Thanks Sharan,

Indeed, very detailed :)

Thanks also to all the guys who supported this effort

Jacques


Le 17/12/2017 à 19:14, Kevin A. McGrail a écrit :
Awesome recap.  Thanks to everyone who helped.
Regards,
KAM

On December 17, 2017 12:29:49 PM EST, Sharan Foga <sha...@apache.org> wrote:
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 – 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

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