On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, Matt Franklin <m.ben.frank...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon Dec 01 2014 at 12:22:29 PM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > > > On 11/21/2014 03:45 PM, jan i wrote: > > > Hi all. > > > > > > As one who participated in apacheCON Budapest and had an awesome > week,let > > > me simply congratulate Rich Bowen as "mr apacheCON", The Linux > Foundation > > > Team as producer and everybody who helped make it happen. > > > > > > To all of you JOB WELL DONE !!! > > > > Amen and amen. Things could hardly have gone better (except if more of > > you were there), and the venue was absolutely gorgeous. A huge thank you > > to all of the people that worked so hard to make me look good. ;-) > > > > > > > > > > As I told LF, my only complaint is that I cannot find anything to > > complain > > > about. > > > > In all seriousness, my complaint is that there were so few of us there. > > We clearly need to a better job of articulating to our committers and > > their employees the value of this event. I will be attempting, over the > > coming weeks, to begin to articulate this, in various places, probably > > starting with my blog, but also looking for other places to preach the > > gospel, and will be looking for your help in doing this. > > > > Even as someone who knew that it was happening, and roughly when it was > going to be, I missed major milestone announcements. IMO, improving > awareness though additional communications, especially from PMCs, would > help a lot. I read what you are saying, but we actually sent a lot of mails out, my concern is that more mails would just be spam. Do you have a suggestion as to how we get the attention of people (PMCs and everybody who potentially would/will come) ? rgds jan i > > > > > > > > > ApacheCON seems to use bigger shoes everytime (looking at the foot > > print), > > > so I look forward to see how apacheCON Austin will be even more > awesome. > > > > > > To those of you who was not there.....mark 13th - 17th april 2015 in > your > > > calendars and come to apacheCON NA in Austin texas. > > > > +1 > > > > Start working on your budget folks there to free up some dollars to send > > you, and also to sponsor the event. Please see > > https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/apachecon_ > > north_america_returns_to > > for the specific ways that we need your help leading up to Austin. > > > > > > > > -- > > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com <javascript:;> - @rbowen > > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > > > -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
