On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
For example, I would love to have some kind of an event at the ApacheCON
that would encourage as many folks as possible to learn about various
ASF projects. I have some ideas around running a kind of lighting
talks/reading group where each participant is randomly given an ASF
project and is required to present on it in 5 minutes or something.
Or you could go crazy, aim for sharing information on an even greater
number of projects, pick ~40, give them all to one person, and get them to
do a 40 minute talk with a minute on each one!
I actually did two such talks in Budapest, one for content related
projects:
http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/event/2236d3a762fd00df45922ca084ec326a
and one for big data related ones:
http://apacheconeu2014.sched.org/event/30981664d3aba98f8a84a16136602ceb
They're a non-trivial amount of work to put together, and you probably
won't fill a room, but they almost always get great feedback from those
who attend. One memorable comment was someone from a project I covered
saying I'd done a better elevator pitch for their project than they'd ever
managed :)
So, based on those experiences, I'd very much encourage people to propose
and give many-project overview talks like those, and even better come up
with ideas like this to help spread the load of delivering them. They do
work, they are popular, and we need more!
Nick
