Hi Everyone

Last week we had 3 days of Apache presentations at the Solutions Hamburg 
conference (in Hamburg :-). And although the weather was quite wet I think we 
all had fun.

We had 9 speakers at the event including Greg Stein who was invited to give one 
of the keynotes. Our planned schedule was as follows

Developer Day:
- Apache Mynewt - ASF First Embedded OS Project – Justin McClean 
- Das große Apache Enterprise und Microservice Puzzle - Mark Struberg
- Apache Commons - Beyond StringUtils  - Benedikt Ritter
- Using Structured Streaming in Apache Spark 2.2 Jacek Laskowski

DevOps Day
- Security around the Hadoop ecosystem - Lars Francke
- Developing and Releasing an Open Source Microservices architecture - Myrle 
Krantz
- Deep Dive Into Structured Streaming in Apache Spark 2.2 - Jacek Laskowski
- SCADA Systeme mit Apache Software Entwickeln - Christofer Dutz

Apache Foundation Day
- Hat Open Source Recht? - Mark Struberg
- The Apache Way - Sharan Foga
- The Apache Incubator: Raising up projects to raise up the world  - Justin 
McClean & Myrle Krantz
- Wie funktioniert die Apache Software Foundation? - Christofer Dutz

Chris had attended this conference before and gave us some information on what 
to expect. The room we were given was at the university campus where most of 
the technical talks were held. Most of the talks were in German but there were 
some (including a few of ours in English). 

We understand  that 5000 tickets had been sold for the event yet attendance was 
a bit mixed and the most popular of our talks were the microservices related 
ones with around 20 people. I think Mark's talk about open source licensing 
also attacted a few people and questions. We found that the early morning 
sessions and the last sessions of the day tended not to have many attendees so 
in a couple of cases we decided to run our own adhoc sessions.

I did a talk on The Apache Way and thought that I didn't have enough content to 
fill 75 minutes but it is amazing how quickly the time goes - and I only just 
about made it!

The organisers were great and provided us with lots and lots of food, a special 
barista for coffee, a speaker evening event in a bunker and an end of 
conference party that was out of this world! 

We did have some issues with transport between the two conference sites and 
will be providing this as feedback to the conference organisers.

We also need to do a bit of a lessons learned review of what worked and what we 
could do better next time. This was the first time at this event so it would be 
good to talk about how we could improve our participation and attract more 
attendees. 

Huge thanks to Myrle Krantz and Chris Dutz for their work in organising, 
facilitating and generally liaising with the conference organisers. Also thanks 
to the other speakers – it was good to meet, chat and generally hang out with 
you all.

Thanks
Sharan



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