Isabel, thanks for taking this on, and for the copious detail. And thanks to all the people that sent me "did you see this thread?!" messages while I was traveling. :-)
In short, yes, I'm in favor of this proposal, with all my various hats on, and will do whatever I can to support it. The question of dates is difficult, since I'm already committed to travel for many of the proposed dates, but I expect I'd find a way to make it work. And of course you could count on Feathercast and other ASF promotion voices to promote this, although I expect a 200-person venue would fill up pretty quickly without a huge amount of that. Right now, I'm between trips, and focused on ApacheCon NA, so you won't hear much more from me on this, but I'll help however I can, once this event is over. On 05/10/2017 04:15 PM, Isabel Drost-Fromm wrote: > CAREFUL: This mail was posted to lists with different visibility levels. > I would love to see any discussion following it happen in public. While > I'm subscribed to a few of our events lists, I would assume many people > at Apache aren't which is why IMHO dev@c.a.o might be a good place to > take this proposal apart. > > > Hi, > > TL;DR: Back when I created Berlin Buzzwords I did so to have an excuse > to invite lovely people from all over the world to visit Berlin. It took > until last week for me to ask some people outside of the NoSQL/ search/ > big data circles what I would have to do to get them to travel to > Berlin. The answer I got? "Just ask" - So here I am. > > > > Longer version (I know I'll regret thinking about this a second after > hitting send): > > Looking in vain for an existing group of people to exchange ideas around > the topic of distributed team management across organisation boundaries, > last summer I started organising http://achnee.wordpress.com - "async > cat herding" meetup for exactly this topic. I've scheduled it at lunch > time, received lots of interest, but for one talk at a time usually > attracted only roughly 20 attendees. > > Ever since I started that thing my head has been tossing around the idea > to see if one could arrange something bigger. Something that touches > community management, open development, inner source, project > neutrality, foundation growth, async communication - essentially some > sort of Apache Community Summit, or Apache Community Hackathon to > overload the meetup acronym's meaning. > > I started working for a new employer (Europace.de, fintech founded in > 1999, meetup friendly, organised holocratically***) as "Open Source > Strategist"*. Shortly after starting there a colleague (Stefan, CC'ed) > told me that this company has space for 180ppl total at no cost (2 > rooms, one of which can be split, so it's 3 rooms max). This information > got me thinking, the result of that thinking made Stefan "slightly" > nervous ;) However that same result also made a handful of ASF > affiliated people smile when I shared it with them, so I thought it > would make sense to take the idea one step further: > > With this mail I would like to see how much interest there would be in > attending an event that is solely about Apache project leadership topics. > > If there's only <20 ppl, I'm happy to offer my family's living room, > been there, done that before - promise to keep the 3D printer switched > off this time around. > > If there's <70ppl, we can easily host this in the Europace Casino meetup > room, no big deal, there's plenty of experience in how to do that there > including one video recording set should we be inclined to record any > talks. > > For the case that there's <200ppl interested, we will need some > organisation time up-front, but I have been told that we would be welcome. > > If more than 200ppl attend, I'd have to get creative. > > > Up until 200ppl I'd keep the event free as in free beer to everyone who > contributed to Apache and hand out tickets on a first come first serve > basis. Free as in free beer means no first class catering, no > reimbursement for speakers, no fancy conference hotel to spend all your > conference days in. However Europace.de is located close to Berlin > Alexanderplatz - you won't starve for a lack of food. Nor will you get > bored if you need some fresh air, happy to share local knowledge on what > to do, where to eat, what to see ;) > > > Apart from number of attendees there are a couple open questions I'm > aware of: > > - In terms of topics I would love to focus on developer > collaboration, Apache Way, Community leadership, distributed teams**. If > we want organised tracks, I'd need speakers. For a first iteration I > won't setup a double blind submission and review system and instead keep > things as simple as possible which implies a good chance of unfairness. > > - For marketing I would love to bring this to the Berlin Buzzwords team, > I can talk to German publishers, would rely on Apache channels for > everything else. > > - Should someone want professional videos and want to pay for that I can > see if I can get you in touch with the ppl who have done this in the > past at Buzzwords, if not, maybe Google Live Hangouts could be an option > (have done this for the past two achnee meetups, worked ok-ish, depends > on bandwidth). > > - I have no idea wrt. to pricing - to avoid contractual obligations, tax > implications and personal liability stuff I'd shoot for minimising > number of signed contracts/ money collected with the caveat that people > would have to be honest in giving back tickets they don't need (which > currently doesn't work with meetup.com organised events here in Berlin). > I've had crowdfunding suggested before - yes, this is an option, if we > find or create an intermediate entity to collect and wisely spend the > money that is not me - otherwise among other things my tax declaration > get's even more complicated than it already is, and no I won't be the > one creating an e.V. for that myself for the same reasons that I didn't > do that back when Berlin Buzzwords was founded: I'm not a paperwork > loving person, sorry. > > > If you are interested in all of this, I have prepared a short poll for you: > > https://goo.gl/forms/XOceZSt8byzSD8ac2 > > > Cheers, > Isabel (about to regret having hit send in a minute, not proof reading > as otherwise I won't send this out...) > > > > * If any of you have any good advise on where/ how to start and which > pitfalls to avoid, lets talk separately. > > ** Mostly out of personal interest and because I'm frustrated that for > me it seems easier to find such content by anyone but the Apache > Software Foundation, but maybe that's my personal filter bubble. > > *** Press teaser adapted, shortened and translated from the official > German version: Hypoport AG is a FinTech service provider in the > financial industry. The business model is based on a portfolio of > institutional customers, private clients, financial services companies. > Europace AG is a 100% subsidiary of Hypoport, developing and operating > an online financial market place called Europace, the largest German > platform for real estate financing, building loan products, and advise > credit products. Europace is connecting roughly 400 partners - banks, > insurances, financial sales institutions. Several thousand users are > handling roughly 35k transactions each month with a volumn of about 4 > billion Euro via the Europace platform. > > > > .oO(I'm wondering if anyone really reads until down here...) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
