Ok so I managed to come up with a proposal for a Flex Summit prior to ApacheCon
this year in Miami:
We could have an official Flex Project Summit on Monday prior to ApacheCon at
the ApacheCon venue. However financially this would be a separate thing.
At a Price of 125$/Person we would be provided with a location which is fully
equipped and capable of hosting 40 People (Including projector, wifi,
audio-recording, power-plugs, …).
A financial break-even for the Linux Foundation would be at 30 registrations.
If we manage to get above that number, the LF would add some food goodies to
the coffee break. If we are below the 30 they could reduce the costs by
removing Mic and Recording. I guess that’s a really fair deal. What do you
think?
If we agree and see a chance of having somewhere around the 30 Attendees, I
could give the girls the go and they would setup a registration-form for the
event. We would be added to the “Co-Located events” Page of the ApacheCon and
get two dedicated Flex Summit Signs on Site (Yay … wouldn’t have done it
without those signs ☺ )
So now we need to check how many people would really register for such a thing.
I don’t want to have the girls do the preparation work for just 10 People
attending.
So guys … please don’t stay quiet … I would be happy to get some “+1”, “-1” or
“0” … or “+10000” to see where we’re going. So all of you who sort of switched
to monitoring mode on this list … please speak up. If it’s only the usual 1 x
-1 and 3 x +1 there’s no use in me investing more time into this.
Chris
Am 19.01.17, 16:13 schrieb "omup...@gmail.com im Auftrag von OmPrakash
Muppirala" <omup...@gmail.com im Auftrag von bigosma...@gmail.com>:
On Jan 19, 2017 3:42 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
wrote:
Yeah … well I would still like some other opinions.
Thing is, that the ApacheCon was intentionally changed to having Core and
BigData in parallel to make room for a Project Summit Day prior to the
conference.
So I’m proposing to do exactly this.
The good thing of us having a Project Summit as part of the Apache Con
would be that the Linux Foundation takes care of organizing, the logistics,
the Tickets and so on. And people wanting to attend, but not being able to
afford it, can apply for Apache Travel Assistance. In the best case the ASF
would pay for flights, hotel and conference. I contacted Angela (the one
from the Linux Foundation who organizes the conference) and asked her if it
is possible to buy just a Project Summit ticket. Hopefully she will confirm
that this is possible. In that case I don’t see a reason for us not taking
the opportunity. Especially as eventually there might not be a European
ApacheCon this year.
So again … what do you guys think?
+1 for sure. Thanks for working on this!
Regards,
Om
Chris
Am 18.01.17, 17:25 schrieb "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com>:
On 1/18/17, 3:52 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
wrote:
>I just remembered that I wanted to reply to this one …
>
>Well the thing is, that I won’t be able to convince my company to have
me
>fly to the US just for a FlexJS event with about 10-30 attendees.
>
>Would it be an option, if there was a FlexJS Day before the conference,
>but attendees wouldn’t have to buy a ticket for the entire conference,
>but could only come (and eventually pay) for the FlexJS event?
>This way I could justify the costs with my boss … speaking at the
FlexJS
>event and the Conference would definitely be enough for them.
ApacheCon has a rule about "no other conferences within 3 weeks before
or
after ApacheCon". Naturally, they want sponsors to put money into
ApacheCon and attendees to buy tickets. Anything that looks like it
undercuts that would be denied. It might be possible to convince
ApacheCon that our little 10-30 person get-together does not harm their
business. Not sure.
FWIW, at the last (and only, so far) FlexJS World Tour, we only had
about
10 non-committers show up. Many more attended on-line. So maybe the
next
get-together should just be on-line.
Thoughts?
-Alex
