes on February 1st, so we have just over > 2 months to get our content solicited for that event. I need your help. > > At ApacheCon EU this week, I spoke with a number of project PMCs. I > requested that they attempt to put together what they feel would be a good > track - ie., a list of topics that they feel would need to be covered in > order for their project to be properly represented - and then attempt to > solicit *those* talks from their user/dev community. > > This has a few benefits over the standard "what do you want to talk > about?" CFP process. One, you end up with the talks that represent a full > coverage of a project, without big holes. And it's a great way to encourage > new speakers who are having trouble deciding what they might speak about. > > I believe I'll be getting tracks from: > > * Cloudstack > * OFBiz > * OpenOffice > * Mesos > * httpd > > I would ask that you make this request of your project PMC, those of you > who have a project (or more) that you are active on. Or find the person who > should own this. > > In the coming days, I'd like to build a list of people that are interested > in making ApacheCon Austin happen, and in particular helping get PMCs more > involved in the process. If that's you, please speak up. > Please add me to the list, as we discussed in Budapest, I can/will be helping with the logistic. I expect the new "talk/track/schedule" form to be available for testing around christmas.
> > Question: Do you think we need a dedicated mailing list for this, or > should we continue to do this on dev@community? (I'm open to either way, > but if folks feel strongly one way or the other, we should do that.) > I think we should keep generic discussions here, where people are already subscribed and then use pmcs@ for polite reminders apachecon-discuss@ for "technical" discussions I also think we should use our wiki to at least publish a timeline, and a word or two about the talk selection/scheduling process from now and to austin. rgds jan i. > > > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >
