I like the idea especially the roadshow first to establish a beachhead. I would add that a collocated event might be ok in some circumstances too as a first landing.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 11:28 Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: > Several years ago, due to many reasons (let's call it "dysfunction" for > now) ConCom - the Conferences Committee - was disbanded by the Board, > and replaced with a single individual - myself - designated as VP > Conferences. This was largely due to break the gridlock of dealing with > 30 people, with 50 opinions, for every single time-sensitive decision > around events. > > So far, so good. > > As we are faced with a sudden explosive expansion in our official stable > of events, we are building ad-hoc processes for managing these. > > Again, so far, so good. Having dedicated per-event leads is working > remarkably well in 2019. > > I have ... concerns ... going into 2020. With pushes to add events in > Brazil, China, South Korea, Japan, India, and who knows where else, I am > concerned that this is going to get away from us again. And it's not so > much about control, as about having early failures in new markets and > harming our chances for the future. > > I would like, for example, to have policies around how we expand into > new regions. Like, say, that you can't do an "ApacheCon" in a new region > before doing a "Roadshow" there to scout it out, so to speak. I don't > want to squish enthusiasm. I also don't want to suddenly be expected to > fund, promote, and organize 8 conference with a machine designed to run > two. > > I digress. > > I would like to propose the following. > > 1) That we (primarily, myself, Ross, and any former members of ConCom > who are able to participate) clearly document why ConCom failed, and was > disbanded. To do this in a dispassionate non-fault-finding way. > > 2) That we document how the new Events organization will be managed, > explicitly documenting ways that we will avoid the failings of ConCom. > > 3) That we establish a new Events PMC, documenting how it will related > to both Marketing and ComDev (since there will always be overlap in > those two places). > > Ross, is this something that you can help me with over the coming 6 > months or so? > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com > http://rcbowen.com/ > @rbowen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
