Hi all,
the subject says it. All infos are here:
http://na.apachecon.com
(It is in lovely Portland Oregon, if you need any excuse, February 24-28, 2013
:)
I likely can’t make it myself, so I am counting on you guys to pick up the bat!
There are multiple ways of getting involved. I hope we can show a strong
CouchDB presence.
1. Attend. Just get a ticket and go. If you are a committer, special rates
apply. (If you are on the fence about contributing, now is a good time to gain
the commit bit in time :) — The more CouchDB folks attend, the better a time
everybody will have, and the more we can show the world that we are awesome :)
2. Give a talk. There are plenty of things to talk about in CouchDB land, why
not do some of it? :) — Below is a list of potential topics. For some of them I
have ready talks, abstracts, sometimes even slides and recordings from previous
talks, all of which I am happy to share and make available for you to take and
make your own.
- Introduction to CouchDB
- Introduction to BigCouch
- Introduction to PouchDB
- Introduction to TouchDB
- Advanced CouchDB / BigCouch / PouchDB / TouchDB
- Building Apps with a distributed databases (dealing with conflicts and
whatnot)
- The CouchDB Implementation.
- CouchDB Grows Up: the state of the CouchDB community
- CouchDB and Git at Apache, sharing experiences
- Your CouchDB Use Case (why you use it and how)
The rules are outline in the Call for Papers:
http://na.apachecon.com/cfp/
The one caveat is the deadline, it is *this Sunday*, November 11th, no
late-comers. I hope we can still get a bunch of things in, I’m counting on you.
Especially the US & Canada based non-committers here, this is a great way to
give back to the CouchDB project if you want to.
If you think you are not qualified, bullshit, if you read this, you will be
fine to give most of the talks above. If you have anything else in mind,
submit that, too :)
If you need any assistance writing the abstract, making slides later and
rehearsing, please get in touch, myself & others here are happy to help.
If you think this is intimidating, it most certainly is (lot’s of smart people
that one doesn’t know, foreign city, etc). I guarantee it is worth getting over
this. The Apache folks a friendly bunch, even if they come over rough sometimes
on mailing lists. It is really nice to put names to faces and I’m sure you will
make a friend or two.
Plus, this is a great opportunity to check out on other projects. I am
currently at ApacheCon EU and I learned tons about Cassandra and Lucene, both
of which have implemented things we might want to look at in the future.
Last but not least, there is a budget for helping with travel expenses.
3. Run / attend a community event. The two days before ApacheCon proper are
reserved for all sorts of community events like BarCamps, Hackathons, Trainings
and whatnot. I’d love to see a CouchHack-like event there, where devs and users
can come together, and teach and learn and hack together. All we need is a
space to do things. I know we have friends in Portland that could help with
that. It’d be a matter of attending and volunteering to help to be around. —
I’d love if one of you could step up and say, “Hey, I’ll take this” and then
you, or a small group, can set everything up and invite everybody to come.
I’ve done this before in Berlin and it is great fun and not a lot of work, so I
agreed to do it again (the promised email is forthcoming) in Berlin. If you
think you can do it, but need help, let us know loud and clear, together we can
do this!
* * *
If you have any questions, please get in touch. I hope we can turn this into a
great event for the CouchDB community, by the CouchDB community :)
May the Couch be with you,
Jan
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