Hi All Sorry for the delay in getting this update out to you all, but this year's mega flu got me.
Anyway a brief update on the Summit. I arrived on the Tuesday afternoon and went over to check out the location and start our booth setup. It was easy to find and people seemed to smile at the fact that we were located right next to the Libre Office stand. Early Wednesday morning, I arrived and started setting up our table, and not long after 9am people started coming in and dropping by our table. There was a main hall was divided into various areas focussing on ther different themes. For example our booth was in the Associations Village (for Open Source Foundations and non profits), as well as company booths, they also had a Legal Tech Village about the legal side or open source, Mobility, OW2, Innovations Village. A key focus this year was Africa and how open source is opening up new technology opportunities. Our Apache track ran on the Wednesday afternoon and the room we were given held a maximum 35 people. Our talks were a mix of French and English and attendance numbers varied from around 10 to 30. The most popular talk being Apache Spark! Most of the discussions were in French and even though I haven't really spoken French for a while â it sort of came back (well I think it did :-). One of the most common questions we were asked is 'Does Apache have a local company in France?' And each time we have to explain that the Apache community is everywhere. Thanks very much to our speakers (Bertrand, Luciano, Martin, Ismael, and Olivier). Thanks also to everyone who helped out on the booth. Big thanks to Bertrand seemingly effortlessly did 3 talks at this event, (a keynote, an ASF track one and a community track talk!) There was also a talk on Apache Dremio on one of the other tracks that we didn't know about until the day. A super special mention and kudos to Herve Boutemy and Olivier Heintz who spent most of both days working on the ASF booth with me! Thanks very much to Emmanuel (our Paris insider who found us a nice restaurant in the centre and organised a dinner for us all). We did have a scanning application to try and capture the number of people we were interacting with and in total myself and Herve scanned 120 people but this really didnt reflect the total number of people that really came along. The event attracts around 6000 attendees and we definitely saw a lot more than 120 people over the two days. I heard that this is the first time they have tried out this new conference format and I think that it works very well. I hope we get invited to participate again next year! We also made some new contacts and the ASF has been invited to participate in another Paris based open source conference which will be English content only. I took a few photos so will try and get those posted on our Facebook page soon. Thanks Sharan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
