Hey Rich, I anticipate having some good NASA/JPL involvement this time over, so maybe we can do another Apache in Science / Space track! Also of course will be looking to do something with the Tika / Content track!
Cheers, Chris P.S. Happy Thanksgiving (this week in the US) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> Reply-To: "dev@community.apache.org" <dev@community.apache.org> Date: Saturday, November 22, 2014 at 6:16 PM To: dev <dev@community.apache.org> Subject: Content tracks at ApacheCon Austin >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. > >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.) > > > >-- >Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen >http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
